BratKnits

BratKnits

@bratknits.bsky.social

I mostly make stuff. Often it's trouble.

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Someone ask racist fuckwit why they're called Arabic Numerals and if he knows where Library of Alexandria was located...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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no amnesty

Chris Ingraham@cingraham.bsky.social

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

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CBS deleted this post and reposted it admitting that their original one was misleading. And the misleading post from CBS was intentionally misleading, not an innocent mistake. CBS continues to lose credibility.

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The undeniable outlines of this are far worse than any society of adults should tolerate.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

cleveland.comPlain Dealer/cleveland.com endorses Amy Acton for Ohio governorThe Plain Dealer editorial board endorses Democrat Amy Acton for Ohio governor, citing her preparedness and community engagement, while condemning opponent Vivek Ramaswamy's weaponizing of Acton's chi...

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Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

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When a man checked out his own beverage at an otherwise empty airport kiosk, the screen prompted him to leave a tip. “Look at this. This is what the world’s come to nowadays,” he said in a video that's gone viral. on.nbcboston.com/UumxO9z

on.nbcboston.comSelf-service airport kiosk asks passenger for 18% tip on bottled water: 'Who am I tipping?'Dr. Clay Moss was asked to leave a tip while buying a bottle of water at a self-service CIBO Express convenience store at Newark Liberty Airport.

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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

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One last chat before I head back to LA! Come by if you can: Jeff Yang talks Asian American Pop Culture and YOU’VE SEEN ME BEFORE, the iconic James Hong’s memoirs TONIGHT, 6:30 - 8:30 PM Think!Chinatown 1 Pike Street, NYC 10002 Book will be available to buy Free: docs.google.com/forms/d/1XkA...

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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This is yet more of the shit that traps people into a cycle of epistemic & hermeneutic injustice and deception— frameworks where people don't know what they think they know and can't trust the mechanisms that are supposed to help them gain knowledge. Not only that, but now they have false CERTAINTY…

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Replying to @pawlbologna.bsky.social

AI can be a useful tool but these agentic tasks for everyday life are never actually useful or good. They're just pathways to give Meta and OpenAI your data and look foolish. fwiw there's 300+ comments tearing the piece apart.

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Happy Ace Week! 🖤🩶🤍💜 Asexual, often called “ace” for short, refers to a complete or partial lack of sexual attraction or lack of interest in sexual activity with others. Asexuality exists on a spectrum, and asexual people may experience no, little, or conditional sexual attraction. #AceWeek

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This quilt is done. What do you think? I call it "reflections on the lake". #artquilt #pieced #original #abstract #landscape

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A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

helenwebberley.comAre transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen WebberleyThe data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.

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This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

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He's been making everything so ugly for so long it's easy to forget that we don't have to be like this as a nation. But we don't have to be like this.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Trump: I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before, Nicki Minaj. That's hard to miss. Stand up.

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Trump Unleashes Racist Tirade That should be the headline in every newspaper.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

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This anti-empathy thing is so nihilistic. Yes, sometimes you have to harden your heart and do the difficult thing even if it hurts. But you can still be a human being. Not feeling empathy is the hallmark of a serial killer, not a leader.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

New in PN: In defense of empathy "Being aware of other people’s feelings, sensitive to them, and able to put yourself in another person’s shoes is pretty much essential for humans to function as a community. But the current conservative project has zero room for that sort of thing."

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trump says votrers are illiterate, but on the other hand, obama said cheesecake factory was tacky i have never been more politically homeless

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says Alaska’s ballot is illegal because people don’t know what “incumbent” means

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It's the spooky season. And the scariest thing in MA isn't any vampire, werewolf, or zombie, and it's not found in Salem. What is it? Ballot Question 3, 5, and 8. Remember to vote NO on 3, 5, and 8.

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NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

zeteo.comVenues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. ‘It’s that damn ad,’ a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo.

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Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

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Obama: "You got the defense sec who is like a laser focused on important matters like the jawline & testosterone level of our troops, and livestreaming executions because that's how he thinks you cultivate that manly warrior spirit. How much time do you think this man spends in front of the mirror?"