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Got a really scary one to start off the month @erinbiba.bsky.social don’t watch in a dark room!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Almost as if a sentient oil slick who was willing to “hear all sides” about folks who wanted to stop babies from playing sports by checking their genitalia WOULD ABSOLUTELY SEE NON PROBLEM WITH BANNING CLASS SYMBOL GLASSES THAT DENY PEOPLE PRIVACY

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zane @onlypianos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I want hell to be empty but I don't like that all the devils are here

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/10/2026

End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh we're doing Romance novel discourse again?

Fred from Scooby Doo unmasks a ghost in two panels. In the first, the masked ghost is, "HERE'S WHY THIS GENRE I HATE IS BAD." In the second, the ghost is unmasked to turn out to be, "I HAVEN'T READ OF IT BUT"

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The strategy next time should be to indict everyone for everything, everywhere. The ex-president, if alive, should get a hundred indictments, spread across as many districts as possible, with as many state charges separately brought as possible. Cabinet members and aides should get dozens.

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Be my agent-sibling!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Zak Sitter @telliamed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Top notch, but this will always be her finest work to me. So compact & lethal.

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026

I had a diagnoses for over 15 years before I got prescribed stimulants and that first week was the first time I understood that other people can apparently think "I should bring this to the kitchen" and then they can get up and bring something to the kitchen. just like that. like magic.

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

I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

lol if the conservatives want to take away my ADHD medication, I refuse to be held responsible for all the incredibly dumb things that will happen next

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

GIRL DINNER GOALS

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

😂

7. But if people have wanted to find a synthetic alternative to the hats for years, why hasn't the government done it?

Apparently it's harder than you'd think to find a material that maintains the human
head at a steady temperature of 480 degrees Fahrenheit while also largely eliminating the wearer's ability to see.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 24/09/2026

Sweet bleeding Mithras y'all, I get being an unhinged Astarion fan, that is one messed up guy, I like him and I don't usually have time for vampires. But you do realize that he's, like, pretend?? And that someone can have a different take on who he is or his story, right?

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Dr. Meredith Wills ⚾️⚾️👀 @bbl-astrophyscs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If the White Sox win the World Series, it should count as a miracle toward Pope Leo’s canonization.

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 25/09/2026

"He will perhaps understand the history of his age better if he knows less of what takes up space on the front page of the newspapers. He will have a different, and perhaps more accurate, perspective.” He was right." Insanely well written and thought-provoking reco, THX Faine.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

nation stunned to discover wars don't actually come with an undo function

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 23/09/2026

RIP to Chris Christie’s 2028 campaign, murdered by an octogenarian mere hours after launch

Joyce Carol Oates • @JoyceCarolOates
really, this is a serious question: why on earth would Chris Christie imagine that anyone, anywhere, ever would want him to run for President? what sparks such a delusion? granted, his wife might enjoy having him out of the house & on the campaign trail; but better just get an inexpensive hobby instead.
Joyce Carol Oates • @JoyceCarolOates •1h
New Jersey thinks not, x.com/ianjaeger29/st...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Listen,,

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Alison Smaalders @vividwings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm finally out of the worst of it, but get the flu shot now, folks! I procrastinated because I was waiting on the covid shot to get it at the same time, and I was laid low by Influenza A. I spent a week with fevers and chills, and the better part of a second week laying about in bed.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I think the median voter believes in Natural Prices, and these are about how much things costed at the most recent point in their mind where they felt relatively financially stable. They expect politicians and businesses to honour this and take steps to ensure things cost their Natural Price.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

What I really fucking love about Hot Fuzz is that it is a rare piece of artwork that unapologetically defends liberal modernity. A representative of the impartial, uniform rule of law & depersonalized state beings justice to a lawless, backward community run by a wretched clique of local grandees.

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

OK I learned from this thread how many people really aren't familiar with this stuff so let me break down the argument in more detail. Assume every post in this thread comes with a big disclaimer I'M NOT SAYING THIS IS TRUE I'M SAYING IT'S WHAT YUD BELIEVES

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that

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Malky @themalky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I drew the new weird cat

Cutesy drawing of a Leopardus tilcayo loafing with its tongue poking out. A short phrase in spanish wraps around its back: un michi tilcayo! (a tilcayo kitty!)

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Alison Smaalders @vividwings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This cat looks like a chibi drawing of a cat that is very annoyed about a minor inconvenience and I love it.

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This Machine Kills Hair Bands @she5los.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

IT'S TIME IT'S TIME FOR MY VERY FAVORITE P&P VIDEO EVER YEAHHHHHHHH BOOOOOOOYYYYYYYY m.youtube.com/watch?v=xjOT...

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Rest in PIECES, Mr. Darcy

YouTube video by the ice castle

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

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

OK, a day later than planned, here we GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! What time is it, kiddies? That's right, it's Litigation Disaster Tourism time! And whoah nellie! there's a lot here. Ground rules: 1: I'm going to do this until I'm too tired or bored to continue. No telling how long that will be.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was sorry to hear that Bob Mackie had died today, surely the designer with the most sparkling of legacies. Here is just one of the countless dazzling garments worn by Cher in the late #1970s #JuliensAuctions #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A side by side image of a sparkling champagne coloured halter neck sequin dress with jagged hem worn by Cher in the late 1970s

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Don't forget the Greater North American Cable Seeking Backhoe!

A side by side meme. The upper caption stretching across both images is "WHO WOULD WIN?" The left photo is a stock photo showing a Black man working at a laptop with an external monitor above it and a second laptop next to it, all three screens showing Very Important Terminal Code that he's staring intently at with his hands on the keyboard, captioned "multiple redundant systems designed by advanced engineering teams". The right is a yellow JCB backhoe being operated by someone in shadow, perched next to a pile of dirt and in the process of digging up more, captioned "One scrapey boi".

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Load-bearing post

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026

An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Always worth being reminded that Kids These Days/This New Generation is Cooked lamentations are as old as humanity. Probably older.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(concerned reporter voice, talking to candidate) What is your message to stupid jerks who will never vote for you

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