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Everything you hated me for / honey there was so much more / I just didn't get busted

-Jason Molina

Listening to the new tribute album.

Damn. Sublime.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 9h

🌶️👀

phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 9h

Ross Gay, for the night crowd

Blowjob

It's just like the tongue, isn't it,
to fold you up
into a tiny origami swan
whose angled wings
splay and whose jutted neck
and beak point out over some expanse
of water a tugboat
hauling the mammoth frigate
upstream the reckless kayaker
tickling an eddy
the currents changing temperature
beneath your feet
as you paddle nowhere except into
the mouth of the one who
made you

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 9h

If you're voting in this CA special election (which you should), I would recommend dropping your ballots off, not mailing them. Here are the locations for Sacramento county:

elections.saccounty.net/votecenters/...

Look up your county's election website for locations!

www.kcra.com/article/wood...

Mail theft impacts election ballot deliveries in Woodland, Yolo County says

Several election ballots for registered voters in Woodland were damaged after a United States Postal Service mail theft incident, according to Yolo County.

www.kcra.com

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 9h

😱

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 9h

Oh boy this is gonna get real weird real fast isn't it?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 15h

When someone (here, the interviewer) doesn't understand that "content" is not Art.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 9h

Life goals

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 10h

Also, you were a kid. Were you paying attention to the prevalence of autism? No. You were not.

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 10h

Goddamn you Ben McCulloch

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 10h

Been hiding under a rock for a while, huh?

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 15h

wtaf are you talking about

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 20h

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "A Short History of Birth Control" by Elizabeth Loudon (@esloudon.bsky.social) #TBT

stonecirclereview.com/a-short-hist...

A Short History of Birth Control

by Elizabeth Loudon Beneath a chilly bathroom floor in Kensington the District Line dragged its down-under bodies, shaking the smallest bones of my feet as I smeared poison around the rim of rubber...

stonecirclereview.com

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RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 15h

👀

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 15h

Issue 7 update: on read-thru #2 of 3. Release is coming soon! 🖤

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 17h

15 small states with 41 million people elect 30 GOP senators

California with 39 million people elects 2 Democratic senators

Listen to how US political system violates one person, one vote & how voting rights under attack on new episode of @npr.org Code Switch www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Voting rights are at risk. Here's why. : Code Switch

Next Wednesday, the Supreme Court hears a case that could further weaken the Voting Rights Act, which was passed to ensure fair districting and voting practices across different racial groups. Meanwhi...

www.npr.org

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 19h

Spirit Airlines sending me increasingly desperate emails to book travel the week after they ceased operations in my city 🤷‍♂️

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 20h

These clouds this morning y'all...

#sacramento

Some cool feathery clouds in the pre-dawn sky.

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 22h

"A novelty for the lazy" absolutely f&$@in nails it.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 22h

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 20h

💯

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 1d

I just got an email regarding my "Facebook User Privacy Settlement – Notice of Upcoming Settlement Payment."

So there's that.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 1d

Looks just like Pacific Rim to me

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland