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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21h

good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas
Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea. Add China and Taiwan, and numerous other hot spots, which have not been involved in Wars, only because of President Donald J. Trump, and the United States of America. I am responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries"

Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe. Additionally, I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars. On top of it all, I have created a soon to be very prosperous Arctic. Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nations—they were of no help. The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t. This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel “Peace” Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 16h

Again. Impeach him.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 10h

👏👇

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they've got nothingggggg

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

According to a 2013 paper, almost 40% of female homicides globally are due to intimate partner violence www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

stating that Israel is engaged in an ongoing genocide against Palestinian people is a basic fact. It's uncontroversial. It's true.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The former Fox News host who is the president’s son’s former fiancée and current US ambassador to Greece asked for a $100k bribe from a discredited Kentucky lawyer and pizza restaurant mogul who wanted to get his song lyrics in front of Kid Rock

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UNICEF Evaluation @unicef-evaluation.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🪷 #UNICEF #Evaluation is heading to #SVRIForum2026 in Bangkok! Join Amber Peterman & Horace Gninafon as they share new work on measurement & impact evaluations on child marriage, & violence against women & children. ~ Explore the agenda + say hello! 👋 🔗 www.svriforum2026.org/svri-forum-2...

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Prevention Collaborative @prevention-collaborative.org · 01/10/2026

From Oct 5th - 8th, our team will be at the SVRI Forum, the world's largest gathering on evidence to end VAW/VAC. We're bringing new findings on programme adaptation and prevention practice, and we hope to connect with others in the room. #PreventionIsPossible #SVRIForum26

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Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) @arrowomen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🚨 Attending the SVRI Forum 2026? Don't miss our side event👇 📅 7 October 2026 (Wednesday) ⏰ 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM 📍 In-person at Ballroom A, Bangkok Convention Centre at Centralworld 🔗 forms.gle/8fdwknBMqHxj... #SVRIForum2026 #EndViolence @thesvri.bsky.social @unfpa.org

ARROW’s SVRI Forum 2026 side event poster.
Header & Logos:
• Logos at the top: SVRI Forum 2026, ARROW, and UNFPA.
• Title: "Reframing Gender-Based Violence as a Reproductive Justice Issue: Praxis Based Strategies for Measurement, Elimination and Prevention of Violence in the Asia-Pacific Region."
• Event Details: 7 October 2026 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Ballroom A
• Note: "Side event followed by networking and lunch."
Speakers & Panelists (Headshots & Affiliations):
1. Sivananthi Thanenthiran – ARROW
2. Alexandra Robinson – UNFPA
3. Rakshya Khadgi – Youth Scholar
4. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vanphanom Sychareun – University of Health Sciences
5. Prof. Dr. Rashidah SHUIB – ReHAK
6. Dr. Debjani Sahu – NCDHR
7. Hira Amjad – Dastak Foundation
8. Dr. Nur Rofiah – KUPI

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Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) @thesvri.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🎉 The SVRI team is in Bangkok, and ready for the SVRI Forum 2026. After 18 months of preparation, the world's largest abstract-driven conference on violence against women, violence against children and other forms of GBV starts tomorrow. Follow along and share your experience at #SVRIForum2026.

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Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) @arrowomen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you are attending the SVRI Forum 2026, don't forget to drop by and say hi at our exhibition booths (B5 and B8)! We have some interesting things planned 👀 #SVRIForum2026 #EndViolence @thesvri.bsky.social

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Jenifer Vogt 🪷 Warmth, Wit & Desire @jenifervogtwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

World’s largest research conference on violence against women and children starts today in Bangkok: The SVRI Forum 2026, running Oct. 5–9. There are more than 650 research presentations from 80+ countries.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/10/2026

A cartoon by Rose Anne Prevec.

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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My man looks like a wax sculpture of wax

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

someone call up will smith we need him to do something

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He's so persuasive...

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

"The US has grown used to the swift and dramatic erosion of women’s health and status that has followed Dobbs," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social, "to the horror stories and upward ticking body counts, grown into ease, and even a kind of compliant boredom, with women’s death and indignity."

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Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan

The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026

My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking

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🎃 Mac O'Lantern 🎃 @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if I opened someone's fridge and found this I imagine it would be the same sensation as realizing I'm at dinner alone with hannibal lecter

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Scissors @scissors.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

a bagged salad rotting in my produce drawer while i tend to my refrigerator bonsai

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every bit of this 👇

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

My husband and his friends realised they thought they were good guys but still made like, ironic-sexist jokes. They introduced the 'sexism snake' where wherever one of them made a sexist comment or joke, the others would just start hissing. Didn't need to get into an argument about it, just hissing.

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the most important thing men can do, and they must be doing it immediately. People create culture. People can change it. If you can't remember the last time you created some social awkwardness by telling another man to stop with that shit, you probably aren't pulling your weight.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is legitimately very funny

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?

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Carrying That Weight—Again

I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i used to think photo editors went out of their way to find the most unflattering photos of guys like sam altman and kash patel but they actually just look that way lol

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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