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Here are my concerns: 1. ending violence against women and children 2. reforming the legal system to better recognize (and protect families from) emotional abuse 3. anti-racism 4. public records law 5. crochet [originally tweeted Nov 6, 2018]

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 02/10/2026
maybe instead of posting about baseball y’all should work on making sure the base goes to the ballot box
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Alt text is not the same as a photo caption. Captions are typically written to support a photo, and usually depend on users being able to see the photo. But alt text is meant to be the stand-in for the photo. The alt text is what a screen reader user gets in place of the photo.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just as we've seen in the discourse this week, institutional betrayals of survivors by universities are usually met with thousands of people saying, "Why didn't she just go to the police?" And this is (part of) the answer. The police betray survivors just as consistently as universities do.
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OH MY GOD the Supreme Court rushed through a shitty order allowing Tennessee to execute a woman while litigation was still happening, and then they botched the execution!!! This is the worst fucking timeline.
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nerd (complimentary)
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We have to expand the court, I don't see any path to retaining a functioning democracy if we don't. Even if Dems take both chambers in midterms, this court can't be trusted to uphold the law. Rules don't matter if you can just buy an RV or a fishing trip or pay off a debt.
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ah, we've reached the "openly racist grandpa" part of his dementia journey
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why was he volunteering this information to me, a freelance writer and radical feminist he only vaguely and professionally knew? I’ve asked myself that question a lot.
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"long-awaited" doing a lot of work there
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's not just that there are a *lot* of bots scraping everything, but each bot is doing so in a way so fractally stupid that any freshman programming student would get an F for doing.
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Dexter Morgan's Awkward Stare Meme
Alt: Dexter Morgan's Awkward Stare Meme
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
you hear Crouching Tiger and you're thinking, well that's gotta be the most fearsome and best camouflaged creature in this title,
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this video is so funny, imagine being grilled by a US Senator who is oddly convinced that you went to an Atlanta Hawks game when you have never been to an Atlanta Hawks game
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
sir do you deny that you witnessed Trae Young's 10-assist, 8-turnover performance? is it your testimony that you have never witnessed Clint Capela going 1-for-4 from the foul line? might i remind you that you are UNDER OATH
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sarah Hagi writing about the Daily Wire movie 🚨
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Finally, A Shitty Movie Where Muslims Are The Bad Guys | Defector
I can’t think of a time in my life when the idea of a Muslim terrorist was not the most acceptable societal enemy. As someone who came of age in the wake of 9/11 and the invasions of both Iraq and Afg...
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
how does cuth pube have 1.3K likes
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's easy to be everyone's favorite prestige tv show when you were like, the first one on basic cable
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING MIDNA UPDATE
Midna, an adorable black kitten wrapped in a fuzzy Halloween Peanuts blanking, making such a big yawn!
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He has little-to-no support from his own party, the military, the legal system, or even his own administration to attempt anything this insane. He has no power over how states run their elections - even this SCOTUS said so. There is no red "cancel the election" button for him to press.
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
also, whenever I have an interview the first thing they do is offer me a drink? so it's also super-weird.
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This sounds like a killer doctor who plot
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please rebuild the site 1999 style with spinning gifs
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The concept of being a state A.G. and writing a brief that tosses aside a U.S. Supreme Court order that had no dissents like this in favor of talking about how a three-judge Eighth Circuit panel acted "unanimously" — a court below the U.S. Supreme Court — in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 23/09/2026
Appreciate the direct link Chris’s post makes between the Supreme Court repeatedly making shit up to suit its agenda, and hack Trump appointees on the lower courts who decide that they are perfectly within their rights to do the same thing
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 22/09/2026
Oh my god it’s funny because it’s true — take a gander at the video and then read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_...
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Dunnes Stores strike - Wikipedia
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feminist next door @emrazz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here’s the thing, pretty much everything in the news feels so far past fever dream that if you read this and go, “is she suggesting aliens came to disarm the nuke?” The answer is yes! If you go, “is she suggesting it’s a correlation warning?” Yes! If you ask does she believe none of this?” Also yes!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Why Would You Say Something So Controversial Yet So Brave
Alt: Eric Andre asking "why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?"
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
and William Fichtner lives in a truck!
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ultraviolet is the same concept except she uses a sword and the sword is on fire
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
nope! the issue is lost institutional knowledge and HR only hiring people who "don't need training" but then everyone spends weeks unable to be productive because nobody comes in on day one already knowing an organization's unique internal processes, or even knowing where the bathrooms are
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Funny* detail about living with #fibromyalgia: I had dental surgery last week, a complicated recovery & a significant amount of pain. Now I can tell it's healing, because it only hurts when I sit still and not when I'm moving. *derogatory
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Jinti is Making Passive Notice Checks @jinti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
y'all should push for Universal Basic Income 'cuz artists that aren't stressin' over rent and groceries and taxes all the time WILL draw freakier, more unmarketable shit
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👻🕯️ Human Depleted Big Natural Resources🕯️👻 @dagnificent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
who wants to put on a talent show to save the kennedy center
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
okay, the design of these posts!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
this is correct. full stop.
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nah, Ed's a millionaire landlord who's trying to BECOME a billionaire landlord, he's part of the problem www.the-sun.com/entertainmen...
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Ed Sheeran is now a London landlord owning 27 properties worth $74million
ED Sheeran has gone on a $13million property shopping spree — and is now the landlord of enough London addresses to fill a Monopoly board. The pop superstar has just snapped up five more to take th…
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this is ryan @thisryan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I love that I came here to make this joke and I've already seen like four other people make this joke.
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Katy // Genderpunk 2026 @katysaint.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The king himself rode a horse and shot arrows at a deer. However, the horse stumbled, causing him to fall off, but he was not injured. Looking around, he said, "Do not let the historians know about this."

— The Veritable Records of Taejong, Vol. 7, article 4
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