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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The fundamental problem here is that a lot of elites (and especially men) have been socialized in such a way that they don't think most other people (and especially women) have the same sort of interiority as them. Musk shouting about "NPCs" is an expression of a sort of class consciousness here...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
watching GOP electeds who have never run a competitive general campaign in their life run in a real race is like watching a bunch of flightless birds loosed in NYC
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.
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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 27/09/2026
had a chat with someone yesterday and told them, and not that I'm saying anything innovative here, but I really can't imagine why I'd want to look at something no one cared enough to actually make, or read something no one cared enough to actually write.
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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dr Alondra Nelson on how AI companies use agnotology, strategic production of ignorance, to avoid accountability. They legitimize ignorance via design opacity; generation of uncertainty; claims of unknowability of AI. Move fast, break things. Cast themselves as both the problem creators & solvers.
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Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power – Alondra Nelson | IASEAI '26
YouTube video by International Association for Safe & Ethical AI
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Robber Fly @robber-fly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
💯, and it’s liberals feeling they’ve gotten permission to despise progressives because some progressives are irritating and hard to work with. Real “He says what we’re all thinking” energy.
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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The lesbian bar discourse has now turned now turned into a weird fractal of people engaging in the same behaviors they are mocking.
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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you can’t tax billionaires & trillionaire b/c “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity. If it’s not real enough to tax, it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage By @qasimrashid.com substack.com/@qasimrashid...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid)
If you can’t tax billionaires and trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity. If it’s not real...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: 5 million years ago - a bunch of bedbugs lounge around in a living room, looking totally bored. Panel 2: another bedbug excitedly bursts through the front door and exclaims, “someone invented beds!” Panel 3: one of the bedbugs looks over their shoulder at the other and says, “you’re joking”
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”
Perfect with photos of teal and Judy Vance. Quote from Peter Teal if you’re evil, you’re actually kind of good because at least you’re getting something done.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There are any number of facile quips you can make about archvillain and wannabe-Thanos Peter Thiel, but this violent and cruel philosophy is not uncommon in SV: that you cannot be competent/successful without hurting and destroying people. See ‘move fast and break things.’
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Impossible to overstate how much it drives the right insane to see people outside of their homes appearing to enjoy themselves in the presence other people who are strangers. Keep it up.
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
Trump’s summit with Xi left too many questions unanswered. This is one of them.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Must read: I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
YASSSS BROADSHEETS
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Robber Fly @robber-fly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sjAl...
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The 10 Commandments (for Cleaning Up After Trump)
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
well this seems relevant to current events
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@lisathebeauty1

It's bare minimum friday, don't you let that job stress you out today
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Defeating skynet by going to the big fucking building and flipping the main disconnect on the exterior transformer
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I try not to whinge about AI too much here bc I feel like bsky has that covered, but when I see people sharing AI-generated music... that is so fucking depressing Making art is the best thing humans do and music maybe the purest form of that--if we're outsourcing that we should just pack it in
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2013: $380,000 Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2026: $14,600,000 He cashed in and sold out Michiganders.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature
Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A generation that has never felt lost. A generation who has never been out of contact. A generation that has never wondered what song that is. A generation that can have anything written for it anytime, in seconds. A generation where the solution to any question is always explained.
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#1 Lamar Jackson Stan @lunchbox17.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The people that won on literally every front (there are no mask mandates anywhere anymore & no reporting on disease levels so you don't even have to think about it either) gleefully, vindictively celebrate every space taken away from those who care about their health. Then frame us as the bad guys.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i hate that i can’t enjoy cute animal videos without wondering if they’re AI. i’m getting better at checking, but damn, way to ruin one of the few good things on the internet.
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 22/09/2026
If there's one thing I wish I could get across to cis people it is that as a community there are vanishingly few of us who expect to make it through the next ten to twenty years and that sense of having no future really does weigh on you; it's so vast you can't really look at it directly.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Robber Fly @robber-fly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Brilliant stuff this geek wishes they’d known earlier
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If trans rights aren’t a hard red line for you, then give up your own human rights
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
it's so easy to affirm trans people it's so easy to save and support us do the fucking minimum
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Robber Fly @robber-fly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Something something horse, barn, or train, station, or cat, bag
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It's Not All About ME @clairemyfanwy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Prevention of skin cancer has been my soapbox topic for the last 30years since seeing the devastating widespread metastases appear on consecutive imaging within days. It was a nasty, fast death in young otherwise healthy adults. Please read.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Imagine joking about this and mocking people who witnessed it.
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COVID-19 Now Leading Cause of Death in the United States | KFF
In January 2021, the number of deaths from COVID-19 increased so rapidly that it has clearly become the number one cause of death in the U.S., with an average of more than 3,000 people per day dying o...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He’s literally building a fortified bunker, now an arch that holds major weapons, and controls the military and nukes. He has zero plams to leave, people better wake tf up
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the summary conclusion of a healthy discourse, even if looking from disparate angles, is always grounded in something generally reasonable and coherent. the summary conclusion of unhealthy discourse always ends up being egregiously absurd and/or (usually and) rationalizes harm.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
I think it would be nice if journalists could more clearly inform the public that there will be no useful AI regulation coming because Congress is too corrupt to function We're still waiting for even basic internet privacy laws 30 years down the road
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The Leftist Split Over AI Doom
The left wants AI regulation. They just can't agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Be like John & Krissy Scalzi! Here's a Google sheet to help you out! (Note that I AM AN UNPAID & SELF-APPOINTED VOLUNTEER & AM CAPABLE OF ERROR but if I got it wrong, the right answer is one click away, in the "MORE INFORMATION" column).
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Early / In-person Absentee Voting Dates
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 18/09/2026
realize I'm a little bit of a quirky guy but being punched in the face repeatedly by masked men with guns actually is something I find frightening
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not trying to pile on OP but this framing is a 1:1 example of what I teach my students to avoid. You don’t have to repeat lies just because officials say them. Reporters have the right — the obligation — to represent reality and the objective reality is this is not to fight crime and it is overkill
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel announces she will match Macklemore and donate $1 million to organizations supporting Palestine: “I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.”
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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Interesting that they don’t apply “we’re not smart enough to regulate this” to, for example, abortion.
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