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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 29m

there's something to be written here about Poptimism and the collapse of the record industry resulting in a decline in overtly political music across multiple genres

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 34m

bsky.app/profile/very...

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 57m

shut the fuck up

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1h

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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

January 7, 2021 would have been a good time to start!

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 2h

right around fredericksburg, i'd say.

Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 2h

one of many things STL shares with Baltimore (also both independent cities)

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 2h

Mid-Atlantic checks out. Very accurate as far as I can tell.

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 14h

They will not!

Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 14h

🥹

Orioles legend Anthony Santander singled to drive in 2 runs and put the Blue Jays up 6-1 over the Yankees

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 15h

A telecaster with a contoured body. But not the other stuff

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 16h

Might look a little like this www.wypr.org/wypr-news/20...

Maryland joins public health coalition to bolster public health standards

The coalition is a bulwark against Trump vaccine policies.

www.wypr.org

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 16h

Go Jays!

Yankee Stadium tribute to Charlie Kirk on their Jumbotron

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Stephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 17h

Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa, Leading to Death Threats for Him and His Family
newrepublic.com/post/201448/...

Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa

Rutgers University professor Mark Bray no longer feels safe at home.

newrepublic.com

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 20h

Big Tech practices have been swirling down the ethical toilet for well over a decade, as Cory Doctorow covers in his 2025 book “Enshittification.” Maureen Tkacik reviews the downfall of American tech companies:
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Brown Stage Capitalism

Cory Doctorow’s ‘Enshittification’ describes how tech platforms (and everything else) went down the sewer. Hint: It rhymes with ‘deshmegulation.’

trib.al

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 20h

USA: Standing athwart a greening planet yelling POLLUTE!!!!!

Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 1d

Oh:
- The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July.
- China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period.
By @akshatrathi.bsky.social
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance

China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

www.bloomberg.com

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 20h

gotta be oscar isaac

Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 20h

whole lotta useful idiots out there

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 22h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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

"You can either be a knitting circle or you can be 4chan. What you can't do is expect knitting circle behavior from ordinary users while clearing the runway for figures like Singal..."

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 22h

if you've been curious about the vague sense of conflict between the bluesky team and users of this service (which I will cop to feeding into without fully explaining), this post should catch you up nicely

azhdarchid.com/jay-graber-c...

Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals

As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

azhdarchid.com

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 22h

Of course even the above scenario implies an interest or willingness to play offense against fascists in the first place. So, yeah.

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Unremarkable Internet User @nostaticatall.bsky.social · 22h

This is the sort of thing where, if the Democratic Party had direct or de facto control of mass media outlets, they could make this guy and Jesse Watters' blatant fakery into a days- or weeks-long story and discredit them.

But they don't, so they won't.

mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 23h

lol it’s this guy

Tweet from 11/2/24 showing Harry Sisson and his 4 friends in a car that reads “we’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris”

Robert J O’Neill quotes it with

“You're not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.”

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 23h

lol it’s this guy

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

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