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Wards @wotzka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When I was three, I was in the car with my dad and was like, "I love Grandma!" He was delighted! Grandma lived in another country, so he was thrilled I considered her part of the family. Then I added, solemnly, "What big teeth she has." And he was like ah okay. I see. This is not about Grandma.

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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

BREAKING: It made the final cut. Congratulations, Michigan, you might have the best voting sticker of 2026.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

someday we’ll be picking up our drunk kids from a 2020s throwback party with ironic AI slop art and social distancing floor decorations and a “wildfire smoke” fog machine and by god they’d better have put drugs back in the soda by then

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Ross Douthat is unsettled. The "left-of-center" "elite consensus" of the Obama era he hated is gone (yay!) and replaced by a right-wing populism he dreamed of (YAY!) but he can see it going bad (oh no) so instead of opposing it or reconsidering how bad the Obama era was, he's confused. Cue dril 2/x

The columnist’s job contains multitudes, but it’s useful to have a primary antagonist, a specific worldview that you think needs to be challenged and critiqued. For me, for many years, that worldview was the elite consensus of the early Obama era — a mostly left-of-center perspective that also belonged to Silicon Valley moguls, centrist politicians in the style of Michael Bloomberg and portions of the Republican consultant class.

But watching this crisis unfold, I find that I’ve lost my sense of which contemporary worldview is most in need of criticism or opposition, where the good guys and bad guys are. Each major faction seems potentially dangerous, tempted toward the dark side in some unique way, contested or cross-pressured to a degree that makes me uncertain where the side of the angels really lies.

Dril: the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

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Wards @wotzka.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Sounds like Pirro is in Trouble 🎶 ....with a capital T, now that rhymes with P, which stands for Pool! 🎶

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

boy they should call you the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom because I've already forgotten your name and I don't expect you to last that long

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss.

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”

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Wards @wotzka.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Edward Cullen's name, if she wrote Twilight.

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 13/07/2026

Rest in peace to one of cinema’s most outstanding artists; the legendary actor Sam Neill (1947–2026)

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 13/07/2026

We did not agree on every issue. But today, we all mourn the passing of a leader who provided a lot to the community.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his arms

Article screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Picture of a TV screen with teletubbies going to bed with the subtitles: I know you were high during my mother-in-laws wake

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 24/04/2026

I know a lot of y'all are unfamiliar with Great Comet but I feel like I have to share the "NATALIE NATALIE NATALIE" moment because I think about it so goddamn often

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Wards @wotzka.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I deserve some sort of award because a guy next to me on the elevator said to his friend "what's it called when someone falls in love with their captor?" And his friend was like "munchausen syndrome?" And the guy was like "right yes!" And I said nothing

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Is that all there is? Is that all there is? If that's all there is, my friends Then let's keep dancing Let's break out the booze and have a ball If that's all there is

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We know they are indecent and power hungry and fine with being complicit. But to see them all shrug while the president does some kind of weird, war crime riddled social media negotiations, is a horror. No one’s going to stop him? Not enough self-preservation to step in?

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Jen Van Meter is an Angry Lefty Broad @hopelessjen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

After 15+ years of observation, I have reached a conclusion about social media interactions: It is far more painful to be willfully misunderstood by a handful of almost-allies than to be screamed at by a hundred frothing enemies.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 26/03/2026

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

In recent days, AMA communications to the New York Times have requested a correction on their part to reflect the actual language the AMA used in response to their inquiry. Additionally, a letter to the editor has been submitted requesting a public correction—this was neither a policy change nor was it an endorsement of a position taken by another medical society. In addition, during Congressional testimony in mid-March, I had the opportunity to set the record straight stating to the Subcommittee on Health of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that there has been no change in AMA policy with respect to access to and provision of gender-affirming care. This will appear in the Congressional Record.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/03/2026

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Public pressure means something. Primaries can change policies. In NY-10, Dan Goldman has been running ads for months. Primaried from his left by @bradlander.bsky.social, Goldman’s ads have gone from “Agents should have to carry ID” in January, to big bold graphics this month that say “Abolish ICE.”

Frame from campaign ad by Rep. Dan Goldman. His face full on center frame under which is the caption in all caps “ABOLISH ICE”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

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Scoutprime @scoutprime.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

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emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The best quotes from the article:

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.

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Wards @wotzka.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

sometimes i wonder if my life would be easier if i weren't on the spectrum, but then a content creator i like drops a 2 hour+ video. i could coast off the dopamine for days. who needs to maintain eye contact without a headache anyway. overrated. tell me how foucault relates to sweeney todd, king

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

User @backintimeag:
The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Perhaps the most politically important thing about Zohran Mamdani is that it seems like he really, really likes New York and New Yorkers.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/01/2026

1. In a major victory, Democrats have managed to get all anti-trans riders stripped from the final appropriations bills. This includes HHS and Ed, which had the worst provisions in congressional history. If it passes, it will be a big win for 2026. Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.com

Democrats Successfully Strip All Anti-Trans Riders From Final Appropriations Bills

The HHS and Education bills once contained the most sweeping anti-trans provisions in congressional history. Now they contain none.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

What causes me despair? Life-long GOP voters in my family who are almost completely divorced from reality, have no fixed principles beyond R=good, D=bad, and live in a state of constant fear, anger, and racist resentment. What gives me hope? Everyday folks in MN and elsewhere fighting back.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

finally, we're living through precedented times

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

You Wouldn’t Download 60 Minutes

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda

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onion person @junlper.beer · 07/12/2025

this has become a very important video to me

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

(to the tune of Eleanor Rigby) 🎶socialist muslim🎶

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 18/11/2025

to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

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kit spooks 👻 @kitsparks.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

AO3 is also down, so between the two our whole acronym is affected

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.

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T1J @the1janitor.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

there are a lot of memes about how we must have slipped into an alternate timeline and everything's gone to shit and nothing makes sense anymore. but it's really not that complicated. people started voting for Republicans and now the world is worse

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cad @cadhalash.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

thinking about alternate veilguard endings where a dwarf rook can connect to a titan and lock themself in the fade to soothe the blight ... im feeling real Emotional these days about the titans healing as an act of love rather than atonement

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

incredible that mainstream media keeps announcing that the story they "missed" during the election was biden's age, even though it got constant coverage for years, and not "donald trump was close friends with notorious pedophile jeffrey epstein"

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