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I love when other aging post-hipster housing dweebs try to cool guy me over YIMBYism, as though it is possible to have strongly-held opinions about zoning rules and housing permitting processes without being an enormous goddamn nerd.

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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hard not to feel a tinge of resentment about the white person in this comic who on average moved to the city with a degree, lives in a trendier neighborhood, spends more money on alcohol/drugs/eating out, and isn't supporting kids at home or family abroad and yet is 10x more miserable than Hussein.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It certainly seems like material explanations can’t explain all of voters’ behaviors—but what if there were another motivation?

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Excited to see how the Atlanta Hawkeyes do this year and whatnot.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Time for the positivity bunny again

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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why are the starters still in?

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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So...Cam Ward and now Case Keenum. How is the secondary this bad??

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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tush push merchant strikes again

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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nick siriani apology tour, great clock management

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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Im glad nick siriani was calling the other team pussies instead of figuring out that if he called a time out Jalen probably gets to play all of those snaps...

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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Call a fucking time out you fucking moron Siriani. Jalene cleared protocol 5 seconds after the int....

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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ben Johnson is such a little rat lmao

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Trump gave a bigly ballyhooed address to the nation about how China stole the 2020 election two months ago and everyone including him immediately forgot about it.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Wall Street Journal tracked 70K hours of conservative podcasts. They’re not talking about Trump anymore. Lots of rats paddling away.

Graph showing decline in mentions of Trump

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb

Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is very powerful

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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not me! I am worried about all of the above!

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TheSinnamom @thesinnamom.gay · 14/09/2026

I simply can't get over "Talarico's lengthy record of staunch support for social justice is moot because he used a turn of phrase on a specific facet of an issue that would allow him to nullify a wedge issue in an R+13 state, then pivot back to his social justice roots once elected" Are we daft?

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Lauren Dracula 🧛‍♀️ @beavisetc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s not NFL season until I see Eagles fans cursing God because their team won

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Giants version of the brotherly shove is called the Jaxson Shart

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regina @cookiesecrets.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Landon Dickerson get ready to learn HGTV buddy

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Olivia Fairlight @olivia.powerupwithpri.de · 14/09/2026

I like Sean Mannion offense. I do not like the defense getting worn out by the offense's lack of experience with Sean Mannion offense. A win's a win but that was a stressful season opener. Go Birds, dickhead.

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Kyle Conner @udkyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Perfect Eagles game for the locals. Eagles Win and they can bitch about the team all week across various mediums

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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Saquon up the middle on first and 10 again? #eagles

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This isn’t just about coalitional politics, but about being able to engage in politics without it being ruinous to your mental and emotional wellbeing. Jeffries meeting Kushner producing as much anger as Trump chaining Haitians is not good politics, and not good for you personally.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’ve quit my job at the pedantic, humorless reply factory. I believe there’s a greater than 10% chance that this industry may destroy Bluesky, and I cannot be a part of it anymore

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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Matthew Stafford appears to be the most jetlagged man of all time #nfl

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Fa-ghoul-tha Christie @joelnb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think we should hold ourselves to a higher standard than calling the oesophagus the 'food pipe' in headlines.

Headline of 'Very hot drinks may damage the food pipe and increase cancer risk' with a photo of a hand reaching for a mug with steam coming off it

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acabylon bee @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

if american cities are so safe, why do so many conservative influencers think they're on the brink of apocalypse???

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i missed Silksong one year anniversary happy birthday bbs

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today’s Baseball Name is Rusty Kuntz

Rusty Kuntz
Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right • Throws: Right
6-3, 190lb (190cm, 86kg)
Born: February_4, 1955 (Age: 71-216d) in Orange,
More bio, uniform, draft, salary info y
1984 World Series

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

at least tomorrow is sunday: extended edition

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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There is a huge mass of apathetic voters *loud correct ding* Who can be rallied around an egalitarian/progressive/socialist cause *ear shatteringly loud incorrect buzzer*

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026

I know we're all supposed to be herding onto the anti-data center bandwagon, but man, I worry a *lot* that it's going to overspill its borders & become a more generalized anti-wind & solar, anti-battery, anti-grid-infrastructure, anti-transmission, anti-anything mega-glonzo that leaves us worse off.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 03/09/2026

The Brother

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Hoff Crab is neither a crab nor is it David Hasselhoff. It is a Yeti Crab, which is neither a Yeti nor a Crab but a sub-group of Squat Lobsters, which are not lobsters, they're Anomurans, like Mole Crabs, which are neither moles, nor crabs.

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