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Steph

@rantsbydesign.bsky.social
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Lucy's human companion. Singer. EDM. Cheese. GenX bitch. She/her.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1h
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 5h
last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 7h
this is the only reason why certain people wanted to know—and spread—her name without her consent. so they can abuse her, too.
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Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 9h
Remarkable how consistently the Trump administration has adopted the aesthetics of mass shooters, from their schizophrenic social media aesthetic to livestreamed executions to masked men with long guns roaming our streets with impunity. Nihilist violent extremism as statecraft
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h
Things are fine
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 8h
~Accidentally~ hack the medical debt or student loan records. We'll let you put AI in our toothpaste if you do that.
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 17h
Three years of livestreamed genocide and more than a dozen years of live-documented extrajudicial killings by police and vigilantes have trained you for the coming era of state-sponsored public executions
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 14h
Seeing lots of people go well Mamdani can't do anything about the NYPD because they won't obey him and you do see how this makes your entire political project a joke right? Like if that's true then you just spent all of your time electing a hostage Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 11h
Y'all denied her tenure
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h
Deeply American sentence (from Davy Crockett’s wikipedia page)
Despite Crockett’s opposition to the institution of slavery in the United States, he did enslave people.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 9h
I think it’s bad that the two most prominent left-leaning politicians in the country don’t feel like they can criticize the cops in their own city when they help the secret police flee the scene of a shooting
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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 17h
The ICE agent seen brandishing an AR-15 at the scene of yesterday’s shooting in NYC’s Marble Hill has a record of lying, excessive force & getting caught by judges. He also goes by “Shooter Cuni” on social media, & posts the same gun he had on him today W/@dmehro.bsky.social @regret.bsky.social
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 20h
To every politician in New York: Do not tell the protesters to behave peacefully. Do not tell the protesters to disperse and go home. Instead, tell ICE to behave peacefully. Tell ICE to disperse and go home. Side with your constituents, not the Trump administration.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16h
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20h
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 10h
You can’t be named that man
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is indistinguishable from the white nationalist comments at our city council meeting last night, including the part where they started shouting “White man fight back”
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
your honor, [jerk-off motion]
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I do like how every post about a woman we collectively dislike has dozens of comments about how terrible she looks “now.” It’s nice to be reminded, as we all grow older, that the fetishization of youth and the punishment for looking your age is universal, enthusiastic, and bipartisan.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 06/10/2026
the Ohio Democratic party is purging its ranks by forcing trans people to either resign or go along with politicians who threaten their existence and calling a pride group an "unwelcoming distraction." If we're just a distraction, then win without our votes and get rid of the fake "pride" orgs 👍🏾
2020: Democrat Stalin and transgender
2026: Democrat Stalin
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 07/10/2026
oh look paid protesters
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
These kids were maybe six or seven years old when Trump's "grab 'em by the pussy" remark came to public light. Practically their entire lives have been shaped by public figures openly treating women (and people of color and immigrants) as property. Where do we even start with the deconditioning
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
I don't care if this is a bunch of high school football players in Idaho. Writing “Let her hang from a ligh(t) post and let the birds pick at her brain for days” and “(You) think Cornell was bad just wait for us” should be grounds for immediate expulsion and charges filed.
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Threats in Timberline football chat lead to police inquiry
A private Timberline High School football group chat sparked outrage with alleged death threats and sexual violence references toward a female student, prompting a Boise Police Department investigatio...
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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12tone @12tone.nebula.tv · 06/10/2026
Williams, 37, then unleashed her response to the DHS’ statement in an Instagram Story post Monday: “And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat d***.”

A DHS representative did not immediately return The Independent’s request for comment.
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it may not be his origin story but “nobody liked my art” is such a common denominator among world-historic assholes
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Sad King Billy @meadowshands.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why we can't have nice things
Tweet A: so to you raging against the machine just means voting for Democrats?

Tweet B: yes dummy that's literally what it means
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I cannot stress enough that ICE is acting the way cops have acted for years. These are just "starlight tours" for Indigenous teens applied to the rest of the population.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
rip 😔
2 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy dressed in a black suit giving a eulogy at a funeral. We see the coffin and flowers behind him.

Purple Guy: Sometimes when a person dies, others will say “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all”

Panel 2: Purple Guy: But that’s bullshit and this guy was a fucking cunt
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
will you people shut the fuck up
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 06/10/2026
every "pride" Democrat org: "For party leadership, the caucus is simply a recruitment and sales team. The job, in their eyes, is not to represent the LGBTQ+ community to the party, but to sell Democratic candidates to the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of the harm those candidates may cause."
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stop preemptively forgiving sexual predators who’ve given no sign that they’re actually sorry Stop acting like platforms and audiences are something they have a right to and must keep if they just say they’re sorry
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If, in a moment of clarity and pent up anger, you point out that this is just a nigh-feudal level of entitlement by a cult that exalts ritual obedience to their idealized mythology of a dying empire's political system above all else, the penalty is extra invocations of "enjoy the camps."
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As near as I can tell it, the literal position of the Democratic establishment and its faithful is as follows: 1) Everyone to their left, as well as anyone in a marginalized demographic, has to vote for who they tell them to in every election and conform all public statements to their messaging...
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Econ 101
Person one: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

Person two : The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/10/2026
Shocked and saddened to learn that Dennis Hastert had still been alive
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Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was 6-years-old in 1975 when this came on television, and my parents let me watch it. 🫠 Solid 1975 parenting, holy shit.
Trilogy of Terror (Special Edition DVD), 1975, "starring Karen Black".
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Rie Sonomura, NeoY2K Hacker Vtuber @riesonomura.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
same with the AI flag in the video itself, ESPECIALLY for music
I wish all AI generated thumbnails a very "Don't recommend channel"
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i don't know the best time to opine about the possibility of rehabilitation and restorative justice and so on but the worst time is 5 minutes after one of your favs is outed doing something terrible
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What they’re hoping for and acting for is germinating the seeds of extreme acts of violence against South Asians. That’s why they use the explicitly Nazi framing of the ‘Indian question’. They want the same results. Their followers are pretty open it on social media, too.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One crazy thing about this new outpouring of racism against South Asians and calls for expulsion or forced assimilation is it was kicked off by some brown skinned students at a Texas game wearing cowboy hats and excitedly celebrating their football team — ie some guys very assimilated to America.
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Sharita Gruberg @gruberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Been thinking about when my 100+ law school crim class covered sex crimes and dozens of men spent the hour arguing with the professor bc they believed the US code definition of rape was unfair. That day, the handful of women in the class realized just how many of our classmates had raped someone.
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The Haunting of Shane Ross @comebackshane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Scottish comedian Daniel Sloss talks about how men need to hold other men accountable for rape and sexual assault.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The context of *this* wave of visceral rage at rapists is that in the past decade we've seen them take complete control of the government, turn the entire economy into their ponzi scheme, gain trillions of dollars of exploited wealth. We've seen an opposition party abjectly fail at stopping them
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