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Mike Schnier @mikeschnier.bsky.social · 9m

There's nothing more loathsome than generating viral video hoaxes when there are real people in the same situation who depend on the public knowing what's happening to them.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 12m

THIS IS AI. The lady being arrested has three arms, the people in the background keep swapping limbs, the widows on the building are crazy inconsistent, among other things. This b-hole just shut off comments instead of deleting the lies they posted.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 1h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 2m

Actual email I just received

Dear Mr. Murakami,

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This book is already capturing critical attention, but its reach can extend even further. With thoughtful visibility strategies, we can ensure The City and Its Uncertain Walls continues to grow connecting with more readers globally, enhancing its discoverability, and driving long-term sales.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 14m

When "all of this" is over and the centrist pundits and politicians are kissing Musk's ass again, don't let them. Don't let anyone ignore that Musk is a mass murderer.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 12m

THIS IS AI. The lady being arrested has three arms, the people in the background keep swapping limbs, the widows on the building are crazy inconsistent, among other things. This b-hole just shut off comments instead of deleting the lies they posted.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 1h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2h

This administration definitely would jail the people hiding the little girl in the attic

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 3h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 2h

If you have any other options, stop giving Amazon your money.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 2h

"The report called Amazon “the ultimate keeper of the data that enables detentions and deportations,” while MIT Technology Review called Amazon the “invisible backbone” of ICE’s crackdown on immigrants."

Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 8d

LittleSis have dropped a new report and data visualization about the billionaires and corporations profiting from the deportation industrial complex:

littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 2h

I think Weird Al's style parodies are infinitely superior to his parodies of specific songs. The direct ones seem tedious to me, but something like "Pancreas" could genuinely be a Brian Wilson song (or at least a Brian Wilson/Andy Paley collab where they're trying to recreate Brian's sixties sound)

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Pancreas (Official Video)

Official Video for “Pancreas” by “Weird Al” Yankovic Listen to “Weird Al” Yankovic: https://weirdalyankovic.lnk.to/listenYD Subscribe to the official “Weird Al” Yankovic YouTube channel: https://weirdalyankovic.lnk.to/subscribeYD Watch more “Weird Al” Yankovic videos: https://weirdalyankovic.lnk.to/listenYC/youtube Follow “Weird Al” Yankovic Facebook: https://weirdalyankovic.lnk.to/followFI Instagram: https://weirdalyankovic.lnk.to/followII Twitter: https://weirdalyankovic.lnk.to/followTI Website: https://weirdalyankovic.lnk.to/WebsiteWI Spotify: https://weirdalyankovic.lnk.to/followSI Ask you voice device to play “Weird Al” Yankovic! [Verse 1] I'm always thinkin' 'bout it I don't know what I'd do without it I love, I really love My pancreas [Verse 2] My spleen just doesn't matter Don't really care about my bladder But I don't leave home without My pancreas [Pre-Hook] My pancreas is always there for me Secreting those enzymes (bap bap bap) Secreting those hormones too Metabolizing carbohydrates just for me [Hook] Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba My pancreas Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba My pancreas Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba My pancreas Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba My pancreas [Hook] Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba My pancreas Ba-ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba-ba ba My pancreas Ooooooh [Bridge 1] My pancreas attracts every other Pancreas in the universe With a force proportional To the product of their masses And inversely proportional To the distance between them Woo woo woo woo... [Bridge 2] Don'tcha know you gotta Flow, flow, flow pancreatic juice Flow, flow into the duodenum Won'tcha flow, flow, flow pancreatic juice Flow, flow into the duodenum Insulin, glucagon (Won'tcha flow, flow, flow pancreatic juice) Comin' from the islets of Langerhans... (Flow, flow into the duodenum) Insulin, glucagon (Won'tcha flow, flow, flow pancreatic juice) Comin' from the islets of Langerhans... (Flow, flow, into the duodenum) Lipase, amylase, and tripsin [Insulin, glucagon] (Won'tcha flow, flow, flow pancreatic juice) They're gonna help with our digestion [Comin' from the islets of Langerhans...] (Flow, flow into the duodenum) Lipase, amylase, and tripsin [Insulin, glucagon] (Won'tcha flow, flow, flow pancreatic juice) They're gonna help with our digestion [Comin' from the islets of Langerhans...] (Flow, flow into the duodenum) [Outro] Can't you see I love my pancreas {Lipase, amylase, and tripsin} [Insulin, glucagon] (Won'tcha flow, flow, flow pancreatic juice) Golly-gee, I love my pancreas {They gonna help with our digestion} [Comin' from the islets of Langerhans...] (Flow, flow into the duodenum) Can't you see I love my pancreas {Lipase, amylase, and tripsin} [Insulin, glucagon] (Won'tcha flow, flow, flow pancreatic juice) Golly-gee I love my pancreas {They gonna help with our digestion} [Comin' from the islets of Langerhans...] (Flow, flow into the duodenum) Can't you see I love my pancreas {Lipase, amylase, and tripsin} [Insulin, glucagon] (Won'tcha flow, flow, flow pancreatic juice) Golly-gee I love my pancreas {They gonna help with our digestion} [Comin' from the islets of Langerhans...] (Flow, flow, into the duodenum) Can't you see I love my pancreas #WeirdAlYankovic #Pancreas #OfficialVideo

