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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.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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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

Its giving low effort grok delusion for sure.

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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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Its also disturbing that it seems to not be able to move itself. Its just an inert entity that blankly stares foward and pitches car insurance.

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God i don't know, they lack edge? As much as Vic hated CJ GJ i don't think it was a coincidence they went to the bowl the two years he was here.

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He was playing well not MVP in the first half but yes this offense has potential if they can fix blocking. But that's a big if since our our personnel are not well suited to run this offense though, receivers are all small and poor blockers and tight end room is atrocious.

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Oh yea that's the other thing Jalen has thought Siriani is a clown the entire time

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I will die on the hill that they should fired nick and kept stichen after 2022. Like you have to keep the guy that has you're QB playing at an MVP level.

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Time for the positivity bunny again

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Oh yea Kevin was a real wizard great 'reporting'

Why are the starters still in?

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

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But thay can't expect us to run it if it never works right???

Tush push merchant strikes again

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Nick siriani apology tour, great clock management

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Literally why the fuck is he on our team?

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Its youre journalistic duty to delete lol

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

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We actually need to complain to the league every week. His whistle is unbelievably bad.

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Ben Johnson is such a little rat lmao

Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Taking a knee at the 1 to end racism

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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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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Theyve always been mainly older people, DSA is unique in that respect for sure! But i'd be very surprised if they were withering under trump (especially outside of the bluest parts of the country).

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Bugger @vectorvincent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I dont disagree with points on secular church but my sense is that the idea tha DSA is more of one is really only true for young people. If you exclude older people from tnoughts about what the dem party offers youre going to continually be surprised by its staying power as an entity.

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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

I was shocked to learn that watchman is not universally liked.

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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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"I don't like any one party to get too much power"

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Like everybody would understand how silly it would be take this tone explaining how lyme dease or malaria worked.

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Its always so disapointing to see academics talk down to the public in this way... One being well read on the literature is a consequence of it being your job to be so, acting as if its much more than that is self serving and divisive.

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