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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think about the episode of 30 Rock where Liz Lemon realizes she was a bully a lot. It felt far more accurate than any other media bullying even with how cartoonish it was. I definitely saw groups of popular kids be mean at times, but it always felt more like occasional dickishness than bullying.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If politicians win on a bad platform they immediately start talking about how winning was a “mandate” to carry out that bad platform. The argument to not pressure them before is such a bad faith, anti-democracy argument.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If they win on a bad platform they immediately start talking about how winning was a “mandate” to carry out that bad platform. The argument to not pressure them before is such a bad faith, anti-democracy argument.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So you’re just like, completely uninformed on this issue then? If you haven’t been paying attention to how these anti-human rights laws have been playing out or what has been proposed by the politicians backing anti-trans laws, why do you feel qualified to talk about it?

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why play into their hands when it’s such an overt scapegoating tactic? When trans people lose, we all lose.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is ignoring that trans people playing in sports is basically a non-issue that POLITICIANS have drummed up concern for in the populace with extremely aggressive scapegoating propaganda as a means to divide us so they can do whatever they want while we fight amongst ourselves.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Should I start like…posting original thoughts on Bluesky regularly? Like it’s 2013 Twitter or something?

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 26/05/2026

Iron County is pausing all new data centers and large energy projects after what Commissioner Mike Bleak said has been overwhelming public outcry. “I’ve literally received dozens and dozens of calls, emails, 24 hours a day.”

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‘Put the brakes on the whole thing’: A Utah county is hitting pause on new data centers

The Iron County Commission approved a temporary ban on approving or processing new and incomplete data center proposals on Tuesday.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I was there and I talked with people. He’s very wrong. That’s definitely how the commissioners kept talking to the crowd though, as if those who opposed were outsiders. There also were absolutely zero busses of people in the very crowded fairgrounds parking lot.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

You've lost any faith from the American people you had. Now that you've caved and given us nothing, the blame for the pain of the shutdown falls squarely on your soldiers. You are a corporate-serving monster and traitor to the American people. Step down now. America hates you.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

As an ex-mormon, it's very jarring to go from having built-in community to nothing, so a lot of ex-mormons have learned how valuable the work of intentional community building is. (Obviously there are also cultural elements within the church that contribute, but I think leaving is a part of it)

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/10/2025

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation. It methodically goes through each problem in the review. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

"Chipocalypse" makes it sound like he ate too many chips and he's squatting because of the resulting tummy troubles.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The problem is that there aren't actually "red states" and "blue states". They're all purple states (that include a lot of people who are fed up with how right-leaning and anti-working class BOTH parties have become). We need to be able to form coalitions across state lines.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Like the music video it should also star Jane Krakowski.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A self-serve kiosk at the airport asked me if I wanted to "tip their team" $1 or $2 on a $6 purchase.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 11/06/2025

Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of a sex crime by a Manhattan jury, concluding a retrial after the successful 2020 prosecution was previously overturned on appeal.

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Harvey Weinstein found guilty in New York sex crimes retrial

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Tiduidu @tiduidu.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

For reference, Twitch Plays Pokemon clocked Misty at 1d19h, or 43 hours So the AI model is twice as incompetent as the closest we ever got to literal monkeys at typewriters

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Does Cox think he's doing a good job of "disagreeing better"? Because more and more he just feels like an anti-human rights corporate fascist that knows how to be fake friendly while causing pain to his constituents. He's not uniting or kind, he just pretends to be "nice" while Trump doesn't.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The biggest mistake I see in discussions of trans people's healthcare is the idea that hormones and the like are some special service just for us when really all kinds of people access the same health care for all kinds of reasons but they are *withheld* from us because we are trans

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

(long🧵) Watching some gays & lesbians celebrate that heinous UK Court ruling against trans women has me again thinking about how little most gay people know about their own history. No, I'm not rehashing if trans people were at Stonewall (they were). I'm talking about the long arc of what it even...

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I scanned dozens of newspapers from around the U.S. & world. On average, international newspapers cover the widespread protests against Trump/Musk and for democracy much more prominently on their covers than those in the U.S. This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff

The San Jose Mercury News and Arizona Daily Star cover protests prominently; the Boston Globe and Dallas Morning News do not.

The Philly Inquirer covers protests above the fold; the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Newsday and NY Daily News don’t have protests on the cover or have only a blurb

The Detroit Free Press and Minnesota Star Tribune cover protests front and center; the LA Times has a tiny mention in bottom right corner; the SF Chronicle doesn’t have it on cover

The NY Times has a picture of protests on lower left of front cover; The Washington post has a tiny picture in bottom strip

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

Massive crowd at Hands Off rally in St. Paul, Minnesota

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

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Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 05/04/2025

Thousands of Utahns demonstrated in Salt Lake City Saturday as part of the nationwide “Hands Off” protests against the actions of the Trump administration. There were other gatherings in at least seven other places in Utah, as well. (Video by Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Not voting and not being aware or caring are very different things. Between intense voter suppression, people who didn't want to vote for genocide staying home, and people in minority parties in their state not seeing the point, there are many people who didn't vote who care very deeply.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/03/2025

1. A new poll shows a massive opposition to government censorship of transgender people happening now. It also shows heavy opposition to the impacts of Trump's anti-trans executive orders... the military ban, teacher investigations, and trans youth care ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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New Poll Shows Massive Opposition To The Active US Government Censorship Of Trans People

The poll also shows heavy support for transgender youth care, opposition to the military ban, and opposition to the prosecution of teachers affirming trans youth.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Until a couple days ago I thought smh stood for "so much hate" instead of "shaking my head". It works in most contexts as much as lol works for laughing out loud, so for years I never questioned it.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 18/03/2025

Exclusive: Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate, Mahmoud Khalil, speaks out for the first time since being detained by federal immigration authorities.

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‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Familiarizing myself with Nestlé products for the boycott later this week. Friskies is going to be the big one for us, but I was wanting to switch to better cat food anyway. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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List of Nestlé brands - Wikipedia

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

X post by Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW
), featuring a verification badge. The post reads, "The USA is weird now. If you're a person under 30, you probably think it's normal but that's because you don't know. Trust me. It's weird."

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felix @felixforrester.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Lemme help with that

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Overall, while I think it's hard to substantiate as a hard "fact" (especially where it's not clear how gendered the word gay is for Bregman) the quote does seem to point to a general vibe in Hollywood where stars playing gay people was so far from the norm it was basically non-existent.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It does seem odd that Vito Russo doesn't bring up the significance of Pacino playing that part when talking about the movie if it was a first, though that might have been less of a concern for him at the time since he frames it more as a titillating freak show rather than meaningful representation.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I'm skimming through The Celluloid Closet, and nothing is jumping out as an equivalent level star playing an equivalent level of openly gay, though there are plenty of less big stars, less big movies, and less overt roles.

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tayjack86.bsky.social @tayjack86.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

While I think there are a handful of examples that push up against this, I think it's fair to say that a comparably "major star" hadn't played "a gay" as openly or in as mainstream a film up to that point.

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