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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Knock, knock" "Who's there?" "Deez" *rolling eyes, sighing* "Deez who?" "Deez are the voyages of the starship Enterprise"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

this is a genuinely crazy story

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”

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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Told ya so — he looks brain dead to me. 🧠

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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

personally i think it's cool that every day there's some new shit that would be presidency-ending and obit-leading for anyone else and we just have to accept it all because of a do-nothing congress and puppet supreme court and *then* have pundits muse why there isn't more alarm being raised and such

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I still haven't gotten over the way fascism creates a moral inversion across broad swaths of public life where what was evil 5 years ago is now at least potentially good while what was agreed on as good is all but assumed to be evil.

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

sry i fridgemogged u or w/e i fw them tho frfr plummaxxing

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When all of the worst fucking people you have *ever* seen are transphobic, being pro-trans is a huge way of indicating that you actually might disagree with them. Dem centrists, by constantly trying to throw trans people into the woodchipper too, indicate how much they agree with these freaks.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/09/2026

Just gonna toss out there that one of the central facts of US politics--all politics, really--is that the general populace knows very little about who holds power, how gov't works, what policies do & don't exist, the balance of economic forces, or really much of anything outside their lifeworlds.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I stopped buying the whole "omg we hate Trump but we just *have* to do what he says!" shtick a long time ago.

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TheWhaleShark @thewhaleshark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Here's a hip cool bundle of solo TTRPG's for mad cheap. Check it out and get playing with yourself! #rpg #ttrpg #solo-roleplaying rpg-trader.com/products/835...

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Solo September Games Bundle on RPG Trader

A collection of 134 games to play on your own. In partnership with Solo RPG List.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Secret Service agents are trained to take bullets for a president but not this shit

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 29/07/2026

This is now a terrible invitation to find out. 🙃

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TheWhaleShark @thewhaleshark.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is not simple politics. This is an act of political warfare. We are in a civil war.

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TheWhaleShark @thewhaleshark.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Since Ghostfire was publicly soliciting pitches the other week, I dusted off an old project, made a few edits and a sellsheet, and dashed it off. We'll see! Then I figured what the heck, let's put it out there in general: thewhaleshark.itch.io/pulsars-n-po... #boardgames #boardgamedesign

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Pulsars 'n Politics by thewhaleshark

A compact card-based 4X game in space!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/07/2026

Suddenly, all the sanewashing of Trump and breathless coverage of Biden's age and Hillary's emails doesn't seem like it was a good idea.

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

my whole thing about platner was that if he was dumb enough to get a nazi tattoo and not get it covered up as soon as he learned what it was, he was probably too dumb to run for and hold office. that turned out to be true.

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TheWhaleShark @thewhaleshark.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I can set aside every concern about Platner's morality and his past, and analyze him on a purely pragmatic level. And when I do that - it's *still* a bad deal. Here's a candidate who hid skeletons and hoped we didn't find them. What *else* is he being dishonest about?

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Oh yeah, it's BAD bad.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"Defeat them in the marketplace of ideas." They don't have ideas. They don't have arguments. They don't have beliefs. They just have performance which requires you to adhere to the social contract so they can profit off you as content. Getting their shit rocked is the only language they hear.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I know violence doesn't solve anything and all that, but these pieces of shit rely on the social contract to protect them and their bigotry and where's that gotten us? Fascism and genocide. Maybe the best thing for them is to beat the ever loving shit out of these edgelords so they think twice.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

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TheWhaleShark @thewhaleshark.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I've been working on a reconstruction of an extremely obscure 16th century pedagogical wargame called Metromachia, and on Tuesday I had an opportunity to playtest my interpretation with some local medievalists! We learned a lot in a hurry! screentop.gg/@thewhalesha... #BoardGames #medievalsky

A picture of a large board wargame with a player in the background. There's a castle with multiple wall layers in the foreground, an army just across the moat in front of it, and a very large battlefield leading to an opposing army and castle in the background. The board is enormous - 8 feet long and 3 feet wide.

A picture of a large board wargame with two players in the background, one (me, specifically) who is actively moving pieces. There's a castle with multiple wall layers in the foreground, an army just across the moat in front of it, and a very large battlefield leading to an opposing army and castle in the background. The board is enormous - 8 feet long and 3 feet wide. Some moves have been made, but there's a LONG way to go.

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Cam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑 @rustysellsword.com · 14/05/2026

The Cortex Prime Game Handbook is live on DriveThruRPG for the first time! 256 pages of the most flexible RPG toolkit I could make—build any genre, any tone, any kind of story you want to tell. I'm so proud of this book. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

A swirling cosmic scene featuring a woman in goggles and holding a device that reveals multiple alternate worlds.

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Salute to an all-time tweet

tweet from raandy: trump [waving bible in front of them]: you morons love this shit huh
[audience going berserk]

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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 08/04/2026

🔏 "In less than a decade, Donovan had done something remarkable. With hard-fought evidence gathered from inside American classrooms, he had mobilized a coalition of high school science teachers, education researchers, and geneticists to accept that prejudice might be a solvable problem."

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A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Dozens of simultaneous Israeli airstrikes across #Beirut and in the south, the Bekaa and elsewhere. In Beirut, first responders racing through streets, sirens screaming. Smoke billowing in residential areas. Traffic jams, chaos. no warning ahead of strikes #lebanon

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This study shows that disinformation spreads, not as “false facts”, but as narratives. Compare that to how mis- and disinformation are often operationalized in the big-N quantitative and experimental research in the Nature/Science journals — that’s a major weakness in the field.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🎯🎯🎯 Yeah, like. Is this hard to parse? Do y'all really think it's American leftists stockpiling ammo in Utah compounds and fantasizing about race wars?

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I’m not sure whether it’s the current moment or the general fact of an empty, uncaring universe, but the so much of the latest issue of @theonion.com is hitting me right. You deserve more subscribers than the Washington Post, @bencollins.bsky.social.

Full-page “ad” in the March-April 2026 The Onion with a grid of 12 images of beaks (10 bird, 1 octopus, 1 squid), with text at the bottom reading:
Beaks
Bird tested, cephalopod approved.
(Not a paid advertisement)

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It’s very funny to include the “far left” here when the DSA mayor of New York City just ran an entire campaign on affordability and making cities work while his main opponent ran on Israel, a country almost 6,000 miles away

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I dunno that I agree with the whole thread but this bit in particular seems pretty accurate and important. while this is the most charitable available read of many an anti-woke leftist it's genuinely hard to make sense of centrist anti-left punching on this view

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TheWhaleShark @thewhaleshark.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Hey,I contributed writing to this release! It's pretty neat, and the rules all come directly from real tables with real players! Check it out, and if you like it remember to check out other releases from Tabletop Journeys! www.dmsguild.com/en/product/5... #ttrpg #dnd

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The Traveler's Guide to Narrative Bastions - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Welcome Travelers! Our latest supplement is here to help you make your bastions legendary! Ever since the 2024 rules for Dungeons and Dragons were in their infancy, the Bastion rules have been floati...

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 02/03/2026

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Quote from Washington Times editorial board

"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

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