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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22h

Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.

J.J. @jdotj.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not linking to that NYT piece today, but of all the horrible parts of it, this was the worst. This was an explanation of "female vices" in the workplace and LET ME JUST TELL YOU...

Andrews: Gossiping. Inability to deal with conflict directly and kind of suppressing conflict. An aversion to directness, which, naturally, in a workplace, is a big problem because you need to be able to give direct feedback to people, including negative feedback.

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Stars ✨ @toastedstars.bsky.social · 23h

We're returning to Fields of Mistria to check on our colorful band of animals and hopefully add some more!
Join me and bring some fun animal names!
www.twitch.tv/toastedstars

fields of mistria key art: pixel art style of a field with 2 cows and farm house with fields, a blonde woman in a green cloak is standing in the foreground

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Neither government nor defense requests anything at this time…not even an afternoon snack. So that—and I know you’ve been waiting for it—is a wrap.

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 1d

We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.

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ASKA @askathegame.bsky.social · 2d

The sea calls to you, Vikings!

Sharpen your blades and ready your longships. A new Viking saga is about to be written!

The next major update to ASKA is coming November 6, 2025.

#PlayASKA #indiegames

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 2d

If every Democratic candidate were full of joyous energy, worked hard to listen to their constituents, could articulate the big-picture needs of their district, and focused more on coalition building around common issues rather than trying to invent a watered-down "middle," they'd be unstoppable.

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 2d

the thing in medieval confessional manuals about being careful not to accidentally introduce your parishioners to ways of sinning they had never yet considered. like that.

derek van vliet @derek.bike · 2d

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

guy said, “Do you like Marx?”

I said, “I haven’t met him.”

Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”

“Wow, what happened?”

“No, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”

“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”

I said, “Sounds amazing.”

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

BS: The FBI.

MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

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Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 1d

The #OTW is monitoring new laws around the world and working to ensure #AO3 remains a safe, open space for creative expression. OTW Legal addresses concerns about current and proposed legislation on age verification, privacy, and freedom of expression. Read more at: otw-news.org/y8sxsp6v

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant. Should be a model everywhere

Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

I'm super stoked that Colorado voted to fund free meals for kids for schools.

(I've been saying lunches, but the program includes breakfasts, too.)

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 2d

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.

The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 2d

This rocks. Eat a dick, book banners

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The Loch Ness Monster @nessiopeia.space · 2d

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

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Spooky Pinky 🏳️‍⚧️✡️ @captainmicah.bsky.social · 2d

Je suis à New York actuellement, on voit des chars soviétiques conduits par des transfems catgirls qui tirent sur les passants ce qui les transformes en catgirls et bunnygirls

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 3d

Any unsolicited email that includes something like "I’m part of a private readers community about 2000+ active readers and social media reviewers. We’re not some forced review for hire thing. We just spotlight books that actually deserve to be seen, and yours hit that nerve." is a scam. I'm sorry.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

The idea that we are somehow obligated to engage in the PVP-based social media mode out of some kind of moral principle is bullshit.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

If someone blocks you, directly or via blocklist, it is because they don't want to interact with you! You are not owed an audience, you are not owed the ability to interact with someone, and social affinity sorting and group boundary-setting is a fundamental human action.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3d

Feel like some reporter should ask, "sir, how is it that you believe you can competently do your job when you repeatedly fail to hear, read, or see major political events that everybody's least media literate facebook uncle knows about?"

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage

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Une femme-pastèque @benecologie.bsky.social · 3d

Le fascisme c'est aussi l'idéal du couple en bagnole où c'est le mari qui conduit allez hop envoyer blousque.

EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 4d

Charge anti-vélo de R. Dati "Est-ce qu'on se résout à avoir une ville de célibataires en vélo qui travaillent à dix minutes de chez [eux] ? Ça n'est pas ça, Paris, c'est pas la ville qui fait rêver le monde, que ce soit une ville de célibataires en vélo [qui travaillent] à dix minutes de chez [eux]"

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Gallus Rostromegalus @cryptidchicken.bsky.social · 3d

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Screenshot of an NPR headline reading: Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful vice presidents in American history, dies at 84

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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 @oddoblivion.bsky.social · 4d

Your art isn’t bad just because it’s not selling right now.

We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4d

I love how the version of "abuses" we would do is all like "holy shit they'll give everyone rights."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

I know that's an extra hard concept for people who scrape the entire internet for AI training datasets :( but maybe the problem is the shit sandwich and not the people who refuse to buy it :( :( :(

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

Like, it's all the same problem. You're selling a shit sandwich and no one wants to buy it, and you're mad that Bluesky doesn't mandate shit sandwich subsidies. Just stop obsessing over who blocks you like a normal person who is capable of respecting boundaries!

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