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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 11h

Happy coming out day to 21-year-old me, who decided to publicly come out in the op-ed section of my college newspaper at a midsized Catholic college in 2003 -- an act of such profound YOLO that it is stunning to my now much more adult self

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17h

I think the Democrats need to start making the likely AI crash an issue right now. It has everything they need, and unlike the "boys in girls' sports" issue, it is actually rooted in reality.

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merritt @merrittk.com · Feb 20

one day soon AI will be able to enjoy jacking off and playing video games for you, freeing up your valuable time to toil in the blood mines for shelter-creds

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Danielle Moodie @daniellemoodie.bsky.social · 11h

The fact that ICE is advertising during college football games offering $50K bonuses to torture people is insane and says a lot.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 11h

I endorse this with my whole heart and I also think, at least for this one weekend, we can all agree that Love & Death and Interiors (and, sure, Annie Hall) are Diane Keaton movies and you can watch them bc what’s brilliant about those movies, which is a lot, is overwhelmingly bc of her

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 12h

HOW THE FUCK IS DIANE KEATON DEAD BUT THAT OLD BITCH WOODY ALLEN STILL ALIVE???

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 17h

A remarkable, much-needed political ad, and also read @katelynburns.com on her reaction to it: www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 1d

Everything about the structure seems like the opposite of why Unrivaled is successful and beloved by the players. UL allows them to stay in one place. It allows them to be with their kids. It allows them to focus on their relationships with each other.

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 1d

Men are such bozos. They read a headline somewhere that women's basketball is making money so they're going to create some hyperinflated spectacle event thinking that somehow it's going to make billions of dollars for them. They're building a new version of the esports bubble.

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 1d

So Project B-- which is planning on a new 14 week globally traveling women's basketball league-- is created by a US tech executive and funded by the Saudi PIF? This shit deserves to die on the vine.

www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

Project B aims to build global women’s basketball league, eyes men’s expansion

Former Google and Facebook exec Grady Burnett said that the venture he co-founded, Project B, features a women’s league that is still being built, while a men’s league could still be created.

www.sportsbusinessjournal.com

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 1d

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 1d

It’s glaringly obvious when someone has used eBay’s stupid AI thing to fill in their item description. Just tell me if there any scratches on the disc, mate.

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 2d

fragile snowflake gang

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 2d

Turning Point USA, the organization founded by the late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, announced that it will be hosting its own Super Bowl halftime show to rival the NFL’s choice of Bad Bunny.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...

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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 3d

Hello! The Guardian is expanding our American soccer coverage. In the US, we're hiring:
• Reporters
• Asst. editor
• Audience editor
• Social video producer
• Sports biz reporter
These are all full-time, permanent, union positions.
www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

The Guardian announces plans to expand its global soccer coverage ahead of 2026 men’s World Cup in North America

Combination of seven new roles, including six in the US, spanning sports and business coverage, visuals, video and more

www.theguardian.com

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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undead girlfriend @hausofholes.bsky.social · 4d

finally finished bluesky

spookillumi @illumi.meme • 1m
The Onion be like "this job is based in Chicago".
Idk guys I think it'd be pretty based no matter where I did it.

Rogs Pumpkin
@stev.bsky.social• 2m
If kids love one thing I know it's pizzas

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Please note: protesters, clergy and a neighbor are also on this suit/also making claims here (it's a lot of reporters, but not only reporters!)

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5d

This argument builds on a mythical tale of America’s past, a distorted perspective on U.S. history describing democracy as old, consolidated, and exceptionally stable, imagining the country and its people as basically immune to authoritarianism: It cannot happen here!

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5d

This tendency to obscure the radicalization of the Right, to normalize Trump because of his continued mass appeal, to legitimize rightwing extremism, to accommodate and launder Trumpism, is a pervasive feature of the Trump era – it is one of its core pathologies.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5d

Klein’s musings about redrawing the line are a manifestation of a pervasive tendency in elite circles to accommodate rather than fight back, to acquiesce rather than stand firm. It is exactly the wrong lesson to learn from a decade of Trumpism as the dominant force on the Right.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5d

ICYMI yesterday:

I wrote about Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America – and why democratic citizens have an obligation to hold the line on what we consider beyond the pale.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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Where Is the Line?

On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America

steady.page

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11d

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.

"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

The Public Scholar

A Practical Handbook

www.press.jhu.edu

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 6d

Scenes from the terrorist hellhole of downtown New York City

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6d

It was a blunt 31-page opinion issued by a judge Trump appointed to the bench in his first term in office declaring that Trump’s effort to federalize Oregon National Guard troops likely “exceeded his statutory authority” and likely violated the Tenth Amendment.

Law Dork on Saturday’s TRO:

Federal judge blocks Trump's National Guard mobilization in Oregon

"The President’s determination" that the Guard was needed "was simply untethered to the facts," Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, found. DOJ is appealing.

www.lawdork.com

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