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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 21h

gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Imagine being this guy

Still from the first minute or two of the original Star Wars with C3P0 and R2 but also another protocol droid we literally never see again

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shiny-good-rock @shiny-good-rock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't quite know how to put it because it's just so stupid that people do this, but why are people such bastards toward ANY person who utters the meekest "hey maybe we shouldn't push for candidates who are republican-lite corporate shills" The BNMW thing is only ever deployed to give up on better

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

goddammit, sherman

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shiny-good-rock @shiny-good-rock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Made some ridiculously good crockpot food. Chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions, bunch of spices...then cooked a bunch of barley in the juice from it. Waiting for the barley to cool and will fridge it up. (-:

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2026

I've been doing trans rights related work for a decade and I don't think I've ever had so many friends in community in crisis. People are cracking under the weight of the despair of the current moment. I don't know what to do at this point. It's all so incredibly heavy.

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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 18/09/2026

everybody thinks the block they pulled out in jenga wasn’t load bearing, and nearly all of them were right

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Ryan "UnionToTuple" Cavanaugh @searyanc.dev · 17/09/2026

What do we want? Rights! Whose rights are in particular danger? I'm not saying!

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026

Share if you agree

Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket

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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*suspicious lobster wife* where did you get that shrimp *still confused lobster* you're never gonna believe this

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Hieronymous Borscht @secretlentil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sorry about the shameless self-promo but there may be only 3 people in the world who want a bright pink painting that says DON'T BE HENRY KISSINGER and I need to find them somehow. secretlentil.com/products/don...

A vertical rectangular abstract painting in fuchsia pink and brown with dketcy linework in white and yellow. In the background, somewhat buried and written backward, I've stenciled DON'T BE HENRY KISSINGER.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 15/09/2026

When the apocalypse comes, my only goal is finding this guy

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I have constructed a very simple and badly formatted flowchart so that liberals can understand the position of leftists on the Democratic party

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026

When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music

Depressed kermit the frog costume guy sitting hunched over on a park bench

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shiny-good-rock @shiny-good-rock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Had an EXCELLENT weekend in the mountains with my friends where we took a bunch of larp costume photos. Really proud of these pictures--I took all except the last one. #larp #photography #larpphotography #highfantasy #costuming

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to lose

autonomy.substack.com

This Is Not A Love Song

Explaining the “maximalism” of trans rights

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Ina Garten of BanBan (the name is already spooky actually) @drizzyborden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

bro you can’t be introducing a new strawman with every single reply. have some decency

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm so tired of the expectation that all trans people must be perfect advocates and ambassadors at all times, when most of us are not equipped for that whatsoever, and if any one of us slips of falters or says something in anger, it's on all of our heads as if we're collectively responsible.

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shiny-good-rock @shiny-good-rock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NOOOO I tried to post a set of pictures and bsky just ate the post? Twice?? And I wrote out the alt text on all of them...... )-:

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hacked by a moth.

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

so my village has been having a lot of issues. rather than deal with any of them, i grabbed a goat and had all the villagers pile their blame and hate onto the goat. while we were getting ready to drive it into the woods (and absolve ourselves) the goat BIT ME????? RUDE?!?

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 11/09/2026

stinky little mercury. wrinkly old and stupid. sad little scared mercury, lookin' like a gross dried up piece of garbage

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 10/09/2026

Democrats aren't throwing trans people under the bus to win elections; they genuinely do not like you nor do they approve of your "lifestyle".

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Rachael the Spicy Hobbit @rachael-the-hobbit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I want to be killed he old fashioned way, by barbarians with clubs 😭

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shiny-good-rock @shiny-good-rock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Getting into the time of year where I get annoyingly into Lord of the Rings and Skyrim/ESO as a coping mechanism lmao.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I feel like when people are being chased by a mummy not enough of them just try to kick the mummies ass. I wouldn’t try that shit on a Frankenstein but I feel like a mummy isn’t ready for that.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 01/09/2026

This is the energy I need Democrats to express

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Once before class my friend said to me "time to clean house" and walked into the class his brother was in and just kicked him in the nuts

8:20 PM • 10 Sep 17

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Star Wars isn’t unrealistic because of the force or lightsaber fighting, it’s unrealistic because if any pirate or drunken asshole can have an engine with ftl then every inhabited planet is going to be obliterated in under a year in space traffic accidents.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/08/2026

Whenever a post hits a certain threshold you start getting replies that make you understand why insanely obvious email scams do actually work

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shiny-good-rock @shiny-good-rock.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Roasting a vegetable or two, and earlier cleaned the sink. Made a huuuuuge difference to get those rubber gloves for cleaning. I may look like a 1950s housewife with them BUT I am able to clean the sink and drain with far less gagging (and more fundamentally/accurately: I'm able to clean it at all.)

A closeup of some roasted potatoes. They look fuckin TASTEY

A closeup of a cast iron skillet in the midst of being re-seasoned.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I know this is radical but maybe the party with the antisemitism problem is the one that can't stop with the Nazi shit, rather than the one who has a handful of outlier candidates with this crazy notion to stop using our tax money on bombs we know will be used to murder children.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Turns out stoking the flames of fascism as a flamboyantly gay noncitizen doesn't work out long-term, cannot believe it

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 26/08/2026

The US government has designated the Italian collective Autistici/Inventati, which produces the infrastructure of NoBlogs.org, a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist," freezing their assets and prohibiting all transactions with them——citing their "far-left" politics for justification.

cryptobriefing.com

United States sanctions Autistici/Inventati for supporting far-left terrorism

The US designated Italy-based tech collective Autistici/Inventati as a global terrorist entity, freezing assets and banning transactions over

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026

Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.

goelect.txelections.civixapps.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Are we ever going to find out what happened to mitch McConnell

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/08/2026

I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A thing that’s very funny is that a lot of rightwing content goofs are saying that Zohran Mamdani is someone who only cares about social media and making his message look cool, and it’s like yeah I can see why that bothers a policy wonk like yourself “the Walmart tampon sheriff”

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

this punk we used to know turned out to be an abuser and the scene wouldn’t eject him so my buddy was like ‘ok then i’m just gonna beat the shit out of him every time i see him.’ and he did! like three times a week on the sidewalk or at the store til the jerkoff quietly disappeared on his own lol

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ceej @ceej.online · 23/08/2026

digging my own grave, so it’s exactly how I like

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ceej @ceej.online · 22/08/2026

wasps under porch

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Hieronymous Borscht @secretlentil.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Does anyone have links to mutual aid happening in the area? I want to help and share. We had a derecho hit here years ago and it's basically a tornado but in a straight line.

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SpiderDIEphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Zeno's arrow but there's more and more arrows and at a certain point you stop thinking about stopping the arrows and just want them to fucking hit

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I really wish the overriding feeling politically didn’t always have to be “another damn thing every fucking day”

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