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I am not a sports person at all, and yet I watched the world series last? year because of people commenting on this app. Twitter never once convinced me to watch even one game. 100% the sports app.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I did a painting outside my comfort zone today and I am so proud of myself

A little house on a grassy field under a lightly cloudy sky from a photo I took in Tierra del Fuego in 2017

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H Mac @hmac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The quote that went around when Wendell Berry died, "the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines" comes to mind *often* these days. Trying to live as a creature is becoming my north star.

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Has anyone figured out a good way to make harassment visible to non-targets? For years I have seen (primarily Black) people say this platform has a problem, and I believe them, but because of how nested replies work I almost never see anything. Would be happy to do my reporting/blocking bit!

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even if taxing billionaires out of existence wouldn't solve a single budget issue, we should still do it because their deforming effect on politics is a Bad Thing. Raise taxes on billionaires like you do on cigarettes. It's a sin tax.

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ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a kitty I sculpted

Polymer clay sculpture of a stylized roly-poly cat, seated with one paw raised

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just realized I’ve got two unused trays for making extremely tiny square ice cubes, and I *should* have been using them to freeze coffee concentrate all summer so I could fill a cup with them & top it with milk. And now it is cold and Too Late. This is bullshit. Set a calendar reminder for June.

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t know how to fix this but it has been urgent for many decades and *must* be changed if we’re going to have anything like the society I want.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

think of all the things we could’ve done

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Let me show you something Boomers were 100% right about:

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TashasEv @tashasev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seriously this is just how she is

A large fluffy white dog sleeping on a raised cot with her mouth slightly open and, you guessed it, her tongue dangling out from the side

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i would be very interested in an empirical comparison between mamdani & previous mayors because i have a sense that, while he’s getting lots done, a large part of what’s different about him is that he knows how to get credit for it normally, a whole lot of people do not notice what government does

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i've seen people talking about how people are being shitheels about that lesbian bar article, but apparently have curated my timeline well my main takeaway about the whole thing is how sorry i feel for the woman who's under the weight of that debt and trying to hold her community together

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i really wish “thank you for your attention to this matter” had not become a meme on the left it bums me out every time

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Panic! at the Republican National Committee

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/09/2026

Newsom, like Cuomo, is a special kind of blue state jackass who'd be a Republican if he lived in a red state. There's no path to power for him as a Republican in California, so he's cosplaying as a Democrat and corrupting the party as a result. Remember: he loves billionaires and hates you and me.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this whole thread, but also this post in particular

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Re: immigrant/transplant/native discourse: It comes down to the fact that some people are dickheads, and if the dickheads are from elsewhere you'll notice them more than been-around-forever dickheads. My controversial view: there's nothing wrong with moving, and it's better not to be a dickhead.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"If you think the biggest issue this election is that we need to focus our attention on checking kids' genitals before they play sports, you should *absolutely* vote for my opponent."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am a cis, white, straight woman who was born and raised on a remote dairy farm, raised around no diversity at all. Virtually everything I know about people unlike that narrow group came from meeting people at cons first. Embarrassing but true.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 19/09/2026

Take a test drive of the new Ford AO3

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NYC is so lucky to have a generational political talent who is also a governance nerd with great communications skills and he actually wants the job he currently has it's lightning in a bottle and i can't wait to see what the city is like after he's served his term(s)

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thank you to @ironspike.bsky.social for reminding me of this song. On 9/11 I listened to it over and over and over. Artists are sometimes literal prophets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfp...

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Laurie Anderson - O Superman (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Nonesuch Records

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Folks asking for more details here ya go bsky.app/profile/five...

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

no actually it's perfectly reasonable to spend time lining up the horizons in your photos on your decorative "my research ecosystem is pretty, see?" slides

Three photos of rolling grassland hills at Konza Prairie Biological Station in Northeast Kansas USA, all lined up so the top of the hills match in the photos

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations

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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown

Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I made pancakes and they kicked ass. Mix dry (1/4 C almond flour, 3/4 C AP flour, 1/4 tsp baking soda, 1 1/4 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp salt); whisk together wet (1 C skyr, 2 large eggs, 1/2ish C milk, 1/2 tsp vanilla, 2 T Meyer lemon zest mixed with granulated sugar); pour wet into dry & combine.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fun fact: Tippi Hedren, the actress possibly most famous for her stellar performance in Hitchcock's The Birds, was a major cause of why ~50% of all nail salons in the US are Vietnamese owned and run. While she volunteered at Hope Village, a refugee camp in CA set up for aid during the Vietnam War,

A young Tippi Hedren taking a quirky photo with a raven perched on her as she smiles at the camera.

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 13/09/2026

Chris Ritson, “Mushroom Picture” (2022), live fungus and sawdust, 20 × 14 inches www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/span...

a brown-orange rectangular growth of mushrooms

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Random note; since my dad passed away last December, I’ve been handling all of my mom’s mail and accounts. It is incredible. How many scams are aimed at the elderly in this country, including my companies that superficially seem legitimate. Every week her mail is full of this crap.

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

trying to make new friends as an adult

Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens

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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.

A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NYC is the best of America. I love the city and I wish that we were all like this.

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