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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In theory there may be people who obsess over “Zionists” controlling American politics who aren’t anti-Semites but at this point I pretty much assume anyone speaking this way is one step away at best from going full ZOG.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 06/10/2026

A lot of people like sprawl. While we should not subsidize it like we do today, I believe that people should be allowed to have what they want and are willing to pay for. (Most people won’t be willing to pay the actual cost of insuring a house in the woods in the time of climate change wildfires.)

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 06/10/2026

You should need a commercial license and commercial insurance to drive any vehicle that weighs over 5,000 pounds.

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Against edgelordism in all its forms" is becoming a foundational principle for me. Civilization is impossible without an unflinching commitment to pro-social behavior and a willingness to marginalize any deviation.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Democracies will also have a problem with illiberal political movements who, if they win power, would dismantle the liberal democratic order. This is why it's incumbent on liberal political parties to ban these movements and for elites need to police these elements out of their spaces.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't know exactly how ghosts work but people like to bring up "traumatic events" causing them and well the Mongols sacking Baghdad sounds pretty fucking traumatic and I don't see ghost hunters going there.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I talk about this a lot in "Lost Worlds" - the world didn't begin with people alive today, and it won't end with people today. Apocalypticism is a wonderful way of making it so you don't have to think about the real long-term consequences of your actions. If it's all going to end, why think further?

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing about the florid apocalypticism you sometimes encounter on this site is that a lot of people are less horrified by literal civilizational collapse than by the notion that our descendents are just going to keep muddling through and in less than a century nobody will remember us.

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the thing I believed before the pandemic is that most people long to be told what to do. what I believe now is that most of them deserve to be told what to do. they genuinely can't be trusted with their own lives.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everyone hates user fees and then wonders why every public amenity sucks ass.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 26/09/2026

if you want to fix injustices then you actually need to stare them in the fucking face, and that means all too often staring REAL MATERIAL IMPACTS AND DIFFERENCES in the face instead of sticking your head in the sand and pretending everything's therefore fine

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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Cai : go see DIGGER @annenotation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As always: the problem with bad behavior is not that people are talking about it, it's because the bad behavior is happening. You have abstracted it too far when you forget that actual people are getting actually hurt in the immediate and direct sense.

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Cai : go see DIGGER @annenotation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nobody should get special dispensation on crank behavior because they are part of a marginalized community, in no small part because it's also a huge component of affinity fraud.

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Cai : go see DIGGER @annenotation.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Actually, the only thing that will save us is making it untenable to be a horrible crank. We should be dunking, and dunking hard, on cranks in our community. Cranks poison out ability to thrive and people need to learn how to spot them, and eject them.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/09/2026

I believe that all people should be free to live and work where they want to, irrespective of legal and cultural borders. This includes people who I personally do not want to hang out with.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“transplant” discourse is great because you get to see how easily people can swaddle their insular, reactionary beliefs with left-coded language

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Cai : go see DIGGER @annenotation.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The real victim as always is the boring, normal child.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the miracle of urbanization is destroying this, *especially* for stigmatized groups. The cagots in France - victims of literally centuries of discrimination as a despised caste for reasons nobody's sure about - disappeared into the cities as soon as they could.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

a lot of people genuinely place more value on politicians saying the right things rather than doing the right things which is dumb normally but especially dumb two months out from an election when politicians will say shit they don't believe on national TV to try to win undecided voters (morons)

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

This is weirdly common in the wild

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

its really becoming obvious from looking at online disputes here -- where there are zero right wingers present -- that consensus narratives about online harrassment in the 2010s were totally wrong

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Cai : go see DIGGER @annenotation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One of my strongest beliefs is we need to go back to educational practices that actually work, even if that is not as fun for children. Because among other things, I don't think that children actually want infinite fun, they want structure and they want to grow.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/09/2026

liberal democracy is not a luxury. liberal democracy is the magic beast that ran the table on fascism and communism and totalitarianism. we did not do this by giving up on liberal democracy and embracing evil. we did this by sticking to our most dear principles.

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The idea that racism is fake, something that the working class has been tricked into & that they'll quickly snap out of it once confronted with True Socialism (or Liberalism or Communism) has been an utter disaster for the broad left.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims

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Cai : go see DIGGER @annenotation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

People always come up with ideas like this: "free prostitutes for incels so they calm down" etc but this is a well that you cannot fill, this is a tar pit that has no bottom. You simply have to tell them no and make them understand the concept of no.

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erin balconyskeletons @balconyskeletons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The truth is important on its own merits and also because you really weaken your own arguments when you lie!!!!! For some reason this is a niche opinion of mine.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The current political moment has shown me how many people go through life frustrated that they don’t have the right state apparatus to indulge their worst urges. They‘re not “left behind”, they’re not “lonely”, they want to hurt other people. And this is their generational opportunity.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you need a reason to keep going, look up the ages of Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu Narendra Modi Vladimir Putin Xi Jinping I can’t guarantee the world gets better but you can sure watch it get *different* if you hold on

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I've talked about this before but my ideas about politics in art derive heavily from the experience of belonging to a nation where the artist has been regularly forced into the role of social commentator by the expectations of the communal whole. I find this to be deeply existentially stifling.

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You should write a book about how "they" are forcing this struggle on you. You can call it "My Struggle".

A post on X by Hasan Piker. It reads "not a secret that those who couldn't condemn genocide, who instead chose to fund it- will of course condemn you to a life of struggle."

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

what gets me is that not that people worship the Soviet empire but but that the people who do seem to have replaced the actual Soviet empire with a version that was trans friendly and pro-minority

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A very positive sign that, nearly a year after Kirk's death, many if not most of the people punished for speaking truthfully about him have won legal cases against their former employees and compensation. Again, panicked compliance with Trumpism has only *cost* institutions.

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GPT-Ern Malley @denam.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Increasingly coming around to the idea that Tariff Policy is the One Ring; it will corrupt anything it touches and must be destroyed and any politician playing with it will ruin the rest of us

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Unironically, people on this website need to play more video games. If you want to vent aggression at enemies on a screen, there’s no shortage of alternatives to beefing on here. I‘m trying to stab more goblins and insult fewer people on the internet, however imperfectly.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I am following in the footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and judging you exclusively on the content of your character, and the content of your character happens to be dogshit

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/08/2026

the post-covid revolt of the bosses is the biggest factor in the absolute collapse of public support for tech we had a brief window of genuine worker power and they hated it and their primary goal with AI has been to break the workforce so they never have to deal with it again

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just cut all the tariffs to zero on day one in 2029. Call it the largest tax repeal for consumers in history. Protectionist industries are not a faction Ds need to care about at all.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i will not feel badly for any of these people, because politics is not a dumb little game among Serious People for debate perverts. they are both nightmarishly awful people who deserve far worse than any level of questioning and mockery could ever produce

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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The AI conversation makes me bristle because I think the blame for AIs being so unpopular lies squarely on the tech industry and not the left or right or artists or whatever. Silicon Valley did a shit ass job introducing their product and they should be the ones out here trying to fix it.

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