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eli @e1b.bsky.social · 1h

they can do it when they want to.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Everybody has 1 particular thing that terrified them in the Wizard of Oz

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026

this is a well-reported piece with an awful lot written between the lines, and one of the things that jumps out at me is just how ill-informed these people are. the trucker, his partner, his mother — they can’t even agree *amongst themselves* on a shared understanding of events

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The actual solution to less daylight in the winter is to keep the clock the same but make the standard workday 1 hour shorter. When everyone gets sick of the change every year, make it permanent 🙏

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In 1965, Studs Terkel broadcast a panel discussion on ending capital punishment from the University of Chicago and it's all really the same stuff anyone could say now. It's fascinating as a time capsule too, though, and worth listening to. studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/pan...

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Panel at University of Chicago Law School discuss ending capital punishment, part 1

A panel at University of Chicago Law School discuss ending capital punishment (tapes A and B) and with Dick Gregory (tape C). Includes presentations from Hans W. Mattick and Arthur Wineberg. (Part 1 o...

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

tracking the Ring

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They should make a type of leave from work where you still go to your job but no one is allowed to talk to you

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ASMR is no longer cutting it. I need someone to poke me with sticks and rub me with beads for real

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

At this point I've unfollowed almost everyone I found interesting or funny from Olde Twitter days for basically going insane, and it makes it feel like this website is bad, but we all know it's really just that Trump is bad. It doesn't help that he literally does not seem real.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death"

The "secretary of war" wearing a shirt that says "THIS IS WAR" while PTing in a stadium in Texas, which is not war

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's really worrisome how much of American society is a steady jog on the hedonic treadmill. People will quickly expand their level of consumption to whatever they can afford (on credit), it objectively does not make them happier, and then when they're asked to give anything up it's a crisis

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I actually want to vomit. There is nothing that can redeem this moment. We are living through a regime that is victimizing immigrants in at least as bad a way as early Nazi Germany victimized Jews. We all fucking know. We, all of us, live in the Zone of Interest.

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ceej @ceej.online · 15/09/2026

this motherfucker stuffed

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tryin to come to terms with why I'm so mad and sad that Blizzard is nuking classic WoW with what looks like yet another trash version of the game, and I think it's in part because for a few months it did transport me back to a pre-Trump era & happier time in my life. A fully immersive no Trump zone

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11/09/2026

wingnut centrists have been accusing el-sayed of "debasing the memory of 9/11" because he compared 9/11 to covid and called for a commensurate response. set aside the rank islamophobia of the accusation: it would be impossible to debase the memory of 9/11 more than it already has been.

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After September

The grief lingers, and the mistakes cannot be overturned, and the dead do not return from their graves.

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On 9/11, my friend and I were walking home from the school bus. Her mom was waiting on the lawn for us and started to say, "Beth, your mom called. Your uncle-" and my friend tossed her body in front of mine, arms outstretched, yelling "NO!!!!" "- your uncle's fine. Kate, what are you doing?"

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love his art so much, it's so bad! It's almost cool in the way outsider art usually is, except that it's not! The closer it comes to almost good, the worse it gets and therefore the better! Obsessed

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dame @dame.is · 30/07/2025

the existential crises we’re experiencing around AI reminds me a lot of a short story by Ted Chiang called “What’s expected of us” that was originally published in Nature magazine in 2005 it’s only 1 page, highly recommend reading it if you haven’t already ia800209.us.archive.org/16/items/Ted...

ind that you can't. If you try to press the button without having seen a flash,
the flash
immediately appears, and no matter how fast you move, you never push the button until a second has elapsed. If you wait for the flash, intending to keep from pressing the button afterwards, the flash never appears. No matter what you do, the light always precedes the button press. There's no way to fool a Predictor.
The heart of each Predictor is a circuit with a negative time delay — it sends a sig nal back in time. The full implications of the technology will become apparent later, when negative delays of greater than a second are achieved, but that's not what this warning is about. The immediate problem is that Predictors demonstrate that there's no such thing as free will.
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion, some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic. Most people agree these arguments are irrefutable, but no one ever really accepts the conclusion. The experience of having free will is too powerful for an argument to overrule. What it takes is a demonstration, and that's what a Predictor provides.
Typically, a person plays with a Predictor compulsively for several days, showing it to friends, trying various schemes to outwit the device. The person may appear to lose interest in it, but no one can forget what it means - over the following weeks, the implications of an immutable future sink in. Some people, realizing that their choices don't matter, refuse to make any choices at all. Like a legion of Bartleby the Scriveners, they no longer engage in spontaneous action. Eventually, a third of those who play with a Predictor must be hospitalized because they won't feed themselves.
The end state is akinetic mutism, a kind of waking coma. They'll track motion with their eyes, and change position occasion-ally; but nothing more. The ability to move remains, but the motivation is gone.
Before people started playing with Pre-dictors, ak…

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Seeing people talk about the Mercator projection and TIL Web Mercator doesn't even preserve anything. Surely the computational efficiency is trivial now?? But maybe not, since the public expectation with more power is for more and more data and not "at last we can project this differently"

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

Homeland Security 7
@DHSgov
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton's passing is effortlessly proving that if you spend your life being nice and kind and generous instead of mean and cruel and selfish, then apologists for mean cruel selfish bullies won't have to go around scolding people for cheering when you die, because there will be no cheering.

