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just secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 19h

this is not at ALL in argument with op btw, just a yes and: the reason it works is bc we've decided that - mentally ill people are write-off-able as deserving of care or respect - mental illness means EVERYTHING you say is a lie/false we can and should change the narrative across the board!!

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 21h

Never in my life have I seen such widespread and uncoordinated defiance of law enforcement in America. That's just stunning. Once regular people decide to start hindering the feds all by their lonesome, you've turned a corner.

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Miranda Prime 💜💫 @miraprime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is there a wedding episode I should check out? I've only watched a couple seasons of TNG and one of DS9. 😅

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 28/09/2026

they literally perform LARPs at weddings

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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026

The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In so many ways it feels like Trump is doing a speed run of Bush’s second term and I should remind you that Bush fucked up so badly that a country built on the back of slavery and Jim Crow said “yeah sure, let’s try the black guy, it’s really that bad.”

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is impossible for Republicans to spin “we need to spend money in Texas, Ohio and Kansas” as “we feel good about the election.”

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the clearest possible example of how trans exclusion harms women's rights. This conference hosted important discussions about a whole range of critical issues, but its decisions were devalued by the fact that the party capitulated to the threat of lawfare. Transphobia harms all women.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Fusion Warrior 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔆 @fusionwarrior.neurario.com · 26/09/2026

I was so focused on helping others that i failed to help myself. I need about $450 usd to keep both my and my daughter's cell phones active, and i need it now. My open heart surgery has wrecked my finances. ko-fi.com/alicefusionw... #MutualAid #transaid #lgbtqaid #transrights #UrgentNeed #HelpSky

Two declined attempts to charge my phone bill to my credit card, $85.27 is due

Current credit card balance is $1319.93, and the credit limit is $1100

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Guy Pradel @pradaldi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My gift for you, there is now a second scanned Dymo font on the Internet Archive ! archive.org/details/dymo...

All the characters of the Dymo embossing labeller, this one is more square !

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks

In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.

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Grumpy Old Manchild @snakebitcat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Criticism of the "vote blue no matter who" and "vote for the lesser evil" centrists carries more weight if you're not also trying to justify helping the greater evil win by refusing to vote against it.

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Grumpy Old Manchild @snakebitcat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This thread is an excellent explanation of why that "the curtains were blue" garbage refuses to die.

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Grumpy Old Manchild @snakebitcat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm feeling blah and would like to take my mind off that, so please reply with one of your favorite songs? This is one of mine: youtu.be/rC95MEenIxA

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Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by DireStraitsVEVO

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Kimmy#69420 @melodyhaze.itch.io · 25/09/2026

Go watch this, right now. So Much For Pathos is one of the most criminally underappreciated video essay series out there, and this is one of the best ones yet.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How very pointless and incredibly, movingly beautiful ...

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YKshelter @ykshelter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Red Sonja

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

...let him cook

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Grumpy Old Manchild @snakebitcat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I prefer to assume that whoever designed and made this knew exactly what they were doing.

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Suzan Cee ☀️ @schasse60.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have to ask this question. How does an 18 yr old black athlete die on the 4th of July while boating with 4 white boys in Mississippi? The Autopsy personnel remove his throat & lungs so no one else sees that evidence. And a grand jury says..." No foul play"? #NolanWells

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Brian M. Wise: Snarkasaurus Rex. Ω, MFers. @brianmwise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The best kind of masculinity is the kind that doesn't give a fuck if you wear a tutu and have a beard because your daughter wants you to be a fairy princess. Or if your son wants to be on the dance team, not baseball. Men are not defined by what some idiot thinks is masculine.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Grumpy Old Manchild @snakebitcat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I hope I mattered." Jesus H, Hal.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The timing coupled with the rash of suspicious* deaths-by-hanging of Black folks throughout the southeast hits in all the wrong ways *suspicious only because the local authorities keep dismissing them as suicides, even when people a found with their hands tied behind their backs 🤬

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don’t want to put the image into anyone’s feed who hasn’t gone looking for it, but I saw the Converse ad on Instagram and before I read the caption explaining it I genuinely thought it was a gruesome newspaper photo of something. they know what the fuck they did. that’s not an oops moment

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Late to this, but - no. You never share a stage with Bannon. No no no. He’s a lying Nazi trying to curbstomp what’s left of democracy. Any organization that invites him can’t be trusted. Plus he is riddled with lice and other parasites. Big fuckup by Sanders. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...

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Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Condemn Tech ‘Oligarchs’ and Demand A.I. Reforms

At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If only we had historical records from the most prosperous period in American history when the ultra rich were taxed at 90%+ rates. Alas.

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ursiday @ursiday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm so excited about the newly described Leopardus tilcayo #cats

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A video analysis of the difference between dog joining cat and cat joining the dog. Original post

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

These people found a baby goat trapped in a pit. They took him home and cared for him overnite. The next day they tried to find the owner but had no luck. While looking - they found a group of goats with the same white fur. Then this happened. Original post

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.

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Grumpy Old Manchild @snakebitcat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it? youtu.be/pJZ9tT8OwFk

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Yondu Funeral - Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2

YouTube video by AlgoTrader

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cartoon: I realized today that I have drawn Betty as a lot of spooky/magical ladies but never Vampirella. Probably because I've never read a Vampirella comic. Happy to rectify that. Enjoy!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Schiff voted to confirm Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and one of the first things she did was cut $1 billion for a program that paid local farmers to deliver to food banks and schools.

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Shaggy Rodgers @themysteryinc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Every time I see a #PutinBot comment BS about Talarico, I'm going to post the truth, he's our only hope, he cares for all Texans, he's pro-LGBTQ+, just like his ultra progressive church, he believes in separation of church and state, he walks the walk, don't believe the #PutinBot comments

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It turns out that Ted Cruz is hated by other Texans as much as he is hated by other Senators.

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Michael Ruocco @michaeljruocco.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sometimes I browse through heritage auctions and I find the occasional odd gem, but today I stumbled upon the mother-load: these ridiculous grocery store ads promoting the release of The Jungle Book, and each one has me absolutely reeling. Sharing them here so you too can share in my bewildered joy

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fan art photo play: I found a stack of old vinyl I thought we had long ago donated away and got inspired by a Monty Python cover to have a little fun. Enjoy!

the foot of Cupid from Cupid Venus Folly and Time via Terry Gilliam, placed in an old timey television set for Monty Python's Flying Circus
Time to pay the Daddy Tax

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An armed man charged at the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio less than a week ago, and yet Republicans aren't being yelled at to turn down the temperature. The double standard is maddening.

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Hecklers shout ‘hE should be shot’ as Ted Cruz calls out El-Sayed and Talarico

Republicans increasingly seek to tie Democrats to left-wing members of the caucus and personalities like Hasan Piker

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mamdani's channeling of Indian retail politics upending the entire US political framework is hilarious to watch, this is literally what you always do in desi politics, hug the person who called you names to show you're a saint and he's a piece of shit that voters should look down on- and it works

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If this looks familiar, it’s because it is a repost of a tweet I posted five years ago bc yes, I am still thinking about it. Here’s the rest of the thread:

POST 2: It's the little things that truly cement this all-encompassing hellscape ✨🇵🇸

POST 3: I need to be clear that the summer camp was super fun most of the time and pretty in line with actual Christian ideals. Like besides a few weird counselors, I loved going there.

But also Texas is Texas and those
microaggressions are a daily thing for Arabs in the state.

POST 4: If you have a few dollars to spare, consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. PCRF.net

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Is it newsworthy that the President of the United States publicly led his supporters in a pledge to cheat like hell in an upcoming election?

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