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Aristophon
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Socialist, here for the cats, working towards "fully automated, luxury gay space communism."

"Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me -- then show me the place where he was hanged!"
-- The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell
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There are religious fanatics y'all are unknowingly following because they hide their secret lives so well. When not on Bluesky, they spend their lives worshiping the deity at their secret bedroom shrine:
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I can’t wait for PEN to comment on the Israeli intelligence forces storming the Palestinian National Theatre in Jerusalem and threatening the whole cast of the children’s performance and the audience if they didn’t leave in five minutes.

Because they won’t.
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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you there, small account, feed me some grapes
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Reading reviews of TV wall mounts. Came across this reviewer's ending remarks:

"...a dream come true when when I was able to mount something new in my bedroom and not get divorced."
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114.

This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
projects.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Some more interesting traditions:
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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I have a testimonial for @sarahmackattack.bsky.social's Eel Facts Advent calendars (which can also be any old b-day countdown calendars!) 2 13-year-olds walked into our kitchen (first time visiting us), shouted "Eel facts!" simultaneously and started reading the facts together
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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🎨 4 new custom mug designs now available in the Steve shop! inotternews.etsy.com/listing/1589...
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Remember when blue check chaos made Twitter fun for a while?
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Thia is a pleasing point they make. Who else likes this thought?
Another is that dreams are all that Allah permitted to remain of prophethood on Earth after Mohammad (peace be upon him and his family) died. That accounts for the dreams you have about the future which come true.
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Remember, if someone's first social media interaction with you is rude, it will never improve from there. The nuclear block here is great, the blockee will disappear from your replies, your sight, everything. Use it liberally.
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Always start the new week with positive thoughts!
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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a recent New Yorker reject, for you.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Trump officials, including the head of OPM, are saying DOGE no longer exists. DOGE as influential entity seems to be done, but some DOGErs are in the National Design Studio and some burrowed into agencies e.g. Big Balls is at Social Security.
bsky.app/profile/reut...
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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I’m in touch with a medical team in Gaza who described the situation, and I quote, like so: “this ceasefire is less of a ceasefire than the last ceasefire”
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Miles Davis beaten up by the NYPD outside the Birdland Jazz Club for walking a white girl to a cab and having a cigarette, 1959. (Black Media History)
November 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Brava Wisdom ! Age 75! 👏🏻🪶
Wisdom, world’s oldest-known bird, returns to Midway Atoll!
earthsky.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Dawn had to keep reminding herself that this was just temporary, and she was only doing it to put herself through law school.
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Word.
the US hates Venezuela for the same reason we hate Cuba and it's because we think that country belongs to us, in the neocolonial economic extraction and policy alignment way, and that they defy us and yet exist feels like a violent assault to the American sensibility, we are the aggressor-as-victim
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Congressman Chi Ossé pressed Democratic Socialists of America to endorse his primary challenge against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries:

“The national leader of the Democratic Party could be anywhere in America,” he said. “Right now, it’s a man whose millions from AIPAC become billions for...
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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We support the police.
#WorldBollardAssociation
October 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Got this cool screenshot of lesser evilism: it can both firebomb children and raise breast cancer awareness. It kills 2 birds with 1 stone. Or maybe it kills 1 bird and saves the other, but 1 bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush, I guess. 🙃
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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redid my personal site post-layoff :)

my contact form is open! if you're looking to talk to or commission someone with expertise in covering and analyzing social movements, prison and police abolition, trans politics, climate organizing, cultural criticism... reach out! (my DMs are cursed rn, lol)
Lex McMenamin
Lex McMenamin is a writer, editor, and organizer from Philadelphia, based in New York.
lexmcmenamin.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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During the Korean War, the Korean People's Army and the Chinese People's Volunteers produced powerful propaganda leaflets aimed at Black American soldiers. They connected the imperialist war abroad to the racist violence at home in the US.

Thread.🧵
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM