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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

just saw this and I feel like it's the perfect costume to conduct psychic warfare at a transfem halloween party

woman wearing a halloween costume that is just an inflatable jack-o-lantern

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Liberal "abolitionists" really believe in this absurd binary. There really needs to be a deep accounting for everyone involved in twisting anarchism's "fire to the prisons!" into "the only alternative to prisons is forgiveness and forced silence." (Hint: a fuck ton of Christians were involved.)

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tbh I feel like I'm getting no real results from my substack at this point. I'm gonna keep writing, but I've got to assume that most people aren't interested in what I've been writing for one reason or another, and the people who would be interested aren't seeing it. Unsure how to handle that.

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I generally prefer to stay out of discourses on rape, but even if we take these two statements completely at face value they aren't contradictory. They would only appear contradictory if you believe that 'being judged' and 'going to prison' are literally the exact same thing, which they aren't.

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Huh, would this imply that Mantis Shrimp don't actually see much more than us, because even if they have receptors for 16 different colors of light, they live underwater and therefore these other colors of light would be absorbed?

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it's funny how often the 'basic advice for writers' I come across can be summed up as 'Don't try to be a writer, unless you're willing to ignore my advice and try anyway, in which case do it I guess.' Like it just seems so goofy when you think about it, doesn't it? "don't, unless you will anyway."

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Joyce Carol Oates' Army of the Undead @athenepromachos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TBH the reason I don't like the 'parroting' narrative around pseudo-AI is that parrots can actually perform basic cognitive tasks like problem solving and self-correction, and a LLM cannot. So guys like this are actually functionally backwards in their conclusions.

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Imagine if this is was the best photo of yourself you could summon.

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had the worst word come to mind, completely at random, a moment ago.

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explaining that the discord's nsfw voice chat hasn't been used in years, and someone's like, "oh, so you're saying the lesbian sex cult isn't-" yes, the lesbian sex cult bed death has occured. it's all joever.

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just had this shared with me and I'm baffled at how you get to the point where you argue something like this in earnest.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is basically what any room I live in becomes over time tbh

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me: haha I will use Go, a game which I play semi-frequently but am no good at, as a metaphor and illuminating story in this next essay also me: fuck, I have now convinced myself that I have a moral obligation to get good at Go

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katlunya.bsky.social @katlunya.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why does fighting Antisemitism require people learn about Antisemitism from an organization that teaches "Anti-Zionism=Antisemitism" and hosts Zionist hate rallies?

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We made history in New York!

Shurat HaDin held, for the second time, our large and powerful conference: “Rage Against the Hate” - hosted at the Jewish Museum in New York.

The hall was completely full with hundreds of attendees, and the incredible audience heard lectures, panels, discussions, and inspiring speakers throughout an unforgettable evening dedicated to our fight against antisemitism, both in Israel and around the world.

Among the notable participants were: Former Mossad Director Yossi Cohen, Professor Alan Dershowitz, Yoseph Haddad, Erin Molan, Ben Brafman, Eylon Levy, Jonathan Conricus, and many others.

The theme of the conference was:
“The War After the War – Where Are Israel and the Jewish Community Heading Now?”
Throughout the day we addressed pressing issues, from battling the surge of Antisemitism on campuses, to countering the blood libel accusations being directed at Israeli soldiers, to the use of legal tools to support Israel in the fight against Hamas and Qatar.

“The war is not over. The political push to establish a Palestinian state, along with the aggression of the International Court in The Hague, is driving a severe and unprecedented rise in anti-Israel hatred and antisemitism. We must unite all forces working in this field and push back, together!”

This is what Shurat HaDin President, Nitsana Darshan Leitner, said from the main stage, and this is how we will continue to confront terrorism and Antisemitism wherever it appears, in every arena around the world.

Please spread the message, so the world will know.
Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱

Photos: Ohad Kab

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Blackavar @blackavar-inle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My abusive ex-husband pressured me out of getting a BA in Illustration because it would have delayed getting married, and at the time, I wanted to wait until marriage for sex. He sabotaged my career so he could fuck me. I can't even imagine where my life would be without him.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

random hot take: wrestling is just theater which is socially acceptable for cishet men to enjoy and participate in

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BoringKate @boringkate.com · 29/09/2026

Sucks that you can't talk about actresses having gotten thinner lately (a cultural trend that's obv inseparable from both the right wing having a moment and the pharmaceutical industry jizzing their pants over GLP-1s) without skinny girls going "So you're insulting me then? Doing reverse fatphobia?"

