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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I bought a six-pack of donuts when a guy next to me said, "You shouldn't eat donuts." I replied, "My grandparents parents lived to be 100." He asked, "Did they eat donuts?" I shot back, "No, they minded their own fkn business."

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clarissapotter.bsky.social @clarissapotter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve recently realized that as a woman who grew up in the 70’s, I’m not sure women my age even know what consent is. We were expected to resist, and boys expected to, at a minimum, badger us into it. So I don’t think we knew whether we wanted sex or not. It was super confusing.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 22h

This mass surveillance tech is unconstitutional even if it’s used “properly.” Unsurprisingly, though, it’s often abused. Here’s our tracker of just the reported incidents of ALPR abuse: ij.org/the-ij-datab...

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The IJ Database of ALPR Abuse - Institute for Justice

The Institute for Justice has cataloged more than 200 incidents of ALPR abuse, including romantic stalking, wrongful stops and detentions, non-law enforcement use, and other types of misconduct.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house

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Andrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Shame on the NYT for describing the Trump admin withholding $1.4 BILLION in allocated research funds as a “creative way to work around Congress.” This is not creative, it’s open defiance of Congress and is doing immense damage to “basic” science research.

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Some National Science Foundation divisions pulled back research proposals in order to comply with White House guidance to carry over funds. Alex Kent/The New York Times
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The National Science Foundation, one of the biggest sources of federal research funding, withheld $1.4 billion that Congress had intended for research over the course of the past year, according to internal data reviewed by The New York Times.
The extraordinary move - holding back about one-fifth of the N.S.E's primary research budget — is the latest sign of how the Trump administration is finding creative ways to work around Congress.
Lawmakers from both parties have consistently opposed White House-led proposals to cut funding to major science agencies, including the N.S.F. and the

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Julia Goolia @juliagoolia9.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not an active duty senior military leader in the room.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Loving South Park continually using ableist slurs, anti-trans humor, AI imagery and the continual idea that “small penis makes you less of a man” as humor that everyone loves. But they say “Trump bad” so it’s ok right?

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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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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It honestly wouldn't surprise me if between November and January Republicans front-load as much funding to ICE and DOD as they possibly can so there's nothing for Democrats to challenge. The fact of the matter is that Trump will still have a veto, and it takes more votes to override than remove.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

any Star Trek that’s like “we had all this shit left over from a different show” brings me such joy. I’m obsessed with the surrealist Western with red skies and doors to nowhere. the theatre kid energy of it all

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Shane Liesegang, SJ (シェーン|شَيْن|เชน) @sjml.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Older Scottish Jesuit I live with: “I suppose it’s true, but I’m not sure every definitely true statement needs to be a top headline”

Page from today’s Bangkok post with the headline: “Trump unlikely to win Nobel Prize”

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Dominic Armato @darmato.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An old anecdote about judging people’s hobbies that came up in conversation yesterday: When our oldest kid was in second grade, his teacher called us in for a conference. No explanation…

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What is Hosha'na Rabba? A thread of indeterminate length. Before we begin, a forewarning: I would like to avoid being the XKCD expert familiarity guy, so if there is anything I bring up which you do not understand and would like to, feel free to ask. It's a weird day with a lot going on

"Hoshana Rabba is second nature to us liturgists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Kol Mevasser and the Yamim Noraim additions."
"And cabbage, of course."
"Of course."

Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.

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VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

keep thinking about "personalised" books/art made by AI and remembering James Baldwin's quote "you think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" these AI bros are deliberately doing a psyop on themselves to cauterise their capacity for empathy

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Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My mind: unboggled. My ghast: unflabbered. My monkey: unshocked.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Once you put people in concentration camps you can’t yell about civility. Go spend a day in an ICE camp and then you can tell me why Johnny “worse than Roger Taney” Roberts deserves anything nice ever again.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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Andrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If we need to jump through all these hoops to convince ourselves that it’s okay…it’s probably not okay. But don’t call it lethal injection, call it strapping a person to a table, sedating them and then watching them in a state of unconsciousness struggle and suffocate. That’s torture not justice.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I do not unilaterally oppose the death penalty in theory-world! I do believe there can be people who can never rehabilitate (although it's not like our prison system tries). But the bias and error in the criminal justice system can never be reduced far enough for me to support it in reality.

