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Mestin Dendarin
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i like music, bicycles, making pies, and sleeping
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crawlbin.bsky.social
Lux by Rosalia is a goldmine, a magical symphony, a pop opera of extreme beauty and drama. I cannot recommend it enough!

pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
crawlbin.bsky.social
I think every leaf in the yard fell over night ... bare trees everywhere suddenly. shame we just had our street cleaning day ...
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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johnvoltz.bsky.social
Quick comedic summary of everything is politics.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=1HTD...
Nato Green -- "What Do Politics Have to Do with Me?"
YouTube video by Nato Green
m.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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thefarce.org
The Mamdani campaign believed “well-produced media is a weapon in any fight.”

But the story of what it built and what it can continue is and must be deeper than that.
Why the Mamdani campaign must be the future of politics
This is something we do, or it is done to us.
www.thefarce.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
crawlbin.bsky.social
you know, the word best can be used as a noun (do your best!) and as an adjective (the best spatula); which means, you can legit say "it was the best of bests, it was the worst of bests!"
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
crawlbin.bsky.social
Just picked up mine!
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
crawlbin.bsky.social
is this the Republican's nazi coming out party? you don't have to connect any dots on this one. Carlson is finding common ground with an avowed nazi and Hitler-lover. some people are all in, some people are objecting, but i think it's being all laid out.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Heritage Foundation leader apologizes for backing Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist
Kevin Roberts, whose group pushed Project 2025, had defended ex-Fox News host’s talk with Nick Fuentes
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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lapublicpress.bsky.social
When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent.

Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we’re still figuring out how to sustain it.
When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent
Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we're still figuring out how to sustain it.
lapublicpress.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
crawlbin.bsky.social
My Fateh sign got taken out of the front and thrown into my yard overnight :(
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
The idea that you should be able to override a block to whine at a person who blocked you because they also added you to a moderation list is basically demanding that Bluesky create a way for you to systemically violate someone's consent for you to interact with them.
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
crawlbin.bsky.social
walked to the local school to vote today - gorgeous sunny day. and then this song came up on my shuffle. I had clearly liked it enough to save it, but forgot all about it. so smooth, so cool

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNJ...
melvitto - Take Control (feat. Frescool)
YouTube video by melvitto
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
crawlbin.bsky.social
a politician who quotes Dorothy Day?! Positively!?!

Absolutely incredible woman always working for peace and the people: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
"Why don't people support welfare programs?"

Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.

White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
Race and Redistribution in the United States: An Experimental Analysis∗ Jesper Akesson, Robert W. Hahn, Robert D. Metcalfe and Itzhak Rasooly† February 12, 2022 Abstract It is often argued that many White Americans oppose redistributive welfare policies because of animosity toward Black Americans. While a host of observational studies lend credence to this view, it has not yet been rigorously tested using the tools of randomized inference. In this study, we do exactly this by conducting two incentive-compatible experiments (n = 9, 775) in which different participants are randomly given different information about the share of welfare recipients who identify as Black and White. Our empirical analysis yields four main findings. First, most respondents greatly overestimate the share of welfare recipients who are Black. Second, these exaggerated beliefs reduce support for welfare among White respondents, a causal claim that we establish using treatment assignment as an instrument for beliefs. Third, just making White participants think about the racial composition of welfare recipients––holding constant their actual beliefs––reduces their support for welfare. Fourth, providing accurate information about the racial composition of welfare recipients does not influence support for welfare (relative to not receiving any information).
November 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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muellershewrote.com
This is brilliant
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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ohrobin.bsky.social
I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12d
Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
October 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
crawlbin.bsky.social
It's so fall!
A bench in front of a set of beautifully yellow bushes and trees A bridge over Minnehaha Creek with white graffiti painted on handrail saying End Trans Genocide. Also, my orange bike
October 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
crawlbin.bsky.social
Any cyclists had luck with Google maps if you adjust the map a bit to avoid big roads and then save it for your phone?

