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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 21h

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

If the party leadership admits this, they have to admit that we are not in normal political times anymore and that the response cannot be to just do normal political campaigns on topics like healthcare coverage, and they are not prepared for that world.

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

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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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 21h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 1d

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

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Tanya is seeking work || 🔜 TCNA @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, unless the team suddenly had a lot of Black folks on it? I would have likely passed on this from Ubi. Trying to tell this kind of story without us in the room, on narrative, art, etc would have been a disaster.

Still irritated they punked out & caved on making it.

bit.ly/3L1AtGJ

Assassin's Creed Set During Post-Civil War Period Canceled Last Year Due to Increasing Concerns Over U.S. Political Climate — Report - IGN

Ubisoft allegedly scrapped early plans for an Assassin's Creed game set during the U.S. post-Civil War period, a report has claimed, with the decision made primarily due to anxiety surrounding the cou...

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 1d

I feel sick paying US taxes (or being reminded to) as they actively continue to dismantle every public service and sell our green spaces.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 1d

Deadpool hates Kevin Sorbo for sure.

Duder McGuy @warofthebees.bsky.social · 1d

Are Deadpool and Spidey even capable of hating someone?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 1d

The best time to unionize was ten years ago. The second best time is right now.

Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 3d

Those of you who have been in gamedev for 5yrs+

What do you wish you knew before you joined the industry? What life lesson would you pass down to someone just joining today?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

its almost like making policy personal, instead of just numbers on a powerpoint presentation, is effective. or something.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

The Advantage program was a lifeline for New Yorkers like Kasha, a working mom struggling to get out of a shelter and into stable housing.

But when then-Gov. Cuomo slashed funding, homelessness surged.

These are political choices. We can choose differently.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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bunny | LFW @wingedlioness.bsky.social · 2d

Added larger, unmarked, standalone map images for anyone that wants to print those out or add them into a vtt without revealing anything to the players

bunny | LFW @wingedlioness.bsky.social · 4d

Looking for a #dnd or #pathfinder short adventure for 3-5 players that gives the GM a chance to do some character creation and for everyone to get to play at level 20 w/out years of canceled sessions and mismatched schedules to get a proper campaign there?

wingedlioness.itch.io/paragon-adva...

Paragon Advancement Services: or a Not-Level-20 campaign by wingedlioness

A short adventure built for laughs and scratching the D&D or Pathfinder level 20 itch.

wingedlioness.itch.io

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Courtenay Taylor @courtenaytaylor.bsky.social · 3d

Worried about ICE raids in your neighborhood? Attend Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “Solidarity Mobilizations: a 2-part training on showing up for immigrant communities” - sign www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

Solidarity Mobilizations: a 2-part training on showing up for immigrant communities · Showing Up for Racial Justice

Across the country, immigrant communities are under attack and authoritarian forces are gaining ground. But there’s a growing movement of people ready to take action with clarity, courage, and discipl...

www.mobilize.us

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3d

It is an inexcusable omission, and editorial malpractice, for Reuters to omit mention that the President doing this kind of thing on a media platform he owns & has not divested is unprecedented, likely illegal and an ethical violation. The message itself is unprecedented and illegal. Why not say so?

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 4d

Pritzker is everything Newsom wants you to believe Newsom is, including both actually brave and seemingly in possession of an actually beating human heart.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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bunny | LFW @wingedlioness.bsky.social · 4d

Looking for a #dnd or #pathfinder short adventure for 3-5 players that gives the GM a chance to do some character creation and for everyone to get to play at level 20 w/out years of canceled sessions and mismatched schedules to get a proper campaign there?

wingedlioness.itch.io/paragon-adva...

Paragon Advancement Services: or a Not-Level-20 campaign by wingedlioness

A short adventure built for laughs and scratching the D&D or Pathfinder level 20 itch.

wingedlioness.itch.io

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 4d

Thread, I'm with Courtney in pretty much the entirety of it.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5d

I think we are well past the point where future historians look at us and say that civil war could not be averted.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 5d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5d

Indigenous nations plan tariff-free trade corridor across US-Canada border

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

www.motherjones.com

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Boo Day @boodayrpg.bsky.social · 5d

I get the impulse to dunk on Keith Urban for not wanting to have sex with his traditionally desirable wife as often as she wants, like some kind of Al Bundy farce.

But as a married ace person, can we not do this?

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