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2h

okay so if Pepe is chaotic evil and Portland frog is chaotic good, where are our other frogs

Kermit is lawful good obviously

I think Frog and Toad are true neutral. they do them and that’s it

Michigan J. Frog is chaotic neutral

Tiana, Naveen and Keroppi I’m uncertain

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 5h

you can argue about whether she should have disclosed or whether her active deception made it worse til the cows come home. I do not care.

cis people, primarily men, reguarly lie and deceive their intimate partners to obtain sex all of the time. It takes A LOT to be considered deception usually.

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 5h

her crime is literally just that she's transgender and nothing else.

she has been sentenced to years is prison for being transgender in a a country which has, for about half of her entire life, been harassing and abusing transgender people daily in the press and politics.

That's the UK right now.

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 5h

I'd have not consented to having sex with a few ppl had I known what a prick they were behind lies and deception.

If I or any other woman took this to the cops we would be laughed at and called a slag for not being careful who we open our legs to.

Ciara Watkin is in prison for being transgender.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3h

I mean I'm glad Trump didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize but I am not super excited that the person who did win it has been going "Mr Trump please murder more Venezuelan fishermen with American missiles" since it was announced

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Annie Wallace @anniewallace.com · 3h

If EVERYTHING you think you know about trans people has been learnt from social and mainstream media over the past 10 years, and not an actual trans person, it's probably 80% garbage. Talk to a real trans person. Read a book published before 2015. We are anything but new, and We. Are. Going. Nowhere

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 8h

I don't know, just start trying shit! lock him in the dungeon! the answer can't be "nothing, and also you're not allowed to criticize them"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 8h

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 4h

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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theodelic.bsky.social @theodelic.bsky.social · 3h

"Is a single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, heading toward the U.S. mainland?
Depends on who you ask!"

NOW it's a proper NPR headline

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Hunter Felt @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 3h

Jfc NPR

NPR @npr.org · 10h

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 3h

Fun :-/

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 4h

As a straight young white man who covers Christian nationalism, I would perhaps have asked Doug Wilson some follow ups on this if it were running it in the NYT as part of his 10K-word defense of Christian nationalism.

For example:

“That really happen?”
“You sure about that??”
“But did it tho?????”

Wilson: No, I grant the point in principle. I don't believe that classical liberalism gets everything wrong. I really don't believe that.
And I enjoyed very much the country I grew up in, and I received many benefits from that era. So that point's granted.

But on the dank right, I believe that the liberal treatment of young white males has been one of the causes for this recoil and eruption. What you had was a toxic combination of a bad economy of young men being told repeatedly that they are the cancer of the planet, that their masculinity is toxic, that their skin is the blight of the world, and their heterosexuality is a hate crime.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 3h

And I just do not get how anyone can interact with trans people and come out not understanding that.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 3h

Like, before I knowingly met my first trans person (I'd met stealth ones before that, I later found out) I had what I suspect is the standard well-meaning ignoramus' attitude of "trans women are weird blokes, but they're doing no harm". But as soon as I met on it was just "oh OK, she's a woman. Duh"

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 3h

The really odd thing is that all it takes is to meet one (1) trans woman for this to be blatantly obvious if you're not deliberately and willfully hateful.

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