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I love when other aging post-hipster housing dweebs try to cool guy me over YIMBYism, as though it is possible to have strongly-held opinions about zoning rules and housing permitting processes without being an enormous goddamn nerd.

October 1, 2026 at 7:31 AM

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@vectorvincent.bsky.social

Hard not to feel a tinge of resentment about the white person in this comic who on average moved to the city with a degree, lives in a trendier neighborhood, spends more money on alcohol/drugs/eating out, and isn't supporting kids at home or family abroad and yet is 10x more miserable than Hussein.

Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 3d

I hope everyone has a Hussein

September 30, 2026 at 4:36 PM

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃

@professormusgrave.bsky.social

It certainly seems like material explanations can’t explain all of voters’ behaviors—but what if there were another motivation?

September 30, 2026 at 6:40 AM

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George Wallace

@mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social

Excited to see how the Atlanta Hawkeyes do this year and whatnot.

September 30, 2026 at 4:11 AM

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Helen Kennedy

@helenkennedy.com

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

September 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM

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@vectorvincent.bsky.social

Time for the positivity bunny again

September 29, 2026 at 3:15 AM

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@vectorvincent.bsky.social

Why are the starters still in?

September 29, 2026 at 3:05 AM

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@vectorvincent.bsky.social

So...Cam Ward and now Case Keenum. How is the secondary this bad??

September 29, 2026 at 2:18 AM

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@vectorvincent.bsky.social

Tush push merchant strikes again

September 29, 2026 at 1:43 AM

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@vectorvincent.bsky.social

Nick siriani apology tour, great clock management

September 29, 2026 at 1:39 AM

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@vectorvincent.bsky.social

Im glad nick siriani was calling the other team pussies instead of figuring out that if he called a time out Jalen probably gets to play all of those snaps...

September 29, 2026 at 1:21 AM

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@vectorvincent.bsky.social

Call a fucking time out you fucking moron Siriani. Jalene cleared protocol 5 seconds after the int....

September 29, 2026 at 1:16 AM

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@vectorvincent.bsky.social

Ben Johnson is such a little rat lmao

September 29, 2026 at 1:01 AM

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Nick Kodama 🌳👻

@nickkodama.bsky.social

pivot to asia

Newsweek @newsweek.com · 5d

Donald Trump To Make Mystery Announcement Today: What We Know

www.newsweek.com

September 28, 2026 at 1:21 PM

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Brian Grubb

@briancgrubb.bsky.social

September 27, 2026 at 11:48 PM

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Mary Rohlfing

@morningowl215.bsky.social

September 27, 2026 at 9:42 PM

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Faine Greenwood

@faineg.com

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below.

Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Ann Pierce
@itsannpierce
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

September 27, 2026 at 3:59 PM

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Oregon 🕎🎲

@oregonthedm.bsky.social

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

September 25, 2026 at 2:51 PM

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The Guardian

@theguardian.com

Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat

Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin

www.theguardian.com

September 25, 2026 at 11:34 PM

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Good Trailcams

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September 25, 2026 at 8:00 AM

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Andy Craig

@andycraig.bsky.social

Trump gave a bigly ballyhooed address to the nation about how China stole the 2020 election two months ago and everyone including him immediately forgot about it.

September 25, 2026 at 8:00 AM