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Scott Gibson

@scottagibson.bsky.social
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Former travel executive, current writer, author of the historical suspense novel The Mortality in Lies. Also, too, tennis. “First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect.”

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 9h
i have been fired from the sperm/emotional abuse factory
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17h
The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 17h
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h
in fairness to Friedersdorf I do think that he is actually very, very stupid
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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 16h
As a native of Münster, who has spent many pleasant hours in the Peace Hall commemorating the end of war that killed between six and twelve million people, I too, hanker for the social trust that comes with ethnic homogeneity
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 17h
These bigots like to talk about assimilation because it sounds like they're scoring people on their behavior rather than their genes. But when people are behaving exactly like their ideal of all-American sports-lovin' too-big-pastel-shirt wearin' bros, it still doesn't count.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 17h
The part that struck me was their insistence that they know the kids at the UT game "aren't assimilated" because despite being at a football game and having the same shitty fashion sense and the same goofy hand gestures as white fans, they still look Indian. Gives the game away.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h
oh and before i forget, congrats to reihan salam for hosting rufo at the manhattan institute. great catch.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h
"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h
also, this shit is just run-of-the-mill segregationist ideology. the substance of keeperman and rufo's discussion is identical to the infamous line from the trial judge in loving v. virginia
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17h
we must return to the idyllic tranquility of 17th century intrawhite social relations
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Jon Hendry @jonhendry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“How can I be wrong? Would my paycheck look like this if I were wrong? I don’t think so.”
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 19h
Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: this election is akin to the '24 general election in Britain. It is a vote against. Don't mistake it.
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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 19h
To aspiring journalists, your reminder to just send that cold email today.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really don’t have to agree with people to agree on this: they shouldn’t be imprisoned or deported for their political views, or for their religion.
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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 01/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n... there it is.
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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The response I usually get is "a cop would never do that" So I'd send a link Which would get "that's just one bad apple" At which point I'd send like 5-6 links Which then led to "I'm not reading all that" bsky.app/profile/j-mi...
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The wild part about stories like this -- which happen repeatedly, every year, all over the US -- is the angry pushback I get from "comply or die!" Rs when I ask them what they'll do when a cop demands a blow job
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thinking of that time after Biden got elected, when a VERY fancy lawyer and Dem strategist called me on the phone like, “Moira, everyone at my firm is mad that the Title IX rules are going to be stricter, because it will be bad for our university clients to have to punish rape.”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Today on House Hunters, Ken Paxton is shopping for a new house. Will he buy the three-story luxury lodge in Oklahoma? The condos at a wellness resort in Utah? The ocean-view property in Hawaii? (Spoiler alert: He won’t take one — he’ll take 15.)
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In a shocking turn of events, the leopards have developed a taste for the faces of people in hot dog costumes
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor.
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Mike Sharp @mikesh8rp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always fun to see a meme being born.
Two guys who just found out their gotcha setup was actually a reverse gotcha
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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 29/09/2026
PODCAST HOST: the blood from the crime scene was found to actually be from the murder victim PODCAST CO-HOST: wait… the murder victim… died? with blood PODCAST HOST: i know—i was thinking the same thing. but then i read in the report that they died from the blood not being in the body anymore
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 30/09/2026
Seems, madam? Nay, it is; I know not “seems.”
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 29/09/2026
my position is that everyone should be calm, but that the polls are clearly drunk, but also that theyre so drunk that even if they get 50% less drunk between now and election day, there will be reason for people not to be calm. but people should be calm.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal
Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m with Homeland Security Investigations. I came here to talk to you about some online threats you made against ICE. Get the fuck off my property.
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worker bee @bjmarquez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just looked it up and Foreigner itself put it together?!
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Foreigner - "I Want to Know What Love Is (Spanish Version)" feat. Joy Huerta - Official Visualizer
YouTube video by Foreigner
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Chicago's Rep. Delia Ramirez introduced a bill to rethink immigration. "We didn't have ICE before 2003. The Department of Justice handled immigration cases. Because it's a civil case, not a criminal one, we would create an independent agency to process everything that has to do with immigration."
"We didn't have ICE before 2003. The Department of Justice had a system in place to be able to handle immigration cases, because it's a civil case, not a criminal one. So we would create an independent agency to process everything that has to do with immigration," Ramirez said.Chicago's Representative Delia Ramirez introduced bill to reorganize DHS & rethink immigration. "We didn't have ICE before 2003. The Department of Justice had a system in place to handle immigration cases. Because it's a civil case, not a criminal one, we would create an independent agency to process everything that has to do with immigration," Ramirez said.
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teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 25/09/2026
I am hooked on Nero Wolfe.
Book cover for Rex Stout’s *Some Buried Caesar*. Large white “REX STOUT” lettering fills the top. Below, a red flower stands before a window overlooking a green field. A yellow seal reads “NAMED ONE OF THE CENTURY’S 100 FAVORITE MYSTERIES by The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.” The bottom reads “A NERO WOLFE MYSTERY,” “SOME BURIED CAESAR,” and “INTRODUCTION BY DIANE MOTT DAVIDSON.”
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 24/09/2026
I really didn’t mind having a president who used words like “malarkey,” and who would go weeks (sometimes entire months!) at a time without making me worry he’d do something incredibly stupid and/or evil.
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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jake Tapper (moderating the 2028 Dem primary debate): Final question. Do you renounce the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar? Pete Buttigieg: I renounce it. Kamala: I renounce it. AOC: I renounce it. Gavin Newsom: I will be deploying the National Guard to Greenfield on day one of my administration.
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