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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 18h

Walter Benjamin said, “behind every fascism is a failed revolution," but failed to note that the ruling class will go fascist just because some college students made them upset.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h

The young progs yelled at you online, and, well, I guess you showed them! You helped render their culture an ugly, violent, stupid, contemptible wreck that will likely take decades to return to any form worthy of pride.

You showed those fucking kids! That will teach them to talk back.

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 18h

Please help if you can friends 💜

Juniper @coffinfairy.bsky.social · 1d

$256/$1,170!!!

WE NEED HEAT
ELECTRIC IS NOW OVERDUE

FOUR KIDS IN THE HOUSE
2 OF US ARE DISABLED

PLEASE HELP THIS GET SEEN MORE! PLEASE HELP IF YOU’RE ABLE!

Juniper @coffinfairy.bsky.social · 5d

‼️Single Disabled mom‼️needing help with electric due the 8th and propane that heats my home and water filled ASAP.

Electric: $520

Propane:$650

Any help is appreciated 💜

PayPal: www.paypal.me/Coffinelf

Cashapp: cash.app/$coffinkewpie

Ko-fi: coffinfairy

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 18h

I love this song

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 19h

a person is looking at a calendar that says december on it

Alt: A gif of the Red Letter Media “fuck you it’s January” bit. A normal December calendar page is removed to reveal January but it says “Fuck You! It’s January”. This is in reference to all the terrible movies that get released/dumped in January every year,

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andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social · 1d

I am so tired of people calling things divisive when what they mean is that they were more comfortable when other people were just being silently oppressed and they didn’t have to hear about it or change anything

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 1d

It just keeps going. The teeth are guns. There are spiders in the eyes. You’d think it was satire making fun of fascism 🙃

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 1d

I made a comprehensive semester long history report the day before it was due after explicitly being told all semester that it can’t be done at the last minute. Not only did I not get called out I got a perfect score. AI could never 😎

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing could have prepared me for this reveal

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 7d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 6d

Found it

A screenshot of Singals Twitter where he shows correspondence with a KiwiFarms user who reached out to help him:

A kiwi farmer reached out to me claiming to have figured out the tech problems I'm having. This is their post. Does this make sense to those who are techier than me? I indeed get an error when I click on the username so no idea how to block.

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 6d

I’m fairly positive he uses the site and gets info from people there too

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 7d

shrimp shrimp shrimp

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Phoebe! @mollyesbian.gayass.io · 15d

the death of stuff like pinups as a normal thing to enjoy has lead to an increasing amount of people thinking nudity or sex has to be something you have to jack off to inherently when it clearly isn't. provocative art of a character or a nude of a person can also be made to show how beautiful we are

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 8d

Hell yeah 👑

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 8d

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 9d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10d

this is more or less what I expected

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 10d

I’m starting invisalign today and they put all the little notches on my teeth for the things to hold on to and it is very weird lol

I’m grateful to be able to do this but it is soooo weird

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Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 10d

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log.

This tells me two things:

1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day.

(212) 486-4430

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 10d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 10d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 10d

Women are returning to spider goddess ways 😌

NPR @npr.org · 10d

The jumping spider pet market is booming, particularly with women. And for many, the journey to spider enthusiast began as an arachnophobe.

Scared of spiders? Some former arachnophobes now are keeping jumping spiders as pets

The jumping spider pet market is booming, particularly with women. And for many, the journey to spider enthusiast began as an arachnophobe.

n.pr

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 11d

I am always thinking about the story where a billionaire hired a consultant on how to make their staff loyal no matter what and the consultant was like pay for their kids college, pay them generously starting now and the billionaire was like “oh no I was thinking like shock collars or something”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11d

we should take away all their money so they can’t do this

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 13d

Kimmel isn't enough, Sinclair. I demand you send a beer to Dylan Mulvaney.

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