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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 6h

This is amazing, all! My initial offer to match $500 in food bank donations tonight was quickly used up, but many stepped in to match too, & by my count we've given more than $2,200 to food banks tonight! Go fabulous BlueSky community!! 💪

See thread for more donations awaiting matchers 🔥
#NoHunger

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 9h

Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare.

I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 7h

a man in a suit and tie is saying `` i want to believe ! ''

Alt: David Duchovny, in a scene from The X-Files, is saying "I want to believe!"

media.tenor.com

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 10h

Priorities

A child receiving chemotherapy looking at guests in a ballroom

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 10h

will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 10h

SOLIDARITY. ❤️

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 10h

Sadly, falling pieces of concrete will just kill whoever is unlucky enough to walk by at the wrong moment.

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend anyone saying they'd die for this shit unless they meant it.

I'm 100% sure he MEANT IT. 🙏❤️

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William Bibbiani: Re-Animator @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 12h

Kids, I’m not going to change the way I write just because a shitty AI uses the same punctuation I use, after it was trained on MY fucking writing.

In the movie Office Space, character who just happens to be named Michael Bolton, after he was asked why he doesn’t change his name, says “ Why should I change ? He’s the one who sucks. “

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 17h

Tapping the sign

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 12h

Or just stop buying coffee at a coffee shop for a month, make coffee at home, and take those savings and put them toward the now higher cost of the goddamn game if you REALLY want it.

Too many people didn't grow up with frugal parents and it really shows, lol.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

The responses this post is getting, combined with the animating grievances of large swathes of politics, has convinced me we need a kind of society wide PSA about how Buying Things Is Optional.

You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 12h

Or just stop buying coffee at a coffee shop for a month, make coffee at home, and take those savings and put them toward the now higher cost of the goddamn game if you REALLY want it.

Too many people didn't grow up with frugal parents and it really shows, lol.

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 12h

No coincidence, either that the masked thief just happens to be a Black man. *Sigh*

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 12h

There IS no simple test to diagnose perimenopause and many docs (including gynecologists!) are clueless about it so it's worth reading up on BEFORE you might be in perimenopause.

🎃 Allison 🎃 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 12h

Worth reading for anyone who might currently be in perimenopause, which can last as long as 10 years and often starts in your 40s.

Lindy Greer @lindyg.bsky.social · 17h

These posts are happening more and more often now.

www.reddit.com/r/Perimenopa...

From the Perimenopause community on Reddit: My Perimenopause Story…which also involved COVID? 🤔

Explore this post and more from the Perimenopause community

www.reddit.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me a scenario in which Trump accepts that his completed ballroom is being used by a Democrat or a Republican he hates. This is, literally, a monument to permanence. It’s not the action of someone planning to leave.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 21h

That autocratic presumption is at the heart of his tariffs, his deployments of the guard, etc. So much of what’s going on. And as Larry documents, outlets like the Times are bending over backwards to make his best case for him.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 22h

It is shocking that Trump is quickly tearing down a portion of the White House. But isn’t the bigger story that this action is of a piece with his autocratic presumption that he can unilaterally destroy public goods without any public consultation or explanation?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Trump Is Wasting No Time in Tearing Down the East Wing

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

ROSENBERG: “.. the AI spending boom has taken over everything, and when we strip out all the direct and indirect spending related to this theme, there has been absolutely no growth in the economy so far this year.”

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Big year for photos of clergy enduring pain while protesting ICE.

· Rev. David Black, Chicago Sun-Times: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

· Rev. Jorge Bautista, SF Chron: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

· Rev. Hannah Kardon, Chicago Protest Photography: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

Rev. David Black being pepper sprayed by ICE/DHS agents.

Rev. Jorge Bautista squints in pain after being shot with apparent pepper balls by ICE/DHS agents.

Rev. Hannah Kardon is arrested by three Illinois State Police outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE facility.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

People across the country are fighting for their lives and also to protect their neighbors. They are doing so in the 100s of thousands every single day. You can choose to join the fight or you can pretend that "no one is doing anything."

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🎃 Allison 🎃 @allisonzee.bsky.social · 13h

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 1d

Been thinking about how MAHA in its current articulation is a movement that allows them to harness people's real and justified anger at things like the betrayals of healthcare and insurance and turn it on scientists as scapegoats, by using conspiracy theories

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 1d

This is also how sexual violence perpetration works.

There is no limit to the toxic, dangerous behaviors (some) people will adopt if they feel like it’s acceptable in their social group.

Social media just expands our social groups and gives some of the worst actors the most access to us.

Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 1d

Social media users adopt the toxic behaviors of ingroup members

An analysis of 7 million tweets from over 700,000 accounts finds that exposures to toxic behavior by ingroup members is the primary driver of contagious toxicity online academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

This is the logic that all forms of fascism take

Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 1d

Been thinking about how MAHA in its current articulation is a movement that allows them to harness people's real and justified anger at things like the betrayals of healthcare and insurance and turn it on scientists as scapegoats, by using conspiracy theories

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 1d

This is how many conspiracy theories work, by exploiting real anger from legitimate grievances (often downstream from complex,
unjust systems) and redirecting it onto scapegoats through simplified “conspiracy” narratives.

Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 1d

Been thinking about how MAHA in its current articulation is a movement that allows them to harness people's real and justified anger at things like the betrayals of healthcare and insurance and turn it on scientists as scapegoats, by using conspiracy theories

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 1d

This nails it: ChatGPT had “mimicked human trust-building mechanisms without accountability, informed consent, or ethical boundary.”

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