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The president of The Trace is John Feinblatt, the architect of Michael Bloomberg's stop and frisk policy. I appreciate the symmetry in a newsroom reporting on gun owners being treated as an oppressed minority run by a guy whose signature accomplishment was oppressing minorities in search of guns.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 12h

Using an autonomous AI agent from Meta seems like a bad idea to an almost cartoonish degree. It's the product for people who want gamble over whether it will harm them out of unfathomable greed or sheer incompetence

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 13h

Spam call Protip: Purchase a North Dakota phone number. All your spam calls will come from North Dakota and you can just block that entire area code because you probably don't want to talk to anyone in North Dakota anyway.

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Max Schreck as Nosferatu (bald, wide-eyed, two front teeth pointy, as are the tips of his ears; dressed all in black), giving the "thumbs up". White letters (on black background) above the picture say "I'm trying to be more positive" beneath the picture it says "Yes-feratu"

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Pete Moran @pete-moran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My most centrist belief is you can like werewolves of london but also other warren zevon songs

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 27/09/2026

There's still more to recover, and I'm working on it. But I've finally brought the Gaming Outpost back online, browsable and searchable. There's a ton of gaming history there, and it's a treat getting to see it again. gamingoutpost.com

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The Gaming Outpost

Articles, reviews, and forums from the Gaming Outpost.

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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Actually, Fetterman is the scientist’s name.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Entering my RSS feed era

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What is a good blog or lesser known site that you like and would recommend to others? I suspect my followers are the sort of hip and with folks who can give me good answers to this question.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

European countries should band together to fund open source alternatives to big American Tech Company products. Come to think of it, President Ocasio-Cortez should do the same when she revives the WPA.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wonder how closely economic satisfaction tracked actual income in the lead up to the Russian Revolution. Did former serfs show the correct amount of satisfaction as their grain output rose and their debt payments were cancelled?

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's because the default language we use to describe police already tends to imply they have no agency. The initial MPD report of George Floyd's killing was headlined, "Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction".

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They'll take the lesson that "moderating" on trans rights by moving to the right is the goldilocks zone that wins elections.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 21/09/2026

When the Dems regain the presidency, we need to commit to prosecuting members of the American military, from leader down through enlisted, who carried out illegal commands from Trump and Hegseth. We can't allow any "only following orders" excuses.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Are other departments allowed to exceed their budgets by this much? What would happen if the library exceed their budget by 20 million to stay open later and buy more books?

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Crazy how every time will Stancil identifies a subject Bluesky is insufficiently excited about he is able to raise our collective view of it by endlessly arguing semantics in his comments.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We need a strong social stigma against elderly people living in large single family homes. Move in with your children. Get a small apartment somewhere with good public transit. Sell your house to a family that needs the room and can maintain it.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026

I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm saving so much space in my studio apartment now that I am acquiring ebooks that sit on my Kobo without being read instead of acquiring physical books that sit on my bookshelf.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 20/09/2026

This is the best description of Zizek I've ever seen.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Are there actually any old time movies about a ghost from a wishing well? Or was Gordon Lightfoot making that up

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I haven't clicked the link but I bet it is something by Gordon Lightfoot. bsky.app/profile/the-...

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People are more resistant than I expected to my contention that Will Stancil - a man who posts dozens of times today about how people to his left are insane, deluded victims of a social media bubble - is a a reactionary centrist.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Will Stancil seems to genuinely think the public is demanding severe austerity measures.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What specific progressive policies do you think are precluded by a high percentage of people saying that high priced are a cause of worse finances?

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 17/09/2026

and, as ever, my reminder that if you are writing about a court case it is basically authorial and editorial malpractice not to provide a case number or copy of/link to the documents you're talking about

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This makes no sense. If you think the polling on inflation is unmoored from the actual inflation numbers then why would you react to the polling with austerity measures designed to lower inflation? Why would you think that would benefit you in any way?

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social has shown us what it looks like to take on powerful interests while unapologetically standing up for working people. I'm honored to have her endorsement, and I look forward to joining her in the fight to hold Trump accountable and help people afford their lives again.

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Once you notice certain people are like this, it's very easy to dismiss them as incurious ideologues.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think I may have jumped the genealogical shark

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Will Stancil is a reactionary centrist.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hope to see a day when all the people I follow who follow Will Stancil realize how low an opinion he holds of them. He thinks you're an NPC who has been unduly influenced into leftist positions by social media.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We really should describe the status of Washington, DC more harshly. We deny hundreds of thousands of people in our capitol basic political rights. It's outrageous so many people live under the sovereign rule of a powerful legislature in which they have zero representation.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It genuinely blows my mind the degree to which people in power do not grasp (or just refuse to acknowledge) that encampments are preferable to shelters for a whole lot of people, for a long list of reasons.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why include an exception for Minneapolis PD and ICE? What exactly does the DFL think MPD needs to be doing with assault weapons?

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The next Democratic president should evacuate Guantanamo Bay and unilaterally return it to Cuba.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you support police abolition then you should not support gun control that includes exceptions for cops (which is virtually all gum control)

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Her office also declined to pursue an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) against Johnson, which would have given law enforcement the ability to take his guns if he was deemed a risk to himself or the public." The gap was the failure to use our existing law. www.startribune.com/gaps-in-minn...

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Gaps in state laws allowed mass shooter with a violent history to get gun permit

Carlton Johnson II had a criminal record and a recent restraining order for threatening to kill the mother of his child. He was also a legal permit holder.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Do orange cars really share a single brain cell? Or are you the feline Charles Murray?

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Celebrate labor day by looking up the history of labor organizing near you. In the recent past workers in your city got a bit too uppity in asking for higher pay or shorter hours or more protections and business leaders responded by having jackbooted thug beat and murder them back into submission.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In Duluth's housing debate I have never once seen someone bring up low income housing as a reason to build more low income housing. It is only ever used as an excuse to oppose market rate housing (which we also need).

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I like to think my ancestors would take a nuanced view and want me to appreciate the ways in which I have it than them but never use it as a justification for the inequality and injustice that still exists.

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Minilla Jovovich 🍉 read Merynthia's Master ⚔️🪱🐦 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is why this man made a good TV show and not a new wookieepedia section

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Polygraphs are not real. They do not detect lies or truth. The only purpose of a polygraph is to coerce confessions from people who do not know they don't work.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

IMO everyone who shows up to a city council meeting to oppose housing should be made to wear a mandate describing the value if their home and how much it has gone up since they bought it.

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Grant @serow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Kinda weird how there is a prestige JD Vance biopic starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams, right?

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