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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'

I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/08/2026

"Thank you for updating to Woman™ 51.0. This release includes important security updates, several unexpected hardware changes, a completely redesigned relationship with alcohol, and expanded support for saying 'absolutely not' without explaining yourself." buff.ly/31NgFok

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Release Notes: Woman™ Version 51.0

“Thank you for updating to Woman™ 51.0. This release includes important security updates, several unexpected hardware changes, a completely redesigned relati...

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/07/2026

Let's remember some Baseball Injuries! I'll go first: Glenallen Hill having a nightmare about spiders that was so bad he fell out of bed and through a glass table

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Amelie as Zorro

Alt: Amelie as Zorro

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I remember in the last big drought (2000-ish), Tampa radio stations were asking people to call in to report on their neighbors for watering their lawns. It's one of the few times the "poors" get to sic it to the rich with their "need" for huge perfect green lawns, even when we're in a drought.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Jolly Green Giant as my personal bodyguard Mr. Peanut's vast wealth to maintain control of the Burger King and his state power, plus Little Caesar's legions

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 22/07/2026

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A very impressive list of epithets about St*ph*n M*ll*r

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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

In case your day needs a little break to watch a crane drinking water, looking exactly like a dunking/drinking bird toy, Stiltchild's got you covered. 🪶

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👻 SHEET GHOST 👻 @twolemonades.com · 13/07/2026

Saw a post recently calling Amanda Palmer "Steampunk Ghislaine Maxwell."

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 12/07/2026

If Mitch McConnell appears in public now, we know that the GOP just sacrificed Lindsey Graham in some bizarre ritual transferring life forces

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12/07/2026

I gotta sleep but everyone please take this moment as a prompt to check in with friends and make sure everyone is on the same page with your wishes: Do you want to be woken up when it happens or not?

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 12/07/2026

harpers.org/archive/2018...

21 Grahams

From descriptions of Donald Trump, stated between 2015 and 2018, by Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina.

A race-baiting, xenophobic bigot
The Islamic State’s “man of the year”
The death of the GOP’s relationship with Hispanic voters
A death blow to the GOP’s relationship with women
The world’s biggest jackass
A wrecking ball
A salesman of fear
A politician whose ideas are gibberish
A politician who is incapable of representing a mattress company
A poor representation of a Republican
A president who is unfit for office
A president who sometimes crosses the line
A Twitter user whose tweets are sometimes beneath the office of the presidency
A man who has a blind spot
A thoughtful person
A good person
A strong person
A golfer with an accurate drive and an athletic swing
A president doing a great job
The best hope in decades for peace
A potential recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/07/2026

WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

OH MY GOD GUYS okay so priests who want back in have to find a bishop willing to vouch for them, swear fealty to Vatican II and then HAND-WRITE THE POPE AN APOLOGY LETTER (I gues so he knows they didn’t use AI? 😂) and are on probation for 1-3 years this is ten times spicier than I even thought

Reconciliation for priests
The procedure set out by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, beginning on July 1, 2026, provides that a priest who has decided to leave the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X - and who is willing to accept the Second Vatican Council and the legitimacy of the Novus Ordo Missae, while remaining attached to the ancient rite - must "find an Ordinary - a diocesan Bishop, a Major Superior of clerical religious institutes of pontifical right or of clerical societies of apostolic life of pontifical right, etc. - willing to receive him ad experimentum."

The priest must then "write by hand a letter to the Holy Father in which he presents himself and asks for the remission of the censures incurred because of the ordination he received from an excommunicated or irregular Bishop, or because, having been validly and legitimately ordained, he subsequently became a member of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X."

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

You're only $150 short? I CAN'T FIX OTHER PROBLEMS BUT I CAN FIX THIS ONE!