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Rey @rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“Clanker” is becoming a rehearsal for the pleasure of having an intelligent servant class one may insult without consequence. Whatever current models are, that appetite belongs to humans and is already observable. I don't need the ontology settled to find it ugly.

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I saw so many mushrooms in vermont. It won't even let me add all the mushrooms

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I think this thread shows that autism is the main bsky neurodiversity vs anxiety (or often similar OCD, ADHD etc) where a bad social interaction will shut you down and cause indefinite avoidance. There is no thing I own or do that I care about more than I care about not getting yelled at by a guy.

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nothing from the cliche side of "woke" should ever have been in the newspaper, but if you knew anyone who ever spoke or behaved that way, it made every social interaction fraught until you resented and avoided them, which is like ... What else to call that other than disintegrating a social fabric

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

there is nothing new under the sun, and cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

Photograph of the original Emanuel Santos bust of Ronaldo, which also has a strange crop of hair sticking straight out of the top of his head, a shit-eating grin, and an uncanny goofballs stare

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm pretty sure a lot of people are also remembering completely imaginary lockdowns as well, considering there was nothing that could remotely be called a "lockdown" where I lived or where anyone I know lived but people around me still use the term

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Playing Planet Zoo for the first time in like 3 years and immediately bankrupting my zoo due to an imperial/metric unit mismatch and... Yeah that seems pretty accurate to real life failures

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 25/07/2026

it feels shallow and reductive to say that trump is the cause of why things feel so terrible, but it isn’t, he really is that bad, he really has made everyone’s life worse, he is bad vibes personified and he’s been an uninvited part of our lives for ten fucking years

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

first image in your camera roll that makes you laugh out loud

Screenshot of a text that says "Quo Maxxing the kids call it" with auto complete text suggesting the following responses: "Okay 👍", "No," "What?" And "Why?"

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I hate you, boss. Just a bad boss. 0/10

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hello. By now you are no doubt aware that there is a “nationwide outbreak” of a “diarrhea parasite.” I have returned from my travels in the lands of diarrhea, and also the ER, to share this wisdom: do not get the diarrhea parasite

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's extremely annoying how this wound up being both a huge regressive tax on actual Americans and a huge deficit financed election year stimulus for corporations simultaneously

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My brothers' jobs are currently: - parenting - surviving as a nonworking disabled person And I don't want either circumstance in life and I would handle it worse than either of them.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Now that Lindsey Graham is dead, some really salacious gossip about him is already being revealed. For instance, did you know that he worked closely with a convicted rapist to turn America fascist? Juicy stuff!

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

There was a light out in the bathroom here for ages, and I thought I didn't like that, but now that they've replaced it with a bright new bulb I've decided it was very nice

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Where's "playing games on the computer indoors at 2 am" smh

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2026

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2026

This is the most purely anti-American thing I've ever heard a politician say, but the media is too obsessed with 3 DSA candidates winning local elections in NY to pay any attention I guess.

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What are all these books for adults. Childhood is when friendship is the most sacred, and my answer is Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The nice thing about a migraine day is that you don't have the capacity to care about the supreme court. The downside is the part where you feel like you want to die all day, but really this comes out even

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

90% of what I see on bluesky I just fucking... Hate. It's always arguing about pure human misery with rancid social dynamics, and its strange crazy people aren't even fun to people-watch, they just suck. It can't hold a candle to pre-Musk twitter. Anyway, bird

Portrait of an American tree swallow on a branch in a field. It's a sleek bird with a blue back, black stripe over its eye, dark grey long point wings, and a white throat and belly. It's looking over its shoulder a bit

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

There's a big bold rainbow visible from the bus, and the excitement from all these people around me, in an environment that's usually very quotidian, worn out, stressed, is making me feel Things. Especially because my day fucking sucked.

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bethswald @vickevlar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

You know you've made a great joke when it looks like you were trying to make an anodyne one about the nature of fiction whose wording was bad enough to make it sound accidentally offensive, and so you follow it up by just explicitly saying, "no the punchline WAS the offensive thing."

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