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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26m

I can’t stress enough that this notion of if and when It will gain consciousness is Bible fanfic. It’s not real.

anyway, even """well-meaning victim's advocate""" support of the death penalty naturally leads to the conclusion of livestreamed firing squads. if it isn't rooted out through abolition, barbarism will only fester. something to chew on this morning!!!

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cassidy @smittyroo.bsky.social · 42m

its cool that we get the so-called side-effects of "socialized medicine" - months-long waits, hallway hospital beds, closed hospitals - with none of the benefits such as 100% free healthcare. it all sucks and americans have the privilege of paying $50,000 per night for it. makes you think!!

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 1h

We absolutely should be horrified by reports of planned public executions and see them as an overt re-embrace of spectacle lynchings--while also understanding that the story of the "modern" death penalty in this country is inextricable from that history, rooted in racial violence & white supremacy.

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Alabama’s Lynching Memorial and the Legacy of Racial Terror in the South

At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, the historical link between lynching and the death penalty is hard to miss.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 16h

I really don’t think a public execution by firing squad of a guy in a wheel chair is going to look how they expect it to look.

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 4h

Couldn’t agree more. Pillay is a champion. We’ve had some luck in the last few years at the OHCHR, but Pillay distinguished herself by her refusal to compromise, her staunch commitment to justice for victims, and most importantly, her refusal to be intimidated by political figures.

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Ferengi Liaison to Buck-A-Slice @sovietcola.bsky.social · 22h

Sweaty Rape Fan Michael Tracey is at it again

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cassidy @smittyroo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

putting aside the engagement bait of it all, it is easy for me to understand the "i will get the AI to read to my child" guy. he has no actual affinity towards his family. his wife and child are quest rewards in his mind. this is a very common mindset among "grindset" guys.

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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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cassidy @smittyroo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

based on the shady accouting hes used in the past, it would not surprise me if this is really a cash raise for Xai or whatever the fuck he calls it now, using his highest-valued company (because of starlink). im sure theres some dumb SVU package happening

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Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

First in @gbhnews.bsky.social: a 21-year-old Provincetown student and employee of the local police department has been detained at Logan Airport’s Terminal E since Tuesday after his domestic flight became an international one. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

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Provincetown PD employee, Honduras native detained at Logan Airport since Tuesday

Carlos Maldonado Valle, a student at Cape Cod Community College, was on a domestic flight from Puerto Rico that stopped in Bermuda for a medical emergency.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When you see things on X that seem impossible for a human being to believe (like a desire to turn over parenting to AI), keep in mind that you can make money with raw attention over there.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEW: A new attack ad by Rep. Brad Finstad (R-Minn.) uses a photo of MN small biz owner Beth Benike -- who says he's ignored her pleas for help with Trump's tariffs -- except he erased her + subbed in a fake image of Gov. Tim Walz. "You've got to be kidding me." www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-re...

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GOP Rep. Brad Finstad Runs Attack Ad That Erases Critical Voter From Photo

“What a poor decision,” Beth Benike said of her congressman altering her photo with Democrat Jake Johnson to make a fake image of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

why would radlib college students do this??

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cassidy @smittyroo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

why is jon benet ramsey standing like that

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 07/10/2026

he has the physical constitution and confusing chronic illnesses of a tumblr user while also being a world class athlete. it’s the wildest shit

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It gets cut off at the top but I maintain WORK SUCKS….I KNOW is one of the best lyrical turns every committed to the page

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

Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?

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Alex Rikleen formerly for Senate @rikleen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Musk has personally spent multiple times more money than the cost of the entire MA Senate race trying to swing seats around the country. The money spent, compared to his vast wealth, is equivalent to an average American buying 1 movie ticket w/popcorn and a soda.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 06/10/2026

people are so mortified by the idea of a firing squad, but they’re fine with lethal injection, like it isn’t actual torture. god forbid we be confronted with the real, grizzly nature of murdering people at the hands of the state.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fascist monopolization of US media, intent on ending what's left of democracy on behalf of billionaire mobsters, was finalized by a Democratic-appointed SCOTUS justice.

Deadline&
@DEADLINE
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied a last minute
effort to halt Paramount's merger with Warner Bros.
Discovery, a transaction that is scheduled to close on
Tuesday.
See more details here: deadline.com/2026/10/paramo..
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base

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@nic_carter
X.com
this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al column

Andrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

nic carter
@nic_carter • 17h
there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

nic carter *
@nic_carter
X.com
social obligation
8:41 PM • 10/5/26 • 880 Views

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump historically wore Brioni, an Italian luxury company that makes suits in Italy. Here he flashes a Jos. A Bank label, a US company that long offshored its production to China and Bangladesh. They carry an associated label called Joseph Abboud, which is made in US. Curious he didn't choose that.

Donald Trump in a navy suit. He's opening the jacket, so you can see the label.

A close up of the suit label says Jos. A. Bank.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think part of the problem is that, in seeking to firewall against Nazism since WWII, we created a vacuum in knowledge about Hitler that leaves space for this sort of idiocy. The best antidote to these people would be greater popular familiarity with what a freak and loser Hitler really was.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com · 06/10/2026

IceCube observing neutrinos

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(FT) - A sharp sell-off in US government bonds is starting to reverberate across corporate America, forcing companies to overhaul their borrowing plans and even raising the spectre of defaults among the most lowly rated businesses. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/7c7c...

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just got a $500 check from the US Treasury with a campaign letter from Donald Trump. The country is extremely fucked up.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026

look it's simple: you (sam alito) start from the presumption that women don't have the right to their reproductive capacities. that belongs to society, by which you (sam alito) mean men, by which you (still samwito) mean patriarchs. after that everything is very easy to prove

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

These are the basic contours of every major religious schism

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cassidy @smittyroo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

its not even worth getting mad over because even kelly doesn't believe this. its just the next step of a predictable news cycle. its all meaningless

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cassidy @smittyroo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

as much as megan kelly should be [redacted], there is cold comfort in recognizing the almost clinical stages of rape apologia we've passed through "why should these boys' lives be ruined by one mistake" to "why was she there alone" to "why was she drinking/using drugs" to "shes to ugly to be raped"

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cassidy @smittyroo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

personally i think we all should shame selfish insane fan behavior and she did it more nicely than she could have, imo

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 05/10/2026

Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can

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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

sort of feels like every election everywhere in the world is divided equally between a faction of normal people a faction of open evil fascists and gets decided by 5% of the voters who are kicked in the head and completely lose their memory of anything that's happened every two weeks

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Anthony @buffalonomenon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

DJ Moore gets hurt and Joe Brady gleefully dusts off his “shit that has never worked a single time” binder.

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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Weather forecasting for North American mid latitudes is worse today than just a couple of years ago. I see it, and, anecdotally, complaints about model guidance from colleagues in my profession are multiplying. Empirically, the American GFS model’s skill is back to 2019 levels 📉

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fredesque @fredtaming.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

emergency hotdog that heats up when you crack it like a glow stick

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union could do HEAT, but Pacino and De Niro couldn't do BRING IT ON.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Like the anti-woke backlash of which it's part, the whole "campuses as hotbeds of left-wing radicalism" discourse willfully confuses the noise for the signal. Most people go for a job credential and leave deeply socialized into the protocols of power, of which violence against women is central.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

not everyone has to go to college. there is lots of worthy work for which you don't need a degree, & lots of unworthy work for which you do. but articles like this obfuscate the unequal opportunity structure students face instead of questioning why all paths are not equally available to all students

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cassidy @smittyroo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

gotta be fit as a fiddle to stare at a computer screen and then 11 seconds later wave your hand and blankly say "next"

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