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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026

I was loudly complaining about one of these movies once, and my friend’s mom had to very patiently explain to me that these are not really meant to be watched. They’re background noise for making out on a date if you were a teenager at the time.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻

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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.

Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the family

from my mom

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How many crying wives were at
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I need a final count
I think 5 maybe 7 why

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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol

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Betty @bettytheteapot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

doing exercise feels like being addicted to heroine in that I am addicted to doing absolutely fucking nothing and I will relapse into nothing after every attempt to not, no matter the elaborate structure I build up around doing exercise. Nothing else hits like doing absolutely fucking nothing.

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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, of course it's not all men, but if for their safety many women decide to treat all men as guilty until proven innocent, respect that this caution comes from the very real threat posed by men, and the system that is constructed to let them get away with being monsters.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026

As an affirmed dog lover, I have a few things to say. (1) Dogs are harder than people admit. They take a lot of work. They need constant exercise and mental stimulation, especially those with working dog heritage of any kind. Dogs are hard.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026

Honestly the sex cults and the claims that AI is gonna download itself onyo our apple watch and destroy humanity has really distracted from the fact that the math has not been mathing from the beginning.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Volition is irrelevant. If the headline was "vicious dog breaks out of OpenAI office and bites man" there would be no question who was responsible. "But the dog is its own entity making its own choices!" Fuck off, either it's property you own or not, you can't have it both ways.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is legitimately very funny

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the most important thing men can do, and they must be doing it immediately. People create culture. People can change it. If you can't remember the last time you created some social awkwardness by telling another man to stop with that shit, you probably aren't pulling your weight.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Ellsey @ellsey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i discover my music the old-fashioned way- people put it on an unhinged playlist for my favorite ships

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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Back in my day we didn’t scrape music from the internet to feed to algorithms and make slop. No. We bought the musical score to the most recent popular adventure movie, stripped it of context in our heads, and used it to soundtrack writing our fantasy novels, like HONEST thieves.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That said, the fact that there is so much interest makes me feel like I should mention them at least a little. This thread in no way can stand in place of working with a sensitivity consultant with lived experience! Here is a brief, nonexhaustive list of harmful disability tropes in fiction.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026

I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 27/09/2026

Tackled by the baby

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

what percentage of supposed 'centrist' goofs who long ago accused folks of TROMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME will ever actually address their own misread? address that actually everyone who said it would be very bad was not 'deranged', but much more in tune than they were. i have yet to see it happen once

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Scazrelet ~ Suffering @scazrelet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Re: Literacy I remember decades ago when I first saw complaints from men not wanting to play female main characters in videogames. So much of it seemed a resistance or even inability to put themselves in another's shoes without discomfort (a luxury generally denied women). Now I'm seeing reports/

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Station Master Mikan comes out to inspect the passengers.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The most important thing I learned in my 20s is that being smart doesn't make you special. Eventually you need to learn to try hard and to enjoy learning to do things you're not immediately good at. It turns out that the people who didn't learn this lesson were reading Harry Potter fanfic.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my girlfriend is both a known MILF Stan and a member of the “Evelyn O’Connell made me a lesbian (who works in a library)” generation, truly do not know how she’s going to survive MILF Evelyn O’Connell she looks. SO GOOD.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a reminder: Sam Altman has been credibly accused of sexually abusing his younger sibling, who has been in and out of psychiatric programs since she was a teenager. Their parents decided her claims stopped being plausible right about the time Sam attracted VC money.

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James Asmus @jamesasmus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey comics artists: a new all-timer character design just dropped.

I honestly don't know how to explain. Fascinating little powerhouse of a guy with truly unique hair / beard hyper-stylized combo

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not knowing your own address and phone number is a failure at adulting. Also, his driver could literally take him anywhere and deliver him into the hands of kidnappers, and I doubt he pays peons enough to make that unlikely.

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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There once was a transphobe called Dowling Who on seeing equal rights started howling. Her case was well funded With several hundred Thousand quid from an anonymous donor who we cannot name for fear of legal action.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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Supergiant Games @supergiantgames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

⏳Time flies!⌛️ Somehow a full year has passed since we launched HADES II v1.0, after more than a year of Early Access development. To everyone who aided Princess Melinoë on her fateful task, thank you so much, and may moonlight guide you wherever you may go!🙏🌖

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm not saying I disagree with this list, I'm just saying it's mostly Not To My Taste, not least because it's so painfully, earnestly committed to communicating they know what makes Important Art. There is remarkably little pure pleasure on this list, which is a shame.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

all I’m gonna say about this as a woman who inhabits nerd spaces is that if you believe “Game of Thrones” is the best (not most culturally impactful or biggest influence, but BEST) speculative fiction show of the century by this staggering a margin, you are a man I would not let my girlfriends date

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Marc Deschamps @marcdachamp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have no idea how many times I have to say that this dude’s one and only good idea was stealing a marginally good idea from the Winklevoss twins. And because he was able to outsmart those two idiots, he gets to make the worst business decisions of all time while suffering no negative repercussions.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 25/09/2026

A tiny snippet of a thing I’m working on

A very close crop of an illustration of Marceline and Princess Bubblegum from the Cartoon Network show, Adventure Time

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yeah I very much think they are inventing robot wife-servants because they’re mad human women have better options than wife-servant now I think all the time about that guy who said male clients kept flirting with his automated scheduler because the software defaulted to a female name

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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