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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

dear local business owners, nobody is going to tell you they’re bailing on your business because of the AI ads. they’ll just stop going. in a year you’ll have run out of customers and you’ll be totally mystified as to the reason

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“food for thought” buddy my thoughts don’t need any food at all. been trying to starve them fuckers for years and they still keep doing the thing

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The enraged bellow of the 21st century Polyphemus:

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I like to point out that when I watched game shows growing up, contestants would plan to spend their prize money on vacations and other fun shit. They didn’t have to use the cash to put a dent in a mountain of debt.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I’ve been purchased by private equity and am now disintegrating into the air like when Thanos did the gauntlet thing. Somehow the PE firm is making billions from th

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I just want to read words. It's a very efficient information delivery system, reading words!

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New from me: Five years ago, I criticized a San Francisco TV reporter for getting her facts wrong. Ever since, she and her allies have alleged that I was part of a conspiracy to end her career. That narrative just got a boost with her new book, which is being promoted by some powerful tech people.

radleybalko.substack.com

Truth, power, and honest journalism

Gary Tan, the CEO of venture capital firm Y Combinator, accused me of unethical reporting. This is my response.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"California is pledging to put 7.5 million acres under tribal stewardship in the state’s first-ever tribal stewardship policy." Absolutely *phenomenal* news & essential. We need this, across Turtle Island, fast. We don't time. But WOW. What an amazing thing to see in my lifetime.

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California pledges to open 7% of its land and waters to Indigenous tribes — a step toward healing a 175-year-old broken promise

The new plan aims to bring at least 7.5 million acres of land and coastal waters under the care of Indigenous tribes — representing the acreage the U.S. promised and failed to hold for tribal reservat...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

They spent your tax money on killing children. I think it's worth us spending our tax money prosecuting and punishing them all. No one will argue against it. It is a popular stance. Don't be a pussy. Stand up for those girls who were killed in our name.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Cupich is a real one and is absolutely spitting fire here. this is a more courageous statement than 90% of what we’ve heard from Democrats

Journalists now use the term "gamifying" the war to describe this dynamic. What a profound moral failure, for gamifying strips away the humanity of real people. Let's not forget, a "hit" isn't putting points on the board; it's a grieving family whose suffering we ignore when we prioritize entertainment, and profit, over empathy.

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I have to just speed through these things with the first games that come to mind, knowing that I'm leaving out dozens of incredible titles, or I'll spend all day second-guessing my choices.

Millipede, Sundog, Hack, Super Mario 3, Doom II, Starcraft, Half-Life, VtMB, Gone Home

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This collection, borrowed from my dad's shelf and reread many times over, was formative for me as a tween. You know the Twilight Zone ep about the creepy kid with godlike powers? The Star Trek one with the Gorn? I first encountered those stories here.

THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME
VOLUME I

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I'm seeing a lot of people calling this performative, and honestly, I think that's giving it way too much credit. What audience could this possibly be meant for?

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you had at university. Dante (in English) Discrete Mathematics Medical Ethnobotany Neural Basis of Thought and Language Programming Languages and Compilers

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"But in an existing codebase (brownfield) with years of accumulated conventions... they’ll happily introduce a new pattern that contradicts the three other ways this codebase already solves the same problem." Yup, can confirm. (thousand yard stare)

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I have never been more proud of my Minnesotan heritage.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 17/01/2026

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I would respect those bastards more if they had the balls to elect an antipope and get it over with.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 10/01/2026

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I've been seeing a smokescreen of AI-hallucinated faces and AI-hallucinated names for this guy all day, so it's nice to have an actual news org out there doing the actual research.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I’m at the spot where ICE murdered Renee Nicolle Good today, along with my daughter and her bf. Still lots of people here at 11:00 pm. (Avoiding getting anyone in the picture) It’s beautiful, surreal but still mostly enraging. Abolish ICE.

Scene of today’s ICE murder in Minneapolis at approx 11:00 pm. Candles, flowers.

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I've never lived outside California, but I've visited/stayed with friends and family in a lot of places. Green states have airports where I've stopped long enough for a meal, blue states have scenery I've enjoyed from a moving train.

https://tenpages.github.io/us-level/us.html

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

This articulates my exact feelings about San Francisco, the tech industry, & the entire social crisis of Capitalism we are all facing. Ms. Solnit writes with fierce precision & grace, connecting the dots with damning evidence rather than hyperbole. Essential reading. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco

I don’t know whether these billionaires know what a city is, but I do know that they have laid their hands on the city...

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Stop taking your decorations down IT’S ONLY TURTLE DOVES

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I haven't played CO:E33 and probably won't now... It's like learning that an award-winning distiller took a tiny little piss in the mash. Clearly it didn't affect the flavor of the whiskey; everyone raved about it! But now that I know it's there... well, there are a lot of other things to drink.

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A much better critique than "this show about loneliness doesn't have enough dialogue to keep my attention".

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Seeing Dr. Strangelove for the first time as a kid in the (packed) Castro Theatre and laughing so hard that my sides actually hurt. Many years later, also in the Castro, seeing Lawrence of Arabia for the first time, in 70mm. What an absolute trip. Movie did not feel its length.

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Time for me to cathartically rewatch "Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day" for the dozenth time.

Dennis from It's Always Sunny confronts the tech exec responsible for his app-enabled rental car nightmare.

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: CAKE Doc Watson They Might Be Giants The Zombies Garbage

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

hey, did we ever get an update on how this turned out

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 14/11/2025

this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out

To all narco-terrorists who threaten our homeland: If you keep trafficking deadly drugs—we will kill you.

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Reading the ongoing defenses of whole-language in the replies makes me imagine someone bursting into a resume workshop and objecting that having a job is useless if you don't also have money to spend on things.

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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

*accordion hands* they were the best emails, maybe even perfect emails, many have said. sleepy joe didn't even write his own emails...

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 10/11/2025

If it's possible to bully Elon Musk into enjoying a sunset then I will finally accept that there are use cases for bullying

Joyce Carol Oates
@Joyce... 17h O
So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk
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Oates is a liar and delights in being mean.
Not a good human.

cinesthetic. @@TheCinesthetic - 1d
Man on Fire (2004) sits at 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, proof that critics don't always see the vision. Tony Scott turned vengeance into poetry, and Denzel Washington gave one of his most quietly devastating performances.
cinesthetic. • @TheCinesthetic-2d
What's your favorite movie with a "rotten" (below 60%) rating on Rotten Tomatoes?
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Man on Fire is great!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/11/2025

As I keep saying, it‘s a tough time to be a “words mean things“ person

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