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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The Transformers do not endorse the views of the President" okay, great, yeah, it's very normal that you had to say that. This is an ordinary world where things make sense. It's normal that I'd wake up to an official statement from cartoon robots denouncing the man who has the nuclear codes.
Image from Hasbro's Instagram: Optimus Prime is a beloved character who represents humility, leadership, compassion and justice. Hasbro is aware of the recent posts using his likeness.
These posts were done without permission and do not represent the Transformers brand or Hasbro.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Every single person who spent more than a few hours in American concentration camps will be owed restitution. I think a concentration camp stay conferring automatic permanent legal status is a good starting point, and the least of what these people deserve.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
democrats, literally the only thing you should be talking about for the next 3 days is donald trump lying about being a 9/11 hero. i dont care if the question is about the economy or gas prices or about how sexually attractive you are, you steer that answer to trump lying about being a 9/11 hero
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So there’s this X-Men villain called Arcade, and
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/09/2026
yep. this is how JD got into Yale Law himself, the embarrassed cosmopolitan aristocrats were doing DEI for the Authentic Volk bsky.app/profile/kath...
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
among many other things I would like to see dems campaigning on, it should be made clear to companies that profit from deals like this that any public lands or resources given to them by trump will be immediately nationalized with appropriate punitive fines
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 06/08/2026
y'all do not love men or like men, let alone young men. you treat them like incompetent failures when they're like 10 years old. feminists are the ones who ACTUALLY LIKE OR LOVE MEN bc they don't have a patronizing inability to take men seriously enough to hold them accountable and help them grow!
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
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kuurrt @smalldarklight.net · 31/07/2026
cold open FAQ final girl tentpole thirtysomething
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Kelly Knox @kelly-knox.com · 18/06/2026
the trash compactor monster in the algae-filled Reflecting Pool
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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I'm gonna normie post and just say it is truly sickening that that dude can Nazi salute, stoke racist violence, commit voter fraud, kill kids across the globe with callousness, be a sexual predator and so fucking on and get rewarded rather than be in the stocks
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 12/06/2026
crazy that you can say "the day it happens is going to be so dope" and be referring to multiple guys. baseline purpose of living should be to never become one of those guys
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026
Forcing immigrant detainees to work for their captors isn’t just exploitative It’s unconstitutional Trump's policies are dramatically expanding both the immigration detention population and the nation’s Thirteenth Amendment crisis ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Forcing immigrant detainees to work for their captors isn’t just exploitative. It’s unconstitutional. The Thirteenth Amendment explicitly prohibits slavery and indentured servitude, except “as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” But immigration detention is a form of civil confinement. People held in detention centers are simply waiting—behind bars—for the resolution of their immigration cases. This is punitive in practice, but not in law, as they are incarcerated, but not in prison. Only 12 percent of the people who have been detained at Delaney Hall since it opened have ever been convicted of anything.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026
I think conspiracy may be a bad frame for right wing election denial because what they’re really expressing is a belief in is the idea that non-white people shouldn’t be able to vote.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
personally, as a straight man, I quite like women. I think they're pretty neat.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Damn right. I even tell young writers under my supervision to stop using the word and call a piece what it is: a review, a feature, an editorial or essay, etc., because calling it content is using the enemy's terminology, and makes artists feel worthless.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
There's a cottage industry built around offering advice to young men for money, and and all of it is bad, what young men really need is to buy a cheap bicycle and bike tools so you can fix it and ride it 10-20 miles every day while listening to Moby Dick as an audiobook
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Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"and the representative character of the tech guys trying to turn the federal government into their personal empire will be named Augustus Dorko"
George Lucas
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kuurrt @smalldarklight.net · 15/05/2026
I feel like it's increasingly common that people put a space between words and punctuation (like: "I win !!" or "I guess ?") What's the deal with that?
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
You all need to post more about your hobbies. Knitting, model trains, yodeling, fucking whatever. I don’t care. The point is brighting up the timeline a bit. Just need to see more folks interested and/or happy about something.
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kuurrt @smalldarklight.net · 13/05/2026
Not the point here, but this is informercial body language. Like sham-wow for polling
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 11/05/2026
WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."
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High-strength, multi-mode processable bamboo molecular bioplastic enabled by solvent-shaping regulation - Nature Communications
Bioplastics derived from biomass show promise as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics, but their adoption is hindered by their inferior mechanical properties and processability. Here, th...
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest. bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit. but this could not be. How would thev buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people fron fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes bevond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The ertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdv trunks, and the ripe fruit. And childrer dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and he guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, bu the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float bv, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people here is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wratk
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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The explicit position of the Republican Party is that Black Americans should not have representation in Congress.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Multiracial Democracy is Young and Fragile A brief history of the struggle to reconstitute a nation built on racial hierarchy around the principle of equality. Part I: Lessons from the rise and fall of Reconstruction. This piece is free to read, no paywall:
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Multiracial Democracy is Young and Fragile
A history of the struggle to reconstitute a nation built on racial hierarchy around the principle of equality – Part I: Lessons from the rise and fall of Reconstruction
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kuurrt @smalldarklight.net · 06/05/2026
Combine all three of these and get: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt-X...
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Little Ghost
YouTube video by The White Stripes - Topic
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/05/2026
The Trump Administration has been using law enforcement to target elected leaders, particularly Black elected leaders, since they singled out Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver when they tried to inspect a detention center.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Every damn book, conference, big money fellowship has been about reducing polarization. Many knew the real issue wasn’t polarization, but that polarization was the only politically correct proxy for the real problem. What a joke man
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
On this day, 1865: the last Confederate flag, a white dish towel.
photo of the dish towel used as a white flag at Appomattox
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/04/2026
just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...
Text of "Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)" by Muriel Rukeyser. Text is online at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/poem-i-lived-in-the-first-century-of-world-wars
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I just don't know what to do with the fact that there are a great many people for whom deranged threats to do war crimes, to slaughter people en masse, are actively a good thing; what they want from a leader. This is their idea of strength, their valourised masculinity. I think I hate them.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
mavis beacon did not teach you typing so you could make such terrible posts
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 25/03/2026
Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 23/03/2026
I hate the framing of “Ms Rachel has found a new cause—“ because no she hasn’t. Advocating for children kidnapped and locked up by ICE is not incompatible with her advocacy of children in Palestine. You just want to make her advocacy sound frivolous and fleeting. She’s being consistent.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
In honor of Mr. Rogers’ birthday, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that the quote of his you keep sharing, that in times of crisis we should look for the helpers, was for his audience of children. We’re adults now. We’re supposed to *be* the helpers.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 18/03/2026
older i get the more obvious it is that even a modest sliver of power over another person completely shreds the human soul. not sure what's to be done about that "haha" 👍
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 18/03/2026
This doesn't have to keep happening. It is possible to craft worlds where women and children are safe, rather than objects to be either dominated or protected from the domination of others. It is possible to create a world where people can just be safe in their bodies.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I know it’s apparently only salient to most American media outlets to talk about oil, but for the few remaining people left with a soul, thousands of people live on this tiny island in only 8 sq miles. This reads like a serial killer prison interview.
After days of conflicting messaging from the White House on how much longer it will continue to wage war on Iran, Trump alleged that US strikes had "totally demolished" most of Kharg Island, and told the network that its military may hit site "a few more times just for fun"
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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kuurrt @smalldarklight.net · 12/03/2026
Is ordering delivery 12 times IN A WHOLE YEAR really a lot of times? If so I am an incredible outlier for these data.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children. A major throughline of the Trump administration.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m... I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.
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