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Sophie
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Former journalist & current person trying to stay alive. I have an occasional substack https://www.instagram.com/selfconsciouspod/ insidetheripple.substack.com
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3d
I’m learning there is something worse than “the sex work debate” and it’s sex work as cudgel in candidate debates
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · Jul 10
he was also the mermaid parade king in 1999 (queen latifah was the queen)

www.coneyisland.com/mermaid-para...
curtis sliwa dressed as some kind of egyptian pharaoh or something, walking next to queen latifah also dressed in an egyptian getup
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · 3d
incredible
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · 3d
ALL PARADES HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXIST
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · 3d
cutis is all fun until he drops some insane shit like "homeless children need charter schools"
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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 3d
"I just need to tweet more" has never been the right answer for any circumstance
petersterne.com Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 3d
Asked why he thinks he lost the Democratic primary, Cuomo said that he just learned that he needs to be on social media more but his agenda is the same as the primary.

“I’m the Democrat, though I’m not on the Democratic line” - Cuomo
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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 3d
I do believe Sliwa has the power to bring about a City of No
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3d
The #NYCMayoralDebate questions asking about “gifted and talented” is dishonest in its framing. It should be a question of why the fuck any adult is pretending giving a test to a *four year old* means anything, let alone building a system around the parents who can pay for tutors for 4-year-olds.
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · 3d
curtis shitting on his own children is a move
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · 4d
you need trained professionals like me, a guy who rides the subway wearing a beret
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · 4d
it's so funny
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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 4d
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · 4d
honestly loving watching sliwa destroy cuomo this rules
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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 4d
I KNEW MARIO CUOMO

YOU ARE NO MARIO CUOMO
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 5d
Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
www.aftonbladet.se
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · 14d
everything just feels completely intolerable doesn't it
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · 15d
you don't have to imagine just read all the horrifying reports by +972 www.972mag.com/ofer-camp-to...
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · Sep 20
i will never in a million years stop wearing high waisted jeans
yeeeerika.bsky.social erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · Sep 19
btw trump just effectively deported anyone on a H1-B visa who isn't extremely rich
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · Sep 19
what does it say about our society that we are always having some kind of controversy about shit written on starbucks cups
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · Sep 19
i don't even fully disagree with this, like yeah there is more conspiracy theories and misinformation than ever. but the shooters motives are genuinely confusing, i don't think this is because of bluesky or whatever he thinks it is.
caitlinmoriah.bsky.social dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · Sep 19
jimmy kimmel officially diagnosed with blueskyism, is no one safe
Nate Silver sive @NateSilver538 Follow But it also doesn't feel like the center is holding. I'm not sure whether it's Bluesky or something else, but the progressive epistemic bubble is getting really bad. So where was Kimmel getting this from? Well, maybe from Bluesky. Or (gulp) maybe from Substack. As Gabe Flesher pointed out, Heather Cox Richardson, the author of the #1 U.S. politics newsletter Letters from an American, wrote this weekend that Robinson "appears to have embraced the far right, disliking Kirk for being insufficiently radical." Richardson presented no evidence for this; it's wishful thinking at best. But really, it's just a falsehood; like Flesher, I'll be polite and not use the term "lie" just because I don't know what's in Richardson's head. * I'm not looking to pick a fight with Richardson (I know some of you subscribe to her) or Kimmel. But the progressive epistemic bubble is getting really bad. Maybe not worse than the MAGA bubble - but bad, and progressives often rationalize bad behavior by saying whatever the other side is doing is worse. This has already had serious consequences, such as denialism about Joe Biden's deteriorating condition last year, which they blamed on unfair media coverage. Kimmel is a relatively mainstream figure, so if this sort of misinformation about Robinson is making its way to him - and in scripted remarks, not off-the-cuff comments like Dowd's - that suggests the bubble is expanding, slowly devouring the reality-based community, and that formerly rational commentators have trouble escaping it once they're past the event horizon. 8:06 AM • 9/19/25 • 363K Views
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · Sep 19
i always forget that even though i am privileged i am a hell of a lot less privileged than a lot of other people
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Sophie @happenssomuch.bsky.social · Sep 19
just saw someone on reddit asking if it was "feasible" for him to leave the US with half a million in investments and owning a home, just imagining how much they would panic if they lived my life for one day lol
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · Sep 19
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• 404 Media
• Defector
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• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
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