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Andy Rabagliati

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
A 7-year-old girl was injured riding her new bike. A stranger came to her rescue and gifted her an origami crane with a hidden message she would only discover years later. n.pr/4ycsKIN
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A childhood bike crash led to a stranger's gift — and a hidden message
A 7-year-old girl was injured riding her new bike. A stranger came to her rescue and gifted her an origami crane with a hidden message she would only discover years later.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Econ 101
Person one: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

Person two : The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 05/10/2026
This is re: Brazil. Post below is “Hard to do anything when Facebook, X, and Instagram host all political discourse.” Yes. Media ownership matters. If we are going to fix US democracy we have to take on the challenge of prying media and platforms out of the claws of billionaires.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a very decent chance we get the Voynich manuscript solved in the next year or so, if not sooner. AI is also an excellent paleographic tool; we're going to have a whole bunch of archives searchable and better deciphered in the next few years.
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 29/09/2026
i must warn you: my penis could be too big. the pleasure it gives might tear society apart. our scientists just aren't sure yet
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Roberto Rojas @robertorojas97.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Brazilian Portuguese commentary on that Tyler Loop field goal for the Ravens is exactly what everyone needs to hear right now
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i really do think the inability of the UK elite to leave X, both political and journalist, can clearly be seen dragging the common sense of the UK well to the radical right like i don't think Rosie would be posting about how bi men facing issues coming out during 2019-2020
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The folk protest music scene is back
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the cult of the superior machines is inherently a patriarchal cult (like nearly all cults in recorded history) its theology classifies “AI” systems as either wives (systems that exist to serve and empower Great Men) or Gods (theoretical future systems, male-coded, that become the Great Men)
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him
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Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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PR05P3CT0R @pr05p3ct0r.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump has entered his monoglove phase of being a pedophile. His goons photoshopped out one of his gloves ala Michael Jackson. Cry for help from inside the WH? The king of slop. Smooth move criminals. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-makes-...
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Trump Makes Baffling Edit to His Big Moment
A few things were missing from the photo Trump posted.
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Adam Welz @adamwelz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why isn't the South African government using home-grown sea drones to patrol our Marine Protected Areas, where illegal fishing is rampant? (A question, perhaps, for @oxpeckersnews.bsky.social to look into) @whysharksmatter.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vVu...
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South Africa's homegrown sea drone is winning contracts in the Middle East - Eddie Noble
YouTube video by NSN
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An absolute banger by @chronocarta. Simple idea. Great fun to look at. New World vs Old World.
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halvarflake.bsky.social @halvarflake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A great read on EA and rationalism: contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/ea-safety
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EA Safety
EA promises to solve AI Safety. Now we have two problems.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Since the federal takeover, he spends four nights a week pedaling his bike up and down the same streets, recording agents as they arrest his neighbors. On the scene, he lists rights for people getting arrested and asks if they’d like him to contact anyone..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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He worked at NASA. Now he tails federal law enforcement on D.C. streets.
A group that has tracked the activity of federal officers since the president’s crackdown has previously been private about the effort.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW: Senior AI policy advisor at White House OSTP Sihao Huang, who has been deeply involved in developing frontier AI policy, is leaving to join Anthropic
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
We can no longer look away from The Chart if we are to defeat the batshit billionaire rationalist sex cult running the American AI industry. I’m so sorry you all had to find out like this. knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/me...
Cursed aella chart.
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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I just saw someone refer to Mitch as Rigor Tortoise and I am SO MAD I didn’t think of that first.
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Darth Morgothis @davidgkowalski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He deserves no peace in his life, or in death. And he sure as shit doesn't deserve pudding.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Our first 9/11 without Dick Cheney. He's looking up at us, though
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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The transformer movies are about robot refugees landing in the U.S. and the government letting them stay.
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 10/09/2026
8 years ago, I tweeted side-by-side maps from NASA GISS showing global temperatures in 1976 and 2018 – both hot summers in the UK. It subsequently went viral and was printed in the Daily Mail! The 2026 version is stark. Two locally extreme summers separated by 50 years of global climate change.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/09/2026
i really cannot maintain enough that my current theory of donald trump is that he is utterly gripped by the terror of death, and is desperately attempting to leave some mark on the world that history cannot erase--this is the point of the wars, the annexation threats, the dc vandalism
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"In 2019, the RSS-backed Modi regime passed a slate of controversial laws effectively dismantling what was left of India's secularism, tying citizenship to religion, explicitly excluding Muslims ... Genocide Watch has repeatedly warned of an impending genocide against India's 250 million Muslims[.]"
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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families. Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news. 1/2
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Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families, killing 12 children among them. 

On July 24, in Michigan, Kristopher Karolkiewicz shot his wife and their six children and set the house on fire. 

On July 31, in Wisconsin, Jeffrey Manke killed his two daughters, 11 and 16. 

