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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if you take the other side of any of those arguments you are implicitly accepting that there is a real debate here. there is not. the world's richest man let food grain aid rot on shelves for basically no reason that is even remotely defensible.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026

Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt theonion.com/mr-autumn-man-walking-…

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Me trying to figure out how a dispute over video game journalism is tied to a territorial dispute with Denmark:

an insane person attempting to connect the dots of a conspiracy

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think ‘rote memorization’ is underrated. Having a ton of shit laying around in your head leads to connections and being able to more precisely describe things.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026

You're only ever a recession or an inflation spike away from your opposition gaining power, so you have to want them to respect the broad norms.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People are like “LLMs can’t think, they can just resolve incredibly complex problems, sometimes beyond the reach of humans, often by progressing step by step through a multipart process” and I guess at some level I’m sort of curious if you’re defining “think” as “that thing humans do”

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No, they were not "told to do it." This is a falsehood a bunch of influential people are propagating because the real story is too alarming and challenges too many of your articles of faith on the subect.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The new line all the anti-AI obsessives are adopting is that it's dangerous to "anthropomorphize" AI. What they mean by that is that if you use a colloquial term that accurately describes what they're doing - thinking, hacking, making autonomous decisions - they'll tell you to stop.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Old sci-fi is funny because it's like "Jimmy Space had just returned from a 50,000-light-year weekend trip to another planet. He curtly nodded to his secretary, who was writing something on her typewriter. She informed him the telegraph machine was broken as a 1950s era female subordinate should."

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

MAXXED OUT at $9.999!! GasBuddy data showing 5 stations in California that have hit the limit and are selling diesel at the dispensers highest possible price: $9.999/gal

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In a cosmic sort of way, reading American analysis of the Iran War is darkly hilarious. “Iran is shooting at the navy blockading them during a war. What does it mean?”

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There are only two stories that won a Hugo whose screen adaptation also won a Hugo. “All Systems Red” is the second one. The other is “Dune” Congratulations @marthawells.com.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The 2026 Hugo Award for Best Related Work goes to Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer (University of Chicago Press US, Head of Zeus UK).

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

only in America could there be a bullshit health craze centered around eating burgers, fries, and a milkshake

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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

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horse shoe crab programmer @myrrlyn.net · 17/07/2026

you stupid mother fucker (markwayne not eugene) we tricked the entire world into sending their smartest hardest working people here and then tricked those same people into staying permanently instead of going back to their home country you are BLOWING UP OUR SPOT

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is what I mean when I say RFK should be considered the GOP frontrunner for 2028. The base needs a non-embarrassing, inheritable cult and Evil Dr. Spaceman over here has the vice president exclusively eating the ingredients to a fart. Nobody else has got that Jim Jones juice.

WSJ: Everyone in Trump's Cabinet is Eating Sauerkraut

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Just heard that the great John Blanche passed on. No illustrator had more of an impact on my childhood. Blanche is probably the single person who most influenced the aesthetic of Warhammer 40,000 and a lot of modern fantasy / sci-fi as a result

I don't know how to describe this drawing but there's a dude in maybe a labcoat with a cravat who looks half rotten and slightly burnt with a crazy toothless smile holding up a letter that says pontifex maximus. A big demon looking biomechanical priest thing stands behind him. They are surrounded by trash and ruins.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Bizarre article. Headline claims there are health risks to eating too much protein but none of the health risks pertain to protein. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This article doesn't contain a single scrap of evidence that this treatment is a miracle cure for long covid. Like look at this shit

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This is bad. Three Washington state protesters have been found guilty of federal conspiracy charges for sitting in front of a bus taking people to an immigration detention center in Tacoma, and now face 6 years. Six others took plea deals rather than going to trial. newrepublic.com/post/211138/...

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Anti-ICE Protesters Found Guilty in Case That Guts Free Speech Rights

Three protesters were convicted of federal conspiracy charges.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

If you think this looks like a threat to free speech you're wrong. Threats to free speech are when sex pests lose their jobs as magazine editors.

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Me explaining to anyone who will listen how I just really like Keith David and everything he’s ever been in, even the bad stuff, because he just seems to always be having a good time and I’m glad he’s getting a star on the Walk of Fame because good for him.

