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self.agency
An Australian-Jordanian developer launched a TikTok clone called UpScrolled that was supposed to be a haven for pro-Palestinian content in the face of shadow bans. It reached 1,000,000 users this week and sits atop App Store rankings. It is now being subsumed by Nazis, with mods unable to keep up.
TikTok deal fuels rise of UpScrolled, whose founder conceived it as a haven for Palestinian activism - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Antisemitic content has flooded the app as users surged this week past 1 million.
www.jta.org
January 29, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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serenaribena.bsky.social
'Sea urchins are crucial to their shallow tropical environments since they feed on & keep algae populations in check that might otherwise threaten the survival of coral reefs. So the loss of these invertebrates could have untold destructive effects on other marine life.'

gizmodo.com/the-sea-urch...
The Sea Urchin Apocalypse Is Real, and It Might Be Spreading Globally, Scientists Warn
New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic.
gizmodo.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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esqueer.net
This is the biggest self own the Democrats have ever done. They handed a group of eight wing billionaires control of the largest social media company.

Just absolutely stunning incompetence.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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esqueer.net
A horizontal stacked bar chart titled "Partisan Registration of Athletes by Sports League." The chart compares the political registration of professional athletes across five major U.S. leagues based on public voter files. The bars are divided into four categories: Democratic (Blue), Independent (Grey), Other (Purple), and Republican (Red). The data shows a spectrum from identifying predominantly as Democratic to predominantly Republican: * WNBA: Heavily Democratic (67.5%) with a significant Independent portion (30.2%) and a negligible Republican share. * NBA: Split largely between Independent (45.9%) and Democratic (42.9%), with a smaller Republican share (10.0%). * NFL: Plurality Independent (44.3%), followed by Democratic (34.3%) and Republican (20.2%). * NHL: Plurality Independent (48.6%) and closely followed by Republican (43.9%), with a very small Democratic share. * MLB: Majority Republican (53.7%), followed by Independent (36.4%) and a small Democratic share (7.8%). Source: Peter Lutz; data includes voter registration from 24 states and Washington, D.C.
January 22, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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esqueer.net
This is one of the most irresponsible things I've seen someone in the trans community do. Absolutely disgusting that Tara Knight faked claims about getting a letter from the FBI and then forged a letter with AI when journalists tried to verify.

theneedlenews.com/alleged-fbi-...
Rumors of FBI letters threatening trans public figures center on an AI-generated document
It is not impossible for the FBI to do what has been claimed. It is still irresponsible to spread panic among marginalized people through rumors without evidence.
theneedlenews.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Cartoon of two frogs in a pot of boiling water; one is dead and the other is relaxing and saying "we just need to win the midterms"
January 8, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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fissionado.bsky.social
Your favourite fujo’s favourite fujo has spoken.
December 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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self.agency
i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil
wyattprivilege.bsky.social warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · Dec 23
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
December 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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dryad.technology
Relatable
Legend of Zelda screenshot. Malon: "Everyone seems to be turning evil…"
December 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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therealbrent.bsky.social
She was a true believer and the Epstein cover-up shattered her entire world lmao
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · Nov 22
In her resignation statement, MTG breaks very dramatically with the secret-plan conspiracy theorists about what’s happening in DC.
There is no "plan to save the world" or insane 4D chess game being played.
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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okwonga.bsky.social
This article is utterly damning for the New York Times and also for Vanity Fair and ABC, whose editorial teams were apparently intimidated into silence by a mix of legal and violent threats. Virginia Giuffre did not stand a chance against all this.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Nov 12
This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?

Yes, you can read it here

www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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angus.bsky.social
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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hleehurley.com
iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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esqueer.net
Shapiro and Weiss seriously thought they could fan the flames of reactionary politics and it would spare them. Did they think they could spew racist and transphobic bigotry and it not end up growing into a monster that eventually came for them too? They made this bed for all of us.
Screenshot of a tweet from Bari Weiss saying “Must-watch.” It includes a tweet from Ben Shapiro that reads: “No to the groypers. No to cowards like Tucker Carlson, who normalize their trash. No to those who champion them. No to demoralization. No to bigotry and anti-meritocratic horseshit….” Below the text is an image of Ben Shapiro speaking during his show, wearing a navy blazer and white shirt, sitting at a desk with a microphone and a book titled The Authoritarian Moment visible. The timestamp on the video reads “41:23,” and the corner shows the logo “Ben Shapiro Show.”
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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cad6711.bsky.social
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Please do not take him up on this offer. Only thing Obama, a/k/a the Deporter-in-Chief, would do is lecture you about moving to “the center.“ He is not your (our) friend.
November 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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self.agency
the christian nationalist movement (which was always just the white nationalist movement by another name), turning on jews?
self.agency daniel s. @self.agency · Oct 30
who could have possibly seen this coming jewschool.com/zionism-is-j...
This racial triangulation—placing Jews in a privileged position over other marginalized groups while painting us as victims—is designed to collapse under pressure. When the public sees that Jews are shielded while others are punished, resentment builds, and antisemitic narratives about Jewish control are reinforced. This is not a defense of Jews. It is a setup. A bait-and-switch. A means of laundering white nationalist goals through Jewish legitimacy.
October 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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junlper.beer
it’s wild that the right is going with calling zohran mamdani a jihadist when he’s one of the most traditionally “woke” politicians out there right now
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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hleehurley.com
Theresa May, more left-wing than Labour on many things, never mind the Tories, especially trans people.
politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · Oct 28
Former British Prime Minister Theresa May laid into her own political party last night, accusing it of taking a populist tilt to the right that risks emboldening Nigel Farage.
Theresa May accuses Tories of ‘chasing votes’ from Farage’s Reform
Former British PM says Tory pledges to roll back climate reforms are an “extreme and unnecessary measure.”
www.politico.eu
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Enough time has passed that I can definitively say that the “everyone is 12 now” post is THE load bearing post of Bluesky. The hall of famer Bluesky post. It commands respect even from Bluesky skeptics and haters
October 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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theonion.com
Belt Looks Weird On Child
Belt Looks Weird On Child
October 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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juliannemcshane.bsky.social
NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!
No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.
www.motherjones.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM