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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13h

When people in power deliver bad news to you, they expect you to just take punch, accept it, and move on. In these situations, we need to empower ourselves to reject the premise. I want you to look at three time points in the fight to save the academy of natural sciences with me. (Thread)

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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 20h

I sympathize but what you have to realize is that you, individually, have far more ability to keep the left a safe place for Jewish comrades than to abolish the state of Israel. and indeed we need the former to make the latter possible.

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brent sewer socialist🚰🌹 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 21h

I’ve never been in denial about it but I do think today was the first day I truly realized how much antisemitism is spreading and being normalized in online far-left circles. It’s scary and frightening and is only going to get worse if the left insists it’s not a problem.

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hankothy @crittercolours.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

fishies!! (2x2" canvases, because i wanted to try doing something even smaller than my usual ones!)

A photo of two small 2" canvas paintings, both held in my hand. Both paintings are portraits of sardines close up on their heads, painted in shades of yellow, pink, and blue. One has a pink background and text reading "hello," while the other has a purple background.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GoFundMe was a lot more effective when it was called taxes.

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

man, it fucking owns that I don't get to have kids and if I want to leave a legacy on this earth I have to make my backup plan work (contribute something to science)

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

reactionary centrists and right wingers declared that liberals/the left don't value children and don't want to have them, and now people on the left(s) who were lucky enough to have children are posting about how it sucks that no one on the left wants children.

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the difference between "I believe your symptoms feel real to you" and "I believe that the symptoms you're experiencing have a biological cause but I don't agree with the explanation you've settled on" is miles.

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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“We want to destroy patronage networks” “Ban university-endorsed Greek life” “We also want to reduce sexual assault” “You’re gonna love hearing our answer again”

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

they have no idea what they're doing. and it would be kind to say they do not care. they care a lot! they are spinning the cylinder and pulling that trigger and hoping with every fiber of their being that they blow the head off society. it's wild

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Three very different was to treat diabetes 1) ineffective medication 2) gradually increasing sugar intake to build tolerance 3) faith healing

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skeeter longpenis @guypussy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(creep sung by meryl streep) but im meryl streep ……..

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DJ @eschaton-avoidance.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

"but I've had interesting conversations with her on Twitter and she's so curious about the world, all the smart people talk to her" yes. that is the epstein pitch.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

By virtue of their needed expertise, engineers possess real power to determine the structure of much of everyday life To not understand that power within its political and historical context is to reduce oneself to a blind tool for use by whoever is willing to pay

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

just want to register that some high follower accounts on covid twitter/bsky intentionally triggered a panic about the hantavirus outbreak earlier this year becoming a pandemic and that did not happen

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Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Our Mari of the pumpkin patch

A mari holds a pumpkin in a patterned cloak

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

people who claim to have “recovered from long COVID” are pretty heterogeneous actually. 1) people who never had me/cfs or neurological symptoms, but rather post-viral fatigue where fatigue was their only symptom 2) people who did/do have neuro lc (often me/cfs), experienced partial recovery and

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This narrative is part of a broader one that places the blame for pandemic risk on the Global South, and demands that they think less about how colonialism has entrenched poverty and denied them vaccines, and think more about how to responsibly manage their rainforests and wildlife populations.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Founding Fathers if they were alive today

A t-shirt with boxes labeled "Republican" and "Democrat" and a third, checked box reading "GAY GUY"

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lrt: I usually don’t post about mask related discourse because I find it tedious and I dislike being reminded that I’m cut off from many aspects of human connection, but everyone really does need to be aware that this was started by literal J*sse Sing*l

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DJ Plague Mouse 💎🐁 @rhinestonemice.wtf · 23/09/2026

The Last Ditch lesbian bar mask requirement story was the topic of Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog's terf ass podcast on September 17th last week. Seems likely this is where the Globe is getting the content for the "viral story". Nice work everyone, great media literacy skills.

