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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 4h

I'm neutral on the conspiracy theory (seems unlikely but who even knows anymore) but one of my pet peeves is when people try to claim something is staged because people don't react to being shot at as they expected them to. If you've never been shot at you simply do not know!

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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

How exactly is the law targeting ace people? The article they cite doesn't mention asexuality at all...

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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I was thinking about this so I bought a joystick for like $20 on kijiji

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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I knew a guy who tried to "report a human rights violation" to the police during a protest to protect an encampment. He got arrested too.

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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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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What do you mean, all you need is an expensive peripheral and a wide open space beside your high-powered gaming desktop!

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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yup! But physio and orthotics help so much. That's what the benefits are for, right..?

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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

found out I developed levoscoliosis and bone spurs from the desk!

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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 · 05/10/2026

I've seen people make this kind of argument about anti-black racism from fucking GERMANS

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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've seen at least 3 brand new accounts on here defending this meme's honour. What the hell is going on?

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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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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holy shit I kept recalling somebody I knew talking to me about HPMOR back in like 2012 but reading this paragraph brought it into focus - it was 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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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fondly remember smoking a j in Montreal with my pals, theorizing that every song on Gaucho is about cocaine (even the ones about heroin)

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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

My interpretation is that even if you're locked in a vicious factional conflict, you probably don't want randos and fascists going after your opponents

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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seen this in tenant organizing! You work to get everybody on board to fight for something, and there's always one person who's upset that we aren't laser focused on their personal issues

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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That said: I think making a scene of this kind of thing in public is bad form. It's just fodder for our opponents and discourages people from getting involved in literally anything

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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seen somebody show up to their first meeting and say that they were disappointed that we had already elected the chair and that they hoped we would wait for the whole membership to be there to vote. The only honest way I can interpret this is that they were upset that they did not get to vote

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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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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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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"now I gotta pay MSRP for my steel cut" is etched into my mind

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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

I love it when comedians excel in dramatic roles. It's obviously not universal but I do think it speaks to the depth that one can bring to "just jokes"

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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 · 22/09/2026

John Tory, Brad Bradford, this is not a real city

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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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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I sought out your Fall of Rome podcast in 2018 to try and make sense of a collapsing world, and here you are narrating while it happens!

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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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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think you're right, and I think there's something to be said for that period of history to also have been the period where wealth inequality shrank to a minimum then grew back to New heights (by Thomas Piketty's measure)

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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is a corollary to "everybody is twelve years old" theory

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Rum Bitters @rumbitters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

it's so funny to call it "caving to cancel culture"

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