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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 10h

I need someone to get Girma out of London, man

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Cancel me for this but I think that politicians should pursue policies that improve the material circumstances of their constituents.

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Lesley Ryder @lesleyryder.bsky.social · 10h

Hayes on the u-20 development, and the need for players to get minutes “I look at Micayla Johnson, who played more games in the first three games in the U.S. than she has the whole year. And how can you compete in tournaments when you're not playing on a regular basis?”

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And how can you compete in tournaments when you're not playing on a regular basis? Does that mean she's not talented enough? No, far from it. It means that creating this development gap, and I've said it for since I've been in this job, getting it right between the ages and 17 to 21 is a issue for us in this country, without question. Because at the last World Cup, we had seven or eight players that had come from the pro game. That was quite a that was a great class.
A lot of them have progressed. This time we have the same number, but we have even more pros that are playing. It didn't mean more of those pros were playing with the under 20s. So when you look at Spain mandatory to go and play for your country at all age groups, look at the connections they build up from the youngest ages

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Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 10h

I'm going to need a moratorium on straight people in all media until they learn the lesson of Heated Rivalry wasn't that people really like shows about Ice Hockey...

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 9h

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a hand-saw.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Jonathan Tannenwald @jtannenwald.bsky.social · 10h

Emma Hayes confirms that Jaedyn Shaw and Ally Sentnor will be with the #USWNT under-23 squad this window. "I don't want less-experienced players always sitting on the bench and playing few minutes... They're still central to our plans."

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Aleida Rosales Is Sick of Your Shit @nicosan1.bsky.social · 10h

Emma and Vlatko skipping Sarah Gorden from USWNT rosters is one of the great unforced errors in years of international soccer. She needs top quality centerbacks, they don't really make them like Gorden. She also needs top 1 v 1 defenders who can cover top flight 9s

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Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social · 11h

Obviously, everyone can't make the cut, and if Emma's calling up someone new, someone familiar is getting left out, but I'm still surprised to not see Jaedyn Shaw.

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William Lane @williamjtlane.bsky.social · 15h

I've alway found it notable that when writing about unearned wealth/privilege, male musicians will often personify it in the form of a woman (Common People - Pulp, Handbags and Gladrags - Various, She's Got All the Friends that Money Can Buy - Chumbawamba).

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h

Studies dating back to the 80s have found that men are not just “confused” about consent. They just don’t prioritize consent over things like power, domination, and sexual gratification. Men participating in a gang rape know they don’t have the victim’s consent.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h

I keep seeing people talking about consent training and restorative justice in the aftermath of the Cornell story. I don’t know how to explain to people that those reactions are a part of the problem.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it is crazy that he did a straight-up supervillain monologue about how he had planted this in right-wing media and that the NYT was going to pick it up, right in front of the NYT, and they did

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a day Teach a man to transform permanently into a fish, you'll probably never hear from him again

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 28/09/2026

charles manson would clean up with these EA kids my god

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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dame @dame.is · 28/09/2026

i really really REALLY don’t think you should respond to someone getting death threats by saying “this sucks, but it makes sense because the person telling you to KYS has material and mental conditions that are making them lash out” STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR DEATH THREAT ENJOYERS

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Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really think our cultural conceptions of dogs really don't help here. Dogs are precious angel puppers. We don't deserve dogs, and so on. But dogs aren't magical creatures sent to please us! They're autonomous animals with their own wants and needs.

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Andy Bowen (He/Him) @andybowen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"We are using the Phoenix motif but do not in any circumstances talk about why the United States Army felt compelled to burn Atlanta to the ground because that will trigger men who don't watch ⚽ or women's sports and only comment on it using sexist or transphobic language."

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026

I still think splitting the atom is the more significant scientific achievement but it's a little odd inventing a protein bar that doesn't taste horrible is taking a lot longer

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Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I might dislike this more than BOS Nation? BOS Nation was very bad, but at least it spoke of people with (bad) ideas who wanted a team with a (stupid) identity.

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Jason Anderson @jasondcsoccer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(consultant who only ever suggests City FC or United FC for US club names, and who doesn't actually care for soccer) You know what would work in Atlanta?

