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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 1h

I think the pundits like Helen Lewis who want more Gender Critical content on here, need to be clear on how they would prevent Bluesky developing into this trash

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3h

Elon Musk's key ventures:

SpaceX
xAI
Model X
YaXley-Lennon

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Andrew @generalising.bsky.social · 14h

I got very curious about this. You can trace Shearer's unit (21 CCS) and you can see what looks like the echo of his little blaze of fame: in Sept 1916 you get visits from various grandees including ... the editor of the BMJ, who presumably came to see for himself.

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · Sep 19

is jack skellington willing to stop oogie-boogie, but not able? then he is not omnipotent. is he able but not willing? then he is malevolent. is he both able and willing? then whence cometh oogie-boogie? is he neither able nor willing? then why call him king of the pumpkin patch?

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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 13h

Congratulations to Jean Oliver.

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13h

I hate how much that looks like somebody's transition before and after pics.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

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Kate Devlin 🎃👻🍂 @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 14h

My 15yo child, unexpectedly: “Yeah, I have at least 3 LinkedIn accounts. All fake. I use them to check on my teachers’ qualifications. I keep getting job offers because I ticked something that said I used to work in middle management for Asda.”

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SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes.

The world feels so utterly utterly stupid and just, long hard stare into the distance.

Russell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social · 15h

Wanting more housing is apparently a thing you can blame on the Jews now.

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somf @somfin.bsky.social · 15h

I wonder how much harm has been caused the belief that doing good deeds for their own sake is "virtue signalling"

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15h

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

“The Israeli govt has committed several war crimes over the past two years and also at the same a non-trivial portion of criticism of “Israel” is also just antisemitism” is just an extremely bad discursive problem to have, and I don’t see any way that it doesn’t get worse. Pretty bad!

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

I sit down in my BlueSky captain's chair and furrow my brow authoritatively.

"Damage report, Mister Scott."

"Ma'am, the Nazi gumbo meme has breached containment and..."

"I've heard enough. Load the torpedoes, set phasers to kill, and burn the planet. No survivors."

"Aye, captain."

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18h

Related phenomenon is the seeming belief "it shows integrity and honesty to acknowledge legitimate criticisms of your own side, therefore it shows even more integrity and honesty to legitimise obvious bullshit smears against your own side"

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19h

The psychology that twists coverage in Trump’s favor is transparent, once you accept that psychology plays a role. They want to be perceived as neutral by their peers, and they know their peers suspect them of anti-Trump bias. So they demonstrate independence by scrutinizing Dems and praising Trump.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 19h

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 18h

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 18h

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social • 47m
going viral here is worse than it used to be on twitter because half of the replies will just be pure pedantry

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[username redacted]
Would you prefer the white nationalism replies?

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

Wild how the Gen Z protests are international:

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Madagascar president flees after losing support of key army unit

Elite Capsat unit that played a major role in Andry Rajoelina’s rise to presidency joined gen Z protests against corruption

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 19h

Bluesky's mascot is really Drax the Destroyer

Drax the Destroyer from the Guardians of the Galaxy movie. The quote reads, "Nothing goes over my head! My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it." Drax is a very literal person.

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jawanaka.bsky.social @jawanaka.bsky.social · 22h

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20h

“Virtue signaling” has been an all-purpose tool to invalidate any form of advocacy which isn’t centered around selfishness.

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 3d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 1d

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think people are "betting against Bari Weiss" the concern is that she will succeed in transforming CBS News into regime-aligned propaganda.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 1d

If your North Star in politics and society is bullying trans people online, then you’re going to attract the far right because that is something they love to associate with. You can learn from that or you can not.

Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

I'm aware of at least 2 open letters she's written going "Wow, seems that we're accumulating a lot of fash types here, we should probably do something about that" and then neither doing anything about that nor showing any self-awareness of how this might have come about in the first place.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

I'm aware of at least 2 open letters she's written going "Wow, seems that we're accumulating a lot of fash types here, we should probably do something about that" and then neither doing anything about that nor showing any self-awareness of how this might have come about in the first place.

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naoarte 🎚️🦋🎀🤍🎀🦋🎚️ @naoarte.bsky.social · 1d

Panic at the National Front Disco.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 1d

I dreamed that Nigel Farage had released an album of standards called On Broadway which included a puppet singing dog and The Wire reviewed it and gave it 6/10

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Richard Dwyer @richarddwyer.bsky.social · 1d

Famously people hate it when their city has a booming economy, and are much happier now we are in our second decade of stagnant growth.

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 1d

riding in the car when my son (3.5) said “i have something silly to tell you. roll up the windows so nobody hears” and then he told us a clown is coming to our house. to live with us forever

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