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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone wants the cool new Liminal Shitter

Bride of Funkenstein @malicew.bsky.social · 8d

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 13h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 18h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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André Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 10h

We're having a BBQ to celebrate Italian Flatmate's PhD, and I was worried that we might not have organized enough food until I walked into the laundry.

A laundry basin filled with kilograms of vacuum packed pork ribs.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Harley Ramsey @harleyramseywriter.bsky.social · 13h

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 20h

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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André Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 13h

You can't be a free speech debate bro without also doing the bit that comes at the end of a debate: evaluating the arguments that were presented and picking one. If a position has been rejected repeatedly for good reasons, you're giving the game away by continuing to argue for it.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 17h

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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André Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 13h

Makes me wonder what other stuff they let slide. I know I've had conversations with a couple of smalltime public figures who can't help but talk about very weird things to strangers, but you'd never know it when they're reported in the business section.

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 14h

I cant even tell you the number of public interest (and interesting) stories about the local election that journos wanted to do, but couldn't because of editors..

Shout out those that did do coverage, esp The Spinoff

Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 17h

Well done media, you achieved this brilliantly, your campaign to nearly completely ignore AKL’s local elections has flowed on to its inevitable outcome. Accelerating your own irrelevance simultaneously -> www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Auckland records lowest turnout in local elections

“Vote today or let someone else choose Auckland's representatives for you,” Aucklanders are told, with local body elections entering the home straight.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 14h

It’s maybe not shocking that the institutions closest to fact—district judges, juries—have proven most robust against an onslaught of lies, but it’s to journalism’s eternal shame that it has behaved like the political institutions and not the honest ones.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14h

unlike the rest of these folks (and unlike appellate judges and supreme court justices), the job of a district judge is essentially to see what's in front of them

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h

It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.

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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine seeing Nick Clegg as aspirational.

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 1d

All my comics have happy endings!

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 16h

I had a biology teacher who regularly used to say he 'should get the Nobel Peace Prize here' for his work in quietening down the class. To my knowledge he never was recognised by the panel.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 23h

Road trip going well

Steering Wheel and dash with phone holder. The phone is on Spotify and playing “Over 1000 Farts 1 Hour”

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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 17h

I know there's a million worthy causes to fund but may I suggest this teacher in Maryland who wants to buy two Albert Camus novels for his AP students? Please and thank you?

www.donorschoose.org/project/2-no...

2 Novels From Albert Camus, a project from Dr. Michael Buso

Help me give my students a physical copy of a book we will read in our AP Literature classroom. This will allow each student to read the novels of Albert Camus in printed form. Since his novels are...

www.donorschoose.org

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Cait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

A boy running alongside a train with a bindle on a stick. A word balloon reads “I’m through with school- it’s only for sissies anyway. I’ll run away and- and make money with my FEET”

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André Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 17h

This would be fatal to the career of someone who felt shame.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 21h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 18h

trying everything i can to tamp down my sneaking suspicion that "they're running out of sauce"

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 18h

remember when you hear trump called a peacemaker that his government created a group whose sole purpose was to murder starving palestinians

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 21h

Gaza Humanitarian Fund "distribution sites" (Israeli killing fields) are being dismantled as part of the ceasefire

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 1d

Le Creuset is Cheugy 👎

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André Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps you shouldn't though, you're too powerful.

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 1d

Some people get so caught up in online culture war stuff that they seem to forget they are not American. Here is an Aucklander imagining being jailed for speech crimes by an imaginary regime in a country he does not live in.

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