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my evil plan... get good at writing theory essays, and also get good at writing short genre fiction... and then, take the two mediums and puree them together... make people fall in love with the theoryfiction genressay, or as the publishers like to call it, 'upmarket fiction'

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katlunya.bsky.social @katlunya.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every time I hear about this movie I think "I need to watch this" and then I never watch it. But I do need to watch this, though.

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Very interesting how male leftist discourse is more concerned about interrogating whether disabled queer women really need canes than the new reporting on systemic rape culture.

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LLMs are basically chatbots with a handful of shell scripts, mail merge, and a day planner tacked on.

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destroy dionysos @sthelen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

watching someone play a pokemon fangame and thinking 'it'd be funny to have a pokemon fangame and make the big bad Dr. Julius Evolution, just to see how long it takes people to go 'no way, that's bullshit' in response to his politics'

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They never say *how* Israel is supposed to be pressured or what an adequate security guarantee is supposed to be.

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Lilitu Fray @lilitufray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The word you're looking for is "misogynistic", not "homosexual".

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katlunya.bsky.social @katlunya.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I still think it's pretty wild that they didn't even look at stuff like the 4 types of player and just kind of didn't have a theory of why people played games at all, instead just kind of being like 'people like to play games, therefore they'll like (worst idea you ever heard) because it's a game.'

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I really do think not enough people take seriously the question of whether patriarchal society has been waging a systemic campaign of genocide for thousands of years against queer people and things will not get better until we do.

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"Ah yes, grinding- the experience everyone loves the most out of games. But what if we made it so that in order to grind in the game you're playing, you also had to grind in literally every other game that exists as well? Wouldn't you enjoy having to grind in at least 7 games, all at the same time?"

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"but what if I'm a man who wants to share my opinions on this, and I'm not willing to fuck men?" 2 years hrt, 1 year social transition, minimum- and the Council of Elder Trannies holds veto power, so you should be sure that your thesis offers something new and interesting to The Discourse first.

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you know it's absolutely a terrible idea (there's a reason why bio-identical is widely considered best) but there's got to be someone out there synthesizing dog estrogen, even if it's just as a bit

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it's wild how every two years democrats run a campaign in Texas which takes for granted that Texans are inherently reactionary and that the democrat party must appeal to that reactionary nature, and every time that strategy fails the conclusion is that Texans were more reactionary than expected.

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Anarchy, Economics, and Capitalism

looking back through my own essays like 'yeah this bitch is cooking, it's a pity she'll never take off'

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Some thoughts on economics and life

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Maeve, Spooky Anarchist @maeve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

anyone defending this is a monster. the Israeli state needs to be taken apart piece by piece

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Soraya🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌌📚 @soraya22.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

After slavery was abolished, there was made the allowance of slavery if the slave committed a crime. So, now when I hear "criminal" I hear the socially acceptable word for slave. So, youth crime is worse than ever? No. The desire for youth slaves is greater than ever in the state of Tennessee.

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I don't wanna be too mean about this kind of stuff but I feel like this post in particular has people crawling out to reveal they don't understand the differences between 'making a game based around stuff like identifying references and figuring out authorial intent and influences' and CYOA books.

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funniest typo I've seen on this site so far tbqh

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So, in the abstract 'gamification' is the application of game design principles to convert a process into a 'game loop', right? Which, in principle, means that it should be applicable to any process that can be broken down and restructured as a looping process with clear results/output, right?

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I've not only never heard 'Choosing Texas', this whole thing is the first time I've heard *about* 'Choosing Texas' at all.

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I wonder if you could gamify literacy. Like, not the superficial 'gamification' that you see everywhere, where you add points and loot boxes that don't mean anything to a thing you're doing, but like... making a game out of the actual practices that are part of literacy.

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The reason why Texas is never going to get flipped by the Democrat Establishment is because they keep on using strategies made by New England consulting firms who kind of hate Texas and Texans and don't bother trying to hide those sentiments, and every time this fails it's blamed on Texas being bad.

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500 times in 20 minutes? That's approximately 25 stabs per minute, which gives a little over two seconds per stab. I imagine what's gonna fuck people up the most with this kind of game is rushing and fucking up because they try to go faster than they actually need to.

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is it bad that my immediate thought was 'idk why it's surprising, a bunch of surviving examples have basically this body shape'?

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Thank you Comrade Melania, we will be taking things from here.

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