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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 1h

hurt people hurt people is unidirectional

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 3h

strong, powerful, poised, as i sit on the toilet, me in a poo-sition of power

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 6h

ffs why is the answer always, at least a major factor, racism and/or classism

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Secretary Of Diarrhea @senorgreygoose.bsky.social · 9h

One of the best takedowns of the "rationalists" and Libertarians is in Fargo, season 5: Roy: "I want freedom without arbitrary rules.” Lorraine: "So you want freedom without responsibility? Son, there's only one person on Earth who gets that deal." Roy: "The President?" Lorraine: "A baby.”

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 16h

i guess no one from modern vampires or dracula 3000 made the cut

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they should invent a bluesky that lets you post through the outage

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

site is having a bit of a wobble

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James Willems @jameswillems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The ideal would be to come on here and be funny every once and awhile, but every social media feed is so depressing. It's like a comedy black hole. But that's no excuse not to try. I guess what I'm trying to say is that Babar is an imperialist who conquered his own people and instituted a monarchy.

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you can't make me like katseye

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ugh... i didn't need to know that about mozart, fuck

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

heart, heart it, heart it harder music is supposed to be good for the soul but i'm walking wounded after this

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Alberta Tech @albertatech.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Engineer discovers a loophole to not use AI:

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

people need to deeply internalize this, a quarter of all water from the colorado river system is for alfalfa in the desert to feed livestock so datacenters might bring people politically onboard but the water legislation needs to impact far more broadly coloradosun.com/2024/04/04/r...

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Cherish that hamburger. It cost a quarter of the Colorado River, according to researchers.

The Colorado River has been overused for decades. New research offers first-of-its-kind insight into how cities, farms and more use its water.

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

after all that he cancelled concerts lmao

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

standing offer for all my friends

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

excellent read on land value tax www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georg... might have to try to apply the practical steps locally to see if lvt can be brought to my municipality

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Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later

A guest post by Lars Doucet

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i for one want to see and hear more about the pandas rather than the old guys

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the loss of privacy for adults is the actual intention; they want all our movements linked to our state ID like most moral panics “the kids!” is a bad faith smokescreen for the encroachment the fascists desire

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Sammy Obeid @sammyobeid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No I did not plant Larry David at my show to play the role of MAGA heckler 47

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🎶what is fun oh bluesky don't hurt me don't hurt me no more🎶

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Terry Fox in the Vancouver Sun on March 18, 1980. Twenty-five days later on April 12, 1980, he dipped his artificial leg into the Atlantic Ocean at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador and began the Marathon of Hope.

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the canadian convention of having elected officials as ministers seems like a really bad fit for many files they're almost always clueless about the file, as they're deep and complex by nature, and getting them to speak to it ends up creating lots of dumb wedges

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i can't believe i'm platforming this

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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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James Asmus @jamesasmus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey comics artists: a new all-timer character design just dropped.

I honestly don't know how to explain. Fascinating little powerhouse of a guy with truly unique hair / beard hyper-stylized combo

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m @mjjii.com · 24/09/2026

digital art. a donut shop with a tall sign next to it that says donuts. there is a mysterious beam of light shining down on the shop. the same color light is coming out of the windows and door

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this is a brazen attack on our liberties to lump anti-zionism into anti-semitism through the ihra definitions the "training" of prosecutors, law enforcement, etc is going to further entrench anti-palestinian, islamophobic, and pro-fascist policies www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pb...

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Progress Report - National Commitments to Combat Antisemitism - Summer 2026

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it's such a long shot but i hope the mlas who dropped out of the bcndp consider going green

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

a better headline: australian medicare portal attacked by openai and australia is too stupid to issue arrest warrants

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i'm covid conscious but i'm also not with them iykyk

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

really disappointed with the UNGA BUNGA discourse

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ok so did he call a snap election because he knew a bunch of people were going to resign because he lost the plot or did he lose the plot and is fielding a cabinet collapse while in the midst of a snap election fucking master stroke shit right here

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

*U2 album title voice* Autumn Baby

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important that a virus not burn out the host too fast these people are dumb

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

you end up in the eye of a likes storm and you appreciate the creative monikers people have come up with

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

you don't deserve the unga if you're not here for the bunga

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

harry enten is trying to glow up so hard, but his mannerisms are killing it, poor guy

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

people with few scruples can easily coalesce when the need arises, not sure why npd strategists didn't see this very obvious outcome like seriously how disparate do you think their donor base is?

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

bro is out here educating the masses on algorithms

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

we need fixed date/time period based elections at the provincial level and going against that should be very costly

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

john wilkes bloocks was right there

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skeet shooting @saemg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

my friend talking about jira or some work bullshit, i don't pay attention me: bitch it's taco tuesday show some respect

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