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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 35m

*clears throat*

RHETORIC: (FAILED) Diabetic children are the oppressive bourgeois class because they rely on insulin and exploit the labor of hard working capitalists for their bourgeois hormone injections.

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2h

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 8h

Transsexualism is bourgeois, which is why most of the Western girls I know are crowdfunding their healthcare costs to get it overseas

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 9h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
X.com
Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1h

i'm a bit mixed on this because i appreciate that consumer reports makes an effort towards testing but i don't really appreciate that it's always in a continually alarmist fear mongering way that exaggerates heavy metal food risk to make sweeping statements based on a small cross section of products

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 3h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1h

Something that I don’t think most non-terminally online liberals are aware of is the degree to which young Republicans are basically unrecoverably feral men, a generation of Oskar Dirlewangers who all speak like Instagram influencers and Twitch streamers

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 2h

this reminds me of the almost exact same racist content that was in the TPUSA at Virginia Tech chats

www.collegiatetimes.com/news/student...

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 2h

look, once in awhile you have to hand it to the neoliberals and not being economic nationalists is specifically one of those instances

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 3h

Neoliberalism has several sins but, "super high tariffs" and "nanny state scolding about nutritional value," are not among them.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

fortunately I have invented 'Ultra-Kirkman' who is a version of Robert Kirkman who writes good comic books.

DC Updates @updates4dc.bsky.social · 3d

Invincible and The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman says Omni-Man could easily take down Superman, adding, “Superman sucks.” (via Collider)

#OmniMan #Superman #Invincible #TheWalkingDead

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 2h

feat. the work of @djinnandtonic.bsky.social

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2h

You might think Ryan is exaggerating but I used to go to a regular dinner that gradually got taken over by young Republican staffers and I promise you he is not.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 3h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2h

I'm genuinely starting to believe '50501' might be the answer to an AP US History question in twenty years, which is incredible given how it came out of nowhere

Eagle Beaver Man @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 7h

A lot of people here talked shit about America’s protest culture in the early months of the regime, but tbh I’m mostly seeing green chutes. No Kings is a dress rehearsal for 2026 when they will almost certainly refuse to seat Congress and the dedicated activists learned a lot about optics from 2020.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 3h

I think the basic problem with all these low-effort horror movie adaptations of recently-public-domain cartoon characters is they always make the titular character the monster. Like, nobody gives a shit about a film where Mickey Mouse is a zombie; they want to see Mickey Mouse FIGHT the zombies!

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 3h

Neoliberalism has several sins but, "super high tariffs" and "nanny state scolding about nutritional value," are not among them.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

I've never really gotten a satisfactory answer on this beyond the fact that Western establishmentsrian left liberals, especially in the Anglosophere and Germany, just simply identify with Israel on an ideological level.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

Yeah I think it is abundantly clear that Israeli politicians, and not just limited to Netanyahu but even up to Lapid, have a preference for right wing blocs in other countries. The puzzling part is that liberals and left wingers across the board in N America and Western Europe have no response

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 8h

my "if whiteness was rational it would include iranian peoples and exclude finns and hungarians ergo its all made up bs" shirt is prompting a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4h

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 7h

Sigh… it's really not hard to call out the revolutionary LARP-ers in a way which makes sense. Why is she trying to make me defend the revolutionary LARP-ers?

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 20h

but enough about fifth edition dungeons and dragons, amirite, folks?

*I am promptly pelted by rotting fruit by a booing audience*

🪡 Ether GhostLace 🪡 (she/her—illiteratis did this) @laceslibgremlin.bsky.social · 20h

There’s a soul-destroying attitude that I have difficulty explaining but basically when people take the risk of people not liking their art out of art the art is worse

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h

the obvious solution to the naming question is Columbo Day, a celebration of a genuinely great American.

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phoenixqueen12.bsky.social @phoenixqueen12.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, he's not wrong about that....

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phoenixqueen12.bsky.social @phoenixqueen12.bsky.social · 14h

That man is so great, I love his already existing 40K space shanties, and now he's doing a full album of them! YES!!!!!!!!!!!

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sea shanty stan account ⛵️ @anarchoshanties.bsky.social · 15h

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP COLM R. MCGUINNESS IS DROPPING AN ALBUM OF 40K SPACE SHANTIES

Valeria in progress @valeforr.bsky.social · 1d

@anarchoshanties.bsky.social
This seems like your thing :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAyA...

www.youtube.com

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1d

i am literally never not tapping the "we need to fund public education and open the schools" sign. there is no moment or topic in which the dearth of basic reading comprehension is not a major force preventing any deeper discussion. a lot of people are functionally meat-based LLMs who parrot tokens.

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 1d

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 17h

The average person’s notion of gender is as cartoonish and impoverished as a patriarchal trad influencer’s or that of an ‘abolish the family’ leftist, and that means chaos now that traditional gender roles have become economically, socially, and demographically untenable.

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 17h

my best guess as to what’s going on with gender and society is that all the discourse around abortion + trans rights bubbled up and caused heterosexuals to start thinking about gender en masse, along with all the other stuff, and the untenability of it all just isn’t something normies can handle

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phoenixqueen12.bsky.social @phoenixqueen12.bsky.social · 17h

🫂

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