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speck @notkaspeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wikipedia "In June 2026, after the attempted execution of Tony Carruthers, Pike challenged the execution protocol, alleging that the state could not guarantee a constitutionally compliant execution. She argued that her thrombocytosis would complicate IV placement and increase her risk of suffering"

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ScaryDeath Hastings 🎃 @mbhastings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Democrats fail” is a crazy way to start a headline about Sen. Johnson’s actions and Trump’s illegal rescission

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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The actions Trump has taken in the last 72 hours (offering bribes, blaming messaging, begging Hispanics to vote even though they dont like him) all but conceded that A) he's losing both the midterms and control of the GOP B) he can't cancel/cheat elections C) his administration is going to end

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can talk like a goddamn adult on Bluesky, which is one of the reasons I like it here. The cutesy euphemisms, although I know why they’re in use on more restrictive platforms like TikTok, make me so irrationally angry

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Je Hyeon | ABOLISH the polICE @naptime.theolive.garden · 30/09/2026

stop saying grape. say rape. say murder. say killed. say the violence people have endured with the full force of what has happened

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

also if you are one of the many people who (correctly!) left a 1-star review after the last guy ruined our good name it would mean quite a lot to me going on three years later if you would update that rating! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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Politics Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · Opening Arguments is a law show that helps you make sense of the news! Comedian Thomas Smith brings on legal analysts to help you understand not only current ev...

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the Hawks/Hawkeyes thing is really funny, but the fact that the brains of a sitting U.S. Senator *and his entire staff* are so thoroughly cooked that they thought this nonsense meant anything at all is going to make me go doomer if I think about it too much

Katie Britt enduring the stupidest fucking piece of posterboard ever displayed in the US Senate

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I take the point that this moment should probably be getting more attention than which basketball game he attended, but if you didn't already fully believe this based on the available evidence I don't know that hearing it from Jack Lumen Smith is going to change anything bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fewer flag officers to push back against bad and illegal orders.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All the knocking knee 'MEN are FRIGHTENED' takes that apparently didn't mean men like Brendan Frasier, Terry Crews, Anthony Rapp who came forward to say they too had been SAd by powerful men in their industry, it meant the ones who were now worried that an undering they abused might say something

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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am so tired. So very fucking tired.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This might be the daughter of a neuroscientist speaking but like brains are actually wildly good at complicated tasks. Like so good that people have spent a really lot of time trying to figure out HOW. Also that shit is absolutely use it or lose it.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Have you ever heard of Gabriel's Horn? It's a mathematical shape, a deceptively simple "solid of revolution" that will melt your brain. It's also one of my very favorite things of all time. Oh my yes, you'll love this: badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-geometri... 🧪

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A geometric shape that will destroy your brain

Gabriel’s Horn is bizarre and literally unrealistic. It’s also super cool.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

DO IT, it's a good experience and worth your time.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That said, the fact that there is so much interest makes me feel like I should mention them at least a little. This thread in no way can stand in place of working with a sensitivity consultant with lived experience! Here is a brief, nonexhaustive list of harmful disability tropes in fiction.

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And everyone who does not promptly knock that young male smartmouth to the ground on hearing his blasphemy has, in fact, just turned the other cheek

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

So many autistic/neurodivergent women (which I bet describes a LOT of women in the Silicon Valley AI scene) report being *specifically* targeted by sexual predators who take advantage of their issues with reading social situations. Which is why I loathe the “oh, those poor autistic men” excuse.

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As I’ve said before: I’ve been to lots of truly-consensual sex parties, and I’ve been to all kinds of different BDSM play parties. This? Ain’t that. I’ve seen them postings in sex workers forums looking for women to attend these events. But in my opinion, they are not safe events for anyone.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻

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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.

Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the family

from my mom

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I think 5 maybe 7 why

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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good thread that covers some of the business of writing.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.

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