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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A hallmark of democratic backsliding is government leaders stealing from taxpayers and using public funds to try to get themselves electoral advantages. Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there's something so deranged about the idea that a "high trust" society is one that can decide to arbitrarily exclude you on the basis of identity

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026

i just think these people are profoundly evil

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/09/2026

They don’t let the husband’s of the trad wives speak

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Anna @sctroyenne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Finally got my hands on my copy of Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave and I’m loving that in the opening scenes of my chosen path literally everyone is hot for beautiful, beautiful Dietrich

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

another film history meme made by me

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Strong "I don't need the money, but I do prefer the money to integrity" vibes.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What is is about being that rich that melts peoples brains

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Anna @sctroyenne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I remember the vibe shift when people would remark about how nice Burning Man in SF was because of all the people who weren’t around in SF during Burning Man. This video got a lot of laughs cause it resonated:

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Build A 300-Mile Wall Around SF During Burning Man

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Anna @sctroyenne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I can see guys like this psyched that they can use ChatGPT to finally build their political “theory of everything” that models vibe shifts using opinion polls, relative chart positions of different musical genres, and virality of video essays angry about female protagonists in action movies

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yep. It’s also a sign of how outdated they are. You don’t need a euphemism for white when there are actual white nationalists openly advocating for white supremacy running almost every domain of public life. It just sounds antiquated and weak.

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Anna @sctroyenne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Decided to keep a thread here of excellent media and discussions of the deliberate weaponization of hyperreality deployed in a project to shift culture in order to reshape the world into a form desired by those who made up Epstein’s circle of “intellectuals” and those who have taken up their mantle

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If they want to talk about social contagion for how people adopt ideas, racism, xenophobia, and transphobia are perfect specimens of same, with giant propaganda campaigns behind them.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Believing that other people are real is antifascist praxis.

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Anna @sctroyenne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Amusing myself by seeking out heated discussions with people angry that the Ocarina of Time remake added a jump button

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yeah, I don't think there's an appreciation of how radicalized "normie Dems" are and have been getting. They were promised "incremental progress" was the way to go and literally everything that's been incrementally built over decades of cautious triangulation has been destroyed in months.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

note that the 1Password team member in OP is explicitly claiming that there are a bunch of stealth sympathizers on the 1Password team

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/08/2026

Really hammering home what I've been saying about performance and make-believe as a form of collective reality-changing magic that has come to dominate the imaginary, and ultimately the techology and technopolitics, that emenate out of Silicon Valley (it even mentions Erik Davis' TechGnosis).

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I do not like that they put every crank trend in the newspaper. Please stop reporting on peasant superstitions

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The End of History Rules Everything Around Me

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Jack-o-lantEryn @eryn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If giving a mentee more protections, resources & supports upsets the "mentor-mentee relationship" that means the relationship was predatory.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

could, perhaps, their lack of union be a contributing factor to why you’re using burger flippers as synecdoche for low status jobs

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's being treated as a policy victory that we have less of the world's smart young people coming to learn from us, participate in our society and economy. This is just so depressing to me, it feels like a complete victory for know-nothing ignorant bigotry over enlightened sensibilities.

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Mark Brandriss @markbrandriss.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It is hereby declared that the atomic number of gold is 47 and crystalline native gold shall be known as TRUMPITE!!!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If Google goes along with this one on maps like they did with the Gulf of Mexico now that Trump is sitting at like 34% approval, it'll say a lot about where their leadership is ideologically

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 26/08/2026

One way to think wrt Necropolitics and the Relation of Enmity is that, being beset on all sides by enemies, there can no longer be death qua death. Nobody simply dies; they must always have been killed. And in even the most innocuous death of an enemy, they must surely have killed themselves.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 26/08/2026

Just saw Facebook antivaxxers speculating that 80-year-old Dolly Parton’s death was hastened by the COVID vaccine she helped fund the development of and received—half a decade ago—and am thinking about how the past decade spent catering to these people has been nothing but a waste of time.

