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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 12d

I met my spouse 14 years ago on it (twitter / when it was only 40% terrible)

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ᴅᴏᴡɴ10⸻ @down10.bsky.social · 12d

I've made friends. I've discovered hundreds of artists and musicians and writers. It passifies my ADHD brain. I can find people I lost track of years ago and contact them.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Lisa Koch @jaspie13.bsky.social · 12d

Twitter radicalized me. I am far more leftist and can articulate my positions well because of the people I followed there (and now here). I know how to stand up for the people around me, my students, my employees, because they taught me how to center harm and use my privilege. I’m a better person.

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Rob-in-New Mexico @rob-in-newmexico.bsky.social · 12d

I met my sweetie on Twitter. Just mutuals for years. Long, long story short. Used to live in Hawaii. Divorce, heartbreak, traveled the world. Ended up visiting my sister in ABQ. Sent DM to "friend." Wanna do lunch? It became a 💝 thing. Yeah, something great.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13d

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

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𝕸𝖆𝖙𝖙 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖍𝖔𝖕𝖊 @mattstanhope7.bsky.social · 14d

There’s a kind of purity about the first season, before the show decided to wed itself to its overarching alien conspiracy story arc for good or ill. Maybe innocence is the word I’m looking for, not sure

a man in a suit and tie with the letter s on his tie

ALT: a man in a suit and tie with the letter s on his tie

media.tenor.com

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𝕸𝖆𝖙𝖙 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖍𝖔𝖕𝖊 @mattstanhope7.bsky.social · 14d

I can’t think of a more appropriate beer to accompany an old episode of The X Files

X Files Season One on dvd in the background, a beer named The Shapeshifter (with an image of a ufo, the cosmos and an alien being on the can) in the foreground

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Jezebel @nachthexxe.bsky.social · 16d

Tbh before you use some sort of new tech,do a background check on the founder to understand their ethics.People say that work and personal life is different but it always leaks.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18d

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

slate.com

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17d

you couldn’t pay me to have an opinion about t-swift’s new record. or i mean, you could, but you won’t, and no one has enough money anymore to make the opinion worth having, so here i stand, opinionless

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Jessica (not Jess) @healingmywounds.bsky.social · 17d

In addition to a friendly reminder to water your meatsuit regularly, I would like to suggest that you do something nice for yourself.

Today I will be enjoying the weather, taking pictures of the Fall foliage &joining my connection circle/meditation hour after enjoying a hot beverage w/a friend.

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Tasavvur Magazine @tasavvurnama.bsky.social · 18d

"You Will Survive This Night" is a reprint by Indrapramit Das, who writes about what it means to be a girl and a monster at the same time.

Link to read below: tasavvurnama.com/you-will-sur...

🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

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Jezebel @nachthexxe.bsky.social · Sep 19

The Mark Zuckerberg AI screw up video just warms the cockles of my heart.Schadenfreude sauce made just perfectly.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · Sep 11

“This is going to make the Right violent” - they gunned down a Dem politician, her husband and her dog, they’re kidnapping people off the streets, they’re arresting their political opponents, guys I don’t know what to tell you but you are already there. The Rubicon was crossed long ago.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · Sep 11

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.

It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets

A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.

www.bloomberg.com

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Scroll @scroll.in · Sep 11

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has also ordered a probe into the matter. The Solapur district commissioner has been asked to submit a report.

scroll.in/latest/10864...

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Jezebel @nachthexxe.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sending out this wish out into the world: Wish Arundhati writes the screenplay for a Malayalam movie.😁

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