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Shelley Gustavson

@shelleygusto.bsky.social
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Occasional Poet, Essayist, and Novelist of things on my pc. Stuff in Prod, Dev, and Dev Hell // u better take it easy cuz the place is on fire. linktr.ee/shelleygusto?fbclid=PAY2x…

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/10/2026
Now that the attacks on Piker failed to resonate, time to move on to the next person to demonize. I'm sure attacking the beloved children's entertainer will work...
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There is nothing in the Constitution that forbids the military from storing missiles and drones in a traffic circle. So it’s hard to understand the Left’s objection to President Trump’s bold new plan for his triumphal arch. by Jonathan Turley
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'll be doing this FR
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 17/09/2026
I just think it’s bad that we only have consequences for people who don’t have any money or power
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Your 40s are for rage.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Your regular reminder -- yes, I'm going to keep on with this -- that Republicans in Congress are just fine with everything he's doing.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Correct me if I'm wrong, but letting a building go to seed and then swooping in to "save" it with a rebuild is sort of an old developer trick, isn't it?
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
news anchors with a sketch of a bathroom intended behind them.  the sketch is basically the male news anchor.  his co-anchor is looking at him suspiciously.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.
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BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception
The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/08/2026
Uh, yeah, this is bad.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Once again and as a reminder, the Secretary of Defense is afraid.
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Hegseth Blocks Promotions of Four Army Officers as Purge Widens
The turmoil has left a leadership vacuum in the Army at a moment when it is trying to find ways to defend troops against the threat posed by cheap drones.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I find it strange that Democratic political candidates are being asked about Hasan Piker, while Republican political candidates have *actual staff* who are white nationalists.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.
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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Cassie Workman is Witchy AF is finally coming!!!! so proud to be a part of this!!! Hail Satan!!!!
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Cassie Workman is Witchy AF | OFFICIAL TRAILER
YouTube video by Etch
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
BOSTON…😕 ✈️
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 18/08/2026
Lowe's is taking the fight to Home Depot's 12-foot skeleton with their new 15-FOOT-TALL Lighted Skeleton Watcher Animatronic. According to Lowe's, it's the "tallest Halloween animatronic on the market at 15 feet tall." Available now for $429, it speaks & features LED eyes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
New in PN: DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew "When the Department of Justice indicted 15 Minnesotans earlier this summer, it was painfully clear that this was a cobbled-together mess, a transparent attempt to criminalize dissent. But boy, we didn’t know the half of it."
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DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew
It's the stuff of East Germany.
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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 15/08/2026
Stephen Miller deserves to spend the rest of his natural life fighting a legal system charging him of crimes he didn't commit in a language he does not speak, alone, and without counsel: publicnotice.co/p/stephen-miller…
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Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
After Alex Pretti was shot while peacefully witnessing during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the US government did not investigate his murder; they investigated groups that were supporting efforts to witness and document, calling them agitators. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
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U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 31/07/2026
this is my new favorite diagram
Brachiosaurus projectile vomiting: forces generated and resulting traces
Assuming 50 kg (110 Ibs) of regurgitant, impact velocity from 14 m (45 ft) height, and hard-packed sand as impact site.
h = 14 m (45 ft)
Impact velocity = V = V 2gh = 16.6 m/s; kinetic energy before impact = 6,860 J
Average impact force = 68,600 N
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Yup. Trans hate and misogyny are two sides of the same coin. These are the same assholes who have been bashing women’s sports for being “not athletic enough” and the athletes who are athletic as being “manly” and “ugly”. And now they’re being given massive microphones to mock the WNBA.
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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social said it best: open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
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What Do I Think About Sophie Cunningham?
I'll tell you.
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Chip Chantry @chipchantry.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
“Sovereign citizen. Sovereign citizen. Sovereign citizen. Watch out- Sovereign citizen.” -me, pushing to the front of the line at Dairy Queen
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Travis Miller @justtmill.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Spotted on the Fullcast reddit. This is incredible levels of divorced:
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 31/07/2026
Meta has entered a formal AI partnership with Newsmax—the right-wing propaganda outlet fined $67 million for election denialism. Election-denying, anti-Muslim, anti-woman, anti-democracy "news" now feeds directly into Meta's apps and devices, reaching hundreds of millions of users.
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Corporate Media Is Not Failing—It Is Collaborating
As the fourth estate falls, here's what we must do to stay informed and empowered
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The fact that after receiving classified briefings about COVID, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue downplayed the virus to the public and invested in BODY BAGS should have been a bigger a story.
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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Bernie Moreno was a car salesman with a record of wage theft and employment discrimination. Anthony Fauci was the director of NIAID from 1984 to 2022 and in 2008 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work fighting HIV/AIDS in that role.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"
cap of White House page honoring Fauci
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
lmaooooo -- Bernie Moreno asks Fauci to apologize to Laura Ingraham (who is standing behind Fauci) and other right-wing grifters
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Being in your 50s is one long convo about how to help your parents and how to help your kids become adults. Almost zero room for…you. Every dinner party, every hang… Anyway, buckle up
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 28/07/2026
1. Trans South Dakotans may only have days to update their driver's licenses before it's too late. An investigation from Transitics has found that South Dakota is quietly preparing to become the 11th state to ban trans people from getting accurate IDs. The policy is set to go into effect 'soon.'
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South Dakota Will Become the 11th State to Ban Gender Changes on Driver’s Licenses ‘Soon’; Trans Residents May Only Have Days to Update their Licenses
Transitics has uncovered that South Dakota is quietly preparing to implement a ban on gender marker changes ‘soon.’ Trans residents must act now to update their licenses before it’s too late.
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Was having a fair-to-good day but then saw this 1961 photo of Yves Saint Laurent & realized I was, alas, doing everything wrong.
YSL at a table sketching dresses in 1961 surrounded books & art work & a Senufo bird (from  Côte d’Ivoire) with a flower arranger tending to tulips in the back.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/07/2026
The car attack on the Berlin Pride event has been designated a mass casualty event.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Positioning a trans actor as the moral voice of reason, an unwavering advocate for Zeus’s law, and a man whose ultimate betrayal symbolizes the destruction of civilized Greek society for the sake of the 'victory' at Troy, is especially pertinent to where we are currently."
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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I remember seeing someone say we need a movie with Daniel Radcliffe and Margot Robbie playing a couple who get mistaken for assassins who are played by Elijah Wood and Samara Weaving, and I may not ever stop wanting to see that movie.
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A pigeon built a nest for her kitty friend when the cat became pregnant. This unusual act of interspecies care highlights the remarkable capacity for empathy and connection that can exist between different animals. 😍❤️❤️🐈🐦‍⬛
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I'm supposed to believe the First Amendment is celebrated by our free press, and I'm also supposed to ignore that political journalists appear to be too frightened to defend their colleagues slandered in front of their faces by the sitting president at a black tie dinner.
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
SEEMS BAD (Also seems bad personally bc quite a lot of my family live very near here)
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
But the top layer of peat, where exposed, is also dry. And now the fire has made its way into the peat, and is spreading underground.
A photo shows cracks in dry, exposed peat.
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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Amen. If you go into the archives looking to confirm a hunch, you'll likely find some random bit of evidence that fits. This is why "originalism" is considered a joke by actual historians. Finding one quote from one member of the founding generation who agrees with your hot take is pretty easy!
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
so anyway, I’m not allowed back at the bank
Image on a tshirt of a strawberry with a face and human hands holding two guns that are pointed at the viewer. Underneath it says “this is a strobbery”
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