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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 23h

Those arguing for mass-adoption of AI art always seem intent on proving the wrong thing; that AI tech will change beyond all recognition. They seem less inclined to prove their argument's much wilder claim; that human nature, and all previous modes of taste, emotion and investment, will change too.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The SCOTUS ruling in favor of resuming deportations of migrants to unknown countries is an abomination. As Pope Francis often said: “Migrants are not pawns of the chessboard of humanity; they are people with stories who deserve our love and care.”

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pope in Metz: “Today, relations between individuals and States are becoming increasingly uncivilized. The value of keeping one’s word is dismissed; instead, people boast of lies and deceit. “

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Spine-chilling and horrifying 👇

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Peter Thiel is simply the most self-regarding twit in your Ayn Rand reading circle. And if you've ever been in an Ayn Rand reading circle, you know all of what that entails

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Webowop @webowop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I really like Pope Leo's vestments, especially the blue he is fond of. They stand out without being ostentatious.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reading is a practice of freedom.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If Meta made a laptop I don’t think anyone would buy it, like you’d just sort of assume it was mining your data constantly, and I think every basic problem of theirs can be extrapolated from that.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Conservatives desperately want cultural supremacy and yet they are incapable of producing art. I don't even mean great or good art, I mean "works that are arguably artistic." Every cultural artifact they produce in any medium is instantly recognizable as vapid, disposable, and unworthy of attention.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

and so white nationalism must be a response to something, it can't be it is own ideological formation with its own history driven by people with their own agency

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i've been thinking a bit about killer robots in literature and how it's kind of ambiguous whether skynet is sentient. art knows that the machines don't need to think to have blood on the gears

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“AI will kill us all” is how the tech industry, especially rich people in it, avoid talking about real world problems—ones they’re causing, exacerbating, or neglecting—while still thinking themselves good. “I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”

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Webowop @webowop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

St. Dorothy Day refused to pay federal taxes because of crap like this.

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Jarek Pachocki OMI @jarekpach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Every person bears God’s image. No faith, tradition or appeal to morality can justify persecution. When people suffer, silencing those who speak for their dignity deepens the harm. Our Christian calling is to stand with the most vulnerable, defend human dignity and refuse to look away. #HumanDignity

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 14/09/2026

yeah, even accounting for historical revision by later scribes, the history of the Dumbass Kings is just super resonant right now. Like, instead of sci-fi authors and the torment configuration, we’re workshopping all kinds of a King Ahab from Ye Olde Days

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Webowop @webowop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Cancel culture is out of control.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I understand that humans thinking about math is Luddite behavior and humans making art is Luddite behavior and so on. But I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing instead. What's the non-Luddite behavior for those of us who aren't wealthy investors?

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

like literally, and i say this as someone who thinks he was right, but he was a religious zealot who believed not just that he should wage a war to free the slaves but that killing slavers was correct and justified by the actual literal real christian god who had given him, john brown, a mission

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

one of the contradictions that i try to regularly sit with as both a spiritual practice (sorry) and a moral/ethical consideration is that some people will be completely right about the evils of their time and also really genuinely cracked in the head in a way most people aren't & never will be

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Imagine the world is a circle, and God is the center, and the radii are the different ways human beings live. When those who wish to come closer to God walk towards the center of the circle, they come closer to one another at the same time as to God. The closer they...[more] — St. Dorotheus of Gaza

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

...The closer they come to God, the closer they come to one another. And the closer they come to one another, the closer they come to God. — St. Dorotheus of Gaza

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Judge You Harshly 🦋✌️🤟🖖🌈 @judgeyouharshly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Happy Caturday to everyone with love-scars. 🤷

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the many, many things we need to do when the adults are back in charge, is pass an ironclad law banning deportations to countries from which immigrants have no ties. Also, prosecute and jail if possible everyone involved in this depravity.

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Hermione, Texas Granger @misterfungi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

there’s no way would i drink any of the provided beverages tonight

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Miliband’s statements about Israel today are the new Western political reality. Anyone who lags behind them will have an increasing weight around his neck.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Pope Leo: “Human dignity does not depend on a person’s abilities, wealth or position in life, nor on the right or wrong choices made. Instead, it is a gift that precedes and transcends each person, endowed by God as an expression of His unfailing love.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

this enormous wealth is driving the ideological transformation as much as anything else. where once the defense of slavery was “we don’t know what else to do and besides we can’t let the blacks go free,” by the 1840s it is much closer to “slavery is the single greatest social system ever devised.”

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Lots of coverage of Trump on renaming New Mexico, New America. But people are too polite to point out Trump has no interest in renaming New England or New Hampshire or New Jersey or New York. It's Mexico and Mexicans and Latinos he wants to taunt. It's childish idiocy, but it's also a dog whistle.

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highelfmage.bsky.social @highelfmage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The "states' rights" hypocrisy is infuriating when you look at how much the South loved using the federal government to enforce slavery in the Free States (Dred Scot, Prigg v. Pennsylvania, Fugitive Slave Acts, etc.)

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is exactly how the right creates popular support for taking away women’s rights. They position anyone with empathy for Clancy as the reason why women shouldn’t vote, serve on juries, have autonomy, or even exist in public. And they use this as propaganda to make those positions seem reasonable.

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Webowop @webowop.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wastewater from the destroyed sewage systems in Gaza lead to water rationing in Israel as Israeli desalination plants are forced to close. The wages of war seep back home. wapo.st/3SO3mKP

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Water crisis in Israel raises fears over impact of Gaza sewage

Five of Israel’s six desalinization plants are offline. Untreated wastewater from Gaza’s destroyed sewage system could be part of the problem, experts warn.

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Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) @cliniclegal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Anti-immigrant sentiment remains prevalent, but we believe the Church and all people of goodwill can share stories of welcome to help shift the narrative. ➡️ #NeighborsNotStrangers: clinic.shorthandstories.com

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

unlike in politics, one thing popes never do is say things like "it's all my predecessor's fault."

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Chris Dazzleox 🇵🇸 @dazzleox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"The starkness of Day’s pacifist position, and its conflict with the centuries-long Church doctrines, should pose the gravest obstacle to her sainthood cause" (SV Arbogast) Is this the first case against Sainthood for a candidate not being pro war enough?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

we should remember that vocabulary control is a tried-and-true cult indoctrination technique — both as a way to divide members from outsiders and to demonstrate the cults' power over their members' reality — and insistence on using farcical "Lake America" type names should be seen in that light.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026

“oh but Vance became VP.” yes, the vice presidency, which we all recognize as the staging ground for the nation’a great political talents. arguably Vance became VP because he did not have a natural political base or anything that might make him a genuine rival

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This complexity comes up with Catholic Charities, too: Catholics might not be your favorite, but maybe having a massive, global institution giving people food means that people get food, and it’s important to think about the kinds of massive, global networks necessary for giving people food.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Last against the wall still winds up against the wall.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/08/2026

We’re in a global impunity crisis around international humanitarian law, powers like Russia, Israel, and the USA are war-criming everywhere because they’ve decided no one will stop them, and there is basically 0 money left for orgs working on atrocity prevention. but other than that, Mrs. Lincoln..

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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Beyond personal moral character/religious belief, there is zero incentive for the impossibly wealthy to be beneficent. But the conservative perspective is that people should just have that moral behavior and give freely. They do not recognize that the needs are almost exclusively a matter of justice

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Zach the Autumn Lord @maximumrider217.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thinking about how a bunch of right-wingers apparently tried to rig the last Papal election in their favor and it backfired spectacularly, which I think is absolutely a case of the Church prevailing.

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