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thekindlyman.bsky.social @thekindlyman.bsky.social · 2h

"Before teaching young men how to run the world, teach them what to do when the world is one room, one woman, one terrible thing happening, and nobody wants to be the first man to ruin the evening." Please.

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 21h

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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thekindlyman.bsky.social @thekindlyman.bsky.social · 21h

Marshall was one of the keenest American minds of the 20th Century, right to the end. His last opinion in 1991: "Power, not reason, is the new currency of this Court’s decision making. ... " If you are enraged by the article and want more, read @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app The Originalism Trap.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 04/10/2026

the man in the drunk castle

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polycarpdunford.bsky.social @polycarpdunford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of @cheriepriest.com’s excellent Clockwork Century books is on sale at Amazon today, cup of coffee money for the Kindle edition. “Dreadnought,” second in the series, is a great book and fine as an introduction. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

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Dreadnought: A Novel of the Clockwork Century

Dreadnought: A Novel of the Clockwork Century - Kindle edition by Priest, Cherie. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Dreadnought: A Novel of the Clockwork Century.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Yeah not to be crude but this is what woke as a pejorative breaks down to for me, same social function as calling someone a “nigger lover” decades ago.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is there a gas leak at @theatlantic.com? Can someone check to be sure Adam Serwer at least is OK?

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If what the right wing believes in, votes for, enacts, and enforces is merely a theoretical discussion for you, congratulations on your extreme privilege.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"We should have lunch with people across the political divide, and try to figure out our different values." One side values the lives of human beings. The other side does not value the lives of human beings. There is no need for lunch.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“And then the Senator with brain damage switched parties so that the senile president could keep appointing drunks and rapists to his cabinet…” Explaining this all to future generations will be tough.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

2016 - We're too lazy to research a story, so here are quotes from 9 different Twitter users who had some kind of opinion on the subject. 2026 - We're too lazy to write a story, so here's six paragraphs of output from a chatbot that we prompted to give us a comment on the subject.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.

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Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes! Do it! Please!

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

okay I'm sorry to literally beg for this, I've done part time jobs and you all have been amazing sponsoring for me doing work around the community But I go 1400 a month rent is due at the end of the month and I'm freaking out, they can delay it until the 8th but I think I honestly can't pay it

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/09/2026

anti-homeless sweeps of encampments, tent cities, and individual squats result in the systematic theft of everything the targeted people hold dear. don't fucking call the cops on your neighbors. www.tumblr.com/westernsunri...

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

1980s American Dream: Own a home and raise a family on a single income. 2026 American Dream: Axe lobotomy.

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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"it's WHOOOO, steve." "fuck off." "seriously... it freaks everyone out when you scream 'WHYYYY' at 4am."

a great grey owl on a branch looking slumped over and exasperated. (john blumenkamp)

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Thomas @thomas15.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sometimes people want to become heroes so bad they’ll make anyone a villain.

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thekindlyman.bsky.social @thekindlyman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Based on their product line, and the Halcyon refs, pretty sure these guys are Spacer's Choice... "A commitment to the continued existence of a large, impressionable, regulation-averse customer base is paramount to Consolidated Harvest Friends’ continued building of shareholder value."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“These aren‘t real people. They’re illegal aliens!” Pretty much the Trump regime worldview. “We can dish out as much brutality and suffering as we want because immigrants aren’t human.”

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Guys! Susan Collins just said she's having 'doubts' about the President's plan to murder us all! She is hinting that she could be voting AGAINST this new bill!! I told you she was the last reasonable Conservative politician and YOU didn't bel-- Oh, she just voted to murder us all. Never mind.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

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thekindlyman.bsky.social @thekindlyman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Surely someone has already tagged in the apple prophet ( @chuckwendig.bsky.social ) but just in case...

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026

"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Generative AI says “oh this code can make this thing” When a lot of the art it’s hovering up to define as “success” Is actually the ever continuous process of failure of mission but success of process That the “art” is an accepted failure on the way to something else

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

stand up for trans people: it is the right thing to do and it just will not hurt you, not now, not in this environment and maybe folks can start to relearn that trans people are pretty fucking cool, actually

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Jennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image.

A small digger trying its hardest to dig out the Ever Given ship that has run aground. It says, “Structural Problem” on the giant Ever Given and, “Making different personal choices” on the tiny digger.

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 20/09/2026

I honestly can’t think of a better metaphor than the Department of War inviting a guy who padded his boxing records with scrubs right until he got hospitalized by someone who could actually fight

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Last Thursday, we welcomed Logan and Jake Paul to the Pentagon to meet with our warriors.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I want the name of every consultant who convinces a Democrat to run an ad ceding ground to trans hatred, and I want them blacklisted by the party and noted so I can never give a cent to anyone who hires them ever again.

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thekindlyman.bsky.social @thekindlyman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Turns out throwing a vulnerable group under the bus to "fix society " IS FASCISM. So yeah, anyone trying to sell you on trading some of us in exchange for, well literally anything, has double lightning bolt tabs on their collar that they are hiding from you.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

this is something I've been wondering too. while I have no evidence of coordination, it's definitely suspicious that so many Dem candidates not only waited until after the primaries to come out with anti-trans positions, but all did so within a week of each other

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thekindlyman.bsky.social @thekindlyman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I just got a fundraising text from Talarico. May have used a few fragrant words in responding to the transphobic trash. Not getting my money when you're just running as nazi-lite.

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thekindlyman.bsky.social @thekindlyman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

He's also the W Bush torture memo guy. Dude is soulless and evil. I say that Murdoch is one of the primary roots of evil in the last 40 years, but PayPal has much to answer for. It provided the $ to elevate Musk and Thiel who have worked ceaselessly to dismantle every good thing in the world.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 19/09/2026

It sure is nice of all these academics to just willingly out themselves as lazy frauds. Glass half full, I guess.

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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not having good faith partners in governance is a crisis. Not recognizing that you don’t have good faith partners, and proceeding as if you do, is an existential crisis. The electorate has grasped this already; Dem leaders must uniformly catch up.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"My department has also dispatched three of our finest schooners to explore the part of our maps that say 'here be dragons.' We vow to get to the bottom of this mystery."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Whether it’s universities trying to hire more women and Black people or Kash Patel trying to hire more people who have engaged in bestiality, both sides have taken controversial approaches to increasing diversity.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran’s band just quit the Ed Sheeran tour.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 14/09/2026

People who refuse to vaccinate their pets against rabies should be forced to watch an animal die of it.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And let's all be real clear here, he was a cowardly little shit in a way that served zero political function. He's candidate with a national donor base who has now alienated a chunk of said base, and he got what for that?

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