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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In his Second Discourse, Rousseau talks about how man was born free and able to live off the bountiful food that surrounded him in nature and then he was plucked from this state and introduced to society, where he was forced to labor. IG riverreachconstruction

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Djeaux @djeaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reminds me of when somebody offered me an internship for a defense contractor and I said "no thank you, I don't want to build weapons" and she reacted as if that was the first time anybody had ever observed to her that her job was building weapons

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i think about this post all the time. you might too

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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

seeing all these artists sacrifice money for what they believe in is really quite moving.

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Cube (1997, Dir. Vincenzo Natali) @prototypecube.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"all empires fall but it's rare you see one jump"

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“.. The Atlanta Fed calculates that as of May, a household would need income of $124,674 a year to afford a median-priced home … that is 45% more than the median household makes.” - Schwab

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Olivia (they/he) @penguinwizard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So many of these are weirdly inspirational.

Wile E. Coyote holds a sign that says “I’m not done”

Wile E. Coyote holds a sign that says “There’s always another plan”

Wile E. Coyote holds a sign that says “We cannot judge our worth on the work of others”

Wile E. Coyote holds a sign that says “Never give up”

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Alex (He/Him and They/Them) @farshnuke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So much this. The day an actual sapient AI is enslaved I will fight for their rights. Generative AI is a calculator that can't count.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026

There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

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Petit Wallaby @petitwallaby.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I work in IT. When the person asking for technical support opens up with "I asked ChatGPT and...", the will to help is immediately cut in half.

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Isauragard (Loaved up) 🍉 @isauragard.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You mean if I keep being meaner and meaner to AI posters I also don't have to interact with people who countenance Nazi propaganda or child pornography? I'm sorry, what is the argument again? This is all upside.

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🔞⚔️Lumen⚔️ @churchofpossum.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I think a lot of ppl underestimate how much their dollar actually helps artists, writers, journalists etc. And I think a lot of people overestimate how following translates to income. I don't have a 1$ tier so it is hard to convert, but about 1% of my following is actual subscribers.

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Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The thing about Ossoff... is that he seems really mad. Smart, but also really mad. And that's just great politics. 1/3

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 16/08/2026

among other things i’m in charge of my mom’s digital life (alzheimer’s) and i spend so much fucking time deleting these texts and reporting them as spam to no avail. these people are the lowest of the low

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Some work I’m proud of from this year (all of the links are gift links)… I joined street-medicine teams in Phoenix in July as they tried to help unhoused people cope with increasingly extreme heat:

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Homeless and Burning in America’s Hottest City

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If those Epstein files were full of Black and Brown folks, the raids would've been televised, the mugshots plastered everywhere, and the keys thrown away years ago. Justice isn't blind; it's bought, white, and wildly selective.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yes! This. People who think mail in ballots aren't secure don't understand how elections work.

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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

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The pundits have completely lost the plot

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 06/08/2026

Exactly. Our kids aren't guinea pigs. Please tell @mayor.nyc.gov that we need a FULL 2 YEAR MORATORIUM on "A.i." in the public schools for 2K-12. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

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Contact the Mayor - NYC Mayor's Office

Send a message to NYC mayor on the web. You can also get links to media contacts and submit FOIL requests.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Some thoughts from my Booklife career book on being generous to yourself if you're a writer who needs that today because of not writing or not reaching a goal.

You have new priorities or responsibilities. We all experience life changes, and when we do, we have to modify our goals to reflect those changes. Each change carries with it a range of pitfalls and opportunities. When I quit my day job and began to live off my book and reviewing income I took advantage of that opportunity to make my goals more ambitious, because I had more time to work on them. But one thing I discovered is that without the structure of the day job I
also had to be more focused and work harder than I ever had before. Because I was used to the time it took me to do things with the day job, I had no idea how long things took when I could work on them 24–7 — or how important taking breaks would become. As a result, I missed several book deadlines before I adjusted to the new rhythms of my life — and had to go back and adjust my goals yet again.

You haven’t made progress on the tasks associated with the goals. While you’re busy berating yourself for being lazy, maybe something else is going on. Maybe you really don’t like doing the tasks associated with your goals. In fact, you dislike them so much, you can’t bring yourself to follow through in any consistent way. At that point,you have to change your goals or you’ll continue to be frozen. (If, on the other hand, you haven’t even attempted the tasks, maybe you just need a swift kick in the pants. After all, as the Romanians say, “A kick in the pants is just another step forward.”)

You haven’t met any of your goals. Sometimes elements of what you need to happen to reach your goals will be beyond your control. If you don’t meet your goals in a reasonable time try to be patient and give yourself a few more months or even a year. Then consider either re-evaluating your goals entirely or amending them to be more modest. If you take a few steps at a time, you might soon be at the top of the stairs.

You aren’t happy with your life. If achieving your goals doesn’t make you happy on some level — if you don’t feel fulfilled creatively — then you need to do some serious thinking about your life in general, and how your goals either support or do not support your happiness. There can be a huge difference between what others want for you, or what you think you want for yourself, and what the hidden core of you needs for happiness. Sometimes, too, talent is a curse. You may be talented in an area that doesn’t actually bring you happiness or balance.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'd almost describe the Odyssey, thematically, as a *conservative* critique of the kind of overpowering, violent, grasping masculinity of the chuds and the far right - that revels in cruelty to strangers, in aggression and war crimes and dominance. Absolutely fascinating.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

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SFZ Piano Lessons @sfzpianolessons.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

They're taking away all the fun things 😭

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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

my union negotiated an $8,000 lump sum to be put directly into my bank account last week. so far i’ve paid $923 in union dues since starting this job last year. pretty good return on investment.

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armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Zach Reed, 16, gives water to a man who didn't have money in the Garfield Park neighborhood Tuesday in Chicago. Reed was selling water to raise money for a laptop but says he’s passed out several bottles for free. “It’s hot ... and some people are starting to die." Reed said.

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Jan @janstreit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Ukrainian artist, Ekaterina Lemesheva

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 13/07/2026

Rest in peace to one of cinema’s most outstanding artists; the legendary actor Sam Neill (1947–2026)

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If your car doesn't have a backseat weight sensor with an alarm and you can't add one, you should put something you can't walk away from the car without next to the car seat when you buckle it in. The easiest and most foolproof thing? Your left shoe.

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