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Is Bluesky only filled with tankies? Or are they mostly Chinese and Russian bots to help fuel our own internal divide now that we've left Twitter? Would their followers even care if they were?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.
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WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦 @waterblusky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Cloudfare: Russian troll activity on X drops to 49%, after Ukraine strikes Yandex Russian data center. 🤖 🫤 Could this disrupt the midterms for the GOP?
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 29/09/2026
when you said not to vote in 2024 you chose a future where the Republicans got to take their swing at governing, which meant they got to hurt trans people and other marginalized groups. you chose that future with every post you made about your disappointment with Biden & Harris.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I will never forgive the Chinese government for ruining Reddit with their blatant propaganda and bot farms. Who’s even dumb enough to fall for it (besides the tankies)?
Chinese bot account that is 19 days old with 16k worth of Reddit karmaChinese bot propaganda posts praising ChinaChinese bot propaganda posts praising ChinaChinese bot propaganda posts praising China
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With regard to the overt and jaw-dropping use of public money to manufacture and broadcast Trump politicals ads, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe, perhaps, if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't give the president blanket immunity from prosecution for crimes he wouldn't feel so comfortable criming.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m always fascinated by the characterization that it will just be socialist revolutionaries trying to fill the power vacuum. In their minds there is no MAGA, no Christian Nationalists, etc.; starting a revolution will immediately yield the results they want. It’s the Family Guy “mystery box” meme
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Whenever anybody hates a group of people, I immediately assume they’re secretly a part of that group. For instance, nobody can convince me all of the racists in the Deep South aren’t secretly black. And I’m pretty sure Trump is actually Mexican too.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
50 percent tariffs for our beloved neighbor and historic ally, Canada. A red carpet and a military flyover for Communist China’s leader. Donald Trump is a sick man and a danger to America.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump: "I’m surprised CNN is here is covering me. You shouldn’t be here.” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins: “The United Nations allowed us in, sir.”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s insane that people defend this sort of behavior, especially when she essentially did the same thing she was accusing Talarico et al of doing: throwing a marginalized group under the bus. Unless double-standards are their whole MO, nobody should be defending this.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They run the exact same playbook, seems like a very fair comparison to me.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yup, I did. 😘 Too many cranky tankies on this site that I don’t care to get harassed by. I assume you don’t live in the “imperial core”, but what country do you yourself live in that is so morally pure?
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mao was bad. It’s insane that that’s a potentially divisive statement on this website.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Can’t we all just stop caring about some stupid Twitch streamer? He runs the same playbook as the manosphere of streaming to a young demographic to influence them into believing what he believes, except instead of being anti-women he is anti-West.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Now see when people talk like this I’m led to believe that their issue isn’t so much the committing of genocide (of which both Israel and China are guilty) and rather the presence of Jews. Also, a poor historical understanding of modern China.
In WHAT FUCKING WORLD are you equating Xi's China with fucking Israel? Absolute baby brained bullshit 1/2
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It is very telling that this is the argument for Israel only. I want Putin and Xi gone and for Russia and China to be democracies. But you don't hear people saying those countries, which are engaged in imperialism and oppression, should be erased from the map.
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China is not doing imperialism and you are mouth-drooling moron if you think otherwise.
Comparing the state of Israel, an apartheid project that's less than 100 years old to the Chinese State which has existed since BEFORE CHRIST WAS BORN, this is rabidly racist bullshit
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I was expecting a Breakfast at Tiffany’s remake with Meryl Streep playing Mickey Rooney’s role
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Did anybody else read it: “Meryl Streep cast as Asian”?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump threatens to cut off all trade with Europe if Canada associates closer with the EU
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Edit: “All or nothing abolitionists”
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think the problem is we let the “all or nothing absolutists” come up with the slogan. Slogans should be simple and easy to understand. If you have to explain your slogan because it makes you seem insane or short-sighted, you’ve already lost.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rafael/Ted is Canadian and thus should never be allowed to run for the presidency. We should only want people actually born in America running this country.
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yogaskidogs.bsky.social @yogaskidogs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What do we tell kids? We’re no longer free? We must ignore injustice? Don’t stop, don’t record, don’t march? How do they identify criminal impersonators if someone masked in an unmarked car in a vest that could’ve come from Amazon attacks them? VOTE against this GOP nightmare #GetReadyToVote #Vote
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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don't think the Secretary of the Army should retweet Russian propaganda.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Does it seem *really weird* to anyone else how only one of the replies to you (so far) mentioned the attached picture? The rest are responding as if they never saw the image, and/or were incapable of understanding what it is depicting… what’s that about?
