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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The key to making something that doesn't fucking suck, is to care about the process and think about it. Not giving a shit, not even bothering to think about it, guarantees the thing will be useless dogshit.

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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

On a more boring, technical note, as I like to describe research/reporting methodologies whenever I do a story: I read a big chunk of the diaries just old-school style of taking notes while watching the video with the pages being flipped through. Eventually, I used Google Pinpoint.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Ok, let's do this, with the caveat that I'm also going to include ebooks.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

feels like part of this is because it's much easier for elected democrats to do some gym videos than to learn how to talk to people who aren't rich in a way that doesn't come off as an alien completely new to earth, a condescending dickhead who loathes seeing regular people in public, or both

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

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Belllingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

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Gareth Gore @garethgore.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Opus Dei members told to brace for “dramatic, traumatic, historic and revolutionary” changes as Pope Leo XIV tackles decades of abuse inside the organisation A THREAD 🧵

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

New article! NEW ARTICLE!!! Let's talk about the ways that plagiarists and AI are trying to automate sociopathy and why copyright might actually be a powerful tool to fuck with 'em. And, how do we make a world where even copyright is no longer necessary? docseuss.medium.com/copyright-ru...

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Have you ever had a conversation with someone over a topic you know a great deal about, but the person you’re talking to definitely…

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 14/05/2025

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

A photograph of Louis Bamberger, seated on the right, wearing a mustache and bowler hat, and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, standing on the left, wearing a fur hat and shawl

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵

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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

Panel 1: character crying at a desk
Text: this IS hard

Panel 2: character is now drawing determinedly
Text: but I can do it

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🦷𝚂𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗🦷 @7rottenteeth.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🚨LIFE OR DEATH EMERGENCY🚨 @wren-d.bsky.social was forced onto the street by his transphobic parents and desperately needs insulin and shelter. Help us relocate him to a safe home before its too late. More info below, updates to follow: gofund.me/f2afa587 #disability | #trans | #art | #vtuber

Image: Illustration of a hand reaching for a glowing heart. Its being pulled back by two others as it reaches out for help.

Text: Help Bring Wren Home

TW:
medical abuse
physical/verbal abuse
ableism
neglect
transphobia

Wren is a chronically ill disabled trans man (type 1 diabetes, me/cfs, and more) who's life is in grave danger.

Years of chronic neglect, abuse, and transphobia have left him in critical condition both mentally and physically.

Two months ago, his father forced him out onto the street, telling him: "maybe being homeless will help you grow up."

Without a home and proper support, he will die.

Image: Wren surrounded by people in a colorful little house.

Text: We've found him an accessible and supportive home! Moving there will drastically improve his health and quality of life.

We'll be giving him the home care, medication, and advocacy he's been deprived of in his abusive household.

There's just one final hurdle, and we're going to need your support!

You can help us afford:
- plane tickets
- luggage fees
- insulin/medications
- wheelchair/shower chari
- document fees
- moving costs
- misc. travel expenses

Text: LINKS AND INFO
Fundraiser:
https://gofund.me/2987a200

- If donating isn't possible, sharing this post with others also helps immensely!

- Updates will be shared on the GoFundMe page and on this post

- More information can be found below, along with more ways to share

Thank you so much for reading!

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I often study psychology to be better at understanding game design and character writing, so I've been studying sociopathy recently, and it's actually kind of sad.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Realized recently that what Chotiner feasts on is the deeply-held belief among elites that it is unfair to consider them bad people for having abhorrent views. So he gets them to state their beliefs, points out that they're horrific, then lets them melt down in how-dare-yous for connecting the dots.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Buffalo have developed a nanoparticle-based vaccine candidate for H5N1 avian influenza (clade 2.3.4.4b) that achieved 100% PROTECTION in preclinical trials. The vaccine is under development for potential use in BOTH veterinary AND human medicine. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Larry David writing a NYT guest essay as a man having dinner with Hitler, just to roast Bill Maher as a smug, self-important clown, is the stuff of comedy legend. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

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Persephone Possum 🔞🇵🇸 @plaguingpossum.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My first and last word on her or her stupid fucking wizard shit

Poster that reads “when you read Harry Potter you read with Hitler”

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 17/04/2025

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 18/04/2025

ICYMI I am trying a weird experiment. I've written the opening act of a sequel to All the Birds in the Sky — still revising, but it'll be more than 10,000 words, possibly a lot more. You can get it plus other bonus stuff in a PDF if you pre-order my upcoming novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster!

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This picture may haunt me to the end of my days. It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man. An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/ #MomSky

A man in tactical gear and a baseball hat is taking an axe to a car window. He looks like he’s smiling.

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