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Oy Geralt

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Mia Varlineau 🌻 playing FFXIV (wolshipping 25/7) @miavarlineau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
LEAVE ME ALONE
Tetsuo from the anime/manga Akira meme screaming with bsky julies following him. Girl pls stop
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18h
Trans people have been warning y'all for years that they were perfecting tactics on us to use on everyone else. The reporter of this piece, Christina Jewett, contributed to that too. She helped fuel the moral panic over puberty blockers in trans youth. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 12h
Hi there I just feel like it's about time to Do Something about this guy and all his friends.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14h
“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏
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Count Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 18h
the abolitionist's dilemma
venn diagram
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some people need their ass beat
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punishment does not transform people
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23h
hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 21h
Stop trying to make Rahm happen. It's not going to happen.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 22h
Context: I'm trying to find comps for my novel so I'm reading anything that might be thematically relevant and I haven't been checking what marketing category they're in first lol twice now I've been bait-and-switched with school dramas (UGH)
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 22h
Forgive me for thinking the people competing to be the Grand Poobah of Dragon Riders or w/e would be out of their teens
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 22h
I don't mind young adult books but it's a disappointment when I start reading a fantasy novel that seems really cool in the first couple chapters and then suddenly they're at school doing homework like...oh this is actually gonna be boring ok 😮‍💨
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Elon Musk, who is estimated to have ensured the mass deaths of 16 million people by 2030, most of whom will be children, is also history's most prolific creator and distributor of CSAM. He has basically infinite money to avoid facing any legal consequences whatsoever for his vast, vast crimes.
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
I don’t understand why people just jump to the conclusion that voters are the root of electoral outcomes but don’t consider that the people who control the most sophisticated ‘info’ output & surveillance networks on the globe have figured out how to reliably subvert the democratic process by now
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 05/10/2026
It is a very big risk to pin all your hopes for the future on elections in a time when an increasingly powerful and reactionary ruling class is backing far-right candidates with everything they've got. Let's organize so we can keep fighting no matter how the elections go. crimethinc.com/Brazil2026
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every now and then I remember that the final scene in Titanic (1997) is literally "and then they all stood up and clapped".
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Earth is gearing up for the ultimate showdown between good and evil (again!)
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why is reducing ideological bias a goal? To what end? Politics is almost always a fight over values, not facts. I don’t care if I am “biased” towards social justice, whatever that means.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Miss me with these mea culpas.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Counterpoint: fuck this guy. I hope he stays haunted.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My son, who is also 12, had a boyfriend last year for a few months and I only found out after they broke up. He said, "I realized I liked the idea of being liked more than I liked him." The kids are all right.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I bet she doesn't even have a subscription to a Korean tv streaming platform smh 😔
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My Aunt: I'm obsessed with kdramas Me: Oh yeah? Name five kdramas that aren't on Netflix. MA: Tbh I can't even name the kdramas I've seen on Netflix. I can tell you the plots only. Me: (to myself) Hah! Poseur 😤
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bro do you even run local models?
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm Jewish and even I know the pope was, in fact, elected lol
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think it sucks that Bake Off didn't source a lower counter for the wheelchair user on this season.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
*is valuable, obviously
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We need to get a lot more comfortable asking "Por qué no los dos" when it comes to the college vs trade school debate. There's no reason a bricklayer can't also have a degree, because *education in valuable in its own right*. We should all have access to it if we want!
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Porque No Los Dos - Meme de la Niña
Alt: Young girl with short black hair shrugging and saying ¿Por que no los DOS? (English: why not both?)
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer
College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Texas is basically saying it wants to encourage fraud as a matter of public policy and you should keep that in mind whenever you see a large firm incorporated in Texas
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why is so much of my feed a fake Dune poster 🫠
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's not even funny what kind of loss I will absorb if I have to create an account to do business with you. I will walk away from a winning lottery ticket, I promise you.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let's fucking go
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Love to live in a cartoonish political satire
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Got a talarico fundraising text and told them as a parent to a trans child that they can get wrecked 🤷 It's that easy.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2026
we should normalize the social shaming of bad people. sorry you don't think your Maine summers are as idyllic as they used to be, John Roberts. but you sold democracy to the highest bidders among your friends you don't get to summer without sometimes seeing a kayaker with a poster that says you suck
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every single day I see something on here that reminds me of this passage from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
It was too much the way of Monseigneur under his reverses as a refugee, and it was much too much the way of native British orthodoxy, to talk of this terrible Revolution as if it were the only harvest ever known under the skies that had not been sown--as if nothing had ever been done, or omitted to be done, that had led to it--as if observers of the wretched millions in France, and of the misused and perverted resources that should have made them prosperous, had not seen it inevitably coming, years before, and had not in plain words recorded what they saw.
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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.
Joyce Carol Oates says: “This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to
different consumers.“
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm not a fan of originalism but I do want to point out that the founding fathers definitely viewed armed rebellion a legitimate tactic for achieving justice.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Roberts screaming crying and throwing up because the people might try to hold him personally accountable for decisions he made at work (enabling state murder, trampling over civil rights and actively undermining the constitution he's meant to uphold/protect) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yup. Though I think the more troubling aspect is that it's not that nobody *can* stop him -- it's that those who can, don't want to, and therefore will do nothing to rein him in.
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Oy Geralt @thekvitcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But instead of speaking truth to their pain, our institutions and society treat that hiding as something sinister and duplicitous instead of a natural reaction to being grievously violated. The attitude is not, "let us see so we can help" it's "let us see so we can judge whether you deserved it"
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