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 27/09/2026

We should have killed the internet with hammers

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Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What a night of #WNBA games! Interesting that we didn't have any close games. Game 1: Liberty vs. Lynx. I wanted the Liberty to win, because I want the 8 seed to beat the 1 seed. So, this game gave me what I wanted. Game 2: Aces vs. Fever. I wanted to see the Fever get trounced. Go me!

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

for the well actually people: I have no idea if THIS specific black food has activated charcoal, but everyone should check before they eat a food which for eleven months out of the year is not black and suddenly in october it goes black.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Marisa is unfairly misportraying how close this game is. Paige Bueckers has 17 points, it's true, but the entire rest of the Wings do have 14 and could reasonably overtake Bueckers before the end of the 3rd if they're determined.

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mel, binface’s knight 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

all transit cuts should be prevented by state money and paid for out of highway budgets if we’re actually serious about stopping climate change

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People seem to think this is problematic but I think it's not only hilarious, it speaks of someone with a lot of gay people around him

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

And we tell elaborate, politicised stories to justify that jonesing for catharsis. We deserve it, we say. We're oppressed. The world is on fire. We're--one might say--mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore. Then you make your dumbass death threat and nothing changes.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

And the only coherent answer people who defend this behaviour seem to give is that if you are marginalised to a certain degree, then you're entitled to a certain amount of "venting." You know, as a treat.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

There's all sorts of excuses that are made for this kind of behaviour--I should know, I used to make them. Psychic wages of oppression; small account; pales in comparison to rich evil people; an unserious, unrealistic threat. But as I got older I just started asking, "why act like this at all?"

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They/Thempress @theythem.press · 27/09/2026

consent is impossible when you mix career networking and sex together in a social space. the inherent power differentials extant in such an environment muddies the waters of consent to the point of complete opacity. how do you say "no" to someone who has the power to make or break your career?

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/09/2026

Everyone complains about having to do sexual harassment training because "don't coerce your direct reports into sleeping with you" seems obvious but I guess the very clever and special computer boys never picked that up.

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Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Liberty take game one! I am rooting for the Liberty, because the commentator said that no 8 seed has ever beat a 1 seed, and that's the kind of thing I'd love to see happen. #WNBA

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Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES

Inverting Feminism

SlutCon's vision
paints women into a corner in having an ethos that is an inversion of
feminism. In Aella's own words:

Most women don't know what they want
and if they do they are pretty bad at and so their sexual advice tends to be ineffective at best and actively
communicating it, damaging at worst.

Heavy focus on safety and deference are there for good reasons
and they need to be
respected, but often are
deeply unsexy, no matter how much people insist otherwise.

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Man, as someone who actually does know a few folks who've done sex work -- all of whom were normal people -- this is a pretty fucked up thing to just casually say

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Dalassa @dalassa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So many sex pests get excused by defenders saying they could be autistic, never do they think that autistic people are capable of not being sex pests or that women can be autistic too.

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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

its fairly obvious that these spaces are being cultivated from the top down because “kinky tech nerd sex culture” is way more expansive than this scene is. They’ve cut out all the furries for Christ's sake, it’s unnatural.

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To add to this thought a bit: one of the perils of those of us in kink culture being (often by necessity) somewhat careful and discreet is that people like Aella who aren't do a disproportunate amount of damage

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

CNC is a fine kink to have. It's also the kind of thing that requires an individual container, extensive negotiation, triple-checked consent and aftercare. Everyone involved needs to be able to trust each other completely. How can you possibly create that space in a semi-public event?

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

So many autistic/neurodivergent women (which I bet describes a LOT of women in the Silicon Valley AI scene) report being *specifically* targeted by sexual predators who take advantage of their issues with reading social situations. Which is why I loathe the “oh, those poor autistic men” excuse.

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Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've seen people suggest it's wrong to call this AI safety movement a sex cult. Sure, it's a cult, and sure there's sex, but the two don't intersect. But everything we learn shows that's just not true. (Check out the rest of the thread.)

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Windy @windyspirals.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We have, at this convention, a vortex of sex and money, the two greatest motives for murder known to man. And yet, so far, all the evidence points to this being an assassination on the orders of a hypothetical...vengeful robot from the future! It's maddening!

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“He didn’t do it but it’s cool that he did” is a relatively common structure for denialism of awful things of all kinds

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Kaldrenon @kaldrenon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bluesky: Where the moderately pretentious go to argue with the pretentiously moderate.

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