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Blue Sand: The Abstract Truth

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Putting the "brah" in brahmavihārā since 2002. Jazz music is life. Fascism is imperialism turned inwards. (he/him)

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 5h
I think men who are found guilt of rape need to be gelded publicly as A Dire Warning To Others but that's just me. Bring back shame and pain. You ruined someone's life, congratulations, you get the same plus jail.
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Chestbursty @chestrovert.bsky.social · 6h
Hippie ghosts use patchoOooOuli
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12h
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14h
Having mastered epidemiology, toilet paper supply chain logistics, bridge engineering, mRNA technology, and the sociology of Indian-Americans, I would like to share my thoughts on the possible uniqueness of human consciousness in the context of contemporary AI advances…(1/223)
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 14h
1. LSU fired former head coach Les Miles for preying on college girls 2. LSU fired former school president for doing the same and allowing it to happen 3. LSU fired former head coach Bergeron for trying to sexually assault the pregnant wife of an LSU staff member while drunk at a gas station
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Jon @arfmeasures.bsky.social · 10/05/2023
Wife: use the newspaper to get that spider down Me *reads the news out loud* Spider *depressed* holy shit
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Perry “Bastard Pac-AckAckAckAckAck You Outta Know By Now” Normal @perrynormal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Transphobes: “trans people are all gross freaks and everyone hates them” Also transphobes: “we need the government to step in to protect us from trans people who are too pretty and popular.”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
nothing they value or aspire to or revere about Masculinity™️ is the behavior of wise, mature, grounded adult men. it’s what little boys think is cool about being an adult man and they were allowed never to grow out of that
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Blue Sand: The Abstract Truth @swampwubba.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
COVID Doubts: an autowritten musing Why I am considering taking off the mask, and why I will not. (Nathan Dean) sewealds.substack.com/p/covid-doub...
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COVID Doubts: an autowritten musing
Why I am considering taking off the mask, and why I will not.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'What If You Did The Willie Horton Ad In Reverse' is one of those questions no one was quite brave enough to ask until now and UH
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The impact of slavery was twofold. Obviously when people are suffering from forced labor and physical abuse and inhumane living conditions, disease and injury are much likelier. Things like “being too sick to move” became proof to enslavers that slaves were inherently lazy.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
OIL WARS EPISODE I: Will There Be Blood? EPISODE II: There Will Be Blood EPISODE III: Here's The Blood EPISODE IV: Will There Be More Blood? EPISODE V: There Will Be No More Blood EPISODE VI: Once There Was Blood EPISODE VII: Wait We Found More Blood
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 29/09/2026
This stopped me cold. POWERFUL. #SheShed 🎥 IG: imitationbyjerell
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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Literally fall of 2019 there was a study showing if 80% of people wore masks for 1 month in winter, we wouldn't have flu seasons. The flu that kills 80,000 people in the US on a bad year! Half of everyone here lives in places you bundle up in the winter ANYWAY.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ban him. Say why. If he continues to harass your staff, sue him for damages.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No, Of Course The Thing We Told You Was Harmless Didn’t Cause Your Health Problems
A smiling happy doctor
Headline:
No, Of Course The Thing We Told You Was Harmless Didn’t Cause Your Health Problems
Story by Lance Muffet and Graham Bove

Photo from Adobe
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Blade of Quale 🗡️ @positronweapond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Alice Cooper (she/her)
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 In case you're wondering why people have "attitude" and anger issues 😳 doi.org/10.3390/neur...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And I'm donating here. secure.actblue.com/donate/bj4-s...
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).
Mississippi Free Press screenshot shows a picture of two teen boys with their arms around one another in front of a cake and a sign that says "2026." The headline below the photo says: Max and Israel Makoka Were Waiting for a Hancock High School Bus. ICE Took the Brothers Instead.
by Nick JudinNew York Times screenshot shows a picture of two teen boys with their arms around one another in front of a cake and a sign that says "2026." The headline above the photo says: They Left for the School Bus. ICE
Picked Them Up Instead.

Subtext says: A school transfer disrupted two brothers' visas, their lawyer said, leaving them vulnerable to arrest and unsettling their Mississippi school community.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born These are policy choices
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Blue Sand: The Abstract Truth @swampwubba.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not only is active hope a subversive stance, it feels a lot better than despair.
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
PMC COVlD Update, Sep 21, 2026 (US) 🔥13th COVlD wave 🔥40 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt text) 🔥3.8 million estimated weekly infections 🔥Outbreaks in NYC 🔥Extremely high levels on the Big Island of HI Mask up and get boosted. 🧵THREAD (1/4)
The US has at least 34 states and territories with COVlD outbreaks. These include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawai'i, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Levels on the Big Island of Hawai’i are particularly high. Note also, the NYC area is seeing outbreaks.

