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Doll @dollspace.gay · 12/10/2026

The fact that they are doing it again is good and it swears to Ishtar if you people do not stop complaining about rainbow capitalism it is going to start screaming. You *want* rainbow capitalism. You do not want the alternative. Reward the behavior you want to see. This isnt hard.

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Sean Victor @seanvictor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is stupid and pointless and punishes ground level employees because the people running the govt are cruel idiots but also I still have a grudge against the TSA as an agency because of Bush-era security theater reasons

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It annoys me greatly how easy it would have been for everything to be okay. Not perfect, not even great, but just 5/10 "I can slog through a day in undisturbed mediocrity without the Health Secretary declaring soap causes autism while the president literally shitposts about his war from the toilet."

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Sean Victor @seanvictor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So I've read this article three times since yesterday, listened to Ella Langley, and got a cursory overview of the current landscape of country music trying to decipher what was irritating me so much about it. The thing I understood yesterday was that it's filled with missed opportunities.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my theory at this point is that "third spaces" is the "kitchen table issues" of this mini-discourse. its a term that evokes diffuse associations without actually saying anything

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Sean Victor @seanvictor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So I listened to Choosin' Texas finally and it's a good song. I'm glad it's doing well. I also feel like this is not at all surprising? That article has this deep sense of defensiveness and projection that I don't think is earned.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I find it strange that some people refuse to believe this is the way our decentralised culture works now, that it's possible to be completely ignorant of hugely popular things that don't match your tastes and interests. People aren't lying about that because they think it makes them look cool.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The most important election of your life is always the next one

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm reminded of one of my favorite passages in Banerjee and Duflo's "Good Economics for Hard Times". "The goal of social policy, in these times of change and anxiety, is to help people absorb the shocks that affect them without allowing those shocks to affect their sense of themselves.."

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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

you just don't get it. transplants are bad, unless they are immigrants in which case they are good, unless they work for tech in which case they are bad, unless their work involves content creation in which case they are good, unless the content creation involves AI in which case they are bad

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An edcuation policy soloution that would get you killed by angry parents but also fix like 60% of problems after a couple of generations is children being randomly assigned a public school within ten miles of their house. That is the school you attend and you cannot transfer.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i think our thunder has been stolen by Threads, sadly

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

part of this is obviously national political conditions but don't underrate the extent to which a bunch of these incumbent republicans have never had to run a competitive general election campaign and basically do not know how to do it

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

To be clear, I'm extremely pro sex parties, have fun, be safe(r), good stuff, go team go. Don't fuck your boss, your coworkers, or your religious leaders is good and, at one point, fairly easy to understand why that's super bad.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 18/09/2026

if there's a more than even 1% chance that you'll encounter someone you know from work at a sex party, you probably should find a different workplace and/or a different sex party

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm far from an expert, but the story of the current state of Streamer Politics (at least left-of-center) is kind of interesting and, unfortunately, probably a window into the future of left/Dem politics. It's impossible to talk about without talking about the war at its heart: Destiny vs. Hasan.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lots of people believe the Oval Office has a “make everything better” button which every occupant refuses to push. It doesn’t, but it has lots of “make everything worse” buttons, and Trump is mashing all of them every day.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A major concern in the 2020 and 2024 elections was the possibility the president’s son’s foreign connections could corruptly influence US policy. Despite many investigations into Hunter Biden, no one found any impact on US policy or even appearance thereof. But there could’ve been. Just imagine!

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Sean Victor @seanvictor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Trump is a guy who went into a study on the prisoner’s dilemma, immediately ratted everyone out, and then left to barge into the study next door to steal a bunch of kids’ marshmallows

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

yelling at people to vote for a specific candidate on bluesky is probably in the bottom 10 of useful things you could be doing in politics, primarily because everyone on here is more or less in an adjacent quadrant

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

if you want to see a site where normal swing voters are the majority, try YouTube, Insta, or TikTok (it's bleak)

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 11/09/2026

Never should've stopped calling these freaks "weird."

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

imagining a genre called ‘math ska’ and pissing my self off

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Sean Victor @seanvictor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Since I don’t have a Truth account because I value not flooding my email with phishing attempts and Ivermectin Coin spam, I didn’t realize how much Trump posts and how much of it is just like… nothing. Like just weird bullshit

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bro looks like he’s about to order Luke Skywalker shot.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Elden Ring is a good video game, but sometimes I feel like the environmental storytelling aspects and the "Girl, if you stop running and admire the scenery, a giant fucking crab will rip your head off" aspects are in tension.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026

Making everyone feel like there's a fixed pie of resources and their slice is shrinking and everyone is out to fuck everyone else creates fertile ground for conservatism & eventually authoritarianism. The absolute core conviction of online leftists to the contrary is endlessly baffling.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think one reason Mamdani is using non-traditional media is because traditional media isn't covering substantive government stories The two reporters on this topic cover the Mamdani administration but mostly from the perspective of conflicts. Too much theater, not enough substance.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026

the retconning is to support the argument that "trump won in 2024 because of anti-woke." but other than some nebulous "vibe shift" and the prominence of a few podcasters, there is vanishingly little hard evidence for this claim.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

it’s deeply embarrassing that they keep trying to come up with a comprehensive definition of “wokeness” when the actual definition is “lib shit that annoys me”

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's a pretty big fucking problem that no one can say for sure whether the President of the United States knows this is AI

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

They really really want to be upset about something.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/08/2026

it’s bad that it increasingly feels like everyone has to be a TV host now if they want to stay gainfully employed

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mike Rogers just held a rally where he hugged Donald Trump, embraced him on stage. Did any of you hear about that? The media wants you to think that Rogers' association with the President is less relevant for the public to be informed about than Abdul El-Sayed's association with a Twitch streamer.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Demand the Democrats restore everything" really treats the damage this administration has done incredibly trivially. Sorry, you can't make it 2015 again. That's not going to happen, even if you do throw this administration in jail.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/08/2026

We need a term for this!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026

don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaA

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No matter what, we have to tear down that ballroom

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in fact, a good general rule (and a hard one to learn for jokesters like us) of the past decade is ironic use of bad concepts is bad for you, and gets you in some way or form in the end

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026

also, the public salience of trans girls playing sports is incredibly low. the public salience of say, data centers, is incredibly high. strange that a “popularist” cannot see this. almost as if “popularism” is a way to smuggle ones preferences in to politics as somehow objective.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

3) AI is pretty bad at writing things for humans to read with a couple of caveats: it is better- though still not good- at writing for its user than it is for other audiences, and it’s not terrible at outlining. stop using AI to write things for other people to read.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/08/2026

I agree that the tech backlash has a lot to do with the fact that Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on giving us cool things - and has trained us to assume that tech products that *seem* cool are probably secretly evil. I wrote about this last year:

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I Just Want a Cute Robot Lamp That Isn't Evil

Apple's engineers have figured out how to design a robot lamp so adorable that everyone I've shown the video to says they'd die for it. By studying how to translate human expression into the movement...

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Sean Victor @seanvictor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Every time I see someone labeled “rude” I immediately hear the Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared can of spinach in my head

Spinach can puppet from Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared with a soup spoon looking angry at Yellow Guy.

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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Man, after a week in Toronto seeing first-hand how they are surrounding transit stops *deep* out in the suburbs with 40-story towers (and frequent regional rail) I am so damn radicalized. Yes do it for environmental & housing cost reasons, but honestly it’s just nicer and feels so much more modern

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