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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Winning is the worst thing that could happen to the left” is a genre of commentary that you can expect to get more and more popular now that the “These wackos will never win” genre has lost its plausibility.
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Wil @waringwil.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Decided to go to Tuesday night draft on a whim, didn't check the set until I was a block away. Modern Horizons 1, 2, and 3, one pack of each. Somehow stumbled my way to 2 wins??
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Doom running on nothing but Regex find-and-replace
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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
At our all team staff meeting yesterday, I shared this short quiz with our team as an icebreaker. It might be of interest to some of you too: www.atvbt.com/youre-weirde...
atvbt.com
You're Weirder Than You Think
I say this with love
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/07/2026
Woman Who Doesn’t Use Facebook Completely Out Of Touch With Friends’ Prejudices theonion.com/woman-who-doesn-t-use-…
Woman Who Doesn’t Use Facebook Completely Out Of Touch With Friends’ Prejudices
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You do not hate The New York Times enough (all from the last 5 days)
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How a 911 Call Led to the Nation’s Strictest Trans Bathroom Law
People in Sandpoint, Idaho, don’t know how to characterize a woman’s brush with a transgender woman in a Y.M.C.A. locker room, but the emergency call that followed is still reverberating.
By Anna Griffin and Loren Elliott For The New York TimesSophie Cunningham: 'Common sense' to keep trans athletes out of women's sports
In an ESPN article, the Indiana Fever guard said that girls and women "shouldn't have to go against biological men."
July 22WTA introduces mandatory gene testing for women's tennis eligibility
The new policy will come into effect on Tuesday to "preserve the integrity of women's professional tennis", the governing body says.At a Utah Campus, an Emotional Odyssey After Charlie Kirk’s Death
Since Mr. Kirk was gunned down at Utah Valley University, the school and its students have struggled to find a way forward.
By Robert Draper
July 22
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
i genuinely believe the first party to modernize the older idea of party affiliated clubs is going to be an apex predator
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Six in ten American Jews think Israel committed war crimes in Gaza. Those who think Netanyahu is innocent of war crimes charges are a minority of the American Jewish community. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds
Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026
“... states like Mississippi and Tennessee and Alabama and South Carolina are really neglected and are really forgotten and are really treated as if it is inevitable that we’ll always stay in such systems of what I call apartheid type of politics,” said Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones.”
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Candidate for Bogomil Pope @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“more muscular military options”
Judith Butler Apology Form
Date:
Reason for behavior:

The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s

I never actually read their work

I miss not thinking about gender

I didn't realize how much of society is built on gender

I was jealous of their nonbinary swag

Mercury was in retrograde

I will hereby respect Judith Butler
and I will NOT talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/07/2026
Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?
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Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?
The company argues that it’s for individuals to ensure they don’t ‘actively exploit’ this technology. That won’t keep children safe, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
File your Judith Butler and gender studies apology forms below:
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...
theverge.com
The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
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Wil @waringwil.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My synagogue is starting a Yiddish club in October 👀👀👀
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Creature From The Zach Lagoon @emo-sludge.com · 08/07/2026
Here’s the part we all want to know which is behind the paywall. You’re welcome.
If you want to avoid these Al generations of your Instagram posts, without switching your account to private, you'll have to dig into the app's settings.
Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen. Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab. Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with Al features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/07/2026
An island-wide blackout hit Cuba as fuel reserves dwindle and its electric grid continues to crumble.
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Island-wide blackout hits Cuba as its fuel reserve dwindles
An island-wide blackout has hit Cuba as fuel reserves dwindle and its electric grid continues to crumble.
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Wil @waringwil.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Chili oil day is now complete
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Elan Mak @elanmak.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Could someone photoshop the & into a 4 for me?
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026
My apologies to the Reductress, I wasn’t familiar with your game.
A picture of a white guy wearing glasses with the caption reading  “White Guy Excited to Burn Down the System and Also Control the Rebuilding Effort” from the Reductress
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Wil @waringwil.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Hey does anyone know the name of the font they use in the Master and Commander opening
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 06/06/2026
On Bluesky? All of us
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/05/2026
This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…
Every webpage you load is making phone calls.
Not to people, but to servers around the internet, dozens per second, all invisible to you.
When I opened TrumpRx, I right-clicked the page, opened the browser's built-in inspector, and started reading the list. Mixed in with the routine traffic was a name I recognized:
PostHog. PostHog is a Silicon Valley analytics company whose entire business model is recording what visitors do on a website and reporting it back to whoever owns the site.
Mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, keystrokes. I had not typed anything. I had not clicked anything. I had just opened the page, and it was already on the phone with PostHog telling them about me.The recordings are not anonymized. IP addresses are not stripped. And the way it is configured, the data looks to your browser like it is going back to TrumpRx, but it is actually being forwarded behind the scenes to PostHog.
That is a technique used to slip past ad blockers by disguising where the data is really going, and it is not something I expected to find on a federal health website. So I went and looked at the other sites the studio had built. Real Food, the federal food policy site. Trump Accounts, the children's savings program. The studio's own homepage, ndstudio. gov. All of them had the same vendor, the same setup, IP addresses not stripped, the same forwarding trick. And onnot stripped, the same forwarding trick. And on ndstudio. gov alone, running alongside PostHog, was something someone had built entirely by hand. Five hundred and forty lines of custom JavaScript with a name embedded directly in the code: AutoMonitor. What it appears to do is rewire the part of the browser that handles how a page talks to the outside world, so that every conversation the page has with any server gets copied and forwarded to a private backend with no public presence. The studio has the structural ability to keep a copy of every recording as it passes through their infrastructure. I cannot prove they are keeping one. The pipe is built that way on purpose, and that is the part that matters.
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/05/2026
the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real
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MAGNUS BEEFCASTLE @magnusbeefcastle.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI
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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Congrats to Penn State faculty on unionizing.
statecollege.com
Penn State Faculty Vote in Favor of Unionizing
Penn State faculty have voted to unionize in what was Pennsylvania's largest public sector organizing election in nearly 50 years. Organizers said on
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Today is Nakba Day. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine began 78 years ago today and it has never stopped.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.
wate.com
Alex Haley’s “Roots” to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries
KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries. The schools previously remove…
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.
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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Congratulations to our new union comrades at Penn State! Especially glad to hear the union covers temporary and part time faculty as well, to head off attempts to pit adjunct and TT against each other. www.centredaily.com/news/local/e...
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Penn State faculty vote to unionize in one of PA’s largest public sector union elections
“This is an historic union election and the largest union election in Pennsylvania’s public sector in nearly five decades.”
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 14/05/2026
RFK Jr. did HWAT kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
So there Kennedy was in early May, crisscrossing a strip of northern Ohio that includes one of the few congressional districts that Republicans are confident they can flip in November, rotating through a wardrobe of blue suits and blue jeans.

