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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I actually get my information from people who understand exactly what it is and why it’s a fucking autocorrect slot machine that does nothing but extract. This is hot garbage. Just because I have ethics and a spine doesn’t mean I don’t also engage critical thinking. Slop boosters don’t.
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this is how we raging bisexuals married to men dress. we love collared shirts and pleated pants. it’s sick.
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
one thing about me is that I think every single pair of hey dudes (except my dad’s bc that’s my dad and he loves them) should burn
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a good list. The #1 biggest problem in Title IX is that there is no oversight and massive conflicts of interest. Schools can (and do) prioritize the institution over survivors, even when it requires breaking the law. Independent investigations would change that.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I keep seeing videos of doctors and social workers on the phone trying to negotiate care and exorbitant medical bills with insurance companies and I see all the interactions. capitalism is crumbling, and those videos and showing the obstacles in place in healthcare is going to be a big factor.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As we talk about what happened at Cornell, please take a moment to learn about how a young LSU student is fighting for help against that school’s storied football program
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have been thinking about this a lot this week.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1 - You have got to be fucking kidding me. 2 - I’ll take it. A win’s a win.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.)
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
gonna fully admit that patient zero has truly grown on me!! the narcotics!! in the songs!!
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
just called my senator to let him know what a dumbass he is
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
not sure any other gaylors clocked the wedding band placement but I have thoughts lol
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
that music video was great, I think it definitely softened me on PZ for sure. maybe I'll give pink clouding another chance today bc that was the other one I know will grow on me lol
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think going to a pop concert would heal me, tbh
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co
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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
immediately blocking any video I see of women dancing around to “you only have to find the one man who doesn’t find you completely insufferable” legitimately my least favorite lyric of all time, I want to ban my niece from ever hearing that song
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I support the zoomers in their quest to drink good coffee at a job interview and ritually humiliate anyone who suggests it's "unprofessional" to have taste
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
sometimes grief sneaks up to you and punches you in the fucking face. like out of no where.
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stolen kisses, pretty lies @fruitballtay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Young girls who listen to Taylor don't know what performance artlor is but now they think it's ok to settle for man who doesn't find them totally insufferable and takes them to Cleveland
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
spot on critique of cleveland slop.
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think if a man walked into a job interview with a yeti full of hot coffee, no one would bat an eye. and that’s probably the real issue here lol
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laken ⏾⋆˙⟡࿐࿔ @lakenspiraling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
how could anyone believe the same person who wrote dancing with our hands tied, call it what you want, state of grace, ours, the lakes, daylight, guilty as sin etc etc etc could possibly be taking wood and cleveland seriously like be so for real
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Mr. K says we all shine on! 🌙✨🌈 @instantkarmaisacat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Max Martin has made his whole career bathing in the reflected light of female artists
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I said this when showgirl came out: she didn’t want any of her actual friends attached to this work (aside from sabrina as a feature on one of the better songs).
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think we should give Miley and Carly more listens because the billboard charts are dominated by country artists and racists rn and taylor currently still has her own no 1 for IKIIKY. let’s uplift the pop girlies working their asses off
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I keep my bisexual demons looooocked in lowercase inside a vault
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
no, I’m not lmao
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is both terrible writing and also the single most depressing lyric she’s ever written
You only need to find one person in this entire world
Who doesn't find you completely insufferable
And I have an important announcement to make
I found mine (That's right)
Well, I found mine (Hey, hey, hey)
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tree, in pain 👻🪾 @treepaineburner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cleveland is hysterical and terribly awful but what bothers me most is that she had an opportunity to clock her own criticism a lot better to drive home the point. literally who on earth is calling taylor swift a whore?
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letícia @leti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
remember those days?
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Taylor Swift - Guilty as Sin?
Listen to Guilty as Sin? on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service
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stolen kisses, pretty lies @fruitballtay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"she was married by adam sandler" dethroned as the biggest ick Taylor ever gave me btw
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I clearly don’t think that stanning billionaire TS is the worst thing you can do under capitalism, but we DO have the right to demand a good product. it’s insane that this shitty album broke every record and that’s the biggest gripe I have with her. she manufactured her worst work to be her biggest.
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this is legitimately insane lmao
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
not her rapping lmao
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 24/09/2026
Having déjà vu to “Roe v. Wade is settled precedent” coming from the mouths of Supreme Court nominees
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
so tell me to run!! or dare to sit and watch what we’ll become!! and drink my husband’s wine!!
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the tombstone is gonna say “BELOVED WIFE AND DAUGHTER”
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I love my dear non-gaylor swiftie friend she has no idea what i’m even thinking rn lmao
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stolen kisses, pretty lies @fruitballtay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ok even I will say it this time: funeral scene
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the wizard of loneliness (Halloween edition) @chairness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
if you tell me I have no choice but to vote for this man for president I will spit in your face
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
r/fashion has turned into just AI fake hotties or people absolutely bashing on the real people who post their outfits. I hate the internet now.
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
hell yeah girl keep romanticizing midwestern cities!! do St. Louis next!! 🌼
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
babylon is one of my favorite gaga songs, I cannot wait for this one!!
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abby j 🪩⚜️✨ @xabbbyjstl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
no news on a video but! called it
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