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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The kicker is you can tell it would never even dawn on this Republican senator or his staff that a man might want to go to a women’s sporting event. But protect women’s sports or something!

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It smells a bit like if the big banks had gotten together in early 2008 to call for a “slowdown” in subprime derivatives. Smells a bit bubblicious.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't think you get to just decide to call yourselves "Rationalists" and say you're advocating "Rationalism" and expect that everybody else is supposed to just swallow that uncritically and defer to your superior rationality. That's not how that works, even apart from the orgies and whatnot.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If Boston Dynamics had set tens of thousands of its robot dogs loose, just to see what happens, I would think they'd be in some kind of legal and/or financial trouble.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great reporting and honest language here from Bob Smietana. No "racially tinged" mush mouth talk. No caviling with "critics say" hedging. Self-evident evils are discussed as such, not as "controversies." He gives words and sinners the dignity of meaning what they mean.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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grayson @graysond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

more and more reasons why it is important to subscribe to outlets you like and trust and follow them directly. Reading with intention will make you better informed and produce a more sustainable ecosystem. Bookmarks and RSS are way way better than search results and news aggregators

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Hedgerow Bustler @joelcreese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I knocked on doors for Susan Crawford, the progressive Wisconsin Supreme Court justice candidate. Every time I mentioned that Musk supported her opponent, they said, “I’ll support her.” It’s an absolute gimme.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Younger associates at the Big Box don't trust the new database for locating overstock inventory because even though it's just a database -- a glorified spreadsheet fed by OCR of digital photos of our overheads -- it keeps getting described as "A.I." and those Gen Z associates don't trust "A.I."

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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I haven’t read the book or the “my faith isn’t a cancer” Washington Post essay, but, based on the coverage in this Friendly Atheist essay, it’s exactly what I would have guessed based on the title: www.friendlyatheist.com?utm_source=n...

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Friendly Atheist | Hemant Mehta | Substack

Commentary about religion and politics, centered around atheism. Click to read Friendly Atheist, by Hemant Mehta, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I still recite the names of that trade like I'm Arya Stark.

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026

And the Stephilim were on the Earth in those days

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Telmarines aren't happy about this, but the Telmarines are never happy about anything.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In a time when antisemitism is increasing on the far left and the mainstream right, and when Islamophobia is at a fever pitch in the US and the UK, Bonnie Kristian keeps an eye on what's really important: Defending white evangelicalism.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Got to admire the way Ireland forced the Brits (and the rest of us) to have to learn to spell and say Taoiseach. My first attempt at pronouncing that had way too many syllables.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Lifeguards have to be certified by the Red Cross but, like, did Florence Nightingale even know how to swim?

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“Mr. President, a second big, burly firefighter is dragging Donald Trump to safety …”

The famous/infamous photo of George W Bush learning about the second plane

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I probably am one of those "thinks about the Roman Empire every day" guys, but mainly in the sense of, at some point most days, reading the New Testament and realizing again how I'm not adequately appreciating the full breadth and depth of the impact of the destruction of Jerusalem in CE 70.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That most influential thing has yearbook superlatives vibes. "Voted Most Likely to Care Deeply About Being Named in a Yearbook Superlative" "Voted Most Likely to Still Base Self-Esteem & Self-Image on Yearbook Superlatives 15 Years After Graduating"

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I wore sneakers when I was running around on Mischief Night, so I don't need to take the regional dialect quiz. Tramps like us, baby we were born to be easily pinpointed by linguists.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🎵 Young man, there's no need to feel down, I said Young man, pick yourself off the ground, I said Young man, 'cause you're in a new town There's no need to be un-hap -py .... 🎵

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Jesus Christ, famously stingy about giving fish to people

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026

every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Do dogs really do this? Do they "dogpile"? I mean, like, the thing we're condemning here is human behavior, right? Humans attacking other humans the way that humans sometimes do. Seems unfair to dogs to drag them into this.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The prompt wasn’t “favorite movie at age 20.” It was favorite *released* when you were 20. My favorite at age 20 was the same as it is now, Casablanca. But I wasn’t born in 1922. Anyway, maybe Bull Durham or maybe

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Bruce Willis: Die Hard - Have a Few Laughs

Alt: Bruce Willis: Die Hard - Have a Few Laughs

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For punishment, and education, the copy writer who chose to describe Wendell Berry as "Writer Who Extolled America's Agrarian Past" needs to hand in a 5-10-page essay explaining why that headline is reductive, misleading, and horribly obtuse. FFS, makes him sound like Jeanette Oke.

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

This Wendell Berry #poem forever

Whatever happens,
those who have learned
to love one another
have made their way
to the lasting world
and will not leave,
whatever happens.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...

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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn’t go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I feel like I’m on fraud watch as an international relations scholar because I honestly kinda don’t fucking know why this country does anything anymore. If you held a gun to my head and demanded to know why we’re at war with Iran or feuding with Canada or want Greenland, I’d say the Lord’s Prayer.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Recognizing that I, as one person, can't know everything, I'm starting a list of Probably Very Important Things that are also complicated and likely to stay beyond my reach, so I will just accept that I need to sub-contract out understanding such things to others and trust their judgement.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It feels a little less disappointing if you refer to the unrelenting clouds that obscured any view of last night's eclipse from here as "a double eclipse of the moon."

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

While Trump himself threatens to attack at least two NATO allies.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If anybody who has used Atticus would like to encourage or discourage me from trying it, I’d love to hear it.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'll let trans people discuss the politics of the movie TRANSAMERICA (which I haven't seen), but it was just wonderful to see a Southern woman known for her gospel singing perform this song at the Oscars in 2005.

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Dolly Parton Travelin' Thru Live

YouTube video by DollyParton1946

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"9 to 5" was nominated for an Oscar the same year as "On the Road Again." The winning song that year was "Fame," which ironically beat out two songs that are gonna live forever. (Michael Gore wrote "Fame." had to look that up because I didn't remember, remember, remember his name.)

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026

If you’re not potty trained by now you don’t get to be in the pool with the rest of us and we’re not gonna have a civilized debate about it while the water fills up with your filth.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The thing about America is that when you get sick, you get poor. Debts pile up. Lose your health, you lose your money. Nice to see at least one person get a little of that money back.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cursed idea: Taylor Sheridan's "Port William" on Paramount Plus. ...

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I have never intentionally used Siri on my phone, but every day when I get in the car to drive to work, my phone dings, eagerly offering to give me driving directions to the place I have driven to every day for the past 15 years. It offers to teach me a thing it has learned FROM ME.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Rayford Steele's mind was on a woman he had never touched. ..."

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