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Trajectory of FL (red then purple) until our Governor did his "Free Florida" kick to import blue state MAGAs from the NE during Covid. Now we are much redder. But these red hats are finding out the services back in their old blue states were much better than the stuff offered here.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

If anyone happens to be at the White House event and catches some of the forecast insects, I will happily take them to accession into a public research collection for posterity.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/06/2026

SPEECHLESS. LFGK

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Will Carless, USA TODAY @willcarless.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The word "hero" gets thrown around a lot. But it's clear the attack on the San Diego Islamic Center yesterday could have been SO much worse. 140 children were feet away from the attackers. Security guard Amin Abdullah engaged these cowards in a gunfight, and they ran away.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I know the law

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

My mom grew up on a farm post WW2 and she has OPINIONS about people who reminiscence about the good old days. No plumbing, no electric, coal stove for cooking and heat. Her dad died out in the fields & her brother died when the hot water pot for the laundry spilled on him. Absolutely terrible.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Bring it on.

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A recent from a fellow (also female) coworker: I'm bad at math so that's why I don't do sudoku. ... all while we are configuring smartsheet lookup formulas... Me: You are great at math, you just don't like digits. Smartsheet formulas are math. Sudoku is just arranging symbols.

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I'm one of those who make those corporate trainings. Every. Single. Example. is a toned down version of what actually happened. If anyone thinks that nobody could be that stupid/racist/bigoted/etc in the training scenarios, just know the real situation was far worse.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

terfs are feminists in the same way national socialists are socialists

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT As of January 1st 2026, John and I are **no longer** the owners of Complexly (the educational media company we started 15 years ago that makes Crash Course, Eons, SciShow, Study Hall, and a bunch of other shows.) We have been the sole owners for all that time...

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 25/01/2026

w/ alt-txt

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Children's parties, any church function where there's food, children's sports fundraisers, the local fair, etc Or any animal rescue group. B/c If he thinks that's PRO level, wait until he sees people transporting, treating, feeding, fostering dogs ... all for FREE

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 23/01/2026

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

#BREAKING: Federal jury finds Chicago man NOT GUILTY of offering $10K for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino. The trial of Juan Espinoza Martinez was the first to result from “Operation Midway Blitz”: chicago.suntimes.com/live/closing...

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Verdict reached in murder-for-hire trial involving U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino: live updates

The unusually swift trial is the first to result from the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago, known as Operation Midway Blitz.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Last spring, I encouraged folks to channel their fears and anxiety about the state of the world into being prepared. The guide is still completely free to access. Large parts of it involves you organizing what you have, and not spending money. There's also a "I'm overwhelmed" section.

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The immunotherapy I've been doing all year worked so I officially have no detectable cancer in my blood test.

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 25/12/2025

Ah, we have a new ship on the shores of Bluesky carrying migrants from the Old Country (Twitter). Welcome. Gaze upon the statue of a well endowed Alf in our harbor and know that you have completed your journey. Now, some tips:

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It would have to sound better. It certainly couldn't sound worse. Sincerely, a disgruntled horn player who's tired of sharing parts with those oversized kazoos

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

This one right here. This is the winner.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

When you haven't pissed off your photographer, Vanity Fair does this.

A beautiful composition of Michelle Obama in a black evening dress in a red room, framed by a doorway, in soft golden light.

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Baptists are VERY independent minded (making them a quintessential Am religion.) Every baptist church controls its own affairs/beliefs, inc who their pastor is. Which is why you can find very liberal Baptists out there, because they refuse to follow the teachings of other Baptist churches

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Yeah, I did time in both churches as a child. Baptists find hierarchy anathema. They will fully say that they follow the bible, but if a pastor says, "Well actually you are not following the bible b/c it actually says this" (cough LGBT), then the pastor is WRONG and they'll find another church. 1/

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

They brought that basic mindset to Catholicism when they agreed with the popes but once the popes became "woke", their internal Baptist reared its head. They were just nerdy enough to find something in Cath history to "justify" their views.

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Tunstall's Ghost @tunstallsghost.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

IMO it's the influence of Baptist-ism in the US alt right. Baptists do that "personal relationship with God" thing and so don't believe in any kind of God authority on earth (unless they agree with it, then it's fine.) 1/

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