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rbreich.bsky.social
The New York Times editorial board thinks Democrats should “move to the center.”

Where the hell is the center between democracy and fascism?
October 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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feldfrog.bsky.social
Dude, just carve a perfect spear of rhetoric that will pierce the mind of culture
October 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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stcymsn.bsky.social
Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:
2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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motherjones.com
"I am probably the most apolitical person in America because I was separated from all of you, and I was told that I was worthless and that I would be put to death."

Nick Yarris spent more than 20 years in solitary confinement for a crime he didn’t commit. And he didn't mean to be at #NoKings.
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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thebeaverton.com
New sportsbetting app boasts 80% addiction rate
New sportsbetting app boasts 80% addiction rate
TORONTO - A popular new sportsbetting app, BetDuel Sportsbook & Casino, advertises "all the fun of sportsbetting and casino slots right in your pocket, plus 4 in 5 odds of developing a debilitating co...
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October 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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acollierastro.bsky.social
who gets the Nobel prize?
watch me weep openly about the discovery of insulin.
who gets the Nobel prize?
YouTube video by Angela Collier
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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jacobinmag.bsky.social
Legalization has wrested control of sports betting from organized crime.

But with few federal regulations in place and almost no public education on the newly sanctioned activity, many working-class people are now falling prey to another group of predators.
Rein in Sports-Betting Profiteers
Legalization has wrested control of sports betting from organized crime. But with few federal regulations in place and almost no public education on the newly sanctioned activity, many working-class people are now falling prey to another group of predators.
jacobin.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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noahs.bsky.social
THE MEME IS REAL
September 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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karenmccrimmon.bsky.social
Cheering for the Canadian Women’s Rugby Team in the World Cup Final tomorrow against England. Kick off is at 11:00 am on @tsnofficial.bsky.social. Canada is behind you all the way. Let’s go Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
September 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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junlper.beer
the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare
September 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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thebeaverton.com
Bruce Fanjoy wins Battle River-Crowfoot by-election
Bruce Fanjoy wins Battle River-Crowfoot by-election
CAMROSE, AB - In yet another shocking electoral upset, Conservative leader and former Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre has somehow been defeated once again in today's by-election by Liberal MP Br...
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August 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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feldfrog.bsky.social
Therapy dog: bark bark bark bark

Me (crying) : but I am Pagliacci
August 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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alexblechman.bsky.social
I was too scared to click on this ad. Why do I have to disappear for 1 month? Is disappearing mandatory? Vanishing usually isn’t part of a sales pitch. “Go off the grid for 5 years and return having experienced the great taste of DrPepper”
A clickbait ad that says “Disappear for 1 month and become a master of AI tools.” There is an AI generated woman looking at you, hinting with her gaze the message “Time for you to disappear for 30 or 31 days. Your family will not know your location”
August 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
"80 million jobs were added in june, very nice very nice. 300 million jobs added in july, even better. but this month mr president, 2 billion jobs were added," I confidently declare, doing the easiest job in the world so i can own a home in a walkable neighborhood
August 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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molson.design
every time coal comes up I remember that the entire industry employs fewer people than Arby’s and have a good little chuckle

www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp...
Analysis | The entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby’s
Coal helps significantly fewer U.S. workers get jobs than Donald Trump would have you believe.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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mims.bsky.social
struggling with an analogy here but imagine NASA posting a meme about how excited they are to return aviation to the pre-jet age
u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal: "She's an icon She's a legend And she is the moment [sparkly picture of coal]
July 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
ICYMI, me on the Charter and bike lanes: www.tvo.org/article/anal...
You, a resident of Ontario, went to bed on Tuesday night in a country where the Charter of Rights and Freedoms affords no protections to bike lanes. You woke up on Thursday morning and… precisely nothing has changed, despite what an already-long line of fulminating op-eds, social media posts, and talk radio rants have asserted. If you’re a cyclist in Ontario anywhere other than Toronto, this week’s court decision by Justice Paul Schabas provides precisely zero grounds for you to browbeat your municipality into installing or maintaining bike lanes. Even in Toronto, Schabas’s decision leaves intact Doug Ford’s powers to micromanage precisely which streets new bike lanes can be installed on. There is no Charter right to bike lanes, before or after Schabas’s decision. The only thing bike lanes and the Charter have in common is that they both protect cyclists, a fact which drives Ford, his cabinet, and the PC majority in the legislature to distraction. This week’s decision was about something both much simpler and far more important: the threshold a government needs to meet before it can cause harm to its citizens, and how many falsehoods it can tell in the process.
August 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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unormal.bsky.social
We are concerned about the loss of insects, but we live in a fallow desolate land few would recognize; the birds once blotted the sky for hours at a time, the fish so numerous the surface of the waters teemed with them so as to seem like you could walk on the surface. We live in ashes.
July 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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graphicmatt.com
Community: You got that new rail corridor rendering for us?

Metrolinx: Sure do boss, real bleak and strangely melancholy just like you asked

Community: what
metroscapes.ca Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · Jul 28
Metrolinx was looking at a new track east of Union Station (north side of the corridor) to Corktown Common. Apparently there was community uproar. Seeing this rendering, I don't blame them. If you're changing the space, you can't make it a cold utilitarian lane like this. Placemaking must happen.
Rendering of a retaining wall for "Track E0", a new mainline connecting the Union Station Train Shed to the Bala Subdivision (GO Richmond Hill Line). Looking east from Sherbourne Street along Tom Longboat Lane, Toronto Ontario.
July 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
sloppers is good
gynostar.bsky.social Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · Jul 26
I heard a great term today used to describe people who've become totally dependent on LLMs: sloppers.
July 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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forthrast.bsky.social
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
Screenshot of the clip with caption: Well, I'm not I'm not going to be a part of the group that he kills (The original quote is: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”)
July 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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littlestpersimmon.bsky.social
Underwater horror rag tag reject scientists trying to heal an ocean goddess by going into an underwater cave (her throat ) to do a bunch of submarine pings (a ct scan) to see if they can kill what's killing her from inside. This too, is about the horror of transness subjected to the medical industry
littlestpersimmon.bsky.social 🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Jul 12
Radio signals fuck me up bc it's like. When you're a child and you can just barely grasp a concept? Like.. there is something there. When I got an ultrasound and they saw something but they didnt know if it was cancer. When a submarine pings and they can't tell if it's a pod of whales or a kraken
July 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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scottfree.bsky.social
I get a disturbing amount of use out of this Simpsons/Gramsci meme in the group chats.
Panel 1:BART, I DON'T WAN TO ALARM YOU, BUT THE OLD WORLD IS DYING Panel 2: AND THE NEW WORLD STRUGGLES TO BE BORN. Panel 3: NOW IS THE TIME OF MONSTERS. Panel 4: [SCREAMS]
July 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Democracies do not use their military to try and intimidate their own citizens with “shows of presence”.

This is fascism.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jul 7
Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government.

After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.
July 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM