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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 1h

I’m so, so sorry.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h

i have a theory

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 3h

I dont even think this is a particularly useful protest but I think it's a lot healthier and more useful than sharing the smug YouTube clown meme about how people who care about stuff are, like, totally dumb peons who should know their place

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 8h

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 4h

I'm gettin' jacked, I'm breakin' myself I can't believe they've taken Lawrence Welk

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 15h

One challenge is that if someone is only speaking anti-slop on BlueSky then aside from the people who run the place, you're largely preaching to the choir. It gives us likes and reposts, but I don't know that it's shaming sloppers as is necessary

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 15h

Not gonna RS the thread that made me think about this (you've likely already seen it, or a similar one) BUT Every person I know who has cut off or gone low contact with a parent took YEARS of agonizing and trying to make things work because damn that's their PARENTS.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15h

In this Ohio diner, 9.11 means where the price of diesel is headed. But they do know this: their neighbors to the north better not be voting for a Jihadist senator.

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American Century of BOO-miliation @johnperich.com · 17h

The political challenge of my adulthood is that, every 7-8 years, something takes a sledgehammer to one of the pillars of the postwar consensus and roughly doubles the ambient apathy / despair / solipsism of a system that requires true believers to operate.

The World Trade Center in NYC burning on 9/11/2001.

An employee carrying a box of personal items out of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

Donald Trump descending an escalator in 2015 to announce his candidacy for President. In 2016, he won the election.

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I cannot fathom the kind of person who participates in fantasy football but says "sportsball."

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trans lives are more important than Harry Potter. Read another fucking book, watch another fucking show.

THIS SITE IS HARRY POTTER FREE
Lookin for it? Leave.

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gavin Newsom: “We can’t deny the Paramount Merger, what if David Ellison decides to take Paramount out of California? We will lose an entire industry!” David Ellison the day after the merger goes through: “Anyway, we are going to do mass layoffs throughout the new organization.” Newsom is an idiot

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And unlike in the image, the mourners at Paine's funeral included two young enslaved Black men who walked all the way to New Rochelle to pay their respects because of Paine's anti-slavery principles.

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Harper O’Neill @imharperoneill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here’s your periodic reminder that I am also a writer and have a book out that you can read! REPRESSION QUEEN is a book I could only write once, in emergence from the egg of erotica writing as a tool of self-suppression. If you like poetic, creative nonfiction, try it! bookshop.org/p/books/repr...

bookshop.org

Repression Queen: A Memoir About Gender Transformation Erotica

The Author wants respect and escape. Kayla wants to exist at all. Repression Queen is a vulnerable and poetic memoir of The Author's life as a gender transformation erotica writer, weaving short horro...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The trans panic is a manifestation of the same logic as the Satanic Panic - shifting culpability for widespread abuse and rape away from cishet men and onto an exotic other who might secretly be somebody you know and must be vigilant against instead of being vigilant against the men in your life

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fascist monopolization of US media, intent on ending what's left of democracy on behalf of billionaire mobsters, was finalized by a Democratic-appointed SCOTUS justice.

Deadline&
@DEADLINE
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied a last minute
effort to halt Paramount's merger with Warner Bros.
Discovery, a transaction that is scheduled to close on
Tuesday.
See more details here: deadline.com/2026/10/paramo..
WARNE
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7:35 PM • Oct 5. 2026 • 33.3K Views

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

About 10, 15 years ago these people started the “was Hitler really so bad? Hitler only wanted what was best for the Germans, what’s wrong with that!?” talking point and I knew I would live to see it become the mainstream GOP position. The end of living memory of WWII is going to be ruinous.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Me, a prof who teaches Sex Crimes: "I've heard it all - things that would haunt your nightmares for the rest of your life. Nothing can shock me." * reads headline * Eels?!?! Really???

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My next book has a whole section on the psychology behind "People becoming successful by simply lying about already being successful then charging other people to learn their 'secrets' about how to become successful". This would make a perfect case study, but I doubt the legal team will go with it.

bad.baltic.takes 12h
Lawvers for Andrew Tate have had to admit in
court that he is not a citizen of Estonia as he
previously claimed.
Much of his wealth and status is fabricated, they
said in attempt to convince the court he and his
brother are not a flight risk if released on bail
That included his claims to seven passports.
"The Tates are engaged in several businesses
teaching men how to earn money. It is in their
interest to portray themselves on social media
as uberwealthy." 1/3

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"gainful" cmon man

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Single use. Discard after use” is such a good ‘nah she’s not listening to that’ flag. I love a film that tells us it’s going to get bad and actually shocks with how fucked up bad gets when it finally manifests.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But they're gonna have to lay off thousands of people who make a fraction of the executives' income in order to be "fiscally responsible"

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Salvatrix @devsalvatrix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Been saying this for over 6 years - there is NO ethical consumption of the Harry Potter universe. None. Zero. Not even on the High Seas. The money doesn't matter - Terf Queen already has an unfathomable amount of money to use against trans folks. Her real power is brand relevance. CUT. HER. OFF.

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Botticellibelle @botticellibelle.cryptoanarchy.network · 06/10/2026

My husband just got one of these. We're living in wild times omg.

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

like the inverse of this

Tweet screenshot by @dwayne_media that reads:

Topic: Excited about mustard!

MustardNewbie99: Hey guys! Just tried this french mustard and it really opened my eyes! Has anyone else tried it?

InTheCourtOfTheMustardKing
412,294 Posts
Registered 3/13/2002
[SUPER ADMIN - MANDATE OF HEAVEN]
No, we've never treid moutarde forte 🙄

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.

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oops all Matt @mrperki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🎶 Gimme the knobs, boys, and free my soul 🎶 I wanna touch knobs on my car console, and twist away

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

We've reached the open use of anti trans slurs phase by Trump. Dems haven't done shit to call out Pete Hegseth and Nancy Mace doing it so now it's become normalized.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You’d think Condé Nast would like to protect their very lucrative brand from endless fakes and garbage diluting it

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ednl🇪🇺 @ee1.nl · 05/10/2026

Another accent-related one seen below, made me laugh but he quoted himself so it's artificial

aaron <@rornronrnron>: "boston ppl when their friend is trying to drive drunk:"
quoted aaron <@rornronrnron>: "put. the khakis. down."

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