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Oy Geralt

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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 3h
Chloe Freeman is a hero.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 4h
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 5h
I do think some people deserve the death penalty and it's all the the people handing out death sentences.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 5h
Impeach the supreme court.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h
The Supreme Court’s majority gave no reason for its literal life-and-death decision to wipe out an appeals court order issued earlier today and which was, on its face, intended to be temporary in nature. Sotomayor wrote tonight’s dissent. Order and dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Court's decision to vacate that stay interferes with the Sixth Circuit's routine administrative handling of a capital case and unnecessarily prevents that court from giving due consideration to Pike's claim. Worse, the Court grants such extraordinary relief solely to allow the State to execute Pike before litigation over her conviction has properly run its course in the lower courts. I see no reason to short-circuit the ordinary process of appellate review, particularly in light of the grave consequences of an erroneous de-cision. Tennessee's desire to expedite Pike's execution by a few days or even weeks cannot outweigh her "fundamentalinterest in [her] own life." Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U. S. 1,
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In capital cases, "[a]ppreciation of our own fallibility, and respect for the judgment of an appellate tribunal," demand caution before "acting irretrievably." Bowersox v. Williams,
517 U. S. 345, 347 (1996) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting). Indeed, this Court often states that it is "'a court of review, not of first view?" McLane Co. v. EEOC, 581 U.S. 72, 85 (2017) (quoting Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709, 718, n. 7
(2005)). Today, the Court, as it has too often lately, chooses to overlook that principle precisely when it matters most.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 5h
I hate seeing a post like this and my first thought has to be "oh they're pretending to be flummoxed because that will garner the most quote tweets"
Post from @semafor.com:

"Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. 

“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” 

Followed by a graph showing tourist visits to the US dropping dramatically from 2025-26
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 9h
I'm always shocked to learn Newt Gingrich is still alive.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
God I'm so tired of seeing rapists everywhere. I hate these fucking braindead pigs, I hate watching them gorge on power and money for no reason except that they want it, I hate knowing they're torturing women with impunity, I hate seeing their smug stupid fucking faces on the news.
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Vorian @vorian.bsky.social · 11h
three smug motherfuckers in suits. One holding up Loss on a paperboard sign above and behind the other.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 12h
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 12h
I'm an ~elder millennial~ and I think these are equally famous, as PSAs go.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 13h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 16h
destroying Greek life would be useful for stemming an entire mode of social reproduction which, as I must remind everyone, was born of the confederate south. Greek life prides itself on keeping the tradition of rape alive in more than one form. Sometimes literal.
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 13h
I uploaded all of my research to the Theft Machine and now it's taking credit for my work?? Unbelievable betrayal by the Machine That Steals.
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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, that was an earthquake on the Kitsap Peninsula! If you are in the area, you can contribute to citizen science by filling out a report here: zpr.io/UA6upKKXB4C3 to tell us if you felt the shaking or not.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
First earthquake I've felt since leaving SoCal over 15 years ago. It was so small I thought I might have imagined it but USGS has got my back 😂 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everyone should have a giant, fluffy office cat imo
Photo of a large fluffy calico and white cat sleeping with one leg extended, on top of a folded towel on a shelf in front of a window, next to a famed photo and a large printer.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're about to party like it's 1999
3D animated purple gorilla (BonziBuddy) smiling while spinning a globe on one finger with one hand while holding a banana in the other. Text around the gorilla reads: I Talk! I E-mail! I Browse! I Laugh! I Tell Facts! I Schedule! I Download! I Sing! I Search!
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Gooseberry (ready for Spring 🌷) @eisforenkidu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mamdanides
Mayor Zohran Mamdani: The Talmud teaches *cuts off*
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.
The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A lot of stay at home parents stay at home precisely because they can't afford childcare on the salary they would make out of the house. When I had my baby my choice was to either work solely to not have my baby around 24/7 (but I would be at work at those times), or spend all my time with the baby.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I fucking hate dealing with ARFID. People who say "picky" kids would eat if they were starving have never watched a kid starve themselves because no food feels safe to them.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lost in the discourse about where Dems are is the fact Republicans know the anti-trans ads aren't helping them but, as Terry here openly admits, hurting trans people is all they have left. They'd use their dying breath to ruin one more trans kid's life.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wrote a draft query letter and submitted it for critique and I appreciate the feedback I'm getting but I'm also yelling about it and my husband is like "if you're just going to get mad why did you ask for critiques"? 😂😅 Bc it's helpful even if it pisses me off! 😤
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Read Settlers da Silva @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
its not simply about boycotting meta. one company has made their products indispensable for communication in the modern world. they blocked lulas electoral ads the week before the election. theyre trying to sway public opinion against the victim of a gangrape. states need to intervene.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Watching Sharon Horgan's new show and thinking: my husband better stay alive bc I would HATE dating at this stage of my life.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why'd her son need knee surgery 🧐 Was it because of a sport that will completely wreck his body by age 25? Just wondering!
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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026
My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sometimes I think Peter S Beagle wrote the most realistic modern villain in King Haggard. Guy has everything in the world but stays perpetually bored and unfulfilled, and when he sees the perfect, shining, magical embodiment of joy, he feels it has to belong ONLY to him or be destroyed outright.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should all stop paying federal taxes tbh.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes the circle of life
• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm
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the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 27/09/2026
I don’t really know why we still allow fraternities on college campuses tbh
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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026
the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That rolling stone article is marketing.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me, immediately after locking a bull inside a china shop: It's gone rogue!!
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futurepastnow.bsky.social @futurepastnow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The world today is designed to help us miss new things; algorithms show you more of what they think you like, not introduce you to new things. The record store where you could wander around and browse for new music was put out of business by Amazon a decade ago.
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