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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026

you’re going to want to read jeremy’s book on the extreme-right wing premier fucking not just with alberta, but all of canada

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New episode! @krisbryant.bsky.social recommends the film Fairyland and @taramdscott.bsky.social recommends the latest sapphic romance from Bridget Morrissey, In What World. Listen now: www.queerlyrecommended.com/2026/09/…

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026

Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026

I will say it is funny watching OpenAI boast about solving a complex math problem using millions of dollars of compute (and someone else’s work) all while remaining unable to solve the most obvious math problem (how to make their services profitable)

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 05/09/2026

Hi @greenburgerlit.bsky.social ! Could you explain, for the audience, what the maths are behind you putting in for 25% of Anthropic compensation on books you agented? Why is it 25% of the full sum, and not, say, 15% of the author share? Why should you get anything?

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 05/09/2026

If you are agented by: The Wylie Agency, Malatesta Literary Agency, L. Perkins Agency, Global Lion Intellectual Property (formerly PMA Literary), Jeanne Fredericks Literary Agency, Sanford J. Greenburger, Dystel Goderich & Bourret, Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency ...read this and consider hard.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the best thing a new administration could do to cut Big Tech down to size is offer a bounty and immunity to employees who provide evidence of crimes committed by their bosses.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

These people are weird and creepy and Democrats need to say it more

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

it’s deeply embarrassing that they keep trying to come up with a comprehensive definition of “wokeness” when the actual definition is “lib shit that annoys me”

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Emma Butler-Marr @19thcenturyem.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Join Lindz, Erin & I in conversation about their Pride and Prejudice sequels/continuations focusing on Georgiana Darcy (and her sapphic happy ever afters!) 2 of the best books I've read this year (Lindz's Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet is one of my favourites of all time!) It's going to be fab 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is the most pathetic thing Republicans have ever done, and I remember Freedom Fries. The most loser shit I’ve ever seen.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

God help the GOP if "Nazi infiltration of the Republican Party" ever becomes an obsessive media discourse object the same way "antisemitism on the left" has. Even the world's laziest reporter could find three of these guys on every campaign. It'll be shooting gallery.

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Gourdon P. Squash @dewterium2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is why they coined the term "cancel culture" and attacked it so furiously. What they were calling cancel culture was actually the conscience of civil society, which is their enemy.

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Tara Scott @taramdscott.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The majority of Albertans don't want to secede anyway, so...

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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

current people in power took money from her book giveaway nonprofit so they didnt think it was neutral lol

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thank you for this ambitious thread. I lack all ambition. It’s very generous.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

we should do this every year on the anniversary of her passing. think how much better the internet is today when everyone is just talking about one of the purest souls who ever lived. annual mandatory "1 out of every 3 posts must be about Dolly" day

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Mark Jones @markjonesmotion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich

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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Reading and listening to Tressie McMillan Cottom is always worth the time. So smart about how we are not creating/replacing the things that make possible the new brilliance that might replace what we've lost with the deaths of Dolly and Prince (and others). Worth a trip over to IG for a listen.

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Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I especially appreciated, as a local and kid of a music teacher, the tying of the history of public music education in the twin cities to how Prince got to become Prince. the arts are among the first to get cut; when my mom retired she wasn't replaced. it's a loss of generations.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026

I just want to build a new society built around a common understanding: If you have more money than you could ever spend and you still want more, you are a fundamentally broken human who needs supportive intervention before you are fit to participate in a healthy, functioning community.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She wrote a handful of the greatest songs ever written, and the first thing so many people think of is not those towering achievements, but how good a person she was and how many people’s lives she improved

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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

immediately had to search for the video of Dolly and Patti singing Shortnin’ Bread while keeping the rhythm with their acrylic nails youtu.be/AOxsQNVOhro

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Dolly Parton & Patti LaBelle play 'Shortnin' Bread' on their Acrylic Nails

YouTube video by Happy Mag

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You got to live at the same time as Dolly Parton!! What a gift.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Please direct your freak out to the giant fucking horror show of HHS proposing to let random contractors strip search immigrant kids held captive in concentration camps & make it harder to reunite them with family: COMMENT BY TOMORROW - act.theyoungcenter.org/ks2HFT0aoUuw...

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Oppose the Proposed Changes to the Unaccompanied Children Program

The government proposed a harmful rule that would allow untrained federal contractors to examine the bodies of immigrant children in federal custody. The rule would also make it harder for these child...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I've signed as well. If you're an author whose books are held in the Cleveland Library System please sign to support these workers.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We have had this conversation so many times. You do not have to platform/debate obscene views that are also false. I wrote during a wave of pressure on progressives to compromise with far-right haters:

I can comprehend, and do, that lots of people don’t believe climate change is real, but is there some great benefit in me listening, again, to those who refuse to listen to the global community of scientists and see the evidence before our eyes? A lot of why the right doesn’t “understand” climate change is that climate change tells us everything is connected, everything we do has far-reaching repercussions, and we’re responsible for the whole, a message at odds with their idealization of a version of freedom that smells a lot like disconnection and irresponsibility. But also climate denial is the result of fossil fuel companies and the politicians they bought spreading propaganda and lies for profit, and I understand that better than the people who believe it. If half of us believe the earth is flat, we do not make peace by settling on it being halfway between round and flat.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

civilizational collapse, anyone? "Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training, and destroying them in the process. "It’s possible to scan these rare books without destroying them, but cutting the spine makes it cheaper and faster..." www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I thought I was past shock after all the annexation talk, but 2 and 3 are real jaw-droppers.

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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 22/08/2026

Idk how much Canadian trade deals get media coverage south of the border, but I know it’s usually reported as “Canadians are mad at tariffs” and not “he keeps threatening to annex us”… So FYI the US wanted to stop Canada from making trade deals with other countries, that’s why Carney rejected it.

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E. J. Noyes @zgrokit.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The “you just don’t like AI because you don’t understand it” argument is completely demolished whenever I post about this nuance because everyone resoundingly agrees and supports this version. People understand AI. They understand what they don’t like about it. They are not ignorant.

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Unrepentant 💙 Punk 🐇 🌻 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 ⚧️ 🐝 🇨🇺 @unrepentantpunk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Carole Cadwalladr: The Jason Arday Reckoning The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...

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The Jason Arday Reckoning

The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet

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