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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 12h

I wonder if Dutch philosophy departments in the 1630s were only hiring in the philosophy of tulips.

Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 13h

One might also say "hiring committees".

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc.

If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 5h

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 4h

It is, in every practical sense, their entire job. They know it’s why they were hired and they know the only consequences they’d face would be for telling the truth.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4h

The ease with which officials lie in 2025 is honestly terrifying

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 5h

Yes.

The miles of “gold” in the Oval Office are a product of the same thing—a DESPERATE need for adulation.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 5h

When your supporters look exactly as if you ordered them in bulk from the I’m Not Racist But Store…

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 5h

My hometown - it used to be solid Labour. This is the last thing it needs now.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine that

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 5h

You wonder why everyday folks don’t follow the news and then you read about how a super rich man keeps himself informed. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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Sophie Hell 😈 @sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 6h

Great news for people who consider themselves Real Men

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Pumpkinloaf @toneloaf.bsky.social · Jul 23

This week, I resigned from my position as Director of IT/Tech at an org I truly believed in. I wanted us to stop using Generative AI and was told no.

This thread will explain my decision and why I believe this is a true crisis. I hope ya see this and if you want to chat, + or -, lets do it 1/

My long thread chunked into 4 pieces. Its too long to add alt text so hopefully you read the post if you were interested enough to click on the image!

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 6h

Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 6h

Men would rather watch hundreds of hours of creepy men on YouTube than treat women like people.

Beans, Frightening Bleeble 🫀🎃 @flawlessangel.bsky.social · 11h

idk why the youtube algo fed me this but i can't describe how scary & weird it is being a woman knowing these freaks are doing presentations on how to understand & conquer us like. we are just people. have you tried being fucking normal. i will never get used to society being like this

a man stood in front of a whiteboard that is just covered in loads of text because he's solved the 'woman' conspiracy he looks like a meme

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The man was 77 years old and his wife previously organized one of the local ‘No Kings’ protests. All he did was write ‘You Lack Values’ and got an intimidation visit from Desantis’s Gestapo.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17h

We’re going to see someone pen an essay about the radical act of smelling their own gas in the next three years.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 9h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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An English Bear @ursusclan.bsky.social · 15h

The budget pain is not bad luck. It is Brexit’s bill.
A weaker pound, slower growth, higher borrowing costs, all made in the referendum.
So when you pay more tax, remember who sold the dream.
The architect of this austerity the creator of this scenario , the maker of these taxes…was Nigel Farage.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 7h

For a long time, the US extreme right was held back from ruthlessly pursuing its goals by the notion that "someone" would stop them & punish them.

Trump 1 taught them nobody would stop them, & Biden taught them nobody would punish them.

And here we are.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 8h

And Russell Vought.

Not sure if what they are doing is a specific
Violation of law, since they have acted with congressional blessing, but surely they have trampled upon the constitution.

Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 8h

If and when this is ever over, the evidence will be overwhelming that Stephen Miller was personally directing a huge range of crimes which Trump may have supported but was only dimly aware of. But Miller has no immunity. He is a racist gangster and should spend many years in prison for this.

CNN @cnn.com · 10h

In the hours after a chaotic confrontation in Chicago last week that culminated with a federal agent shooting a local woman, top White House aide Stephen Miller delivered an urgent order to Department of Defense personnel: Prepare to send in the troops.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 8h

one thing that’s definitely new over the past decade or so is the number of bumper stickers and signs threatening to kill you

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 20h

Record high temperatures are currently being set across the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. In fact, it is effectively ice-free on the Atlantic side of the Arctic all the way up to about 85°N latitude! This includes record low sea ice around Svalbard.

Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Line graph time series of 2025's daily 2-m temperature in the Arctic compared to each year from 1958 through 2024. There is a long-term warming trend for every day of the year. There is also large interannual variability and a clear seasonal cycle.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13h

'One does not wish to dignify this kind of vandalism with a response and you have to wonder whether the Tories will give Badenoch even one election before booting her out.'

In praise of “rip-off” degrees | The Observer

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on the arts and humanities isn’t just culturally short-sighted, it’s economically illiterate

observer.co.uk

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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 12h

Homophobia 🤝 transphobia

Growing up in the 70s, 80s, & 90s we heard the exact same stuff - word for word - being said about gays and lesbians.

#transrightsarehumanrights

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 9h

LOL I took one dose last year & lost a whole day to brainfog...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9h

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Read @adriandaub.bsky.social on Thiel and the antichrist

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Overall, the picture of Thiel that emerges in these lectures is someone desperately trying to disidentify from their own power. “You realize,” he tells his audience when interpreting a particular Japanese manga, “in my interpretation … who runs the world is something like the antichrist.” Here’s a man who, together with a couple of fellow Silicon Valley freaks, helped return a sundowning caudillo to a presidency he is obviously unsuited for, and who uses the awesome might of the US government to remake society and the world. A man who funds the companies that harness your data and determine who gets doxxed, deported, drone struck. Who funds far-right movements that seek to remake the very face of liberal democracy.

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