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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Matt @sensibleish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Er, 150th anniversary 🤦‍♂️

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Matt @sensibleish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is 🙄 coming from WashU, who didn’t even have a sociology department for a long while after the Teamroom Trade mess. IIRC the index for their 100th anniversary puff piece tome didn’t even include “sociology”.

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Matt @sensibleish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Am I Bluesky-brained if I saw this picture and immediately thought it’s fodder for a @kevinmkruse.bsky.social insultathon?

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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If the hand is invisible why do I have fingerprints where it bitch slapped me?

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Matt @sensibleish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Did that apply to electronically transmitted audio only (like an online meeting), or also to live audio? What if the output available to the user of the system is only a summary, not a verbatim transcript? Lots of interesting potential nuance (which I have no qualification to assess).

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Matt @sensibleish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ok, but isn’t wiretapping the act of listening to electronically transmitted audio? This is different.

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Matt @sensibleish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Had it happened before today that Apple didn’t announce all members of a new iPhone generation at once?

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Matt @sensibleish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Presentation said audio isn’t stored at all. Transcription is live (then presumably summarized at some interval). Guessing that isn’t “recording” for purposes of those laws, but someone qualified will have to write an explainer.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce

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Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

God-level badassery: Canadian Constable Sukhvinder “Suki” Singh Sunger, Drum Major of the Vancouver Police Pipe Band making history at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-o...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 01/09/2026

It’s Nice To Be Disliked By One Of Those

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Back to school. ❤️

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 06/08/2026

For various Reasons I have been pondering the idea that a story needs a character that is Obviously Like the Reader in some way for a reader to identify with. Which led me to remember this. www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...

cbc.ca

Astronaut Chris Hadfield answers a five-year-old's questions about Voyager | CBC Radio

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22/08/2026

Gary, Indiana is without power for the 11th straight day after storms. This is climate injustice.

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

nytimes.com

Navy Carrier’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War

Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Another day, another impeachable offense: The White House ordered federal agencies to block resources to Colorado because it had punished an election denier. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

As President Trump fumed late last year over Colorado's imprisonment of Tina Peters, a convicted election denier, a White House special assistant organized an urgent "brainstorm call."
The goal, outlined in an email sent to officials at five federal agencies, was to "prioritize Colorado for the purposes of ensuring grants and federal support are in line with administration priorities," the assistant, Emily Underwood, wrote on Dec.
15.
"Please come prepared to discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado," Ms. Underwood added.
The next day, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy, whose representatives were invited to the brainstorm, announced they were canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants for Colorado projects.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Seven key neofascist narratives, translated into rational English:

I postulate seven key neofascist narratives. These are:

1. Only white people can produce and sustain the highest culture ("Western
Civilization").

2. The different racial-cultural nations are necessarily in zero-sum, violent conflict.

3. Violent masculinity is needed to save white nations (and hence civilization).

4. Women are not capable of this. Their role is to breed the race, not lead it.

5. Because our leadership has become feminised and corrupted, white nations have
been contaminated by contact with inferior races.

6. A political purge is required, followed by a society-wide purge of the contaminating
elements.

7. This will restore the white racial-cultural nations to their previous (mythic) glory.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Since there's been a lot of talk this week about candidates having previously said "defund/abolish the police" and them backtracking on it. It's very easy to answer for that without backing down: Some sort of policing are necessary to avoid mob justice, but they don't need to have tanks.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/08/2026

the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

let’s start calling sweatpants, pajama pants, and any other non-constricting soft pants “boneless pants”

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

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Matt @sensibleish.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Was pretty sure I’d find this in the replies. 👏👏

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Exceptionally well done look at the shape of war in Ukraine, new kinds of hell defined by cheap and abundant and expendable drones, a new far-ranging kill later on top of 20th and 21st century weapons and machines www.reuters.com/graphics/UKR...

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Inside Ukraine’s Kill Zone

Drones now dominate the war in Ukraine. Fly through the front line’s deadly “kill zone” and discover how surveillance, kamikaze drones and new tactics are reshaping modern warfare. An immersive Reuter...

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 26/07/2026

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

en.wikipedia.org

The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“The Guardian wins the ‘Caption of the Year’ competition: - William Merrin @theguardian.com

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Matt @sensibleish.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The new “We fix $5 haircuts”

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⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Audrey @parickards.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Yesterday...Northwestern Ontario looked like a scene straight out of Dante’s Peak.

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 14/07/2026

We just hate it when there’s no aircraft visible on the Las Vegas live stream. The camera at LAS has recently been upgraded, so now you can not see this airplane in 4K. Watch the 24/7 automated live stream at www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7_o...

If there was an airplane in this image, one might say it was a JANET 737-600. If there was an airplane in this image, of course.

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First Touch @firsttouch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What is going on here? 😂 Erling Haaland with a taxidermy raccoon, arriving home after the World Cup.

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Matt @sensibleish.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Hey men, read this from Dr Cottom. Also listen to this segment from This American Life about men not believing women about menstrual pain. www.thisamericanlife.org/840/how-are-...

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There Will Be Blood - This American Life

Producer Aviva DeKornfeld heads to the Calgary Stampede to watch as men try out a machine designed to simulate menstrual cramps. (15 minutes)

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

They're continuing to kill people because this administration has told them that the people they're apprehending -- and those who defend them -- deserve violence, that no amount of violence is too much, and that no matter how egregious the abuse, they'll never be held accountable.

bangordailynews.com

ICE agents involved in fatal Biddeford shooting, lawmaker says

It's at least the 11th fatal shooting involving an ICE or Border Patrol agent since President Donald Trump took office last year.

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 12/07/2026

harpers.org/archive/2018...

21 Grahams

From descriptions of Donald Trump, stated between 2015 and 2018, by Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina.

A race-baiting, xenophobic bigot
The Islamic State’s “man of the year”
The death of the GOP’s relationship with Hispanic voters
A death blow to the GOP’s relationship with women
The world’s biggest jackass
A wrecking ball
A salesman of fear
A politician whose ideas are gibberish
A politician who is incapable of representing a mattress company
A poor representation of a Republican
A president who is unfit for office
A president who sometimes crosses the line
A Twitter user whose tweets are sometimes beneath the office of the presidency
A man who has a blind spot
A thoughtful person
A good person
A strong person
A golfer with an accurate drive and an athletic swing
A president doing a great job
The best hope in decades for peace
A potential recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2026

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

OK everybody...still working out some kinks but... A new daily game, with boards written and edited by John Green. hankgreen.com/smush

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348 pts · ★★ pangram first
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is the most hilarious little league home run I've ever seen, the Royals have outdone themselves

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