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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Aug 31

ME: *on the forum* hey!!! I'm really enjoying the software, thank you so much. One thing is, I can't figure out how to sort fields alphabetically.

DEVELOPER: oh youd LIKE that, wouldn't you. alphabetically. you sick freak

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2h

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 4h

The whole "you should be proud of Bari Weiss because she's a WOMAN entrepreneur" argument reminds me of this comic:

A comic with a drone dropping bombs and a man saying "they say the next ones will be sent by a woman!" and a woman replying "really makes you feel like you're part of history."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 5h

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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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 5h

Notable from listening back to the This Week debate that Heather Humphreys no longer seems to be interested in making a positive case for voting for her. It's all just attacks on Connolly.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 22h

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 4h

The Iona Institute are a think tank that have stumbled on the grift that if your opinions are awful enough, the media will pay you to promote them rather than vice versa.

Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 10h

All the talk about how many column inches would be dedicated to her, had overlooked that they could just give her a column of her own.

It's cool though. Now if I want the Iona Institute's view on things I can read Steen or Quinn in the Indo, or O'Brien in the Irish Times

Maria Steen: Significant spoilt vote in presidential election would embarrass the Government
After Jim Gavin’s exit, there is no good reason not to restart this lacklustre contest

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 4h

Andy Ngo: "At night I lie awake in constant fear of the un-American spectre of antifa stalking our cities."

The spectre of antifa:

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20h

Portland 🔥

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 11h

Weekend catch-up: Andrew Maxwell played the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival, Chortle has revealed http://dlvr.it/TNd7mf

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 4h

"Artists were prohibited from ‘any material considered to degrade, defame, or bring into public disrepute, contempt, scandal, embarrassment, or ridicule’ the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi royal family, or any religions.

Dave Chappelle claimed: ‘It’s easier to talk here than it is in America’."

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 10h

More about the Riyadh rib-ticklers

www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/10...

We don't want your money! : News 2025 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide

We don't want your money! - Human rights organisations reject donations from comics who played Riyadh

www.chortle.co.uk

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 4h

Me, when anyone takes a dig at the tiresomely sacred ritual of "sport":

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 7h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 6h

It turns out having something (or someone) telling you are right and good all the time and it's those others that are mean and wrong is bad.

The difference between AI personal assistants and wealth begotten insulation is that real world consequences for behavior are much closer for AI addicts.

As reports of ‘AI psychosis’ spread, clinicians scramble to understand how chatbots can spark delusions

Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health providers are scrambling to understand the emerging phenomenon of "AI psychosis."

www.statnews.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · Sep 2

Eels Shouldn’t be Able to Exist. “No one has ever seen an eel reproduce naturally. Not in the wild, not in captivity, not even once. And yet, eels are everywhere. In rivers, in lakes, in oceans, slippery, ancient, and inexplicably present.” [kottke.org]

Eels Shouldn’t be Able to Exist

I didn’t know this about eels: No one has ever seen an eel reproduce naturally. Not in the wild, not in captivity, not even once. And yet, eels are everywhere. In rivers, in lakes, in oceans, slippery, ancient, and in

kottke.org

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 6h

I absolutely loved having this long conversation with Tim Curry, whose memoir comes out Tuesday. He told terrific stories about, among others, Meat Loaf, Ivana Trump, John Huston, Truman Capote, and Miss Piggy. What a life! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Tim Curry Does the Time Warp

The actor and singer discusses the origins of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” his relationship with David Bowie, and the joy of working with Miss Piggy.

www.newyorker.com

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 10h

All the talk about how many column inches would be dedicated to her, had overlooked that they could just give her a column of her own.

It's cool though. Now if I want the Iona Institute's view on things I can read Steen or Quinn in the Indo, or O'Brien in the Irish Times

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Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 9h

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 6h

I finally read that Peter Thiel essay about Alan Moore's WATCHMEN, and it's incredible that his actual argument is: "Moore argues that Ozymandias will fail because history defeats all world conquerers, and no victory is permanent. But maybe I, Peter Thiel, am built different?"

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 5h

People have forgotten how the algorithm on Twitter was changed so the most stupid, boring, venal, and fascist people - that is, the one who bought blue ticks - were the first you saw on the timeline and in replies.

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 9h

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 12h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 9h

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 12h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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