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Jason

@greedyrunner.bsky.social

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I say we nuke the entire site from orbit It's the only way to be sure PhD student of Scottish mountaineering history and culture. He/Him https://medium.com/@GreedyRunner

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Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social · May 14

I've had a couple of drinks, so here's my unfiltered thoughts. My trans friends rule, and the 'reasonable' transphobes that have popped up once or twice on my timeline can just fuck off and die.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 45m

Women don't like the vehicle.

The car from the movie Christine, a 1958 Plymouth Fury, on fire and glaring directly at the camera complete with lens flare

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 1h

RFK Jr knows this from his extensive FaceTime research

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 46m

It’s official, I’m the guy at the conference who is immediately recognized because of his dog. even when the dog is not present

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 46m

today I have developed a theory that the ancient Roman/Syrian satirist Lucian wrote a shitpost making fun of credulous people so good that people kept right on credulously repeating certain parts of it for 1500 years

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 6h

News story two days ago in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social .

As far as I can tell, zero mention in NYT, WSJ, etc.

Though there was space for a front-page NYT story last week about Harvard students sometimes skipping class. (I am shocked, just shocked.)

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A Majority of Frozen Federal Funding Has Been Restored, Harvard Says | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard has now received payments on the majority of funding that it lost since the Trump administration froze its access to federal grants this spring, the University notified faculty this month.

www.thecrimson.com

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 44m

Starmer is more concerned about the rights of Israeli football fans (who have already demonstrated they are violent) than of trans people in the UK.

Wrong to stop Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending Aston Villa match, says PM

Followers of the Israeli club will not be allowed to attend the Europa League game over safety concerns.

www.bbc.co.uk

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She Guevara 🗳💚 @sheg7.bsky.social · 51m

‘Thus says the Lord: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me. But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all your territory with frogs.'

youtube.com/shorts/lVpaa...

The Portland protest frogs are multiplying

YouTube video by The Oregonian

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 51m

My mom is in the hospital and was completely unresponsive for almost 24 hours but just opened her eyes and told my brother to "Shut up." So there's still some fight left in this world, people.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 51m

sounds lit let’s go

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10h

this doesn’t seem great!

‘I got older and became a communist’: Deleted posts show Maine Senate hopeful’s raw views on politics, war, and police | CNN Politics

Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer, now disavows posts he made years ago, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online.

www.cnn.com

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💕 Jenna 💕 @thesleepysuccubus.bsky.social · 22d

We could be so great together 💕💕💕💕💕

#fuckcensorship #nsfw #bskycensorship #istandwithnsfw #bsky

A meme of two muscly arms and hands joining in solidarity. It says “nsfw artists” on one and “sexworkers” on the other

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 1h

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2h

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 1d

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 1h

Just by following some news from Vancouver and British Columbia in general, I am impressed.

Folks don't seem to like the oil pipeline, First Nations are thinking about forests in a new way, and the provincial capital is applying active mobility measures.

That's standing out in North America.

#BC

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Canadian Mech-X4 Donald 🇨🇦🤖🦾 @rangerdonald.bsky.social · 1h

Pure Triumphant.

Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 3h

Now is as good a time as any to remind you that THE ROCKETEER (1991) was the best comic book movie franchise we never got. Soaring pulp adventure over an Old Hollywood backdrop, a top tier James Horner score. Oh and there's even Jon Polito!

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1h

The Terminator. Watching the film that started it all, with James Cameron establishing from the start that he’s the master of visual spectacle.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, naked as the day he was born, gazing out on the lights of Los Angeles at night.

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 1h

And that they're capable of it---like, honestly, you get out of my class and I don't want you to need me, I want you to remember that you were more than capable of reading a whole lot of very alien stuff, and truly understanding it and the world it came from

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 21h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 1h

The same right-wing assholes who keep calling queer people “groomers” can’t stop talking about teenage sperm. How I hate these people 🤮

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 1h

its one of those weird subjects where its really easy to get the answer but elites dont like the answer so they just pretend its an eternal mystery (while giving endlessly credulous coverage to conservative christians frothing at the mouth to make women property)

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Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social · 1h

Mucky

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Lucie🐈‍⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social · 1h

Convicted felon who was caught with classified documents in his bathroom has thoughts about the John Bolton indictments...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: John Bolton was just indicted by a grand jury in Maryland. You reaction?

TRUMP: I didn't know that. You're telling me for the first time.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 3h

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 1h

Pig Witch - Jean-Baptiste Monge

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1h

one of the things i hate about starmer is that he just doesn’t know when to shut the fuck up

the prime minister shouldn’t be commenting on this just like he shouldn’t be commenting on graham linehan. he’s forever giving his a right wing leg-humping opinion when he jus shouldn’t say anything at all

Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 1h

I HATE THIS GUY SO FUCKING MUCH

Decision to stop Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending Aston Villa match "wrong", says
Sir Keir Starmer

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Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social · 1h

“I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle.”