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Alger Hiss's Secret Jack-o'-lantern @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 21m

What's the best one liner in movie history?

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 8h

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 8h

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 1d

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 23h

Seeing people say that "by the numbers" Stancil is right about No Kings being bigger than the civil rights mvt. But no. That's not how any of this works.

It's like saying I'm a bigger organizer than Greta Thunberg because I'm taller. It's not technically true, it's just stupid.

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Alger Hiss's Secret Jack-o'-lantern @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 6h

Heroes.

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6h

#OtD 16 Oct 1859 abolitionists led by John Brown, including Black people recruited by Harriet Tubman, raided a federal armoury in Harpers Ferry, WV, to get weapons to arm enslaved people. Several were killed, and Brown later executed for treason stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8828...

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Ineffable Jeff @ineffablejeff.bsky.social · 13h

Shot + chaser

And are you married?

I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it?

Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.

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Alger Hiss's Secret Jack-o'-lantern @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 6h

SCHUMER RESIGN BITCH

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

SCHUMER: I hope and pray that that Trump will sit down with us and negotiate

BASH: And if he doesn't, I'm just confirming that you'll vote no. Is that correct?

SCHUMER: We are hoping that he will negotiate with us

BASH: And if he doesn't?

SCHUMER: We must get a better bill than what they have

Alger Hiss's Secret Jack-o'-lantern @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 6h

WHY AREN'T THEY ALL DOING THIS

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

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Alger Hiss's Secret Jack-o'-lantern @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 8h

I gotta say, my nieflings are 8 and 12--actual kids--and if either of them used the language those Young Republicans did, we'd be having a full-on family reeducation retreat.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 13h

this will kill people.

Jenn @jennralize.bsky.social · 1d

Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.

My records have been altered, which is upsetting.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9h

Just learned the difference between a croque monsieur and a croque madame is an egg and it’s named that because the egg looks like a ladies fancy hat. That’s when society worked, when we were all putting little hats on sandwiches.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 9h

.. I don’t even think it’s worth saying anymore

AI is a lack of consent machine

It’s about class and consent

And here’s where I’m ACID about some of this being gendered

especially around CHILDREN which we claim to care about many of the transgressors will be women for shit like this

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Say what, now?

A family member sent me an image of a baby dressed in an elf outfit. My baby. It was adorable—and unnerving.
My cousin took a photo from our group chat and uploaded it to Meta AI. While his heart was in the right place, my mind was spinning. What could Meta do with my son’s face? The privacy policy of Meta Platforms says the company can use these images to “improve AIs and related technology.”
In the age of AI, I can’t control where my—or my son’s—face ends up. Our likenesses are no longer our own.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

cybertruck owners treat being a cybertruck owner as just as hard as being transgender in the united states it’s so awesome

WIRED @wired.com · 14h

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

wrd.cm

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10h

Crazy how much both the administration and the elite media have joined in the consensus that these people are not real or somehow don’t count.

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 11h

look i was recently talking to a septuagenarian life long dem (who shall remain nameless) and generic lib, and she was like “i just think there should be firing squads and they should sell tickets.”

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 12h

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted."

That will change the frame of the story.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Lindsay John Bell @lindsayjbell.bsky.social · 22h

I am still waiting for a detailed, pedagogically-backed argument for how AI improves learning. I have only been told it’s a helpful tool that will help students learn and teachers prep faster, but still waiting for what it’s supposed to do that human educators with more funding can’t do.

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 23h

It felt like an extremely radical thing to say "you can just not teach them how to use this. i don't even know what it means to teach them AI skills but you can also just not. it might make your students more hireable, honestly."

But this idea that it's a tool whose existence justifies its use?

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Alger Hiss's Secret Jack-o'-lantern @bougiesttoast.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent 🧵.

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 23h

I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 1d

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 1d

Thread, agree, and also: can we focus on the real nazis, please

Historian Jen @historianjenfl.bsky.social · 1d

I've been down this rabbit hole for 2 days now. Each video is crazier than the last. First it was the lightning bolts, then it was a fixation on the star, then it was the number 8. Not a single video references a source. It makes the left look absolutely insane to an average person.

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 2d

TikTok currently has a ton of videos claiming Taylor Swift is selling a necklace with Nazi imagery because it has lightning bolts in the chain when 1. It is very clearly referencing the chorus of the song Opalite and 2. The SS lightning bolts were not shaped like that.

Everyone please touch grass.

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

JK Rowling has denied the nazi persecution of LGBTQ+ people in the Holocaust, uses the money she earns to legislate trans people out of existence and asked her followers to photograph women going to the washroom.

Keira Knightley: we all gotta figure out how to live together

Rowling, whose best-selling young adult series and accompanying movie franchise sparked a pop culture phenomenon in the 2000s, has drawn backlash in recent years for her outspoken views against the transgender community.

When asked by Decider if she knew about a fan "boycott" of Rowling's work, Knightley, 40, said she was "not aware of that."

"I'm very sorry," said Knightley, who was joined by her "Woman in Cabin 10" director Simon Stone. "You know, I think we're all living in a period of time right now where we're all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren't we? And we've all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect."

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

people will tell you there are things you have to do here related to inside jokes about a cartoon characters dick that you were not here for. let me reassure you that they were not that funny

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I refuse to believe that Bill Ackman isn’t an unreliable boyfriend in Cathy who appeared in the strip from 1982 to 1985.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Jun 6

Hey there, Newskis!

Welcome to our little social media platform. Just so you know, we have some rules here:

-Drink a whiskey drink

-Drink a vodka drink

-Drink a lager drink

-Drink a cider drink

-Sing the songs that remind you of the good and/or better times

-Get knocked down

-Get up again

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1d

These are the people that told us the racist jokes were dark humor. They said it was ironic racism. They literally are not going to accept anything anyone else says, because they still believe that white supremacy will protect them. So Marcotte is not alone and will never heed a single warning

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