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Vivek @viv-p-5.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

youtu.be/vNPzZzoNw2Y?... Heard the song and thought it was just a HR shitpost and then I realised IT'S FROM 2009

YouTube video thumbnail: all the things she said by taru, red large text
Title: the hard life of a yaoi fangirl
Views: 411,110
Date: 17 years ago
Channel: maychanxfate

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Lewis 🤘🏼 @lewisfdcm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Perhaps we are to embrace a cringemaxxing era of our lives… something to think about

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Vivek @viv-p-5.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

They need to know what the Khia asylum is, but they can't know it too well 💀 Someone who is/was involved enough to have fun and whimsy but not so much that they're trashing khia's 24/7

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🌸 Yumeko 🌸 @yumekoposes.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Eat zucchini, eat zucchini Eat zucchini, eat zucchini Do you read me? Like the emoji? (Let’s break this down) Oh, won't you? Oh, won't you? Oh, won't you? GDI IT'S IN MY HEAD.

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Vivek @viv-p-5.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

ijbol at the thumbnail but a lot of discourse I've seen has said HR good, Wuthering bad My overwhelming thought is that she should just become a music video director cos the best part of the film was the montage as Chains of Love was playing.

YouTube thumbnail: Bad Sex vs Good Sex, juxtaposing Heathcliff and Cathy from the 2026 movie with Shane and Ilya from Heated Rivalry
Video title: There's Nothing Sexy About 'Wuthering Heights'
Channel: Cannonball with Wesley Morris, NYT podcasts

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I’ve been discussing this for a while. But I think that we’ve gotten so caught up in the question of “Is Natalie ‘Contrapoints’ Wynn good or bad” that we miss the more interesting question: what even is Contrapoints? Her strengths are tied up in her weaknesses… 🧵

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Eowyn 🏳️‍🌈⚧️ @punchupnotdown.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

In case the people have forgotten about Foppington's Law 💀

Screenshot from Contrapoints' video 'Incels'. Text on screen reads "Foppington’s Law: Once bigotry or self-loathing permeate a given community, it is only a matter of time before deep metaphysical significance is assigned to the shape of human skulls."

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Vampire-Batticus 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @matticusrexxor.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Remember when Jeb! was the inevitable candidate? Newsome gives off Jeb! vibes.

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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Imagine being a 19th century Russian homo and hearing this live youtu.be/HaxvTmyKZzw?...

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Shakira - Whenever, Wherever (Live)

YouTube video by shakiraVEVO

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Vivek @viv-p-5.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

New Mitski album and the Gorton and Denton by-election... What a combo

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 15/09/2025

New by me: A look into UK orgs outsourcing critical business and cyber functions to low cost providers and the fall out. I'll probably get in trouble for writing this one. doublepulsar.com/the-elephant...

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The Elephant in The Biz: outsourcing of critical IT and cybersecurity functions risks UK economic…

Recently, there’s been three major UK ransomware and/or extortion incidents at three big UK companies — Co-op Group, Marks and Spencer and…

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Vivek @viv-p-5.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I mean they have to get their clicks somehow (by targeting swiftie pixel users?? (which is me)) Not linking to it cos it isn't worth reading 💀

Forbes article: Why The Pixel 10 Pro Is Really Google’s Pixel 9 Pro (Taylor’s Version)

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Ben Pounds @wildlystrollingben.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The bigger question isn’t “Why isn’t there a Contrapoints video about Palestine?” It’s “Why are we expecting her to be an authority on Palestine?” The fact that she’s approaching this issue as primarily an internet conflict just shows how unprepared her usual method is.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Some are reading this as a defense of Contrapoints. I have my opinions but this wasn’t about her. All I will say on that for now is, I disagree with her characterization of a portion of online leftist as “all of the left”. That is kind of the point. Anyways, to be clear, Free Palestine.

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Celebrimbor @celebrimbor.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It’s bizarre. It’s basically an essay on why she won’t make a video about a situation when she could have simply said “I make videos about philosophy and sociology in the context of American online culture, not genocide. I don’t feel qualified to make a funny video about a topic so serious.”

