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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 19h

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Another element of 1990s nostalgia that often gets ignored is how the USA was gaga for Celtic and New Age music. Remember those CD kiosks in the big box stores?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20h

a monstrously wicked man

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16h

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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bran 👽 @pupnik.moe · 18h

the nsfw art trend of the week being a genderbend harry potter character that people are referring to with a portmanteau of the characters name and a misogynistic slur is ridiculously on the nose. it feels like some outlandish parody where someone tried to think of the most soulless thing possible

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

jaw dropped when I read this www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...

But for many Brazilians, the most pressing issue as they prepare to vote on Sunday is a crisis much closer to home: crushing personal debt.
More than 80 percent of Brazilian families are in debt, a historic high for the country, according to the National Confederation of Commerce, a retail group.
Brazil also has the highest benchmark interest rate among 40 major economies, and families spend nearly 30 percent of their income on debt payments, according to Brazil’s central bank. In the United States, that figure is about 11 percent.
Unlike in the United States, where most household debt is driven by mortgages, in Brazil debt is fueled by credit cards, payroll loans and retail store installment plans carrying among the highest interest rates in the world.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist who is locked in a tight race against a right-wing opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, has seized on this concern in the closing days of the campaign. On Friday, Mr. Lula signed an order banning online gambling, which was legalized in 2018 and has supercharged the household debt crisis.
Brazil is the first country, experts say, to ban online gambling after introducing and regulating the industry.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, dear. This is global-level not good.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21h

Lula (president of Brazil) “asked the court to investigate possible support from the Rockbridge Network, a [Peter Thiel-backed] conservative U.S. donor network co-founded by…JD Vance. It said a political organizer tied to the group works at Flávio Bolsonaro’s campaign headquarters...” 10/4/26 …1/

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Lula seeks probe into possible US election interference

Lula’s coalition asked Brazil’s top electoral court to investigate actions benefiting Flávio Bolsonaro, while the Workers’ Party sought a Federal Police inquiry from the Supreme Court.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 18h

Pee-yew! This guy stinks!

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1 am disappointed in Tom Morello, and I feel really let down by someone I've looked up to, who I thought understood the difference between intent and impact at the moment that mattered most.
But l've been thinking about it, and the band was called Rage Against The Machine, not Vote Like Your Life And The Lives Of Every Vulnerable Person In Your Country Depend On It Against The Machine, so I guess this is really on me.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h

the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22h

this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.

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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Between Lula being behind and Lee in S. Korea becoming unpopular, I really would like to emphasize that there’s no one easy trick to resolving facism for good.

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Fubas *comms open* @fubas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

centrist spaces

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm feeling very cynical, so here are my takes on what electorates have learned/are/want: 1. Electorates hate incumbents. 2. Electorates see politics as a mix of sports & reality TV. 3. Electorates mostly like fascism if it's done with a light-ish touch.

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 23h

Brazil looks over and like Bolsonaro's definitely winning the runoff. Some crazy flips too.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 23h

bleak future ahead for brazil. something must be done with the growing global fascistic movement if we want any future worth anything

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 23h

On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/10/2026

It's only the first round but I can't believe Brazil did everything right going after Jair Bolsanaro over his attempted coup only to be on the verge of electing his corrupt dipshit son.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 23h

I wish there was fucking anything anyone could do anymore

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Kim @iibo.games · 04/10/2026

what're some examples of games with soundtracks by established bands/artists? here's a few: - Neon White (Machine Girl) - Mirror's Edge (Solar Fields) - Watch Dogs 2 (Hudson Mohawke) - Max Payne 3 (HEALTH)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

someone call up will smith we need him to do something

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The NYT story is a great example of NYT making informing readers subordinate to pushing their agenda. If you read it carefully, it's clear that Democrats have largely decided to counter attack by saying Rs are obsessed with trans issues and neglecting things that impact ordinary Americans.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

my instant response upon learning about genderswapped malfoy fanart was literally 'listen, if you want to be weird about white haired fantasy girls with problematic positions on bloodlines and heredity, the Targaryens are right there' and @katlunya.bsky.social can confirm

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 04/10/2026

The New York Times needs us more than we need them. I am happy to be a source for the Times (and I have in the past, ironically about how Trump 2.0 will threaten independent journalists) but I will never write or work with them as long as The New York Times exists in its current form

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Thela Astame @thelaastame.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

oh... oh baby thats something.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

These people cannot be trusted to vote in their best interests. Ever. They have failed at the most simple task and have driven this country to ruin. They are too stupid to be allowed to have a say in the future of the country. Convince a non-voter to vote. There are LOTS of those.

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A bastion of Irish American excellence

Dropkick Murphys @DropkickMurphys
@ScottWalker @GovWalker please stop using our music in any way...we literally hate you !!!
Love, Dropkick Murphys

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/10/2026

If this were a group of immigrant men accused, Kelly would be calling for the electric chair.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 04/10/2026

The amount of gender in these things is off the charts. They’re dude wipes (boy) but pumpkin spice (girl) but it’s actually dumpkin spice (???). They’re XL (boy) but plant-sourced (girl).

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 03/10/2026

chat is it good that everyone is crashing out at the same time for one reason or another

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Conservative TV for the past 40 years

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

YouTube said it would take the Cruise Line video down on Oct 2 due to a vexatious copyright claim (which I'm of course fighting but I can't stop a takedown) and yet now on Oct 3 it's still up

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Jennifer Love Hewitt: What Are You Waiting For?

ALT: Jennifer Love Hewitt: What Are You Waiting For?

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Aaron Rodericks neatly demonstrating my adage that the dipshits in STEM who sneer at people with Communications degrees will inevitably find themselves ensnared in a situation that could have been completely avoided had they taken the advice of someone with a Communications degree.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Might kinda need an Afro Samurai type feature length animated film based around this

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Revenge of Princesscore @princessrevenge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

basically all discourse on transition is this one exchange and for some reason we have to keep doing it

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026

NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.

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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.

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WAYNERADIOTV @wayneradio.tv · 02/10/2026

he said there's rats in his lane biting him

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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like displaying heads on pikes

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

See, this is the thing They don't give a fuck about the art of animation, they don't care about the process or anything. They see a thing that people enjoy, and insert themselves in and take it over, to colonize it. They want to be loved like people love artists. That's all

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One thing you can say about Michael Caine is that Michael Caine is a political conservative who made 70 movies where the entire idea was to make Michael Caine money but he never did this bullshit

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