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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

From my amateur reading of history, it seems to me that celebrity generals are not a great sign

Screenshot of an article titled “The Battle to Save a Pioneering General From Pete Hegseth’s Purge.” Below the headline, a photo shows U.S. Army Gen. Christopher Donahue in camouflage and a maroon beret, surrounded by other soldiers in matching uniforms and berets. Donahue stands near the center, extending one hand forward while speaking with the group.

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Angry Cephalopod @jephalopod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Assert victory in the culture war. Brand conservatives as morally deficient perverts. They have no respect for decent American family values like protecting your infants from measles, loving your children even if they change their gender, and not beating your wife

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

A network graph visualization on a dark background showing connections between various accounts. The central, highly connected node is labeled "J.K. Rowling," with lines radiating out to many other nodes color-coded by region (UK, US, etc.). A detail panel on the right displays stats for her account, including her role as "Author & commentator," an in-degree of 153, an out-degree of 84, and 14 million followers.

A scatter plot graph on a dark background comparing accounts based on "followers (log)" on the x-axis and "in-degree" on the y-axis. The data points are color-coded by region. J.K. Rowling is highlighted as a major outlier in the top right corner, possessing the highest number of followers and the highest in-degree. Other labeled points lower on the graph include various politicians, individuals, and campaign organizations.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Jon Ossoff’s invocation of Natalie Harp was stunningly effective. Democrats must now abandon that and make the election about January 6th and the Mueller Report. by David Axelrod

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 19/08/2026

this guy got caught because he's dumber than the average cop and chose a woman who wasn't marginalized enough. imagine what happens when a cop does this to, say, a sex worker or a woman with previous charges who are not likely to be willing to report this kind of thing. what do you think happens

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 20/08/2026

The problem is that LLMs have been conflated with neural nets and machine learning. The former are effectively useless, a speculative bubble of nonsense that actively harms human capacity for knowledge. The latter are possibly revolutionary tools that could transform society.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19/08/2026

For example, during Woke 1.0 @davekarpf.bsky.social made a joking reference to Bret Stephens being a begbug, causing Stephens to try to get Dave fired. That was crazy.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Is there ever a time now when he's not trying to ignite a race war?

Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed.

The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for a death to occur. Whatever else he may be, he is not a murderer.

That is the truth.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/08/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Vimes knew about life below stairs, hell, yes, he did! Not so long ago a policeman summoned to a big house would be sent around to the back door to be instructed to drag away some weeping chambermaid or not-very-bright boot boy accused without evidence of stealing some ring or silver-handled brush that the lady of the house would probably find later, perhaps when she had finished the gin. That wasn’t supposed to be what coppers were for, although in reality, of course it was what coppers were for. It was about privilege, and young Vimes had hardly worn in his first pair of policeman’s boots when his sergeant had explained what that meant. It meant private law. In those days an influential man could get away with quite a lot if he had the right accent, the right crest on his tie or the right chums, and a young policeman who objected might get away without a job and without a reference.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's a bad system, perhaps the only idea genuinely and unambiguously worse than traditional FPTP and party primaries. I'm an electoral reform nerd and I would vote against it. California's very likely to repeal it soon, it's been such a complete failure.

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CT-9902 @mindorese.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

AI food always looks like turds, worms, and buttholes.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Again, if you lost two national elections to a functionally illiterate child rapist who can’t stop shitting his pants in public, it’s time for you to sit down and let someone else drive.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 19/08/2026

also why vance couchfucking stuck

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/01/2026

The parents of the first baby born in 2026 in this county outside Baltimore got their name ideas from ChatGPT. Hudson Oakley Winkler. www.baltimoresun.com/2026/01/01/c...

