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samthielman.com
FWIW very tired of seeing creeps trying to network by posting slurs so I made a handy blocklist of people who do that.
November 21, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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November 21, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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redditspaceviewes.bsky.social
The birth of a star as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope
November 21, 2024 at 8:03 AM
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linedcats.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 5:56 AM
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cwebbonline.com
If you don’t know who Jay Graber is, you will. She’s the woman behind Blue Sky.

Everyone’s talking about it. In just the past week, Bluesky’s user base has exploded, more than doubling to over 16 million as people scramble for an alternative to X, Facebook, and Threads.
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November 18, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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cursedkief.bsky.social
I’ve officially started subconsciously opening blue sky instead of Twitter
November 17, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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vimtotime.bsky.social
Snoopy that’s not a… doesn’t matter.
My cat sitting on my backpack with his cat bed in the background
November 18, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
All right, my Twitter account has been completely deleted.
a man wearing a sweater with a dog on it is standing in front of an explosion
ALT: a man wearing a sweater with a dog on it is standing in front of an explosion
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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parkermolloy.com
You mean to tell me that you don't appreciate posts like this one I saw when locking down my account over there?
Eric S. Raymond & @esrtweet Follow We need to talk about the accusation "Matt Gaetz is a pedophile. " I know little about Matt Gaetz, and don't have an opinion about whether he is a qualified nominee to be Attorney General. I'm also not here to make a pro-Trump or anti-Trump political point; I want to address an issue that's bigger than the political flap of the week. I know a lot about the manipulation of language. There's a nasty one going on here that people need to be aware of, because when a propaganda tactic is successful it tends to get repeated. There isn't a single good term in English for people who are post-pubertal but below the legal age of consent or majority; for the rest of this discussion, I'm going to refer to them as "tweeners" I'm going to stipulate one thing for purposes of this rant: when Matt Gaetz was an adult man, he had sex with a tweener girl (the specific allegation I keep hearing is that she was 17; note however that in a majority of U.S. jurisdictions age of consent is 16). If that's not true, the analysis I'm about to do stops being very interesting. Now let's talk about the word "pedophile". If you ask your friendly neighborhood Al what that word means it's going to tell you that a pedophile is a person who desires to have sex with prepubescent children. Unless the society you live in has a major totalitarian episode, it is not likely that you will ever encounter anything that is as evil, sick, and degenerate as what pedophiles do to children. The concept horrifies people. I'm going to assume it horrifies you. Because the concept is horrifying, "pedophile" can be used as a propaganda word of power. Now let's get back to the case at hand. How likely is a 17-year old girl to be prepubescent? Note that by asking this question I'm not trying to make an excuse for Gaetz's behavior. There are reasons we put a taboo on sexual contact between adult men and nubile women below the age of majority. I am stipulating that Matt Gaetz is probably guilty of statutory rape (not certain because of jurisdictional variations) and should be in jail. But. The distinction between pedophilia and what I stipulate Gaetz was doing (technically, "ephebophilia") is an important one. Ephebophilia ranges from being a mere malum prohibitum to a minor crime, depending largely on how sexually and psychologically mature the victim is. It's not the deeply perverted, sick, damaging thing pedophilia is. People who run around yelling "Matt Gaetz is a pedophile" are doing something harmful and wrong, and should be called on it. They are confusing behaviors with very different moral weights, and they are doing it to mess with your head. Their aim is to use the current atmosphere of moral panic about pedophilia among the rich and powerful to recruit you into a consensus demand that Matt Gaetz be lynched. This is dark propaganda. This is bad. It is not very relevant to my logic whether that moral panic is justified or not. I'm not even going to state a position on that, because it would be distracting. I'm also not going to state a position on what the upper age limit on tweeners should be, because that's not relevant either. You should ask yourself: do you want to live in the kind of society where men who have sex with tweener girls can be equated with men who rape infants, and destroyed that way? I advise against this. I'm not going to write down a detailed argument here, except to point out that it would create an opening for people who want to normalize actual pedophilia. In fact, it may already be doing that, and I wish I were sure that nobody is doing this intentionally. There are some very evil people with very long time horizons out there. If you don't want to live in the kind of society where power word "pedophile" can be used to lynch people who are not in fact pedophiles, you should (1) stop abusing the word if you were doing so, and (2) talk down other people when they do it. Thank you for your attention.
November 16, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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dgar.bsky.social
Plot twist!
An animated gif depicts a helix composed of sinusoidal x and y components.
November 16, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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horrorculturist.bsky.social
New baby succulents! #gothicgardening 🌱
Five succulents on a black tablecloth. They range from deep reddish-brown to dusky purple. Lurking behind are two creepy ones resembling claws. They're a pinkish dark red with purple-black interiors.
November 17, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
On this cold night, a traditional Hookland blessing: "May none of our burning be Sprite-wood." #Hookland
November 16, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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jasonoyoung.bsky.social
I still can't believe this was from my backyard on October 10th. Twitter crushed the video quality when I posted it there, let's see how Bluesky does it.
November 11, 2024 at 2:22 AM
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vimtotime.bsky.social
Mornin. got any of them meamty biscuit?
Picture of a black and white cat up close, with pleading eyes
November 11, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Snug. ☺️ From April’s Kittens, written and illustrated by Clare Turlay Newberry. 1940. archive.org/details/apri...
Watercolor painting of a shorthaired black cat sleeping peacefully, tucked under a light orange blanket. Very simple yet expressive ink wash style painting.
November 10, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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horrorculturist.bsky.social
Stop doomscrolling. Accept the frog.
A hand offering you a frog. You must accept the frog.
November 9, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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wayneradio.tv
Awww he noticed the extinction meteor before I did 😍
November 10, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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vimtotime.bsky.social
I don’t like it when people ask me what I am thinking about because usually it is something like this
November 5, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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jamellebouie.net
if harris wins i’m treating myself with a very casual unstructured sportcoat in this forest harris tweed
November 5, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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easterncoyote.bsky.social
"Your abuse wasn't physical, so we're not going to take it seriously."

Physical pain and psychological pain are processed by the same neural circuitry. The brain interprets them as THE SAME THING.

5 Things Everyone Must Understand About Verbal Abuse www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/te...
5 Things Everyone Must Understand About Verbal Abuse
The lasting effects of verbal abuse shouldn't be understated. What science knows and you should too.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 6, 2024 at 3:57 AM
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ditzyflama.com
with whats currently happening right now

i just want to post this, advising u all to stay strong together

also dropping these two pics of my cat to hopefully make ur night a little bit better 💛
November 6, 2024 at 8:20 AM
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alastairmeeks.bsky.social
I'm never going to have a better use for this meme.
Tintin strikes again.
November 6, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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dgar.bsky.social
Scene from Jessica Jones of David Tennent giving Krysten Ritter an angry glare. Ritter is labeled “USA” and Tennant is labeled “The rest of the world right now”
November 6, 2024 at 8:33 AM