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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026

“The day after I lost $1,800 on basketball in one night … an email popped into my inbox. ‘Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase,’ the subject line read. I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded.”

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and…

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The inability to live up to your own stringent standards is FUNNY and not an indictment of your soul

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 18/09/2026

The wildest thing is the universities that proactively caved to the Trump admin. When have we *ever* seen an academic institution move that fast, or cut through red tape so efficiently? Which administrator was suddenly able to get a new policy in place so quickly — but not for a student or faculty?

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran saying "I'm in love with the shape of you" while looking at a map of Greater Israel

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

RIP Bob Mackie, genius.

Carol Burnett's famous "Went with the Wind" costume.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 27/08/2026

did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume

A young woman in a Garfield inspired outfit with a Garfield headdress

The young woman from the first photo is holding a lasagna that says “lasagna my love language”

missinteenusa Tonight, Indiana is going Garfield!
My state costume celebrates one of Indiana's most iconic creations-Garfield, created by fellow Hoosier Jim Davis.
Born in Marion and raised in Fairmount, Davis turned an orange cat with a big personality into a character recognized and loved around the world.
But this costume represents more than a famous Hoosier.
The hand-painted comic panels on my skirt share messages inspired by my initiative, Captivating Confidence:
"Our differences are what make us beautiful."
"If we don't have love, we have nothing."
"Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates."
To me, true confidence is found in embracing what makes each of us different and recognizing that our greatest beauty comes from within. I am so excited to bring a little Hoosier humor, creativity and confidence to the Miss Teen USA stage tonight!
This one-of-a-kind costume was inspired by my vision and brought to life by Indianapolis-based costume designer, Jess West. @jesswestcostumes

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lingerie icons!!!! 😭😭😭😭

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 15/08/2026

As always, my personal belief is that institutions should not kill people or cause them harm. But if those institutions are determined to do so, let’s have them start with the villains.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/08/2026

The Republican platform is simple: they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.

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Ethan @tyrantheel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hot, laid off singles in your area!

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

it all just sort of makes sense, now, huh. all this shit was just generated by AI and he believed it all enough to parrot it on his podcast, and his fact checking team had to clean up after him this is a really massive blow to popular science. Everything is in question now. does he realize this?

a screenshot of hank green talking, with the caption at the bottom saying his fact checkers could not find a source that said cats groom themselves to make them less smelly so they can hunt better

tweet from @ProtonInspector, "Having watched Hank’s video yesterday, in hindsight it’s very funny that half the fact check banners are like “we don’t know what Hank is talking about”

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Ethan @tyrantheel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How strange it is to be anything at all

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Arnie Niekamp @arnieniekamp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Graham dead after “brief and sudden illness.” McConnell alive after slow and extended death.

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Ethan @tyrantheel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If you’re in line to die, stay in line!

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

How it started / how it’s going

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Ethan @tyrantheel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Call me Santana ft. Rob Thomas the way I want to be 7” from the mid gay son.

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Ethan @tyrantheel.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please, sir, can I kick it?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/05/2026

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

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We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots

“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...

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Ashley Spencer @ashleyspencer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It exists! I interviewed backup dancers, producers, the costume designer, the song’s producers who granted the rights, and so many more who were involved: web.archive.org/web/20240227...

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An oral history of Tom Holland's sensational 'Lip Sync Battle' performance

The producers, choreographers, and dancers behind the "Umbrella" and "Singin' in the Rain" mashup explain how it came to be.

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Ethan @tyrantheel.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

“Depression can’t hit a moving target,” I say as I walk from my couch to my bed.

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Ethan @tyrantheel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Nicole Kidman.

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goo3r @goo3r.com · 13/04/2026

The pope will never get re-elected with all this negative press from the president.

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Swirl 🇵🇷 @pnw-swirl.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Real talk y’all. The idea that only certain bodies deserve to be naked is a lie. There is no future version of you that finally earns freedom. The body you have right now already deserves liberation. It always did. #naturist #fkk #normalizenudity #nakedhiking

A nude man stands outdoors in a wooded area, one hand resting on a smooth, peeling tree trunk. He wears a dark baseball cap and a thin chain necklace, looking off to the side with a calm expression. His body is relaxed and natural, with visible body hair and a soft penis. The scene is surrounded by green foliage and mossy ground.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/03/2026

Hillary should send an email to Kash’s account so that the press will cover the story. 🧠💫

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Marie Snyder @mariesnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

From @katemanne.bsky.social "You can mock a man for expressing moral concern; you cannot express genuine moral concern yourself. To do so would be to embody the figure of the nag or the scold, who is ineluctably feminine. Condemning bad behavior is hence just for pussies."

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One Weird Trick for Being a Better Man

When a man is with other men, why does he lose his moral compass so reliably?

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I have been run out of Hollywood. simply for proposing “Heated Rivalry but with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald”

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Ethan @tyrantheel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The freak in me recognizes the freak in you.

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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

gifting this article because it made me laugh, which is hard to do in this context. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/n...

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After Mamdani Nods to ‘Heated Rivalry,’ Library E-Book Downloads Surge

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Ethan @tyrantheel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Our institutions are cowardly, but the people will save us.

Two paragraphs from an article saying, “A second MAGA assumption is that the left is insincere in its values, and that principles of inclusion and unity are superficial forms of virtue signaling. White liberals might put a sign in their front yard saying
IMMIGRANTS WELCOME, but they will abandon those immigrants at the first sensation of sustained pressure.
And in Trump's defense, this has turned out to be true of many liberals in positions of power—university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Like???????????????

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Chris Gethard @chrisgethard.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

On Sunday I was eating ice cream sundaes with my son when he asked me and mom what ICE was. I stammered my way through an answer, not knowing that on the other side of town ICE was capturing people off the streets. Thanks to NJ.com for letting me write about it. www.nj.com/opinion/2026...

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I told my blond 6-year-old he’d be OK. Down the street, ICE took away another 6-year-old’s ‘papi’

No one in New Jersey should spend any more time pretending ICE tearing families apart is far away.

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Ethan @tyrantheel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I’m doing a version of Dry January where my lips are chapped constantly.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/01/2026

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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Chris Gethard @chrisgethard.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Beautiful/Anonymous listeners - our annual New Years' Resolutions episode is up and out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...

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2026 New Year's Resolutions

Podcast Episode · Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People · 12/30/2025 · 1h 60m

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Ethan @tyrantheel.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I’m really in that “we’ll have to muddle through somehow” state of mind

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16/12/2025

The Republican platform is simple: They want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it .

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Do I know any LGBTQ+ folks who work (or have worked) in higher education who would be willing to offer some Indiana youth (who also identify as LGBTQ+) tips and resources for returning to non-affirming homes over holiday breaks? DM me! Or email me at Ashley dot Ford at Free Press Indiana dot org :)

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Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Every use-case people think they "need" and LLM for is actually papering over a different issue. The teacher using ChatGPT to write narrative reports bc the demand is unreasonable & overwhelming *actually* needs more support and/or compensation or a reduction of demand. It's a LABOR issue.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Because every time something is labeled “vibes”, I go look and it’s just Marxism.

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Ethan @tyrantheel.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

You’re so vain, you probably think this goon is about you.

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