Screenshot of a podcast episode from the show Blocked and Reported on substack, a platform for Nazis:

Premium: Last Ditch Bar And The Never-Ending Accountability Session
Plus, mouthy women get kicked out of an “inclusive” sports bar
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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

we will get through these hard times vs we will remember these as the good times before the lights went out entirely

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social any chance you'd be willing to boost my friend Luke Jungmann, a proud DSA member (nationally endorsed!) who is running to flip a republican district here in New Mexico? the district was R+6 in 2024 and has been trending bluer for some time 👀

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pebbles @pebbles.gay · 23/09/2026

most of you were MILDLY inconvenienced by maybe three fellow humans in masks in the last year but you're ready to call them vicious parasites unworthy of public life for suggesting that a news article might be framed to engender that exact response in you 🤷🏽‍♀️

if you're ever considering catering to CovidConscious(TM) people, reread this article and remind yourself that they're vicious, self-centered little parasites. give an inch, lose a mile.

There are people in the replies and QTs continuing the tactics of these bar patrons by insisting this never should have been reported on

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the balloon fiesta is sponsored by who

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 23/09/2026

And the wellness sector's takeover of health policy, yes. So many fully formed states in waiting within the Republican coalition — waiting to capture and subvert whole agencies and branches of government, like a cordyceps infestation controlling an ant.

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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

FYI: After the Pride Caucus reshared the Lucas County Dems post the reshare was deleted ... but not by the Lucas Dems or Pride Caucus. I'll let the reader come to their own conclusions about who deleted it.

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Steven Strang @alchemicalrat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My two brains

Painting of a raccoon and a bear, both standing upright and wearing human clothing. The raccoon is leaning rakishly on a stick and the bear is holding a large fish.

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Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another attempt at an art deco mari

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don’t find the willful ignorance as to why people are upset to be particularly helpful because, again, it is not at the expense of other issues. the people outside the Kennedy Center are not waving banners that read, “well let you build data centers if you give us arts programming”

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 20/09/2026

This is my big optimistic take. I have no optimism for 2027-2028. Foks without collective bargaining agreements are really gonna be hurting, hospitals will close, and re-opening them post 2029 is going to be a nightmare.

As a Medicare for All guy who just spent the past year getting the biggest surgery of his life involving 20+ doctors visits, it floors me how healthcare ranks around 8th biggest priorities for voters. I get it, and Republicans thought they were being sly by putting the big hit to next year, but it sets up 2028 as the biggest healthcare election in a century.

And I don't think people are taking that into consideration on their 2028 candidates, and I don't think the swing districts really matter, most of them I'm seeing will go with the flow based on who's POTUS.

We do need to focus on the handful of corporate Democrats who will hold us back in blue districts.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

I also think that he is simply fascinated with death and intoxicated by the idea that he can inflict death.

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rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

anecdotally ive had way more luck talking to voters about data center moratoriums than affordability tbqh

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this is what I keep coming back to, the fact that we’re not constantly hearing about llms doing a helpful thing in biomedical research implies that there might not be even a single instance of this

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

wait you guys didn’t know about the AI death cult where everyone is banging each other?

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We should interpret these nightmare stories with this stuff in mind. These people have material interests (sex and money) in spreading these stories. But we should also ask why so many journalists love jumping on that train, and why so many people find reading about AI doom so endlessly appealing.

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

too upset about the whole “neurological disease no one understands“ thing to have an opinion on the rest

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

lrt for facts only, not the conclusion

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Somewhere, some rationalist-brained person is reading this and saying I'm a "low decoupler", and that whether they run a sex cult has nothing to do with whether they're correct.

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Jac @dairyqueenslime.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

dragging furniture across the floor in the middle of the night is literally so important in upstairs neighbor culture

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Again, all of this renewed obsession with THE DEBT is a media/elite precursor to obsessively covering Dem proposals on everything in 2029 through the lens of WE CAN’T AFFORD THAT, after not asking a single question about how we can afford DOGEing the govt & losing a war under the far right party

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

why would you go to a leftist rally and then complain that someone said something annoying…fork found in kitchen

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026

Yeah Al Green’s impeachment push is going to be dismissed out of hand while Massie’s is going to get serious coverage.

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rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

they're basically polling trump voters and then soyfacing about how they hold retrograde social views

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rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i like that their methodology would classify someone making $150k as working class if they don't have a college degree, but someone making 50k who has a college degree isn't.

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Unknown Etiology @viralpersistence.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I want the federal government to cancel its contracts with palantir, tesla/space x and other technofascist companies

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So, we know what the companies will do. We also know what Congress is likely to do, absent organizing: they'll sit down with lawyers and lobbyists from the largest companies, plus a few token ppl from DC think tanks, and write an industry-friendly bill that they think they can pass

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