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pucci fan by birth, genshin addict by accident, familial disappointment by choice. he/him

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
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Miss Havisham’s Ghost @therealjocelynj.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Hey quick question why do I pay federal taxes
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I am dead serious, OpenAI should be held criminally and financially liable for the fire
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/10/2025
For those curious this is a negative 5900% gross margin
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do
To be honest, I wouldn’t be mentioning this if not for the fact that it’s a microcosm of how online platforms work today: Somebody makes an accusation based on evidence that’s spurious at best, big names with something to gain (viewership or the downfall of a perceived enemy) uncritically boost it, internet sleuths obsessively piece together supporting evidence by amassing context-free clips and ignoring everything that doesn’t match their intended conclusion, and all of the aforementioned parties spread performatively apoplectic videos across Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and wherever else they can sucker in uninitiated normies. 

Some version of this happens every week – every day, on a smaller scale – without fail. It accomplishes nothing aside from giving the disaffected masses a brief glimmer of what feels like purpose, but is actually a bloodsucking waste of their precious time on this dying planet. And of course, it provides platforms with sweet, sweet engagement numbers. As a result, platforms will probably never intervene to disrupt this corrosive dynamic, which has broken the general public’s ability to perceive anything resembling objective reality, even as society collapses around them and people like Piker attempt to identify the real reasons why (hint: they don't involve dog collars).

The internet has been like this at least since the Depp v. Heard trial, which wannabe sleuths similarly feasted on in 2022 while getting pretty much every important detail completely wrong. At least back then they were obsessing over something of consequence. Now they’ve taught viewers to regard every trumped-up non-issue they can surface with similar gravity.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/10/2025
Kiss my ass! Substance free? I have arguably the most detailed analysis of the AI bubble out there. Maybe you just don’t like to live in reality?
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
ok but hear me out, I think a Disco Elysium where he had big honkers might actually be interesting
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Genshin Impact EN @genshinimpact-en.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Happy Birthday, Ororon! "Guess I'll need to eat a few more Tatacos before I can make a proper Tataco." "No way, bro!" #GenshinImpact #Ororon
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 12/10/2025
Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted: When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
yeah this is child abuse sorry
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tooth @toothpickkick.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
nah i feel u. i was on the fence abt pulling him but ended up deciding against it bc his controls feel a little off. varesa has always been a very satisfying character to spam buttons with and flins feels less... reactive?
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 30/09/2025
i will die on the hill that this goes beyond a generational divide. the meat of a 23-minute video can be written down and read in a fraction of the time. if you're trying to make a point to me a send me a link to a yt video, expecting me to devote HALF AN HOUR to it, you are a psychopath.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/09/2025
[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 18/09/2025
it gives us no pleasure etc etc
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
‪@clpolk.com‬ A decade or two ago there used to be a cynical joke that the best way to get VC funding in silicon valley was to move away from home for the first time, figure out all the things your mom used to do for you that you don't know how to do, then pitch it as a service via the internet.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
There’s a difference between corporations capitulating out of fear and corporations welcoming rising fascism as an opportunity to do whatever in the hell they actually want to do without fear of repercussions.
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
hey hollywood. this is scary. i know. but there are a few nontraditional groups who have been able to cut through the fear and create sustainable models to produce amazing work: dropout tv. nebula. tubi. online fandoms: starkid, smosh, critical role. Broadway HD. this is just naming a few.
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 17/09/2025
Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Ezra out here speed running the Paradox of Tolerance
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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Suggestion: A strike of musicians, writers, hosts, actors, lighting, electricians--everyone, shutting down all TV studios, until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It's not that posts like this are wrong, exactly. But this isn't some special form of fascism, it's just what fascism is. Fascism is always stupid and petty and cowardly and pathetic. There isn't another version
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Pointing out Charlie Kirk's hate speech is not hate speech. It's objective reporting. Apologize to Matthew Dowd and rehire him. A full-throated embrace of genocide is hate speech – beyond all measure. Fire Brian Kilmeade. Immediately.
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DarLee @thedlee.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Jesse Watters' statements when he assumed the shooter was a liberal have yet to be condemned by anyone on the right, and virtually ignored by the Fox brass. He declared "war" and no one blinked an eye.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/09/2025
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.” www.adl.org/resources/re...
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This man has a tremendous amount of power in the U.S. Government. It's not just about immigration for him anymore.
Stephen Miller: In recent days we have learned just how many Americans in positions of authority—child services, law clerks, hospital nurses, teachers, gov’t workers, even DOD employees—have been deeply and violently radicalized. The consequence of a vast, organized ecosystem of indoctrination.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
this is the key point. there were so many fantasies among people who really should have known better that this "had to be a military hit". no, this is just the country we've built. access to guns and gun culture means that there are millions of random people able to inflict military level damage
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Me at work @rocketmansparty.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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blueheartvalley.bsky.social @blueheartvalley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I kept switching between CNN and MSNBC yesterday and today, and I've never seen such a scrubbing of a vile person's past as I saw on those two outlets. Well, I'm sure it was worse on MAGA stations. God, I miss honest, factual journalism.
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Susan 🌻🇺🇦🌻🐨🇦🇺🐨 🍉🇵🇸🍉 @drzuess.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Watching from Australia it's very disturbing. It's scary how Kirk has been elevated to hero status. Reminds me of how Hitler was considered a hero of Germany once because of his oratory skills. The division in the U.S fueled by hate is at a pre-civil war level.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The man corporate America, powerful institutions, establishment hacks, and the entirety of the right-wing have whitewashed and valorized to the level of sainthood.
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"Tyler Robinson" doesn't sound like a trans Mexican Muslim.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Is it safe to say that Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, is not transgender?
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Nick @therealnick.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Tyler Robinson
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#𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓲𝓼𝓽𝑭𝑶𝑻𝑼𝑺 @feldakat.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
bsky.app/profile/rodh...
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Sorry, folks. Sounds like the civil war has been postponed due to white shooter
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Utah Governor Spencer Cox: “Social media is a cancer right now. I would encourage you all to log off, be with your family, and touch grass.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It was his teachers’ fault. He was the internet’s fault. It was the libs. They’re sounding like the guy’s public defender at his sentencing hearing.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, people on the left have been censored, punished, and targeted with more violence for telling the truth about Kirk's legacy. The cycle continues: mainstream whitewashing of violence begets more violence and the victims are blamed. spitfirenews.com/p/the-nation...
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The national gaslighting about Charlie Kirk
Another pattern of censorship that only hurts the left—and emboldens political violence.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A question to ask every person writing earnest eulogies is: would you do this for David Duke? Because he was, in political views and career, indistinguishable from David Duke
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I will never mourn a white nationalist
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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
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