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CJ 🖖 @wheyface.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Twilight is unironically a masterpiece. Contra is for interesting art, philosophy and psychology insights. Maybe political philosophy also to an extent, more so a few years ago. I think some ppl want/expect her to be primarily political, and in a real, policy way which I never understood

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loogawa @loogawa.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I think contrapoints has been a lefty influencer since before that was really a thing, and being attacked by legitimately the most annoying people in the world for a decade can make you reactionary But I also think basing your idea of what the left thinks on redditors and Twitter reply guys is bad

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

on a serious note my concern on reading it is less about the precise content of the post and more about the fact that contra is showing preliminary signs of reactionary centrist brain poisoning, where the state of online lefty discourse occupies an increasingly central space in the brain

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cyanlol @cyanlol.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

It’s not something I’d witch-hunt over, but it’s pretty dumb to only criticize the online left that has little control over the situation, instead of the governments that are actually perpetrating it. It’s not the activists’ fault that the government isn’t listening to them

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 10/07/2025

waking up to the contrapoints thing

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Have some on the left really negatively polarized themselves into supporting exclusionary, car-centric zoning because they don’t want to agree with Ezra Klein?  “You will take my minimum parking requirements out of my cold dead hands, neoliberal scum. The revolution will have ample parking.”

"Most regular people have no idea how restrictive zoning is in most North American cities."

Reply: "Why does this smell like Neoliberal Abundance propaganda and bullshit?"

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

i listened to the Ezra Klein/Sarah McBride interview, and her entire position revolves around a completely unproven assertion: the idea what caused the shift in polls away from trans rights is the rhetoric of the left. that might be true, but i haven’t seen any real evidence for it.

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 30/06/2025

“When will Zohran condemn this” “When will Zohran condemn that” When will Zohran condemn the MTA’s decision to build the Interborough Express as a tram

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Uncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I feel like this is a massive fuckup even by NYT standards

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Vivek @viv-p-5.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I literally talked to my parents about this 3 days ago 😭 Clearly June is the month of looking at a map of the east midlands and thinking "that can't be real." www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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The English Midlands is unjustly overlooked

Not least by its own inhabitants

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Would be amazing to get a single piece of media on this topic centered on the right's firehose of bigotry and misinformation rather than "the trans rights movement's shortcomings" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

The Ezra Klein Show: How to Beat Back Trump on Trans Rights — and Much Else

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 17/06/2025

Hochul is someone I'd long called one of the biggest disappointments in Democratic politics, who'd undershot even my subterranean expectations for her. So, the fact that she's standing up and doing this--convincingly! With a certain charisma!--is nothing short of incredible. Good on her.

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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I’m watching parliament’s women and equalities committee grill Baroness Falkner and the EHRC so you don’t have to, follow along with this thread for a summary of what’s said

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I mean, if you had a serious, important job and you made a mistake like this, you'd probably get fired...

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ben doyle @thewheatgerm.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

someone is about to get paid one hundred million dollars to host a podcast where they say the situation in gaza is kind of complicated

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 04/06/2025

“why is new york always electing crappy and insane mayors.” the mayoral sash, regardless of city, is an object that causes madness in its wearer. it’s like you’re asking why someone grasping the palantir with both hands is talking to sauron

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benji ! @nlsonsprings.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

i've been using twt casually the last few days and why is that app so fucking broken now like the TL doesn't even work

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vintage.stuff @vintagestuff.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A same height party by artist Hans Hemmert Berlin 1997

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act. (Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin) www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...

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The Gist: Trans rights are Data rights

A UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist.

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mike @pierogidinner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I hope this entire Lorde album is Wendy Williams references. Clap If You Care (Ok Moving On) would slap

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DNA @dnaforever.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

7 days | 7 albums Joanne 🐎 🤠 gaga goes west. critics and the public left mixed with the folksy/country move post artpop and tony b jazz album. those who got it *got it.* million reasons proved she could write a song for anyone- a talent proved oscar-worthy. my joanne boyfriend: Perfect Illusion

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Scary things that you may have recently read headlines about that it turned out you didn’t have to worry about include: microplastics in your brain, black plastic spatulas, intermittent fasting, and plant based meat alternatives. Also, no, you do not eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a month.

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Seth @sethoughts.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

99% of the problem with government is Citizens United vs FEC.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/03/2025

They can't help themselves from repeating the exact narratives that the fascists use to attack academia. It's not about the actual policies for the people at the Times but rather the tactics they find distasteful. They want to be polite fascists.

A screenshot of a passage discussing issues in higher education. The text criticizes professors and university administrators for acting as liberal ideologues rather than seekers of empirical truth. It states that academics have tried to silence debate on topics like Covid lockdowns, gender transition treatments, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. A Harvard University survey is cited, showing that only 33% of graduating seniors felt comfortable expressing opinions on controversial topics, with moderate and conservative students most concerned about ostracization. The passage contains hyperlinks to the mentioned topics.

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shane solo @shanelemagne.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

today in history in 1582 pope gregory thirteen issued the papal bull announcing the reform to our modern calendar, which was used to mark the release of belgian techno anthem ‘pump up the jam’

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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