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ChatGPT named Carroll County’s first-born baby in 2026

The first baby born in Carroll County in 2026 was named with help from ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is Natalie Harp, the close aide to President Trump. These clips are from 2021 when she worked at OAN. She ended her program with a daily Bible quote. Sometimes she swapped out the Bible for a quote from Trump leading with "And remember what Trump said..."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

i’m sorry but it’s just so funny for steven cheung, who looks like kirby ate mao zedong, to be calling anybody a cuck

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

many "centrists" agree with Cofnas and when they complain about "wokeness" and "political correctness" they often mean that they are not allowed to express this stupid idea — that black people in smart-guy jobs shouldn't be there and should be like, sprinters and jazz musicians instead — explicitly

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I would argue this belief in scientific racism is in fact one of the main animating beliefs of "elite centrism" as practiced today. Important to realize this if you're trying to understand what motivates these people and how to deal with them.

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Evelyn D. R. "Dell" Adams @dell-adams.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Make intelligence property, and its manager will have his match; he is met at every turn by an opposing will, not in the form of down-right rebellion and defiance, but yet, visibly, an ever-opposing will." Part of why slavers tortured the enslaved. Who wanted this returned to the world?

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So that’s the thing to know, if you’re a tabloid that’s going to name-check me in another round of transphobic shit about Bluesky discourse. I don’t stand with you. I stand with my trans friends and family members. ⏹️

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My TV job is apolitical, but I’m proud that one of the things we make is a space that’s trans- and nb-friendly, and that’s not going to change either. ⬇️

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Anyone who knows me even a little, or has even followed me long on social media, already knows this about me. Our institutions are literally trying to erase trans people right now, and it pisses me off. A snarky reply to one bad take on Bluesky doesn’t mean that’s changed at all. ⬇️

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

For the record: NOPE. Honestly, I don’t think there’s an issue today I care about on a personal level more deeply than trans rights. And it’s rough out there right now. Bigots on one side of the political aisle and too many cowards on the other. ⬇️

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/06/2026

all they can do is cry about how unfair everyone's being about their feelings and try to work the refs because they know what they actually want to say is too ugly

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 13/06/2026

The Vanderbilt report is the ‘respectable’ center-right version of what the ‘deplorables’ on the MAGA Right are doing to universities. The end is the same: completely remake the university into a profit center for capital. Anthony Appiah and Sean Wilentz are apparently fine with this.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 13/06/2026

Orange Markwayne Mullin's comments on Belfast made me think of this

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 13/06/2026

people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

it actually brings me great pleasure to know that billionaires are so afraid of journalists that they’re trying to build whole new systems for justice to diminish our power. despite corporate consolidation, we continue to do something they can’t fully buy and it drives them mad. stay mad, assholes.

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A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target

The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Both Republicans and Democrats spent years falling over themselves to gift this world-ending power to a violently deranged, sieg-heiling Nazi

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

One of countless examples—the Biden White House, long after Musk had embraced Nazism: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/u...

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Elon Musk’s influence over the federal government is extraordinary, and extraordinarily lucrative.

Mr. Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, effectively dictates NASA’s rocket launch schedule. The Defense Department relies on him to get most of its satellites to orbit. His companies were promised $3 billion across nearly 100 different contracts last year with 17 federal agencies.

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A trillion dollars can't buy you a new dick

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If you over-regulate capitalism you get totalitarian communism. If you under-regulate capitalism you get a ruling caste of insane monopolists. Please ignore the fact that one of these things has never happened and the other keeps happening over and over

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 12/06/2026

Does anyone ever poll, pretty specifically, "do you think _______ is cool?" or do we always do softening professional words

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 27/05/2026

Boycott Uline.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A democracy that does not defend itself against fascists by whatever means necessary, including its own temporary suspension, is a democracy that dies.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/04/2026

People hate this shit so much. Nobody's having fun. Even the AI people are getting tired of this. They're losing and they know it. Even with the ever-growing revenues of OpenAI and Anthropic, things feel weird and bad. Anthropic's services are also randomly broken or rate limited to hell. Cool!

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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Very interesting to see these people explicitly discussing the direction of their immortal souls

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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I thought I was open-minded but I can’t view this with anything but revulsion. Imagine rooting for the Mets. In public!

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