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Sick Sad World Lady @sicksadworldlady.bsky.social · 2h
This is the most message board answer I've ever seen.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It cannot be stressed enough, in part because our political press seems to just brush this off, but Donald Trump loves state-sanctioned violence. When he says this, he absolutely means it. Remember, when the J6ers were going to hang Mike Pence on the Capitol lawn, Trump was perfectly fine with it.
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David Welker @davidskywelker.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“Going backwards” (all basic monthly costs > monthly after tax wages) for a majority of voting public while the “wealth effect” of highest income households captured the 120%+ returns in S&P over last four years = political wipeout for incumbents. Dems better reject austerity calls from CEOs in ‘27
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ummm, there's apparently a driver with a Florida tag who has gotten 57 traffic camera tickets in D.C. — including one for driving *141 mph* in a 35 mph zone. And another driver with a Virginia tag that has 405 traffic camera tickets, including going 108 in a 25. Insane.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026
“…the text thread between some Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers includes a competition over who can pull over the most black drivers. There are also numerous uses of the “n-word” related to use of force and discharging firearms at black residents.”
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
European politicians won't even get off X (neither will ours), but this should prompt an EU-wide attempt to expel Elon from the continent. And we need one here, too. You have to be Walter Isaacson to miss what's going on.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It's really hard to say "The richest man in the world is constantly calling for a race war as he almost singularly sponsors the Republican Party and millions will die because of his brief tenure in government, where he likely looted private data from all Americans." But we're getting closer.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/10/2026
Rather than cover the cost of gender affirming care for trans youth under medicaid, Colorado is voluntarily enacting the republican "taper and detransition" policy for youth on medicaid and dropping coverage. WTF.
Ironically, the first known violation of that law is now coming from the state itself. On September 18th, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) informed providers that “certain Physician-Administered Drug (PAD) services for the purposes of gender-affirming care will no longer be covered benefits for members under 18 years of age.” Two weeks later, HCPF released its full policy surrounding its updated coverage, and it somehow manages to be worse than the policies enacted by Arizona and Virginia. As Transitics reported last week, the federal rule allows for a 6-month ‘tapering’ period for youth currently receiving gender-affirming care where federal funds can still be used. And although HCPF does mention that stipulation in its policy, it also introduced a strange exception:

“Effective October 13, 2026, claims payment for GnRH/LHRH agents prescribed for gender-affirming care therapy for members under the age of 18 will not be allowed… Prior authorization for testosterone, estrogen, progesterone or medroxyprogesterone therapy for members under the age of 18,” the policy reads, “who are receiving and stabilized on therapy for gender-affirming care prior to October 13, 2026, may receive approval to allow for tapering and discontinuation of therapy.”

The exclusion of puberty blockers in the tapering policy isn’t accidental. The state’s prior authorization guidance that was updated the same day mirrors the policy and once again does not allow for a tapering period for trans kids receiving puberty blockers. And like Arizona and Virginia, Colorado has provided no indication that it has notified patients and their families. In doing so, Colorado is going far beyond what even the Trump administration intended—immediately cutting many trans kids’ care and leaving them scrambling for options.
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Mike Ludwig @mludwig.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Right now the unemployment rate is 4.2% -- but the labor participation rate is at only 61.8%. Not far from the pandemic low of 60% in April 2020 Hits different, no? The unemployment rate doesn't tell the whole story, it misses "discouraged workers" who have given up looking for a job, for example
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026
I don't use GenAI because I want to be capable of doing my work. I want my work to be my work. I want my successes to be *my* successes. And I want to do the work that I can only do if I don't have GenAI getting in my way. Each author and intellectual should have this conversation with themselves.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 13/10/2026
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What's the difference between:

A: Transwomen
B: Women

Let the "tolerant" crowd explain this one. I'll grab
popcorn.

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Trans is an adjective. It's a descriptor. Like tall or fast
or smart. A trans woman is just a woman who was
assigned male at birth and then transitioned at some
point in her life. Just like a tall woman is a woman
who is taller than the average woman. It's just an
adjective. It's really not that complicated.