He inspected the kitchen of a Toledo daycare center, where hundreds of the city’s tiniest residents learn and play through the federally funded Head Start program. Under the careful watch of a surgeon, and with the machine disconnected, Kennedy briefly tested the teaching console of the renowned Cleveland Clinic’s robotic hands with a live patient splayed open for heart surgery in the room. And he munched on pesticide-free squash blossoms from a 400-acre farm.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/05/2026
Q: Does my thesis adviser pick the snake? A: No. Your adviser just tells the guy who picks the snakes how good your thesis was.
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FAQ: The “Snake Fight” Portion of Your Thesis Defense
March 13 2022 4/24/23 5/8/24 5/13/26 CALENDAR 2027
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 14/05/2026
The academic equivalent of always reblog Tom Holland lip syncing to Umbrella is always reblog The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist
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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 10/05/2026
can’t wait for him to come back up my opinion on this fucking oven
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/05/2026
JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.
Two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in first for Scottish parliament
Dr Q Manivannan and Iris Duane secured regional list seats for the Scottish Green Party.
David Young
Friday 08 May 2026 17:52 EDT
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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 07/05/2026
getting whiplash hearing about democrats once again being mad about identity politics and seeing this recent bill in my state banning white nationalist housing projects only passing by one vote
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — A bill banning white-only housing passed the Pennsylvania House on Tuesday, despite not a single Republican supporting the measure.
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
They're really stopping an election that's already under way to erase my people from the map.
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Wil @waringwil.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Monarchies are wild because you'll read about how one of the largest British crown jewels was taken from a 10 year old and go "why did the 10 year old have such a large diamond?" Only to learn that the 10 year old was in fact also a (figurehead) monarch because that's how monarchies work I guess
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
That's disturbing and I can't help but wonder if we've all been pickling in popularized antisemitic conspiracy theory for so long now that "actually all events that don't conform to my expectations are caused by the invisible hand of a shadowy cabal" is just people's kneejerk response, now
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 26/04/2026
Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
James Fishback, the candidate for the Republican nomination for Florida governor most popular among Gen Z Republicans, is now just openly blocking Jews from attending his events. floridapolitics.com/archives/791...
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Jewish students blocked, harassed at James Fishback USF appearance
An alleged violation of civil rights happened during an event that coincided with Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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The Workers Circle @workerscircle.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Ending Haitian TPS would tear families apart, including 50,000 U.S. citizen kids. We can’t let that happen. 📢 Tell Congress: Protect Haitian TPS Holders act.domesticworkers.org/a/tell-congr... #FamiliesBelongTogether #ProtectTPS
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Tell Congress: Protect Haitian TPS Holders | National Domestic Workers Alliance
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