Marge Simpson holding a potato saying “I just think they’re neat” but instead of a potato it’s a photo of Keith David

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

the reporting that CBS is trying to land Rogan makes some sense to me from CBS's perspective, but what on earth could Rogan possibly get out of it? he makes like 100M a year to host a low effort podcast that reaches way more people than any CBS program.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

People who respond like this are obviously smart enough to know this sort of thing is complete bad faith, but the social environment they’re in continually rewards and encourages any bad faith as long as it’s vaguely dunk-shaped. And here we see the result

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 29/05/2026

Oscar winner and San Francisco resident Marcia Lucas — the former wife of George Lucas who edited the original “Star Wars,” “American Graffiti” and “Taxi Driver” — has died.

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‘Star Wars’ editor Marcia Lucas, former wife of George Lucas, dies at 80

Oscar winner and San Francisco resident Marcia Lucas — the former wife of George Lucas who edited the original “Star Wars,” “American Graffiti” and “Taxi Driver” — has died.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

From Russia With Love and Casino Royale are the James Bond movies that are good movies: there are many more that are good Bond movies.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/05/2026

one of the reasons i am always on about elite persuasion is that i have seen elite persuasion operate in real time. as toby documents here, the radical anti-trans push in the uk didn't come from some "bottom-up backlash," but was orchestrated and organized primarily at the most elite levels

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The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"The vast majority of people will never hear the other side of the story, the factually correct side of the story, the morally decent side of the story. The side of the story that was the overwhelming consensus among politicians and the public a mere 6-7 years previously."

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Speaking, I assume, to the defendants, Perry thinks "you are entitled to a briefing and perhaps a hearing on the issue of vindictive prosecution should you choose to raise it. She also raises the possibility of sanctions and possible ethics violations for prosecutorial misconduct.

Now, obviously, none of us know what we don't know
and none of us knew about this at the time. At the time of
your motion and my ruling, there was no reason to believe that
there had been anything vindictive or selective about the
prosecutors' actions. We all took the government attorneys'
word on a great many things.
I, at the time, was operating on a presumption of
regular grand jury proceedings, which these were very clearly
not.
So based upon what I've seen in the grand jury
transcripts, the calculus has changed and it has changed
considerably.
So I also think you are entitled to a briefing and
perhaps a hearing on the issue of vindictive prosecution
should you choose to raise it.
I think there is also a potential here, separate and
apart from the merits of this case and how this case ends up
proceeding, on sanctions for prosecutorial misconduct and for
potential ethical violations, including lack of candor to the
Court. That is a separate issue from how you all proceed with
the trial and the motions that you bring, and it will be dealt
with separately.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

See, the thing is that whether USAID was a cynical op to expand imperial influence or a sincere act of goodwill from the United States, all those Africans are still dead.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

anyway yet again I am begging anyone who wants to know the basics about China to learn what a 'hukou' is

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Funny (not funny but you know) that a substantial number of people in this country can't accurately assess what's going on because they can't bring themselves to believe that someone could be this stupid, let alone the president

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)

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Marty Olliff @martyolliff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

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Don Hughes @donaldhughes.ca · 07/05/2026

Sad to see Tim Heidecker get mixed up with Infowars. Did he go MAGA during the pandemic? Or did Alex Jones drop a dollar

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

i feel very bored about writing about social media. everything about it that can be said really has. harassment campaigns are a good example. everyone knows what they are. there is little utility anymore in pieces that analyze how they work. if you want them to stop, you say who is doing them

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Scott Nye @railoftomorrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Ted Turner was briefly so destructive to film preservation that the GOVERNMENT created the National Film Registry to keep some films safe, then Turner was like “fine! You like preservation so much, here’s a channel that just shows movies unaltered for 24 hours!!!” and it was the best channel ever.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

every QAnon influencer, seeing this post: This is it. President Trump is speaking to us directly. The storm is HERE. Trump, posting: that's me in the picture

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Knowledge Fight was and remains one of the all-time great podcasts. It is the rarest kind of thing: a show that entertains while having a real-life impact. Dan and Jordan helped defang and neuter elements of a powerful propaganda network. Excited to see what both do next.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I'm just now reading about the end of @knowledgefight.bsky.social. We 100% would not have been able to get this deep into this journey of taking over InfoWars without their scrupulously deep research about the worst guy in the world Thank you, Dan and Jordan. Excited to hear what's next.

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From the KnowledgeFight community on Reddit: The show has concluded per Dan

Explore this post and more from the KnowledgeFight community

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/05/2026

honestly, reading this is a good reminder of how will has always coasted on being a good prose stylist. every part of this is either false or a huge logical leap. “government-stereotyped minorities?” yeah man, the reason black americans consider themselves a distinct group is *the government*

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This 3yo is definitely taking the fall for the 34yo who mistook two people for a turkey

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I wouldn't leave my drink uncovered with either of these guys but Johnson clearly addresses the difference here:

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