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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/05/2026

Metaphors don't have to be literalized but it's not entirely surprising this one has been

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feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS “…And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.” from the documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 28/10/2025

The people who always claim to believe in "meritocracy" usually have very little merit themselves.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 23/10/2025

On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer

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Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

WHY CANT I FIND INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO DO THINGS ON THE INTERNET ANYMORE WHY IS EVERYTHING A VIDEO

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

My translator tells me "thoughts & prayers" is an American political expression that means "we'd rather have a secret police force than a weather service".

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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The head of Phoenix Children's Hospital—one of the largest pediatric health care systems in the country—sets the record straight. Republicans' budget bill rips care away from kids and hurts Arizona's economy. Read his full op-ed: azcentral.com/story/opinio...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It’s easier to build concentration camps than hospitals because you don’t have to worry about the safety of the occupants.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy... "That's just how it is."

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

this is so perplexing do they think that we think that Zohran is already mayor?

NYT alert: New York City Rent
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Increases of at least 3 percent were approved for one million rent-stabilized apartments, despite Zohran Mamdani's call for a rent freeze.

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Tonight I'm texting Nancy Pelosi and asking HER for $5

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Democratic leadership is purging anyone who wants candidates under 80, shutting down anyone who wants to impeach Trump, and telling everyone to shut up about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Have I got all that? And their answer is flying tiny banners over Mar-a-Lago?

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

Haley Britzky @halbritz

AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID.

"They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

In the hearing happening now about the Trump admin's removal of Venezuelans under the Alien Enemy Act, one of the panel judges says, "Nazis got better treatment," noting they at least had access to a hearing before they were deported.

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tabitha @tabbicat.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

my achilles have so many questions

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blue: Screenshot of ADIDAS TAEKWONDO MEI SHOES $90 NEW
blue: Adidas. Are u ok
grey: No one is okay Tabitha
grey: Especially adidas apparently
blue: ok fair point

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Saul Tobias @saultobias.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Amid the coarsening of online discourse, alt text is where whimsy now survives.

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tabitha @tabbicat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is such a critical detail that many are oblivious to until they’re faced with a loved one requiring this type of service. There’s also no way to predict how long they may need assisted living, skilled help, or even hospice. And even considering that variable makes you feel guilty and nauseated.

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Oh. #ncpol www.notus.org/congress/tru...

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CoffeeCommunist ☭ @coffeecommunist.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Librarians have been the real heroes all along.

"While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

Kurt Vonnegut

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tabitha @tabbicat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

this damn thread. 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

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Jennifer Goodland @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We figured, what’s the fun in just telling them there’s nothing? What the feds always forget is that librarians LOVE weaponizing bureaucracy for a good cause. We developed a compliance policy just for the Patriot Act.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/02/2025

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk
We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.

Could gone to some great parties.

Did that instead.

U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means.

The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy.

First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/02/2025

Call in the bonobos.

Two consecutive posts:

Trump wants to dissolve education department.

Bonobos recognize when humans are ignorant, try to help.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2025

this is exactly it. i wrote something similar not long ago

In fairness to the incoming president, there is no reason to think that he has any of these precedents in his head. What he has, instead, is a deeply rooted sense that the world is a fundamentally zero-sum place and that American greatness means that others must be diminished. His zero-sum, social Darwinistic intuitions are echoes of an earlier age of reactionary aggression and shameless avarice. There is no such thing for Trump as a positive exchange or a mutually beneficial relationship. There is only winning and losing, the dominant and the dominated.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

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tabitha @tabbicat.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Hey #chasebank. Just how often are y’all getting raises over there?

Email from Chase Bank that reads

Nice! You may qualify for more spending power when you update your income.

Tabitha, we noticed you last updated your income on November 3, 2023. Keeping your income up to date helps us evaluate your account for potential special offers such as credit limit* increases, balance transfers and lower APR loans.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

the CDC now recommends getting an aquarium and growing your own leeches

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This happens every 4-8 years when the major platforms (facebook, instagram, twitter, etc) rotate the accounts and archive the old ones, because they use an older snapshot of the following list to build the following list of the new ones. People think it's a conspiracy every time.

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tabitha @tabbicat.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Sorely tempted to set this as my Teams status for eternity. Seriously though, another brilliant piece by Wes Kao. “If you don’t want to invest 10 minutes to write a reply to a reasonable question, why should I listen (with no 1.5x button) as you meander in real time? GTFO.”

open.substack.com

No, I don't want to hop on a call

I do not want to hop on a call because you are too lazy to write a cogent message

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Seems reasonable

Amanda Foreman presenting Ascent of Woman, saying to camera “And then in the afternoon, the women shouted obscenities”

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 10/12/2024

Voting can feel like a low priority for unhoused people. “They got more shit to worry about than voting,” says Angel Agabon, who recently experienced homelessness. “They don’t know where they’re gonna stay tonight.” Pop-up centers are trying to remedy this: boltsmag.org/los-ang...

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Pop-Up Voting Centers Bring the Polls Directly to Unhoused Angelenos

Nationwide, unhoused people have some of the lowest turnout among all voters. Los Angeles County is trying to change this with flexible polling centers that meet people where they are.

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Moniza Hossain @monizahossain.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

“I have too many books” -judgemental -boring -implies impulse-control issues “The books... they have me.” - mysterious - occult - implies you are at the mercy of a library of books that have gained sentience and are holding you hostage #readingcommunity

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

the first anniversary of henry kissinger’s death is a good time to revisit this interview i did with @attackerman.bsky.social about his righteous obituary for the heinous war criminal: www.thehandbasket.co/p/writing-an...

I had a conversation with my daughter who was like, “Why are people excited? So are you happy that this guy died?” And I was trying to talk about it in terms that I wanted her to take away from this. That it is a bad habit of the soul to celebrate anyone's death. But that emerges from our understanding of our humanity, what we owe to one another, the basic respect and dignity in viewing human lives as precious and in viewing them as valuable. And that's a contract. And there are gonna be some people, like Henry Kissinger, who break that contract at grand scale, and you don't have to be sad when someone like that dies. You can feel relieved. You don't want, in general, to be happy when people die. That is not a good way of being that will ultimately hurt you more than it will hurt them. But there are some people whose deaths come as a relief, and sometimes they come as a relief because justice was never served for the acts of such a person. And relief is the closest thing to justice that people will experience.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 05/12/2024

When you spent billions and destroyed your brand to recreate 1930's Germany and got 1780's France instead.

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