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Bennett

@sleightedge.bsky.social
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I'm filled with snark and basically my whole life has been about pretending to have magic one way or another. Bi, he/him

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greg munsill @alcinaus.bsky.social · 22h
I like to refer to LLMs as "plausibility engines" -- just like con artists and crooked politicians, they depend upon believability rather than factual accuracy.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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Bennett @sleightedge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Clearly it's don't let two different directors play tug of war with the overarching theme of a blockbuster trilogy
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh this is lovely.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026
It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really don’t think that’s the case. I do think that probably these people hate femininity, which they see as weakness. But that doesn’t mean that they are secretly gay or trans. And I think that it does damage to insist that they are. Maybe some are, but definitely not all. 
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Bennett @sleightedge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is this the future AI weirdos want???
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Wall-E and Humans on the Axiom
Alt: Scene from Wall-E where Wall-E is rolling next to humans floating in chairs immersed in their screens and ignoring the robot
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text:
Cover of the September-October issue of Mother Jones Magazine: a white background with the words "50 years of fearless journalism" in black print, centered above the name/logo of the magazine in large Bright Red. Below that in black, the words "the southern strategy — jim crow was dead and buried. Then came the Roberts court."

And then, framing those words, there are two sets of robes: to the left, the simple black robes of the Judicial Branch of the United States Government, as a Supreme Court Justice might wear; to the right, the white robes and hood of the KKK.

A white person's hand with cuff of business suit and shirt visible, reaches into the scene from the right, poised to grab the Klan robes.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026
THIS IS THE KIND OF SHIT I WANT MY GOVERNMENT TO DO Hold large corporations accountable. Distribute the proceeds to the workers. Rinse, repeat.
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Bennett @sleightedge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is why it should be so easy for Dems to respond to GOP antitrans bigotry. Even setting aside their fear mongering lies abt trans healthcare for kids, it still requires parental approval. Parents who don't support their trans kids are assholes, but nothing can force them to make their kids trans
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/09/2026
this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.
cnn.com
The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business
Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/09/2026
Fire anyone who says this shit.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/09/2026
It's important to remind readers that while there are a few anti-trans dems, many are doing great work. Spanberger in VA did not flinch at anti-trans attacks. Now, she just ended Governor Youngkin's infamous rule that would ban trans students from bathrooms. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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VA Gov. Spanberger Kills Youngkin-Era Rule That Would Have Banned Trans Students From Bathrooms
“Spanberger showed how Democrats win amidst Republican attacks.”
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They can self-regulate, says the guy who shares a porn accountability app with his son.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 16/09/2026
Across the country, private equity and corporations are buying up doctors' offices, leading to patients paying more for worse care. @repvalhoyle.bsky.social and I are introducing the Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act to get Wall Street out of Americans’ doctors’ offices.
wsj.com
Exclusive | Congressional Democrats Take Aim at Private Equity’s Role in Medicine
A bill backed by Sen. Warren and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez would close ‘loopholes’ firms use to control physician practices
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The same cover, but with the "say 'i am alive'" AI meme pasted on top of it after 10000 hours in MSPaint
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 16/09/2026
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It’s OK to tell ICE their actions will haunt them, judge rules in speech fight
Man wins fight to block ICE threat over off-the-cuff angry email.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices.
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Bennett @sleightedge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can literally type "first they came for" in a gif search and get a version of the fucking poem
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LA Vs Hate: Martin Niemöller Quote
Alt: A version of the "first they came for" poem by Martin Niemöller: First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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Bennett @sleightedge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the weird shit (pun intended) your body does if you become even moderately invested in some kind of athletic hobby is always fun dinner talk with non sports people =P
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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trans rights are a winning issue because it shows that Dems have the courage of their convictions and the guts to fight it out for any member of the civil rights coalition. Trans people freak out when Democrats back down from this because if we don't, that's the ball game for us.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
With AGI overwhelming the news again, I repeat: There is no path to intelligence via LLM. But an LLM botnet choking the internet, or someone using a local model to attack aging infrastructure, are both real risks and too late to prevent. Pay no attention to the bogeymen, the harm is here today.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
amen
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump is tearing the government apart—then pointing to the wreckage and saying, “See? The government doesn’t work.” That’s like setting a house on fire and blaming the house. We can’t let him get away with it.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026
People get confused about the trans sports thing because at a glance it seems like a small issue that impacts a very small number of people and thus makes sense as a "reasonable" concession. But it isn't, because conceding that is accepting that a kid's trans identity is on some level fraudulent
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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Dems can get half-a-dozen instant major wins just by packing the court and undoing all the ratfucking that gutted Obamacare and other wins in the last decade. No new legislation required, and you get to do accountability as a bonus. One weird trick!
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They all say “I’ll leave!” and then what actually happens is they stay and pay the taxes they just do it like Paul Rudd cleaning up the cafeteria in Wet Hot American Summer
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/09/2026
As a side note, it is a shocker to me how many people simply do not understand that civil rights protests broke the law. Do they think Jim Crow was a polite suggestion and everyone was just following it until the civil rights era out of civility?
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Gender-affirming care saves lives, respects the rights of patients, and reflects that healthcare is supposed to be between providers and patients, not between providers and the Trump Administration. (1/3)
gothamist.com
Mount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors
Mount Sinai is the latest in a string of U.S. hospitals to reach similar agreements with the Trump administration.
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Lifespans of cats: Outdoor ferals: Usually dead in 4-5 years. They become coyote-chow. Indoor-outdoor "ranging cats": Usually dead in 5-6 years. Indoor house cats: Usually dead in 14-16 years. You are literally robbing your cat of a decade of life by letting them out off-the-harness.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026
“this person is bad so their work was always bad” is also a really dangerous view to take because it leads to - unconscious or not - a bias towards “but I do like this other person’s work, ergo they must be a good person” which, as we have seen over and over, is simply not true
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Live in such a way that this affects your life not one iota.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
it is so depressing to see how much money is going into ICE and the new ballroom instead of public transportation, scientific research, education, public health, and food safety
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 02/09/2026
1. Anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton just lost his Senate primary in a LANDSLIDE to outspoken trans ally Ed Markey. To Moulton, trans kids were a liability the Democratic Party needed to abandon. But to Massachusetts voters, the only liabilities are Democrats like him.
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Anti-Trans Dem Seth Moulton Loses Senate Primary to Outspoken Trans Ally Ed Markey in a Landslide
To Seth Moulton, trans kids were a liability the Democratic Party needed to abandon. But to Massachusetts voters, the only liabilities are Democrats like him.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026
I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise is a simple, correct one: you can't trust what Big Tech says in its promises to a local community.
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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is so basic, so fundamental to my understanding of what criticism is, and yet for decades various readers, writers, game developers and others have been hell-bent on resisting this notion when it comes to games criticism specifically.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
WATCH: “I’m a Dem because the other party doesn’t believe people like me deserve anything, but I want my party to be better… we lost the thread on working people’s issues.”
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Rabies is 100% fatal if untreated. Please help spread the word about the exposure at the Farm Adventures mobile petting zoo in North Carolina. The vaccine is incredibly effective and will save your life. Also…. Rabies at a petting zoo!?!? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Four baby goats at mobile petting zoo in North Carolina test positive for rabies
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the petting zoo held events involving children and elderly people between July 28 and Thursday.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
imagine an orphan crushing machine. i hate the machine and i hope we can dismantle it. but if the man who helped build the orphan crushing machine falls into it? buddy i’m gonna crack a smile.
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