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Zac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 5h

Skirting the razor thin line between pleasure and pain by making another Hellraiser shitpost.

a shitpost showing pinhead and the puzzle box from hell. It reads in bold text: DUDES BE LIKE "DON'T TORTURE ME" MY BROTHER IN LEVIATHAN YOU OPENED THE PUZZLE BOX

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 12h

YouTube is absolutely choked with AI-wriiten, AI-illustrated, AI-read sludge; cliche-ridden, replete with stereotypes, pandering to envy, spite, victimhood, schadefreude, and prejudice, yet purporting to be real. And I'm here to tell you: people, especially older people, BELIEVE IT’S ALL TRUE.

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 12h

They sit and watch the most transparently implausible drivel, with all the AI 'tells' absolutely screaming, and the codgers eat it up with a spoon, uncritically, unquestioningly, as long as it tickles their feelings of superiority over the young people and "dumb people" they resent for existing.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 13h

You gotta demystify Roko. That shit was a forum post, not a wise philosopher's deathbed fear for the future.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 13h

People *still to this day* are defending her ALL THE WHILE we have people fucking terrified to say shit about her *to this day* because they fear her destroying their careers and/or mental health.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 13h

And she keeps getting away with it because she has weaponized every aspect of herself into a progressive word salad of buzzwords. People were more afraid of Emily Bell calling them racist or of her completing her self harm threats on bsky than of the actual racism and her actual harm to others.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 13h

She's literally posting "Courtney Milan, professional bully" in this "private" (anyone can join, and in fact trying to drum up new subscriptions) discord, along with lies about SFF authors, and lists of "abusers" (who are all authors), and saying anonymous Black women support her doing this. 🤷

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 13h

Oh yeah, if there was ever a living novelist who really enjoys it when filmmakers substantially deviate from his stories and use them as a jumping-off point for tangentially related ideas it's Stephen King. This is going to be a super-popular decision that definitely won't get pushback.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 13h

"If you get rid of the Gestapo the Nazis win"

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myposeygirl.bsky.social @myposeygirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gaslight away progressives but “abolish ice” is fodder for maga and republicans alike. Abolish and substitute with what? Nothing- so no immigration policing? Republicans/MAGA would eat that up and use it against democrats. Words have repercussions! If the goal is to win, be smarter.

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😸 Hugo the pink cat 😸 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 17h

Did you miss the part where ICE being present would have literally changed NOTHING to what happened on that day? All of the terrorists involved in the attacks entered the USA legally.

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Eren Angiolini @erenangiolini.com · 19h

It's my birthdaaaaay!🎊 As an artist, it's often difficult to acknowledge how much I work and how much I improve, so today I want to be nicer to myself and share some of my favourite pieces I made since my last bday.💙 If you'd like to share, it would be a lovely gift!🙏✨

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By rights, each post in this thread should be nail in the coffin of Brad Bradford’s campaign. Great work, @nationalobserver.com.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The goal was to destabilize U.S. educational infrastructure and carve out a large space for reactionary indoctrination within it." This is 100% part of the story—of Alpha School's momentum and education overall—and far too often gets left out. Very glad it's appropriately hammered here.

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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 15h

I’ve been blocked for saying the New York Times is an evil organization that hates trans people but this news about *their own employee* proves they’re an evil organization that hates trans people 😡

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 17h

Choose your fighter

INVAGINIES by Joe Koch (goopy black & red & fleshy drippy metal skull stuff).

The Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joe Koch (ray of blinding yellow light illuminates a golden woman and giant outstretched hand as an xray of bones of the hand reach out to pluck your heart out through your throat).

CONVULSIVE by Joe Koch (title and author name nestled in a wall of skulls).

Dead Boys Don't Cry by Joe Koch (an obscured, blurry figure or figures of a slender naked man or men in sepia and gold).

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Washington Post: we will tolerate neonazis but we draw the line at parasocial fan dynamics

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Introducing Gurpo

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

RW Christian idiots be like "I'm going to base my theology on a misunderstood version of the ethics of the man who proclaimed the death of God."

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's absolutely fine to be someone who enjoys playing Dungeons and Dragons while also being critical of Hasbro's corporate practices.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The whole "Choosing Texas" discourse cycle has really demonstrated that some Americans really struggle with the idea that the music that is popular in their local (Insert American equivalent of Atlantic Superstore) isn't necessarily a global phenomenon.

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“we need to increase teen pregnancies” is, like, literally the position of conservatives and they don’t even pretend otherwise anymore

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like instead of now listening to the detrad (haha) wives we should maybe listen to the feminists that all along said that this was fascist propaganda doomed to fail because fascism always sells fantasies that have no connection to reality for the sole purpose of upholding existing hierarchies

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I forgot why I don't like dealing with Hindutva stuff on WP - it's because the partisans on both sides of the issue are so fucking hyperbolic. Me: "This specific academic has a history of consulting with this org so they're not fully independent of the org." The response: "HOW DARE YOU!"

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did it for my old neighbourhood from back in the day and, man, it's hard out here in the top-left corner of the vote compass.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is high up my to-watch list if I can persuade my family.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Listen sweaty, if you've never listened to Costa Rican UFO themed garage death metal I'm just saying don't be surprised in the midterms.

youtu.be

HUMAN MASS EXTERMINATION - PREEMPTIVE BLACK HOLE ELIMINATION [OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO] (2023) SW EXCL

YouTube video by SLAM WORLDWIDE

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Listen sweatie, if you've never listened to Mexican mariachi metal I'm just saying don't be surprised in the midterms

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We all diminish every time we visit Moncton (except after going to Homestead Restaurant whereupon we expand again)

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Traumatic Brain Injuries" "but were not seriously hurt" I mean I guess US marines don't really need a brain at the end of the day.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Of course Megan McArdle has an (awful) opinion about the lesbian bar discourse object. I remain of the opinion that the only people who have a stake here and thus the only people whose opinions we should care about are the bar's owners, staff and (actual) patrons.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm just going to say it: Leaving Texas is a boring song enjoyed by boring people.

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badly drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

American failing the 'not everyone is American test'

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rolling Stone columnist "anyone who listens to different music from me must have an Agenda"

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Who the fuck watches the news or listens to the radio?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

“To summarise, in his blogposts Cofnas takes the truth of his strong version of “race realism” as a given. If he provides evidence (which rarely happens), he is clever enough to mostly avoid mentioning the names of his sources.“ 🧪

skeptic.org.uk

Why it is reasonable to label Nathan Cofnas’ race realism as pseudoscientific - The Skeptic

"Race realist" Nathan Cofnas claims his "hereditarianist" viewpoint is scientifically accurate - by citing pseudoscientific research and misleading rhetoric.

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Philby Bear (they/them) @philbybear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Boy, that explains the EA / rationalist crowd to a t, doesn't it?

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a bad take in Rolling Stone tho. I don't listen to the radio. I get new music recommendations either from friends who have the same taste as me or algorithmically from a streamer or YT. I don't listen to contemporary country or soft rock in general.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Narrative over materiality is a stone in the road to fascism.

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N.A. Pearson 🇵🇸🚩 @napearson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

silver lining: we can add everyone who died because of Obama onto the Victims of German Idealism pile

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