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Beach That Makes You Bad At Horror-Themed Jokes @cbowen.bsky.social · 12h

Who even gives a shit anymore? I'll have my corn starch unmodified.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 7h

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 9h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 9h

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 9h

celebrities as lord of the rings characters: thread

Doja cat in a dress the same shape as the eye of Sauron.

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 7h

Keith Haring Lego set!

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 9h

Bag 13 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Gregory Possum-Jumpscarer @possumacquainter.bsky.social · Jun 18

Brian Demento: "honey, our son just told me he's decided to go to medical school!"
Marcia Demento: "wonderful! what a respectable career"
Brian Demento: "yes! I'm so glad he'll be putting aside his hobby of playing novelty songs and wildly hooting with laughter. No time for that when youre a doctor"

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 9h

wow the amazing prognosticator who never gets it wrong got it wrong again

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 7h

Happy Coming Out Day to all who have come out or are thinking about doing so!

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Today is National Coming Out Day.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 9h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 9h

And for Gen X, "Electric Company" and "Zoom"

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 9h

And RFK Jr seems so "concerned" about autism ... so the Dept of Education may be laying off the entire Office of Special Education

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 13h

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 16h

Hello bluesky! I'm Nora and I have a jewelry store focused on fused glass; I also have game tokens and worry stones.

Collage: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Cluster: nora.jewelry/collections/...
Worry stones: nora.jewelry/search?q=wor...
Earrings: nora.jewelry/collections/...

#bsnm

ad for the nora.jewelry collage collection, which consists of pieces made from patterned cane with some transparency piled on top of other different color canes and turned into a molded shape; the transparency creates a lot of depth in the final pieces, because you can see through the transparent bits to what is behind it. pictures are a pair of round green, white and purple cufflinks, a orange and yellow bolo tie, and a teardrop shaped pendant with a green/white design added to a pink design

ad for the cluster collection, a group of fused glass pendants (and a couple other things, but only pendants are pictured) made from placing glass cylinders on their ends in a group and melting them just enough to round them out but not enough to make them fully puddle like most of my designs. the result of this ends up looking a bit like fish eggs adhered to a flat surface, or a bundle of grapes. the ones pictured are a simple round aqua blue design with yellow middles, a purple design with distorted flowers (this one started out as regular flowers but rounded their petals in the kiln, blurring them) and a round tan design with brown and white middles.

worry stone collection: this one has an orange collage design worry stone in an abstract shape, a white and green one where the edges between the colors blur, and a round one in a bi pride pattern.

earring collection: this one shows a sparkly green aventurine pair of round earrings, one that's white/grey/clear with black spots (that one's made from spiral cane that I made flat and you can see the spiral in the final design) and one with swirling green, yellow and pink set in white.

all the backgrounds on all of these are an aventurine dragonskin sheet that i put at low transparency over white, so they have a lacy quality to them.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 10h

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Do Your Best

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14h

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER

Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 2d

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours

www.kare11.com

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 11h

This is incredibly destructive to America's public health. Wild that this must be considered a "Democrat" thing for the vengeful layoffs to hit during the shutdown.

STAT @statnews.com · 12h

Almost the entire staff of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, known as the “voice of the CDC,” has been laid off, former publication editor-in-chief Charlotte Kent told STAT Saturday.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

Deep cuts made to CDC's flagship MMWR publication, a cornerstone of public health

CDC staff behind the agency’s flagship publication have been fired amid drastic cuts to the HHS promised by the White House due to the government shutdown, according to five people familiar with the s...

www.statnews.com

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 11h

Dark-tinted front-seat side windows are also against the law in Illinois, so many of these ICE/CBP/DHS vehicles are dual offenders.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, they're still there? Had no idea.

At least it's more respectful to the Guardsmen and -women pulled away from their families and work to keep them for 30+ days so they can get paid, unlike that CA thing of limiting the deployment to 29 days to eff 'em over?

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 11h

I recognized the corner of the Broadview ICE facility without scrolling down to see the victim Telnaes drew into the scene. She's a powerful political cartoonist who makes rather spartan drawings (lots of blank space) and whose expression was quashed by the Washington Post.

Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 13h

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/shot-in-th...

Shot in the head with pepper spray

This is Trump's America

anntelnaes.substack.com

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AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 14h

NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani provides some trans history and speaks out for our trans friends. Wants to make New York an LGBTQIA+ sanctuary city--a new concept for me but I hope @mayorofchicago.bsky.social will work for that in Chicago, too.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

AmyRey @amyrey3.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed. Cheerios and a cookie