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Mossforatu @dinolich.bsky.social · 2h

All set up at Enchanted Realms Festival in Griffith Park! At the field across from the zoo, come get books!!!!!

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Ben Van Camp @benvc.bsky.social · 2h

If they make a sequel it would be so cool if he was there

In the meantime they're adding another Goku to the game

Didn't think it was possible but the crazy bastards did it

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

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.

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 9d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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桂之雨 @oxalicacid.bsky.social · 7h

#trigun

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VJ. | Comms Open @veejay.bsky.social · 2h

time is a flat circle

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Ben Van Camp @benvc.bsky.social · 2h

It is absolutely wild that DBFZ is getting another balance patch and a new character

I hope (cope) that this is leading towards a DBFZ 2 announcement

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 13h

Love how nearly 70 years on people are still trying to launder the transphobia of anonymous men in the 50's straight making shit up for the era's equivalent of clickbait.

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 19h

Its almost like anti-porn laws are never actually about porn. 🤔

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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Ben Van Camp @benvc.bsky.social · 17h

HELL YEAH

I didn't make it past ep 2 myself because so many things in it put me off but might give it another chance, for Milly if nothing else

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 1d

I want you all to see how cryptocurrency is being normalized as if it’s not a Ponzi scheme run by wealthy people who want a very complicated system of extracting more wealth from desperate people who have little wealth and nowhere else to turn to.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Morgan Stanley will now allow crypto investments in any type of account, including retirement accounts.

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Ben Van Camp @benvc.bsky.social · 1d

Damn

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal way for the Phillies to lose, Dodgers win the series

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

the portland chicken explains

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 1d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Ben Van Camp @benvc.bsky.social · 1d

Ain't no amountsa "goos" or "gahs" gonna get ya outta dis one, pal

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Ben Van Camp @benvc.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking wack

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 2d

The controversial Riyadh Comedy Fest ended today, to be followed in December by the Saudi capital's music festival Soundstorm with Post Malone, Halsey, Benson Boone, and more

Post Malone, Halsey, Benson Boone, & More Playing Controversial Riyadh Music Festival Soundstorm

The comedy world has been in an uproar over the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which ended today after two weeks of performances in Saudi Arabia’s capital. Extremely popular comics including Kevin Hart, Dave...

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Ben Van Camp @benvc.bsky.social · 1d

The drive is over this week so if you want to support independent public radio, now's the time

One of the only stations that I know of who highlights new music from local/independent artists

Ben Van Camp @benvc.bsky.social · 7d

My favorite radio station, The SoCal Sound, is doing a pledge drive due to federal funding being pulled

If you feel like supporting them, go here: www.thesocalsound.org/support/than...

Thank You Protecting Public Radio

The Socal Sound - Community Amplified Radio

www.thesocalsound.org

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Not only this is amazing because part of fascism is the destruction of joy but it also makes it look ridiculous that the military is being deployed to put a stop to this

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

War is hell, Portland style

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~Classic Anime Girl of the Day!~ @retroanimegirls.bsky.social · Sep 9

Today's Classic Anime Girl is Milly Thompson, from "Trigun" (1998)!

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Ben Van Camp @benvc.bsky.social · 1d

stronk

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 2d

Said this on @mysteriousz.bsky.social’s thread re: Justin Wong’s pastry (hold the human rights violations) video. I think the FGC needs to understand this about “taking the bag.” The bag will pay you. The bag will never save you. You are quite literally cashing in a future where you’re loved.

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📺~CRT~📺 @crtvheadvt.bsky.social · 2d

A "small" datacenter was going to go up near me in Charlotte and the local community (including my conservative in-laws) fought it and won.

It's not inevitable.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 2d

this is the guy who got rid of brokers fees in nyc, for anyone who doesn't live here. he rocks

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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InfiniTokens Dry Erase Tokens @infinitokens.com · 2d

InfiniTokens are NOT on Amazon, so let folks interested (or people you ask for gifts) know that searching for "InfiniTokens" there will only get a lot of cheap imitators that are not the real, high quality ones. They mimic our product designs to fool people into thinking they are the original.

An Amazon advertisement that has dry erase cards with designs extremely similar to InfiniTokens dry erase cards with color borders.

An Amazon advertisement that has dry erase cards with designs extremely similar to the thin in-line border of InfiniTokens dry erase cards.

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