On August 23, in Montana, Alan Smith gunned down eight of his relatives -- his parents, his grandmother, his sister, and four children -- at a Sunday dinner. 

Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news.

Compare this to the coverage of the Lindsay Clancy case. For weeks, the trial of the Massachusetts mother, who killed her three children in 2023, has been a media fixation. 

Cable networks have carried it live. CNN, NBC, the Boston Globe, and others have run day-by-day live blogs. Reporters have packed the courthouse by the dozen, some sitting on the floor for lack of room. And the trial is only the latest chapter: the case has been dissected in the national press and on true-crime podcasts for years.

A mother killing her children becomes a national obsession; a father doing the same quickly becomes yesterday's news.The obvious explanation for the discrepancy is timing: Clancy is on trial, while these three men killed themselves and left no one to prosecute. 

But it doesn't hold up. Men who murder their families do stand trial -- and their cases almost never command this kind of sustained, wall-to-wall attention. 

The true-crime sagas that grip the nation for years overwhelmingly feature women who kill. The gender of the killer, it turns out, matters more than the crime.

The numbers tell a different story than the headlines. Family annihilation in America is neither rare nor evenly distributed. 

According to a 2023 investigation by the Indianapolis Star, drawing on data from the Gun Violence Archive, someone in this country murders their own family roughly once every five days. 

And the people who do it are almost always men -- by expert estimates, some 91 percent of the time. A gun is used in about nine of ten cases. The victims, disproportionately, are children.

The silence has a dangerous cost. Violence by men has become so normalized that even its most extreme form -- a man murdering his own family -- barely registers. And that silence compounds itself: because these killings rarely break through the noise, most people have no idea how common they are, or how overwhelmingly they are committed by men. The pattern disappears into the background, one fleeting headline at a time.None of this diminishes the horror of a mother who kills. It only raises the question: why does that horror seize our full attention, while the far more common version -- committed by fathers, husbands, sons -- slips past us in a day?

--> If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 at 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788.

--> The Danger Assessment, developed by Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell, is a free tool that helps a woman gauge her risk of being killed by an abusive partner -- 

https://www.dangerassessment.org/DA.aspx

For a potentially life-saving book for older teens and adults about the early warning signs of abusive relationships, myths about abusive personalities, and how to get help, we highly recommend "Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men" at

https://www.amightygirl.com/why-does-he-do-that
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Tomb💀Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
me: so i name all my cats after numbers! them: oh? me: cat3, cat5 them: you skipped four-- me (ignoring them): cat5e them: but 'e' is not a number me (continuing to ignore them): cat6, cat6a, cat7, cat8
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NPR @npr.org · 04/09/2026
After years of fighting over who gets to use the beach, and where, in Walton County, Florida, public-use advocates are calling for a state constitutional amendment to finally settle the matter. n.pr/4A0kCNW
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Who owns the beach? A heated battle plays out in the Florida Panhandle
After years of fighting over who gets to use the beach, and where, in Walton County, Florida, public-use advocates are calling for a state constitutional amendment to finally settle the matter.
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Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard @niemanfoundation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
California could generate up to $40M a year for newsrooms through credits tied to journalist headcount, @hanaatameez.bsky.social reports for @niemanlab.org.
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California legislature passes a major local news funding bill: “If you hire more people, you get more money”
"If you lay people off, you get less money. If you don't employ anyone, you don't get anything."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.
The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What's the point of having fuck you money if you're never going to say "fuck you"?
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/09/2026
Trump is trying to sack DC out of spite. the people hate his fucking guts so he's going to impose a Trumperdammerung on everything beautiful he can reach people.com/dozens-trees...
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Dozens of Trees Quietly Toppled in D.C. Without Court Approval Ahead of Trump’s New Golf Course Makeover: Report
Over 60 trees were removed at East Potomac Golf Links before official approval for renovations was granted, the Washington Post reported Friday, Aug. 26. Preservationists argue the plans violate a law...
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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I saw this pic earlier & had to look away 💔
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A man and woman embrace as ICE and FHP detain her during an immigration stop in Fort Myers this morning.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You've been hearing the story about how Dolly Parton turned down Elvis when his people demanded a chunk of her royalty rights in exchange for recording "I Will Always Love You". That reminded me of something I've wondered about for a long time. The guy who actually put the ask on Dolly was a ...
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My favorite Dolly Parton anecdote is a story she told about almost crashing her car when she heard Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" on the radio. My second favorite Dolly anecdote is that when Elvis wanted to cover that song, he demanded half the publishing rights & Dolly said no.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
is there any ethical reposting of mainstream media under today’s capitalism because honestly, I do not believe the new yorker was the first to come up with this but it’s a really good use of the meme 😭
the trolley problem comic with New Yorker comic font text "Luckily, the A.I. trolley will decide who to kill all on its own."
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton preached kindness and acceptance. She worked hard to make people's lives better. She used her fame and status to help others. Now look at how her life is being celebrated. Look at the boundless love. This is the way. More people should figure that out.
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