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Let's help Stella. She's good people.

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Lupo! ➡️ Furpoc!!! @lupopossum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another friendly reminder that appeasement doesn't work. Being "one of the good ones" and excluding those that you think are less palatable won't make them like you.

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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 17h

Imagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you. Sounds fucking horrifying.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 20h

Another day, another instance of my boss's boss using our pages as his personal blog. Almost 1,100 words of pointless, mewling, must-run invective against people whose existence offends his delicate sensibilities. Six-plus years here and I've never heard anyone say one nice thing about him.

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aly ☕ a bit of THIS & THAT @straylize.starlost.cc · 29/09/2026

banger review for dressmaker tbh

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Brakka Quilltusk @brakkaquilltusk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please help Katra if you can! Her job is pulling some seriously shady shit & she could really use a hand muddling through it. Boosts, donos, anything helps 🙏💸💕 #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2026 #helpsky #UrgentNeed #GoFundMe #LGBTQIA2 #maboost #NeedHelp #TransCrowdFund #TransSurvival #Vtubers #Vsky

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 23h

Turning over your inner and outer lives to corporate products in exchange for freedom from the tyranny of people who know more than you do. If that isn't this stupid, stupid moment in a nutshell.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely, this is what bothers me the most, it's fundamentally changed my relationship with art where I'm greeting it initially with skepticism and scrutiny, I never want to feel that way about art.

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you give up trans athletes then it gets pushed back further to until it's just that being trans is illegal, and then it gets pushed back further to remove gay rights, and then it's just the police beating queer people to death in the streets with impunity again. And then Stonewall 2.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every Riot grrrl band in the 90s

Still from the television show Xena: Warrior Princess showing Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer all with goofy expressions on their face

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We actually don't hate this administration enough

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should let people dream of something besides labor

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Online sex workers are some of the hardest workers out there, having to do their own shoots, their own lighting, their own promotion, *and* their own community management, while the platform takes a huge cut 🙃

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Time to reset the "days since a contributor based their piece around the Thucydides Trap" counter. If I ever see Graham Allison, I will kick that man in the shins.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gaming was something beneath them, a waste of time, so their only offering was "Play to earn" because that's what would make games worthwhile to their hustle culture addled minds, and they didn't get why everyone hated their ideas. They fundamentally didn't understand the appeal of playing games.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The cluelessness of this reminds me a lot of the NFT grift. The thing about NFTs was that it was mainly something finance bros were into, and when they were trying to worm their way into gaming, their pitches were an abyssal trench of bad ideas because they couldn't grasp why people played games.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And you can directly walk this back to Gamergate and before. The argument that women "invaded" male gaming spaces (like D&D and video games), that women only game for male attention, are all derived from the same mentality that got us Ready Player One, The Manosphere, and Palantir.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

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OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 27/09/2026

Transphobia is genuinely an elite fixation that is much less popular than most politicians and media outlets would have you believe.

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Emoria - Aftertaste OUT NOW @emoria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trans people: love the shit out of yourselves. You probably spent the majority of your years absolutely wallowing in self-loathing. Make up for lost time. Love yourself. You fucking deserve it.

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How badly is the job search going? We have reached "maybe moving back to the US isn't such a bad idea after all" levels.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

100%, it's all so depressingly predicable. and worse is there is now a precedent that has been set (by the "gender-critical" movement) for healthcare policies being formed around the thinky-thoughts of people with the non-job of "opinion columnist", and other "concerned" gobshites online.

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place.

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Definitely recommend checking out the GDOC Steam sale and direct. Lots of good games in there, and it grew my wishlist by 7-8 titles (with several more featured games already on there). Showcases like these are so important when visibility is hard to come by for devs and games outside the AAA space.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026

I feel like one of the most radical, best and most rebelliously good things you can do right now in the informational online space is just....give people credit, love, support and shoutouts. Even if they just inspired you or prodded a thought you built on, name them and thank them loudly.

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have one weird trick for solving this but it requires everyone being a little less racist

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Lenna 💛🩸 @lenna.gay · 26/09/2026

This is the correct way to check this new OBS vuln. The author of this comment has a quick and dirty (but effective) check below and I can confirm it's safe to use.

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

assert dominance by tossing it at the boss

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 25/09/2026

Happy birthday Hades II!!! 🧡🐸

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gosh. I don't feel particularly bolshie, but the quiz suggests otherwise. A curious place to be for someone who was a Young Republican and a committed Fox News watcher well into my 20s. (I'm feeling much better now.)

TrooperBari's results from the TakeTest US politics quiz at https://taketest.xyz/us-politics. The text at the top reads "Far left: further right than 1% of US adults". The image shows a graph with blue (Democrat), gray (independent), and red (Republican) distribution curves on a left-right spectrum, with a dark orange vertical line near the left end of the spectrum indicating the test results.

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh boy. Okay. I am going to respond earnestly and genuinely, because I totally understand why this would seem like a contrary concept! Many librarians, educators, and guardians want to encourage their kids to read more, but don't see how graphic novels might help. Let's talk about it!

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🐱Sophie/Cookie🍪🏳️‍⚧️🔜 🇯🇵 🇹🇭 @cookiesophie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I got really emotional tonight about how awesome indie game dev is and how incredible it is that people can make their ideal games into a reality. Please keep working your games, no matter how big or small your progress is. You doing this benefits us all. I'm so proud of you, no matter what. 🥹

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm sorry if I sound like I'm going insane, but this is an excerpt from the actual academic writing I do for my actual respectable university as an actual political scientist in training and I'm just not sure if I can fucking take it anymore.

The resulting coarsening of elite conservative discourse is notable. Twenty years ago, it would have been a scandal if a major defense contractor and Republican donor publicly endorsed the retrograde opinions on gender relations offered by “@cumlasagna1.” Yet Elon Musk’s embrace of “@cumlasagna1” did not even make the headlines on December 15, 2025 as the primary political story of the day was President Trump appearing to take credit for inspiring the assassination of Princess Bride director Rob Reiner and Reiner’s wife due to their liberal activism. (The president’s conclusions may have been premature. Reiner’s son-in-law would later be charged with the crime and police state they believe a personal dispute rather than political disagreement was the primary motive.) All of this has clear implications for who gets to be an expert and how expertise gets to be legitimated in conservative national security discourse. Given his agreement with a profane Garfield themed far-right social media account’s stance on the cognitive capabilities of women, it is unlikely that all else being equal, a female spacepower strategist or aerospace engineer would have her suggestions taken as seriously as one of her male counterparts by the influential Republican defense contractor. It also broadens the range of potential policy outcomes, which in turn has

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Really curious as to how the politics of “what if we had a global economic shock and it was really clear that it was caused by one person, really clearly and obviously” plays out in democracies, but I could have lived with finding out at say, the age of 90 not today.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know it goes without saying but as the right wing media-political complex runs from Trump we should remember that they played a leading role in--and gleefully profited from--enabling and promoting him. Accomplices trying to get off a sinking ship, trying to salvage what's left of their reputation

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

video games as a whole make hundreds of billions of dollars a year and apparently somehow nobody can make any money on them or pay anyone to make them

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