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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've said it before, I've said it again: Bluesky has a disproportionate and extremely loud percentage of users who think it's morally righteous to abuse people as long as it's for a good enough cause, and an even larger percentage of users who specialize in justifying why causes are good.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Thomas @thomas15.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sometimes people want to become heroes so bad they’ll make anyone a villain.

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Starris @starris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Add incense, crystals, and dowsing rods to the Export Administration Regulations. Establish the Temporal Authority Regarding Occult Threats as a new agency under Homeland Security. Prominent mystics either get added to a DHS watchlist or recruited to staff TAROT.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 24/09/2026

Some people get into political activism not because they want to change their material circumstances for the better, but because they enjoy righteously condemning everyone who is not as morally pure and radical as they are. You cannot work with these people because they will never be satisfied.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just because breaking a bunch of eggs is a key step if you're making an omelette, it doesn't follow that an omelette will always result when you break a bunch of eggs.

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qntm @qntm.org · 11/08/2026

Extremely psyched about The Elder Scrolls VI, apparently it's going to have proper classes, arrow functions, block-scoped variables with `const` and `let`...

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

rip to those punished by the market for their rationality. but I’m different. and more rational. maybe more rational than the market

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

slate.com

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

When the world gets you down, just remember the wonderful variety of dumplings out there...

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This is a reminder that April is Procrastination Awareness Month.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

this guy drops like 300 runes a time

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Crockett Houghton @crocketthoughton.com · 12/04/2026

Being married is easy, I don't know why people complain about it. All you have to do is ask what your partner needs, actually listen to the answer, then figure out how you're going to train a variety of woodland creatures to put ancient curses on their enemies. It's literally so simple.

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Lars @herrvonspeck.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Rabea Rogge, die erste deutsche Frau im All, hat einfach einen W20 mit rauf genommen. #PNPDE #Spaaace

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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society. And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

In this era of institutional failure, it is fantastical escapism to explore a world of competent administrators who take injustice seriously. That's what a murder mystery is - a fable of social and governmental decency and efficiency. Take it or leave it.

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Starris @starris.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Describe your favorite games poorly: * Nerd finds mysterious haunted trinket, uses it to play children's card games * Millennials undergo existential crisis around approaching middle age * Small rodent acquires gun, becomes hazard to society

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I am going to be honest that if you aren’t sure whether or not it would be good if the fascists kill a prominent anti-fascist activist with whom you have developed an inscrutable parasocial antagonism, I really doubt the sincerity of your commitment to leftism or anti-fascism

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

chewing gum is just a mouth fidget

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Dr. Jacqueline E. Whitt @notabattlechick.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I have thoughts, and they aren’t going to fit neatly into Bluesky posts. Briefly: 1. The deal sucks. 2. Probably not as much as you think it does. 3. It’s good to be mad. 4. FFS, be madder at the GOP. 5. Strategy is hard. 5b. Timing matters. 6. The fight isn’t over. 7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

yeah there is a 95% chance that each of us Finds Out via shitpost. which is why the natsec crew can either be upset about sports or cryptic but are not allowed both at the same time

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 20/08/2025

Now that I'm no longer building the app at all ‒ not managing, not creating releases, not writing features ‒ I can finally ask something that's been bugging me for a while. What's javascript

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Imagine being disappeared in one dictatorship, making it to America, and then being disappeared again

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 18/07/2025

If you enjoy the SCP universe at all, or just good scifi, I highly recommend qntm's book. This was one of my favorite reads in a while.

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Starris @starris.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

There is one political party lining up to oppose Mamdani for blatantly bigoted reasons, and people of good conscience should vote against it at the local, state, and federal level

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Starris @starris.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Very strong #NoKings showing in Lexington, MA

Lots of people gathered in Lexington to protest Trump

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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I told you we’d be back

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 05/06/2025

Siri, play “Bad Blood”

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Curiously, my very deliberate, ponderous method of speaking truth to power seems to have left me speaking truth to the previous set of people in power, which just so happens to align me with the current set of people in power. What an odd confluence of events!

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Unfortunately there are no current issues that demand courageous honesty that challenges our leaders. But if there were, you can trust I’ll be there, speaking truth to power (in two to five years).

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Hey, I’m a prominent national news figure and I’m here to promote my new book, in which I tell you I’m boldly taking a contrarian point of view on an important news issue (of 2022) and standing up to powerful men (who have already retired). If only liberals would have courage like me!

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Starris @starris.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

A reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 24/05/2025

a big part of the reason i am in favor of accelerating and affordable housing development is that we need more room in the world for fuckups

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Starris @starris.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I'm her constituent and after seeing the results in South Carolina, I voted for Biden because I cared far more about party unity than any particular candidate

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Some advice to the doom and gloom crowd who wanna speedrun straight to armed rebellion/dystopic hoarding - if I can’t trust you to show up to city council meetings and give public comment, what the fuck makes you think I’m going to trust you with a weapon at my back?

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/05/2025

you'd think that "the man we are giving complete and total power to on every other subject cannot be trusted not to immediately cause a depression if we give him this power over this one last thing" might prompt some introspection, but no

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Starris @starris.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A lot of people don't react to things, they react to their impressions of things, e.g. "why do you hate waffles". With regard to politics, it's metastasized.

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