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I can't stand this kind of "I'm not saying I want the Republican to win, I'm just saying I want the Democrat to lose" evasive non-sequitur, but it's also a dispositive tell that the person making the argument knows perfectly well that they're advocating an indefensible position
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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
trump is trying to sue himself for 10 billion dollars of american taxpayer money
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From "very fine people" to "stand back and stand by" to Jan.6 "will be wild".... @davidkurtz.bsky.social writes about an America where someone like Marshall Rawson can win public office: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
China is a garbage country because of their own imperialism, racism, and generally all of their lying and theft. The country also appears to have zero belief in animal rights, unless those animals are pandas. But I do agree, their war machine is strong💪 www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/w...
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Kangaroo Pelted With Rocks Dies in Chinese Zoo, and Fury Flies (Published 2018)
Attacks on the animals in southeastern China have unleashed anger and bafflement about the behavior of visitors.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’ve identified the worst account and worst rhetorical tic on Bluesky
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Like this account that just reposted my post within seconds of sending it. This is a bot account. Albeit this one is just scamming for money under the guise of saving someone in Gaza.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So I don’t think either you two are actually bots, but what I’m saying (in my bio) is that there is a great deal of discourse on this site that is *identical* to what adversarial bot farms would push. Especially all of the historically-inaccurate/divorced from reality praise for the USSR and China.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And if bot networks are already cooking up accounts posing as incels, or body builders, or antivax/MAGA parents, etc. there’s no reason why they wouldn’t extend that to every group imaginable or any groups that already have a large online presence.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So nowadays I’m always skeptical of people whose main strategy for enacting change in the US is simply not voting. Because it’s so backwards and divorced from the reality of how our democracy actually works, that it’s identical to what adversarial bot farms would push to suppress voter turnout.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It appears the goal of these networks (in political/election contexts) is to cause division and suppress voter turnout/spoil it for one candidate. Jill Stein is a good example of someone who drums up a good deal of online support, but gets nowhere close to actually winning.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My thinking is: there are bot/influence operations targeting every single group/subgroup of people on Reddit, and there’s no reason the groups behind those operations wouldn’t also apply that strategy to other social media.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.anthropic.com/threat-intel... We already knew how effective good ol’ fashioned botfarms could be after 2016, and you’d be surprised the things that can be accomplished with AI these days.
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Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If there’s one thing I’ve learned on this site, it’s that the absolute last thing we should be doing is voting for climate-friendly parties. If anything, what we should be doing is getting people to not vote for them at all… /s
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Trump changed the game…So we have to do everything in our power to alienate people from voting for the candidates opposed to Trump.” I wonder how many of the accounts that post these takes even have real people behind them, or are even American, and how many are just bots/influence ops.
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Felicia @feliciarondo.com · 12/09/2026
“A Republican victory costs the community one seat for one term” what a flowery way of framing the victory of our worst enemies. Meanwhile, an imperfect Democrat getting “one seat for one term” is framed as an existential blow to my rights. Good god. WHAT DO YOU THINK REPUBLICANS DO IN OFFICE
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
boy, sure is awesome when Republicans are more interested in settling factional scores than beating Democrats. probably no larger lessons here
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
Carney standing by Zelenskyy: "Ukraine will never submit"
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Boom! Jasprit Bumrah Gives Thumbs Up
Alt: Boom! Jasprit Bumrah Gives Thumbs Up to “Sam”
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Don’t you mean cricket paddle…?
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Steve Urkel's Iconic 'Did I Do That?' in Family Matters
Alt: Steve Urkel's Iconic 'Did I Do That?' in Family Matters in response to “Sam Turner” getting very angry.
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sorry, “son”! I didn’t mean to strike such a nerve 😘
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sam could’ve just answered instead of dancing around it like a bot. I was genuinely curious how someone with such a Western-sounding name came about to using the term “bhindi” instead of the more common terms in Western culture. The fact they didn’t even pick up on that…
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Tish Bri
ALT: Tish Bri
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ok, “Sam Turner”. Good talk. Clearly you’re a real person, and not some intern’s attempt at making a convincing bot… How could anybody ever doubt that with your very natural, not-script-like interactions?
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thagoochiestmane.bsky.social @thagoochiestmane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you're not anonymous why can't you say what country you're in?
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