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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20m

NYPD cops are worried about someone who's not a white, christian, conservative becoming mayor? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite bella hadid?

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 26m

Trump verbally recognizing the humanity of Palestinian people when many Democratic leaders failed to do so is hard to process.

He is motivated by personal gain and doesn’t answer the question about displacement, but these words are the type of rhetorical crumbs for which activists begged Democrats.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 44m

Trump: "I am looking at the faces of the people. Those are people like you and I and they are people that look so fantastic. And they're walking back to a house that's demolished... I saw good people."

Fox News: "Will they be able to stay in Gaza?"

Trump: "I think so. I hope so."

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Tiffany Troia @tiffanytroia.bsky.social · 8h

King Shark will always have the specialest place in my heart from your Secret Six run. :) (I also love Scandal and both of her wives, but King Shark is my solo fave!)

Penguin is going on a tirade with the rest of The Secret Six and King Shark is completely distracted by his aquarium walls. In the panel below that, King shark is asked: King Shark are you unwell? And King Shark replies "The colors. The colors!"

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 22h

Feels like, as a nation, we still haven't reckoned with the fact that the widely respected former monarch contributed millions of pounds to a settlement to help her paedophile son avoid testifying in court in a case bought by one of his victims, a women who later killed herself.

Extract from Guardian story:

But he wrote to Epstein in the message after the photo was published: "I'm just as concerned for you! