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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, there have been real, substantial improvements! Acid rain and ozone depletion are distant memories. Renewable energy is now *cheaper* than fossil fuels. Global poverty numbers have collapsed. It really is a much better world.

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The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THE ROAD TO WISDOM The road to wisdom? -- Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less. -- Piet Hein

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Upton Sinclair remains undefeated

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026

I think this is a key part of why historians are mad, yeah. Because it’s a dunk, and it’s one that like. We all know that scientists and engineers think themselves better and smarter than humanities students. There’s always an assumption that they could do our job but we couldn’t do theirs.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If a white person uses the term "woke" I realize that they are either a malicious asshole, maliciously complacent, or reflexively unthinking, and it's only a matter of time before they reveal which one it is. One good way to find out is to explain what "woke" actually means and note the reaction.

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The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This sort of thing endlessly amuses me.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This strikes me is a common misunderstanding of the argument for humanities education, which is not that it serves as some sort of individual inoculation, but rather than it produces a citizenry more capable of self-governance when distributed widely, especially for decision-makers of every kind.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a very good point and the thing to understand is that’s not what’s happening on either side. The republicans are identifying all the people they want to target for degradation and a repeal of their civil rights. The democrats are giving a list of who they’re okay to do that to.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026

The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you are a deranged billionaire who would like to mass purchase one or all of my books, please contact me, DM‘s are open

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Never attribute to malice alone that which can be better explained by stupidity AND malice.” -Hanlon’s Razor Sharpener

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We? Bitch YOU do the messaging for Democrats, and it’s always “be more like Republicans.”

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about ICE is that eventually it WILL be abolished. I don't know if it will be in 5 years or 50 years but it will happen. With certainty. And when it does, it will be remembered along the securitate, Stasi, etc, and so will the people who served there.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

OIL WARS EPISODE I: Will There Be Blood? EPISODE II: There Will Be Blood EPISODE III: Here's The Blood EPISODE IV: Will There Be More Blood? EPISODE V: There Will Be No More Blood EPISODE VI: Once There Was Blood EPISODE VII: Wait We Found More Blood

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

"I don't use the new machines, not because I'm against machines (I am using many different machines to write this and deliver it to you), but because these machines propose to do the part that makes it meaningful and worthwhile, and I have no interest in that." art is the practice, not the product.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Because why would engineering students ever need to study the ways their very expertise has been used and abused in the past, the way 'oh, I'm just an engineer solving a problem' has been a necessary and foundational lie in every modern system of oppression or extermination?

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So we've now discovered the magic new technology of ::checks notes:: patriarchy...in allowing wealthy male elites to seem super-productive by also appropriating the cognitive labor of women who remain mostly uncredited. 🎉 Everything is Gender, Exhibit Eleventeen Billion.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So it feels like everyone - especially republicans talking up a diesel export ban - are really focused on the midterms, but I find myself wondering what Year 3 and Year 4 of this is going to look like, if energy prices remain elevated and bond yields continue to keep upwards.

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Forrest @dunots.voidsent.com · 23/09/2026

I think I put a not in there I needed to not put. You get what I mean

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What's actually happening here is that human societies are extremely complex, unpredictable systems that we lack the ability to model comprehensively. In short, foreign policy is really hard. An informed, educated, careful decision-maker makes fewer errors, not no errors.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The analogy I always think of is soccer: soccer is really hard, so difficult that even the best strikers regularly miss shots on goal. But they miss a lot *less* - and under more difficult circumstances - than a regular person or an amateur player. Humanities is a 'miss less' practical field.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/09/2026

Here’s an observation. For the last few years a lot of people would come tell me thanks, and say they were Democrats. I’m now getting a lot of people saying “I’m a Republican but…. Thanks.” Something is changing

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

⚠️ Be careful with VoteSafe .org. It is NOT an official voting website. It’s tied to Elon Musk’s America PAC and collects a lot of personal information from people who use it. Before you hand over your name, address, phone number, email and voter information, know who you’re giving it to.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So this was off of my 'we don't hold other countries responsible for what their enemies do in a war' post: 1) Yeah, folks generally do hold the Allies responsible for strategic bombing deaths or the Bengal famine but 2) The Axis powers were ultimately responsible for a majority of the death in WW2.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fishermen rescue a newborn elephant calf swept away in the Teesta River. Forest department later reunites the calf with its mother: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/HumansBein...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Comparing him to 47 is highly insulting... to Jabba.

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 22/09/2026

Wanting something doesn't make it happen dearie, now you get all the pronouns

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 22/09/2026

This only happens if you check the "I want pronouns to match their biological sex" option in the menu.

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 22/09/2026

If my game gets popular enough that chuds review bomb it for being woke, I'll make it so every character gets a randomly generated pronoun. Not one for each character, one each time they speak. They gonna be so gender fluid their gender changes mid sentence.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump has the nuclear codes and yet much of the country continues to pretend his behavior is normal. If we had a functional, rational, and responsible society, he would be removed from office within hours by the Republican party.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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huskygal.bsky.social @huskygal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is my opinion that the reason the President is banning reporters is because he can't answer their questions due to lack of mental capacity.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/09/2026

Never forget that for many of these tech billionaire creeps, "disrupt" has always just meant "break the fucking law."

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 19/09/2026

This has been so annoying. I hate looking anything up now.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not only is illustration art, WSJ has artfully illustrated that no matter how rich you get, you’ll never be accepted in old money circles. They think they make culture. We all do, for better and worse.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 20/09/2026

I had to take a break from the Austen reading because people started treating it like I was doing it for their enjoyment instead of mine. It makes me angry.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 20/09/2026

Who was that academic who wrote about video games as art? Her take is that “What is art?” is not an interesting or useful question anymore, but that is IS useful to look at basically anything from lens of art. I have not stressed about Fine Art ever since.

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