For instance you are a stupid, bigoted man. Whereas
I am a cool and nice man. We're both men. I'm just
kind of a better type of man.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"Where others saw a risk that required mitigation, xAI—and its founder Elon Musk—saw an opportunity to profit off the sexual predation of real people, including children."
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Mylo Minderbinder @duffomatic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Here’s where it gets much darker. My letter also criticized WaPo for missing the larger story, failing to cover how the 3,000+ Guard troops in DC have quietly shifted into Phase 2 of their deployment, pulling out of touristy areas and aggressively moving in to residential neighborhoods. 8/
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Mylo Minderbinder @duffomatic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
WaPo published my letter, but first they censored it. Here’s the story . . 1/
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.
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Deny, Defend, Depose (Carl Nyberg) @carlnyberg312.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As Christopher Columbus becomes discredited, he becomes less Italian and more Jewish.
"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."--Albert Einstein
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just remembered the Christopher Columbus bit from the Curtis Sliwa-Adam Friedland podcast, the #1 clip of all time for Not Having Any Idea What Words Are Coming Next
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Sick Sad World Lady @sicksadworldlady.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"I don't understand why my Jewish lawyer wasn't also a raging Islamophobic bigot" really says a lot here.
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Sick Sad World Lady @sicksadworldlady.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Least surprising pinned post of all time
Pinned Bluesky post from OP that says "Not driving while not coding was not exactly how I imagined the future."
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/10/2026
Corporations publicly celebrating LGBT+ equality is a good thing and I am glad to see it coming back.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026
I’m a big fan of the onion, but this piece has always been a little weird to me because most Indigenous People don’t support Columbus Day and actually fought pretty hard against it. and we can ask for one day in addition to landback.
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Joy @joybella.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026
Lowkey one of the sole times in history where someone got their shit yanked for being incompetent and evil. 😭💀
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Sick Sad World Lady @sicksadworldlady.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I have an affinity for Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises for my own reasons but Hemingway being the ideal masculine writer is so funny. He's just an arsehole. That's his"masculine" trait.
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Sick Sad World Lady @sicksadworldlady.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Unless biology causes women to often write more complex and engaging characters and plotlines I don't think biology is why I typically read more women authors.
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Sick Sad World Lady @sicksadworldlady.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Happy Monday! We're doing misogyny but leftishly to start the week.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ABRAMOWICZ: “.. Bloomberg US economic surprise index turning negative in the past few weeks. This is edifying concerns that consumers will soon run out of steam to keep spending as much as prices keep rising.” @bloomberg.com
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Paxon surged 5pp on the strength of an anti-Talarico conspiracy theory that PolyMarket itself was pushing through their socials, and was then quickly debunked as an absurd right-wing-extremist conspiracy theory? Potential for manipulation & misinformation & poor accuracy/calibration is very serious.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 11/10/2026
We're told that trans children are the result of influence by their parents or teachers. We're told that children transitioning is wrong. Here's the thing, though: that's bullshit. Trans children exist. I know because I was one. Forcing me through natal puberty nearly killed me.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
I don’t understand why there are so many people eager to ignore this in order to get the left “onboard” with AI
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
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N.S. Dolkart is gathering signatures @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Similarly, the world in which OpenAI keeps plagiarizing mathematicians’ work and “solving” the problems they were working on isn’t one where OpenAI solves our problems, it’s one where the field becomes nonviable until there’s no cutting edge work left to plagiarize. The AI *prevents* big advances.
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems
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Mindy Moretti @mindymoretti.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hi @nbcwashington.com who, exactly, are the “some legal experts” who say the law doesn’t apply because drop boxes aren’t polling places?
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 10/10/2026
Well thankfully I have ADHD so this will never be a problem I have to deal with. Imagine being able to do the same thing for 10 minutes at a time, couldn't be me.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
we are going to have to be prepared for these people getting even stupider and more vicious as power starts to slip through their fingers
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Sick Sad World Lady @sicksadworldlady.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
670 getting ready to just be this for 24+ hours m.youtube.com/watch?v=wuXV...
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Super Fan's Letter - Saturday Night Live
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Soldiers positioned at voting locations is not legal behavior. These are Mississippi National Guard troops at a DC ballot dropbox yesterday. We demand the governors of Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia get your soldiers OUT NOW.
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mary Peltola released her anti-trans ad on September 21st. On that date, RCP's poll average had her leading 50.2% to incumbent Dan Sullivan's 48.1%. As of today, those numbers are 48.5% for Peltola, 47% for Sullivan. Really looks like going anti-trans gained Peltola absolutely nothing.
Screen cap from Real Clear Politics poll average page

Text: 2026 Alaska Senate - Sullivan vs Peltola

Top right box: Peltola 48.5 (+1.2), Sullivan 47.3
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
there are people in this state who could supply this pantry in perpetuity with a rounding error on their balance sheet. instead, we’re doing it ourselves. but joke’s on them, we’re turning every new neighbor we welcome into a Michigan fan
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ETX Gov @etxgov.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
A Live streamed execution is heinous, but it seems particularly dumb to make that guy look like a martyr.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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STAT @statnews.com · 08/10/2026
4/4 @jasonmast.bsky.social reported on Brecken and Yannick — two friends with vastly different experiences, and the regulatory landscape that has some parents taking matters into their own hands. www.statnews.com/2026/10/07/m...
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In Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a promising therapy is available to a fortunate few
Exon-skipping drugs present a critical test for the FDA’s goal of encouraging treatments for rare disease.
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Sick Sad World Lady @sicksadworldlady.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Love to have weird antisemitism on a Thursday.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 08/10/2026
🚨 Latest from the border wall blockade: tree sit is still up, one land defender is locked down to machinery, Border Patrol has wrapped a Mylar blanket around them and is running the truck and pumping the blanket full of exhaust to try to gas them out, potentially killing them.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 08/10/2026
I really need Westerners to understand that what we are seeing is a Western narrative they are long accustomed to collapsing as two factions take competing sides to level the same claims they used to unitedly level against other non-Western nations. "Disinformation" is always a tool of control.
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.
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