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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.

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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)

The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.

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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dog with caterpillar

Drawing of a puppy and a caterpillar with the caption; "You can't hate yourself into a better version"

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 22/01/2026

meticulously labelling every bad thing the United States has ever done 'un-American' then bolting the gates of my Mind Palace with a gentle smile, secure in the knowledge that I live in the Good Country

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Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy There Will Come Soft Rains Day to all who celebrate. (Especially those in Allendale, California.) short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

A screenshot of the beginning of a short story. The title “There Will Come Soft Rains” is at the top, and then the author’s name (Ray Bradbury) then it says it’s a five minute read with a PG-13 rating.

The first view paragraphs of text then read…

In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! As if it were afraid that nobody would.

Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine!

In the kitchen the breakfast stove ejected eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk.

“Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.”

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 22/06/2026

You may have received DMs on YouTube for no particular reason, or even seen DMs being sent without you sending any. This is because YouTube started adding your account information to any links you send. If you find this really annoying and awful like I do, you can disable it in Settings -> Privacy

An example of a share link with "Sending as" being my own youtube channel

A setting for "channel visibility for shared links" in Settings -> Privacy on youtube

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

One MUST resist the urge to lolcow. I'd call it one of the most important urges to resist on the contemporary internet, actually

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

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June! 🏳️‍⚧️ @towndarling.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

nostalgia is remembering when you didn’t have to pay bills and attributing that feeling to mario

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mini‼️ @ministarfruit.itch.io · 19/03/2026

I love this text post so I drew it

Comic based off a tumblr text post about a guardian angel. The angel's dialogue is as follows: "it's meee I'm your guardian angel hiiiiii 😇 okay🙏 so. in about six months, you're gonna die of starvation. 🥺 and if I don't protect you, I will get: #fired! 🫢 and that is No Good 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa So. 🙏 I looked into causes of starvation, and it turns out: Your death is totally preventable! 😯 Uh oh! 😆 There's more than enough food to sustain you without interfering with anyone else's survival, but you're not allowed to have it!"

Continuation of the comic, the angel says: "🤨 Whaaat? 🤷‍♀️ Apparently, your death is premeditated by thousands of things called "shareholders." So. 🙏 I've been killing people," with an art style change from cartoonish to devious anime girl when she claims to be killing people.

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

oooh, you've showed the hypocrisy of the system! it will all come tottering down now!

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 05/03/2026

ACAB includes means testers

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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking.

This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The only “Mr Beast” I care about

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stubborn lights @stubbornlights.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Your Death Makes Me Wish That Heaven Was Real by Frail Body

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/01/2026

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 28/01/2026

Organizations like Spotify, Uber and OpenAI are not businesses, in the conventional sense of a profit-making enterprise. They're sort of more like terraforming plants, burning investment to create a social change. The point of Ellison's CBS News is not to run a news organization, but to destroy one

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richard @halkyardo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

We need to be ready to fight saying “we won’t let them do that,” not citing laws and saying “they can’t do that”

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger. ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The existence of disaster (bad star) implies the existence of euaster (good star). A sudden, cataclysmic harmonization—the correction of all things, a moment of violent alignment

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stubborn lights @stubbornlights.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Made it thru work without crying 🏆

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

It was extremely prescient of Obsidian to make a faction of MGTOW freaks that based their entire personality around Fast Facts about the Roman Empire they heard third hand a full decade before that became a daily feature in our lives.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13/01/2026

I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing

Old tweet that says when I was young I thought things wre bad because solutions were complicated and now I'm old and realize things are bad because solutions are simple but will inconvenience affluent people (or those who aspire to be) and religious fanatics.

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 08/01/2026

What are we going to do about the fact that there’s no such thing as scandal anymore

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

JAMES MERRILL
CHRISTMAS TREE
From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks,
That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me,
The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep
Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining —
Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver,
A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song
Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead
Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals
Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear,
Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin.
Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting
About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully!
No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's
Dusk room aglow For the last time
With candlelight. Faces love-lit,
Gifts underfoot.
Still to be so poised, so
Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/12/2025

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

If you keep discovering new music, you don’t die.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It may be fake, but it speaks to a deeper truth (I personally agree with what it was supposed to convey)

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/11/2025

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform.

If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/10/2025

A cartoon by Asher Perlman. #NewYorkerCartoons See more cartoons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pEDcks

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/10/2025

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."

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gwynnek @gwynnek.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

“When you agree to debate someone pushing long-debunked conspiracy theories or openly hateful ideologies, you’re implicitly suggesting that their position deserves equal consideration alongside established facts and expert analysis.”

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

When the feed is boring, that's your cue to go have an experience with something that'll make it less boring for yourself and others later.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

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ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest

The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.

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stubborn lights @stubbornlights.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

"We have the technology, right now, to form digital wombs from a comforting and misremembered past."

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

ChatGPT talks to adults like it’s grooming them. Ohhhh wowwwww you’re so mature for your age. Nobody understands you.

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Evan @evangobragh.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"feeling tarkovsky"

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stubborn lights @stubbornlights.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The monkey's paw curls, but it's giving me a thumbs up now

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