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Rum Bitters

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Settler raised in the Caribbean, residing in Canada

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you find yourself angry that Palestinian solidarity is too brash or bold or too much, and you just think that we should all mourn the dead, you should be happy that your list of the dead must be finite.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Every Brad Bradford endorsement is like, "Toronto used to be a utopia with zero problems. Now it is only fit for the most violent of rats, where sentient crack pipes murder you in dark alleys and feral child gangs feast on the Lululemons of my yoga mom group. Brad will fix this. I live in Whitby."
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aLec robBins @alecrobbins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
looked up mine and this is killing me lmao
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/10/2026
sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 06/10/2026
“This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me” is such a powerful anti-posting mental device. Discourse I could jump in on? This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me. Other posters beefing? This doesn’t actually have anything to do with me. An internet personality exposed? Guess what
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I only recently realized that the guy telling me about Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality in 2012 was actually this guy
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
this is so real and explains so many of my interactions with back end guys. i love you CSS
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 25/09/2026
i’m sorry, but if you bring an knife - or any edged weapon at all - to a gunfight, you’re disqualified. it's not hard, people
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'll never forget that my roommate (who I was on very bad terms at the time) came out to support us when our protest got surrounded and fenced in by the cops. Some shit is more important than our interpersonal feuds.
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The lesbian bar discourse is literally just a rehash of the anti-eugenics lecture at the communism conference discourse. The lesson from both is the same: don't wade into these conversations where the frame is set by people opposed to you!
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My best friend died of heart failure in 2024, and you can't convince me COVID didn't play a role.
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/\__/\______ @cardiograms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
post by me on Feb 16, 2024

Learning to shut the fuck up is praxis.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 23/09/2026
i changed my mind the moral of the boston globe story is it's crazy that the newspaper is writing about niche intracommunity drama. i still dont think any organizer/business owner should give obvious wreckers oxygen but probably we shouldnt give stories like this air either
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23/09/2026
queer western masshole advice—so much pain/discourse could have been avoided by refusing to read a story about events in Greenfield as reported by the Boston Globe
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's my experience that the men who work directly with younger men in mentorship and other programs aren't online talking about it. They just do it. The ones constantly talking about the 'crisis of young men' online aren't doing anything. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Somebody either needs to start pounding their shoe on the desk or pelt it at him
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Torment Nexus is open-source! github.com/aravpanwar/a...
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GitHub - aravpanwar/amfly: Five fruit flies pinned to electric pins. A sixth fly, wired into a reward-punishment loop, decides which two get current, gets dopamine when one maxes out, and burns when t...
Five fruit flies pinned to electric pins. A sixth fly, wired into a reward-punishment loop, decides which two get current, gets dopamine when one maxes out, and burns when the others go cold. Six c...
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blumpkin spice latte @klingonhousing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"A few hard drives" en esta economia?
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Del @del.art · 20/09/2026
When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've noticed this lately - Google Search AI would rather give you a summary than link you to the actual information
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nathan @nathanwhy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is how it feels to make new guy friends when you’re a grown man.
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Goes right along with @shadowtodd.bsky.social theory of country music defensiveness
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Some thoughts: -Toronto crime is down -Toronto homelessness is down -Cops don't solve crime -Union Station is fine -It's FINE -Jesus Christ -Why is everything about cops with this dude -Stop trying to scare your way into office -Please don't elect this fucking guy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Brad Bradford says he will put a Toronto police outpost in Union Station if he’s elected mayor | CBC News
Brad Bradford has promised a Toronto police outpost at Union Station as part of his mayoral campaign platform.
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not to sound like an elderly lib, but when I was a teenager Don Imus got fired for describing a black woman's hair like this in a controversy that lasted several weeks
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jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
autumn chen: in my itchio game social democracy: an alternative history i presented the fall of weimar germany as a cautionary tale germany: at long last, we have created the fall of weimar germany from the classic itchio game social democracy: an alternative history
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/09/2026
"I didn't think a full, 6-day-per-week, 14-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the 'generate' button, followed by the 'approve' button, thousands of times a day on SlurryHose. But experience has shown me that I was wrong." buff.ly/RbEQoJg
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Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
“I didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the ‘generate’ button, foll...
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Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com · 01/09/2026
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
i been reading history. everything seems to turn on the dumbest fucking shit. and this shit is fuckin dumb
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
but doctor...
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026
"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
The Emerging Bipartisan Consensus
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
not that anything matters anymore but the province is named after the lake
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Most of the time writing a guide for a video game is incredibly rewarding - but sometimes you get an entitled comment about an error/omission and it's like, thanks buddy hope you enjoyed my entirely voluntary labour!
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"beautiful women are dating uggos bc they want to be treated well" is an ancient gender wars psyop and i refuse to participate in it
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
That was me, it was March of 2020, and it’s only gotten more accurate in the last six years
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
O Canada, so far from God, and so close to the United States
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
the average well-off DSA organizer is basically organizing to pay higher taxes the rest of their life and in a society where that level of selflessness is pretty rare I don't think anyone should be giving them shit for it
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Ash @h1twom4n.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Presented without comment
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Crushing to reconcile the cool goofy guy with the kind of boyfriend Reggie Watts actually is.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
natalie harp has incredible palace harem cdrama energy. i keep trying to figure out which character she is but can't quite put my finger on it. maybe consort hua at the end of her arc in empresses in the palace, but i just can't imagine consort hua crawling into the trunk of a suv
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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"it would be illiberal to not do business with fascists" is actually a principle the UK has stood by for a century
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