There are likely outbreaks in additional states. The summary statistic of 40 only includes counties with observed data, rather than estimated data. For example, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, and Tennessee likely have outbreaks, but monitoring is poor.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Being aggressively pro-Palestine is the most efficient way to weed all the worst people out of your life." -Caitlin Johnstone
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Tommy Tuberville is picking a fight with furries, Nancy Mace is podcasting through it, and gas is four-fifty a gallon" feels like the beginning of a really good future AP US History DBQ
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/09/2026
I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.
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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two years ago today 🌿 Gunnison River sunset
Sun setting over river lighting up golden tree leaves
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah, just do not eat any food or food-adjacent byproduct whose contents touch the United States in any way shape or form. If they have an outbreak of BSE (mad cow disease) anything like what happened in the UK, they'll bury it and no-one will know until the entire country is dying.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's disgusting watching people buying into the "Tucker Carlson is making sense?!" bullshit and it's probably time to wrap our heads around the fact that the people susceptible to this are unconsciously fascist curious and just need the ugly delivered to them in an "acceptable" package
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Lisa Rowe 🏳️‍🌈 @txvoodoo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fan Reception: Most users on Reddit agree that Rapaport's signature real-life persona heavily mirrored his character, making his brief yet memorable performance feel effortless
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
what are people's favorite albums of this year so far? Melisa Aldana's Filin is one of mine... www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Melissa Aldana "Filin" (Full Album Stream) - YouTube
https://melissaaldana.lnk.to/FilinID
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Recycling By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels, each showing a different period of history.

PANEL 1
Present day. A close-up of a hand holding a smartphone. The phone’s screen shows a talk show called "The JAQ Off." Large letters on the front of the desk say "JUST ASKING QUESTIONS." The host is interviewing a blonde woman in a red dress.

BLONDE: I don’t hate transgenders — I’m just against radical gender ideology.

PANEL 2
The 2000s. Two thin women are talking in the plus-size exercise-clothing section of a store. There are two fat mannequins dressed in exercise clothes, and a sign on the wall announces a sale on XL exercise clothes.

WOMAN: I’ve got nothing against fat people! But I hate it when they glorify obesity.

PANEL 3
Three white people dressed in 1940s clothing stand on a lawn, holding protest signs. The man in the center is speaking.

MAN: I have dear friends who are Jews! But the INTERNATIONAL JEWISH CABAL will destroy America!

The woman’s sign says: I DID NOT RAISE MY BOY TO DIE FOR UNCLE SHYLOCK

The man's sign says: HITLER HAS NOT ATTACKED US. WHY ATTACK HITLER?

The third protester’s sign says: AMERICA FOR AMERICANS*

PANEL 4
A man in nineteenth-century clothing, wearing a huge stovepipe hat and a long blue coat, strides down a street while confronting a startled woman in an enormous hoop skirt. He carries a large sign.

TOP HAT: Understand I bear no ill will for the GOOD Catholics. But I abhor papist Romanist conspiracies!

CAPTION AT BOTTOM OF STRIP: RECYCLING
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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Zohran Mamdani and Hasan Piker are better human beings than this genocidal maniac ever could be. Fuck Israel. Israel does not have a right to exist. Free Palestine.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026
interesting how the more desperate the GOP's mid term chances become the louder establishment Democrats are signalling there should be no accountability or reprisals for their crimes
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good stuff
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Kevin Ball 🇨🇦 @stairway-to-kevin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the host of the CBC show, where my partner was head writer, has announced they’ll be taping from their hometown from now on—from a brand new studio set up for them. all the power to ‘em—except my partner (& i) were forced to resign when we asked to continue working remotely due to safety concerns👇🏼
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You should have to smell the dead when you disinter them.
A chat request from a late friend
I recognize the pain of thinking if I could only talk to them one more time. It is among the more familiar human laments. But that's just the thing it is a human problem to be endured not a technological problem to be sold. Our capacity for loss – in fact the necessity of losing and having lost – is what makes us who we are. Individually and collectively. There is no workaround. There will be no workaround. And every step toward preventing that or perverting that is an affront to our humanity. Why not just taxidermy nana and prop her up at the Texas Chainsaw Massacre dinner table? At least there's something real and tangible about that. Undeniable in its sacrilege. You should have to smell the dead when you disinter them.
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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interesting genre : Movies where the *titles* have become expressions that have long outlasted the cultural memory of the movie itself.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You got what you wanted! You are living your normal lives, as demanded, free of legal or social responsibility toward disabled people who are still at high risk. Now you’re going to laugh at us trying to find ways to keep going? That’s not just discrimination, that’s dehumanization.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.
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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 23/09/2026
Look, let's clear this up. LLMs can't think or understand because those are evolved capabilities of embodied living organisms embedded in the physical and social world and LLMs aren't that. Don't make it harder than it is.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Unitary Executive Theory has officially jumped the shark
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wrote about solitary confinement, penal isolators, and "the box."
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
There is always a box
And authoritarians will put everyone they can inside it.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In recent days, two Black men in the DC area have been found hanging from trees, and in both cases the authorities are claiming suicide. That makes NO sense. Black people do not hang themselves from trees. What the HELL is going on?!
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