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@thegwonk.bsky.social
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In weakness, we create distinctions, then deem that our puny boundaries are things which we perceive, and not which we have made. -- Wordsworth "I used to be indecisive but now I'm not so sure" -- Roscoe Pertwee

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Cardinal Parolin on plans to livestream execution; “It is truly incomprehensible that anyone would want to use this method in this day and age. I do not know for what purpose. It is certainly unacceptable to turn death into a spectacle. However guilty the person may be, there are other ways.”
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A federally produced and financed snuff film
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Specialized weight training: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/heartwarmi...
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can you imagine the MAGA meltdown that would happen if there was rationing? Remember even/odd days? Car pooling?
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gary
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite example ever of an interactive clearly, creatively illustrated concept
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is a better post about Rufo than Chait's, promise. emptywheel.net/2026/10/04/c...
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Christopher Rufo Whines about Being Named as the Propagandist Who Rationalized Alleged Klan Act Violence - emptywheel
The lawsuit by Renee Good's family likens the mask Jonathan Ross wore the day he killed Renee Good to hooded Klan terrorism prohibited by the Klan Act.
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They know how to manipulate. Lie and cover up bad news until after the midterms. If the Dems win, blame them for the failures (the press will just repeat it). If the Reps win, it won't be an issue for 2 years, so they don't care.
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Drive a kid to suicide for downloading the data that they now give for free to the AIs. They should have been shut down years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
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United States v. Swartz - Wikipedia
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
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READ RAVEN'S DOJO - Raven Perez @ravensdojo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
WHAT MATTERS MOST IN COMICS: The real treasure is the friends you make along the way.
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This books gives the history of how we got where we are. The hatred of FDR and the New Deal and how long they have been plotting to undo them. bookshop.org/p/books/evil...
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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get ri...
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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes. Good write-up from @dangoodin.bsky.social on this exact point. cc @timkellogg.me arstechnica.com/security/202...
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Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the 1970s, a young Robert Prevost asked his mother if she wanted to be equal to men. Mildred Prevost answered, “No, because we’re already better.” Meet the Black Creole librarian who raised the first American pope.
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Paul Taylor @pablowapsi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sorry for all the reposting. We still have a bit more to get this bill covered and it's hit a standstill. Please help out if you are able, and please repost. Thanks much! I just wish universal health care existed in this country.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Probably, but then you might end up sitting at a red-light forever.
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Tweeets of Dogs Automated @tweeetsofdogsauto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Never Forget Old Dogs Are Beautiful Too 🩶🥰❤ Even though he’s old, this dog still gets excited when seeing his owner.. ❤️ Original post
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I figure that some ancient traveler came across this structure and said "That looks like a giant boat" and then made up stories around it. Similar to the myths about the formation of Devils Tower.
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” ― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A favorite
Ana and Uni Puma by Masamune Shirow
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Barron is correct to insist he is not a 'member of the Trump administration' but his selective treatment of the church's teachings convicts him as an apologist for the president," Michael Sean Winters writes. www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
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Bishop Barron swings and misses, again
"Barron is correct to insist he is not a 'member of the Trump administration' but his selective treatment of the church's teachings convicts him as an apologist for the president," Michael Sean Winter...
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Melissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Being in your 50s is confusing. On paper, I’m 55. At a concert, I’m 24. After 8/9 PM, I’m 88. Getting up off the floor makes me 115. But when the'80s music starts playing, I’m 17 all over again.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This mans' imagination is next level
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If there is any single person who bears responsibility for the Iran war and its calamitous consequences -- aside from Donald Trump -- it is his son-in-law and diplomat plenipotentiary, Jared Kushner. Bumbling but conceited, ill-informed but haughty, (cont.) 🧵 www.msn.com/en-ca/politi...?
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And of course it was the Patriots that were the worst offenders.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Every word on Trump in this is bang on the money. Wake up Democrats & fight for truth, decency & standing for the working classes against the billionaire gangster class. And don't get obsessed with rules & procedures as a replacement for what you stand for as you have done. @walshfreedom.bsky.social
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CaroleOntheGo🇨🇦 @caroleonthego4u.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BEFORE AMERICA’S ANTHEM, BUFFALO HEARD CANADA’S. 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Before the Bills and Detroit Lions kicked off on September 17, 2026, the brand-new Highmark Stadium welcomed Toronto’s Barenaked Ladies to perform “O Canada.” 🙏🙏♥️
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"She *lived* for her job. "For 40 years. "And now it’s gone." -- Dave Barry, writing about how his wife, longtime Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, just got laid off by "two corporate guys she did not know, who did not know her." davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle
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Michelle
A tribute.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📌“He was quickly over run and the elephants trampled him into the earth and all that we found was basically a very large blood stain around the clothing he was in.” Good news is hard to find these days, friends. Enjoy!
dailystar.co.uk
Poacher tried to shoot rhinos but was trampled to death by elephants instead
An armed rhino poacher in South Africa’s Kruger National Park was trampled to death when a herd of elephants charged as he lined up a shot for the animals’ lucrative horns
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really appreciative of this deep-dive into Bishop Barron’s more recent rhetoric. It helped clarify for me various dynamics in Barron’s online presence. greydanus.substack.com/p/what-happe...
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What happened to Bishop Barron? Part 2: The MAGAfication of a US bishop
[LONGREAD: What’s the biggest threat to U.S. democracy today? Would you believe … Marxism?!]
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
After lifting the trophy, this player skipped the usual VIP photo and pulled the stadium janitors in for the championship shot instead
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵
Fiorinamarietta on Threads writes: "The death of department stores as an EXPERIENCE needs to be studied. You used to be able to buy a dress, have lunch, get your hair done, smell every perfume in existence and leave carrying beautifully wrapped boxes. Shopping used to be an event."
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A true hero 💔👇
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Powerful message: "You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate," he said. "I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them."
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.
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Paul Taylor @pablowapsi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wow, this crap all started 25 years ago. o_O wapsisquare.com/comic/090920...
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09/09/2001 – Wapsi Square
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The priest that created the Catholicism series and the Bishop today would probably hate each other. He now spends too much time sucking up to right-wing internet influencers to notice how far he's strayed.
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If he were black, middle-eastern, or latino, we would know his name.
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Tony @tiletony.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's impossible to ignore, Trumpism attracts a type.
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yes, I should have checked
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Albumism @albumism.com · 02/09/2026
R.I.P. Cassandra Wilson and thank you for the music.
nytimes.com
Cassandra Wilson, Star Jazz Singer, Dies at 70
With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers.
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gwonk @thegwonk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
2 types of fanatics: those that wish to crush the present to restore an imaginary, glorious, past; and those that will sacrifice the present to usher in an imaginary, glorious, future.
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