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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 3h

Back when Obama was President, diesel was so cheap that zillions of truckers could drive their semis around blocking traffic to protest how horrible Obama was for gas prices....

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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 14h

At the Kennedy Center the tarps are still covering the part of the building where Trump's name used to be. He insists they be kept up to hide his humiliation at the fact that he was forced to take his name down. That's how petty and small minded he is.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s simply not true that “no one has a good answer on what to do with rapists.” In fact, there is a depth of feminist scholarship on exactly this subject. It’s just that people won’t engage with it seriously since none of it says “nah you gotta be nice to the rapist cause that’s your buddy.”

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mobile fighter g funk @wult.world · 03/10/2026

someone who was one of the closest people to me, essentially my brother, assaulted someone maybe 6 years ago now and nobody has spoken to or associated with him since we found out it's actually really easy to cut people out and at the *very least* make them suffer social consequences

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Again: for Black Women, in particular, the ability to chose, a time and place to reproduce is a function of liberty. The most fundamental fact of enslavement was the Black Women had no control over their reproduction; in fact, their ability to reproduce was a key source of other’s wealth.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Scarlet 🏳️‍⚧️ @scarlets.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

>Secretary for Labour for Trans Rights, an internal pressure group, puts out a request for reports of transphobia >gets reports of transphobia from a trans woman >blocks her in under 3 minutes cool cool cool cool cool cool cool so how's that pressure group going

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Nathan Ramsden (@nathanjramsden.bsky.social)
If you have experienced transphobic harassment within the Labour Party or if you know someone who has, please get in touch with us by emailing labourfortransrights@gmail.com

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Courtney's reply says:

hello i am not a Labour party member but i hope you can help me, my community has been experiencing transphobic harassment from a Labour party member, her name is Bridget Phillipson and she is the current Minister for Women and Equalities, i look forward to your response and thank you in advance 🙏

The same post as before, except Courtney has been blocked and the embedded post no longer shows up.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today is why I keep saying that if we keep being held hostage by the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" we will be stuck in this endless cycle of pain forever. Democratic Establishment has us in a headlock. It's them or fascists. But we all deserve better than both. We need fighters for transformation.

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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The one thing that gives me some hope Trump can't simply demolish the Kennedy Center is that unlike the East Wing the Kennedy Center is in a place open to the public where people could stand between bulldozers and the building.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

"Schmitt says he stands by his claim that Smith is a 'dirtbag' and a perjurer. And with that kind of commitment to the bit, he’s definitely a shoe-in for the VP spot." — @lizdye.bsky.social

publicnotice.co

Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith

When gotchas go disastrously wrong.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So I've caught up on what Zohran Mamdani proposed to fight Antisemitism and some of y'all I follow I am seriously side eyeing because you practically revealed that anything Jewish must mean Israel or Zionism , which his plan has nothing to do with. His plan is -checks notes--

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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Funny how the "liberal media" still hasn't asked RFK Jr why he's still going on about vaccines since Dear Leader Trump says autism is caused by Tylenol. Someone should ask him if Trump is wrong.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But I need to smile more.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's interesting how the use the term assassination, but how silent the news became on his shooter, on Trump's shooter, etc The moment they found out the shooter was Republican they no longer want to talk about it

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am not terribly upset with the development "AI evangelism becoming associated with the ugly senile rapist everyone hates"

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Gets back to the idea that they genuinely believed they could manufacture a cultural movement with broad popular support by buying up channels like Twitter, TikTok, film and television studios, which they assumed had artificially created the popular culture they sought to replace.

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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jesus fuck. Trump is now ordering his administration to refer to chatbots as "Super Intelligence" or "SI". Bets on how long it will be before Apple and Google change their terms to obey Trump's diktat?

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

remember how biden started his term with “nothing will fundamentally change”? I expect basically every centrist dem to do exactly that. if americans don’t fundamentally change the dem party first, voting for dems will not actually do shit except give fascists 4 years to regain strength

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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AI CEO's: Our AI will probably kill us all, we want more money and no regulation! DNC Consultants to candidates: whatever you do, don't be anti-datacenter!

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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It wasn't until Donald Trump became President that I first started thinking a timeline where a zillionaire gave all his money to the KKK would be better than ours, but if Fred Trump had just given all his money to the KKK we'd be so much better off....

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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well, apparently I was wrong, McConnell really was alive after all. Now the question I have is if he can speak rationally. Since reporters were forbidden from recording video of him or asking questions, I'm betting not.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this shit does not work on me. go try it on the centrists who call trans women "biological men."

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How many Republicans have to be outed as Nazis before the "liberal media" admits it's a pattern? Trick question, they'll never admit there's a pattern.

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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Biden: um. er. Media: ZOMG BIDEN IS BRAIN DEAD WE WILL WRITE ABOUT THIS DAILY UNTIL THE END OF TIME!!!! Trump: I was a rescue worker on 9/11, I was carried out of a collapsing building by manly firefighters. Media: ho hum, nothing to report here.

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Zetsubo @zetsubo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The ancient paranoia of the slavers. Your oppression brings you no peace, for the ghosts of those you've damned torment your every dream.

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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So we're all pretty sure the reason the Kennedy Center ceiling collapsed is because Trump's people frilled holes in the roof to make it happen, right?

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Carbon capture is just another "clean coal" - a fictional technology that nobody is going to invent but which the worst humans in history will talk about endlessly to give the impression that Something Is Being Done and provide cover for continuing to escalate carbon output levels

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Literally any Muslim, even those not born yet or children at the time, are responsible for 9/11, which no Israeli person, even those shooting the guns or dropping the bombs, is responsible for the genocide in Gaza. This is a basic, across the board, mainstream opinion in the US and Europe.

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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Q: How many fingers does Buggs Bunny have? A: It varies from 3 to 4 depending. No, really! Check out this clip from Rabbit of Seville starting at 1:13 and you'll see him switch from 3 per hand to 4 per hand and back because there's a gag that needed four fingers to look right.

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Rabbit of Seville 3/3

YouTube video by X-Blade9636

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 03/09/2026

said it before on here but one of the bleakest moments of my 2020s was asking abled cishet white guys “when was the last time someone told you ‘no’ about something in a way you had to respect” & they all groused about masking, vaccines, or a flavor of what used to be called ‘political correctness.’

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

okay the next person who suggests just I should "just stop paying rent" in my low income housing until the wifi is fixed is getting blocked, the unseriousness and casual disregard for How It Works of the suggestion is starting to actively irritate me

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

While I'm glad to know they aren't *currently* planning to do this, I'd love to see a clear statement that they will *never* do this because it's wildly inappropriate and an assault on democracy.

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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Chefs kiss

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Well then how are you supposed to-" you're not, this is a massively racist and illegitimate system that needs to be erased

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026

Yeah part of the dynamic here is a widespread belief that racism is at least partially due to Black people stubbornly fighting it the wrong way rather than being cleverly accommodating to “de-fang” it.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/08/2026

yeah, I knew a lot of vets who used that word. Hard men, veterans of the clone wars. Men who fought droids at Kadavo, Lola Sayu, clones who saw some serious shit. You know who never once said it, though? Plo Koon. The General was built different. Jar Jar used it but only when the cameras were off

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I get mildly itchy when people talk about how Roko's Basilisk is dumb and they don't know about "rationalism" so they're engaging with how dumb it is without the understanding that would enable them to fully appreciate that it's actually much, much dumber that they realize

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sotonohito (he/him) @sotonohito555.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Maybe I'm just not properly into American type sports, but I can't help but think that sepak takraw looks cooler than basketball or football.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

nytimes.com

Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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