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Bootime for Ghostzo @btfglonzo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We thought we were awake for the Intelligent Design movement, and many thought the Dover trial was the end of it. But the movement to lie to students about what the theory of evolution says, what the evidence for it is, American history, law, and government was largely successful.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I cannot understate how large of an effort US Republicans are making to foster MAGA-aligned groups and organizations across Europe. Millions of dollars of federal funding is flowing into the pockets of Europe’s fascists. Little reporting is being done on this aspect, but what exists speaks volumes.

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Nigel Farage Has Spoken at 15 Trump-Linked Events Since 2024 Election

Nigel Farage has been accused of “toadying up to Donald Trump” for speaking at more than a dozen events linked to the U.S. president in the past two years. The Reform UK leader – who won a by-election...

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's the fucking Tanton network, you know the one I've been screaming about for like a decade? The one I said never to allow into power? Well guess what

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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

As mentioned in my comment on USPS's new ballot rule, the American postal service was born in 1774 _because_ the alternative system (the Crown's post) let the executive decide which mail not to deliver. For a Court riveted by bespoke historical analogs, this rule is 252 years of unAmerican.

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

to be fair to the OP learning about floats for the first time really is a deeply upsetting experience

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Anna @sctroyenne.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

To create a medley stitched together from a bunch of iconic show tunes altered for the opening ceremony of your stadium with a retractable roof and to change up Let the Sunshine In so it’s actually about CLOSING the roof takes a special level of genius youtu.be/108BrdIbnUo?...

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Skydome Opening June 3 1989

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm working on something called the NIMBY theory of everything

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20/08/2026

"in the game of patriarchy, women aren't the opposing team, they're the ball" computer. computer changed that

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20/08/2026

he became a billionaire on brains but fantasizes about living in a world defined by brawn, because even if he sat at the bottom of the pyramid of men that at least would let it lord him over the woman standing next to him

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There’s a whole thing here about how none of the Cancel Culture bullshit could’ve happened without a class of abysmal media swine and other professionals who felt themselves menaced by critical tweets. And let’s focus on just how childish and idiotic that is, how playground and self-indulgent.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’d reiterate that the key incident that drove the Cancel Culture panic - a wholly elite project, imposed from the top down - was the sight of Harvey Weinstein being dragged sobbing from court to jail, unprotected by his wealth, and the internet-based movement for justice that went with it.

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Here is the news from the US: Woke 1.0 is over. But what did progressives do wrong? | Nesrine Malik

A movement with safety, dignity and equality at its heart has been blamed for the rightwing backlash. But within it were principles worth carrying forwards, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026

as someone who is motivated by impact, rather than money or fame, this has been an incredibly alienating decade or so! it genuinely feels like we live in a society that cares about nothing, and I am constantly plagued by questions about what role there could be for someone like me in such a society

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There's an irony here that Trump is essentially speed-running the problem English monarchs faced in the 1600s: he wants to run an autocratic regime, so he is consulting Congress as little as possibly and trying to rely on sources of Ship Money but that greatly restricts his ability to act and spend.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

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Anna @sctroyenne.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Setting up a digital note-taking system and noticing that a lot of people who make instructional videos about this kind of stuff seem to think that Musk companies are, at worse, morally neutral. Clicking off immediately when I see Grok installed or they have footage of themselves in their Tesla.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ellison put on a dinner headlined “Honoring the Trump White House” and included his CBS editor, top anchor, and WH correspondent, so he can spare us this both-sides ridiculousness

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What is key to Gul Dukar's character imho is that he believes himself to be a complex, nuanced villain with a unique, sympathetic point of view and every time push comes to shove he just turns out to be a yawning abyss of narcissism and ego who believes in nothing except himself.

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Anna @sctroyenne.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This popped up just around the time it ticked over to my birthday so it’s only right to pass it along

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Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

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Anna @sctroyenne.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

POV: invited to Count Dracula’s castle and he has become a connoisseur of fine fast food while maintaining the same level of decorum and hospitality he has always had

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KFC FINALLY Released Something Good...

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