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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 6m

there’s still time to delete this!

Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 36m

Cubs disqualified by the two Ch*rlie K*rk stans

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cuuuurse-ty 🕯️ @curses.zone · 11h

showing bunt is unserious language

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 22h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 21h

"wealthy (anyone) who rides the bus" in america is such an obvious joke it barely needs rebuking

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22h

Another reason to mask at protests, aside from COVID safety and protection from doxxing, is that a lot of responsible documenters don't want to publish protesters' faces (esp without their consent) right now. Your face being in a shot may prevent people from sharing a worthwhile image publicly.

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 23h

McAvoy’s Philadelphia accent is genuinely impressive

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 1d

absolutely falls off a cliff after BHFS

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

This is as good and urgent as others have been saying. I don't think it's possible to sustain anything resembling mass democracy in a post-literate society. musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1d

Similarly describing him as an "expert on antifa" rather than an "antifascism researcher" further legitimates antifa as a proper noun in a way that makes zero sense

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 1d

theyre the common clay of the new west

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

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A collage of four tweets from Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) discussing concerns about artificial intelligence.

Top left tweet: Walsh warns that within a year or two, people will be able to create indistinguishable fake videos for defamation, and that nothing is being done to prevent this.
Bottom left tweet: He says AI will destroy jobs, art, reality, and civilization, yet no action is being taken to stop it.
Top right tweet: He criticizes AI-generated films as soulless and meaningless, saying art requires human expression and that AI will be the “death of art.”
Bottom right tweet: Walsh argues that if a robot paints a picture, the robot is the artist, not the person prompting it, because the robot lacks consciousness and meaning.

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 1d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Everything the government does is for online clout because *that is the only thing that's actually real for them*

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

I know we're all too online but we are nowhere near as online as these maniacs all are

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 1d

Free version www.instapaper.com/read/1912174...

Instapaper

A simple tool for saving web pages to read later on iOS, Android, computer, Kindle or Kobo eReader.

www.instapaper.com

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 1d

I like this guy

Mamdani has a solicitous, animated way of speaking that can verge on TED talk. He gestures prolifically, displaying the thick silver rings he wears, and likes to pull quotations from Nelson Mandela, F.D.R., Toni Morrison, Aristotle. Sipping his chai, he spoke with precision, not just about what he’d do as mayor but about the voters who were going to help him win—Muslims and South Asians, renters, young people, Democrats who oppose Israel’s war in Gaza. When prodded about the inevitable backlash to his more expensive proposals, Mamdani shrugged. “I am not afraid of my own ideas,” he said. When I mentioned the difficulty of what he hoped to pull off, he smiled: “I think for far too long we’ve tried not to lose, as opposed to figuring out how to win.”

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 1d

I thankfully never had to drive one of the infamous old school right-hand-drive, no-AC trucks, and I never had a truck with broken AC. Unfortunately, 100 degrees outside = 110 in the van = heat stroke always right around the corner.

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 1d

slightly disappointed i won't get to drive one of these. for me though, i doubt these very cool trucks would make the job suck any less than it does now (a lot)

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 2d

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Wolf being absolutely destroyed in Jeopardy by Andy Richter

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