It seems to default to what it thinks best and dumps my changes
October 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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neolithicsheep.bsky.social
Something has thoroughly rotted the pundit and aspiring pundit class in the US such that they find themselves inserting the word "but" after "Nazis are bad."

When a man walks around calling his Nazi tattoo "my Totenkopf" rather than getting it removed, he is unfit for public office.
October 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
crawlbin.bsky.social
I've been thinking of the quote that says we are afraid of being our most powerful self (Marianne Williamson, often falsely attributed to Nelson Mandela).

this guy is not afraid of his own power! it's liberating!
October 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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kendrawrites.com
It's because white people can always see the humanity in each other and not in the POC Kirk targeted and actively harmed.
gravelinfluencer.bsky.social Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Sep 18
Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.
GROSS: After you profiled Kirk, and I think that was published back in February, you stayed in touch with him. And I think you were texting each other the day before he was killed. DRAPER: That's correct. I'll tell you also, Terry, that the story, as you say, was published in February of this year. But I would say for a full year prior to that, Kirk and I had been getting to know each other, and he would often reach out to me. And I thought this was an interesting aspect to Kirk, that he would reach out to me just to run things by me. Not asking so much for my opinion - because, as a journalist, I couldn't give it - but just as a reality check, he'd say, I'm hearing from the right that this particular viewpoint is prevalent from the left. Am I just living in a bubble, or is that true? GROSS: How would you respond to that? DRAPER: Well, sometimes I would say, you know, I think what you're hearing you're hearing from the right-wing media ecosystem, and it's not supported by reality as I understand it. And he would take that and be grateful for it. There was also a time I reached out to him, I remember, to say, I'd like to talk to you off the record about the religious context in which so many people in the MAGA community are viewing Donald Trump. Can you explain to me how they see him as this sort of flawed vessel, like King David or something? And he was very fluent in describing that to me. And so we had that kind of back-and-forth well predating the publication of the story, and continued to since then. I had dinner with him in D.C. once, I think, a couple of months before he was killed, and I remember he brought security with him. They sat at the bar. And he seemed very casual about it, which is not to say that he was utterly unconcerned. But it was essentially the cost of doing business, that that was just the world that we were in. I was texting with him the day before the assassination because I wanted to come to Arizona and have dinner with him and his wife to catch up on various things. But also, there's a major magazine project that I'm beginning. And I wanted Kirk's thoughts about it, but not on the phone and not in writing. It just required a face-to-face. And he wrote back saying, absolutely. We would love to have you over for dinner. Just pick a date in September. And I think I sent, a few hours later, the text, how about September 23? And obviously, I never heard back.
October 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
crawlbin.bsky.social
I love a good vinegar! in Maine, it's common to have a spray bottle of apple cider vinegar at french fry shops. it's amazing - and honestly, who doesn't prefer spraying a mist of vinegar instead of dripping it on things?! very manly spraying thing
brendelbored.bsky.social Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21d
A conspiracy theory I have is that people put hot sauces like Tabasco on everything not so much for the pepper as they do for the benefits of adding vinegar to a dish and that’s what they should be focusing on and recognizing. This conspiracy theory has not gotten traction due to “lack of interest”
October 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
crawlbin.bsky.social
the other three mayoral candidates are nonwhite. the council, especially the lefty side, is also nonwhite.

that's probably enough explanation.
elitalksmpls.bsky.social Eli Sherman @elitalksmpls.bsky.social · 21d
…always ends up “just worried the other person will be too extreme” no matter what our conversation was like. No matter how many times you point out Frey’s warts. They don’t see them. And I really don’t know what to do about it.

Feel like I try to engage with real info and they just shrug it off.
October 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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commanderrika.blacksky.app
White people, your reaction to finding out you've done some racist shit has to be:
1. I'm sorry, I didn't know. Here's how I plan to make amends.
2. I'm sorry. I know better now. Here's how I have made amends and changed.

The defenses of "so young, plausible deniability etc" is how we got here.
October 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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esmirelle.bsky.social
I love whatever is wrong with them 🙂‍↕️
October 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM