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J. D. Mettle @testyourmettle.bsky.social · 2h

This is some bad fucking journalism, so who asked the question? (Aaron is fantastic.) There is no personal definition of socialism. It has an accepted definition. This was an invitation for Vance to spout fascist, culture war bullshit. Disgraceful.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Ah yes, I remember when Trotsky wrote about how Russian workers should be replaced by low wage immigrants from China so that strong Russian boys would have more time to play girls ice hockey. It's right there in the manuscript.

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 12h

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 19h

I see MAGA has decided the lab incident in Russia is a new "plandemic" and are loudly proclaiming they "will not comply." Ok...if the Black Fucking Death makes a comeback they should absolutely refuse all medical intervention. Save the doxycycline for the rest of us.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 23h

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 23h

more business owners need to be like this

Coldstuff Ice-cream • Follow

I swear to God. STOP YELLING AT MY FUCKING EMPLOYEES. They are children. This job, for most of them is their first. They are going to make mistakes. They aren't in charge of anything. This can all be fixed with a smile and a polite attitude. It's ice cream for crying out loud. Grow up and act your age.

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 21h

She looks like she might try to peck your coat buttons if they're shiny.

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J. D. Mettle @testyourmettle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That comes out to just under $11,000 per kid; well below the national average. Hell, it's almost half what Wisconsin spends on public school students. Lack of oversight and funding. What's the point?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Land of the free, home of the brave

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

every time i see some liberal fruitlessly try to appeal to donald trump's morality i just think of this

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."

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J. D. Mettle @testyourmettle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I haven't watched Food Network in forever, but it's playing at Patient First and there's a dude I don't recognize wearing a "SUPERSAHD" tee. I feel seen!

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gradientdescent @gradientdescent.net · 06/10/2026

boycott it so your trans friends don’t get a sick feeling in their stomach when they come over to your house for a party & see a stack of HP merch on your bookshelf, politely excuse themselves a bit early without saying anything, and then go home feeling just a little degraded

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J. D. Mettle @testyourmettle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Let me get this straight. No proper sequel to Transformers One or Rise of the Beasts; including no G.I. Joe crossover. But yes to this guy again? Fucking hell.

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J. D. Mettle @testyourmettle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Eastern Shore is both a forgotten notch on the Bible Belt and MD-1. Andy Harris is our lone R, and his race isn't looking so hot. That's how bad it is for the GOP this year.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska

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J. D. Mettle @testyourmettle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Healthcare for 51% of the country's population is not an abstract. Access to abortion has influenced career and relationship decisions for countless women over the last half-century. Guillotines are the humane solution, and I'm not sure he deserves humane. Christ, what an asshole.

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Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The fact that Coyote Vs. Acme both managed to be somewhat of a box office success after all it went through really is proof that execs do not know anything about what the audience wants from films. And I'm glad it was one because it deserved to be since it was just great.

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Holly Bear ʕ e ᴥ eʔ 📄📚 @bearhybrid.art · 05/10/2026

Horse chestnut??? More like BIG BEAR BUTT! 🍑✨

A photo of a large horse chestnut (conker) with bear features drawn on it

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Steel A Jeeg @dogbarkingbees.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I know I spilled the beans months before they wanted it public, but man... fuck this. Private equity is killing the boutique labels that saved this industry and that ISN'T a coincidence. It's a targeted killing.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a community note for the ages.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Thad @tyranicus.net · 05/10/2026

Scooby Doo meme of Fred pulling off the mask of a "ghost" to see the man underneath it. The ghost is labeled "lower quality at my favorite place," and the unmasked man is labeled "private equity."

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

here's Monday's post: "What the fuck is this?" — How did we Nazi this coming? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

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What the fuck is this?

How did we Nazi this coming?

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J. D. Mettle @testyourmettle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

WTF did I just watch? There's something uncanny about this. Did they even hire actors?

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026

"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)

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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.

Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Amazing work by @propublica.org and partners illustrating the lack of regulations around microschools in some states. www.propublica.org/article/prop...

In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times.
We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school's name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails.
And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3:
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”

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J. D. Mettle @testyourmettle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's a murder map chronicling 700 years between Oxbridge. At one point, the murder rate was 4-5 times that of late medieval London or York; 50 times higher than modern English cities. 75% of the perpetrators were students, as were 72% of the victims. North vs South, sectarian violence, etc...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

fox news viewers like

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026

🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2026

'Autumn' entered English in the 1300s. "The fall of the leaves" was shortened to 'fall' in the 1600s.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

look, if you're worried about being remembered, don't try to pursue immortality or whatever, the smart move is to start selling substandard copper and then make sure anyone who complains deposits a physical copy of that complaint in a site that will later be archaeologically significant

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts.

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J. D. Mettle @testyourmettle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't think I missed out on anything important by not joining a frat.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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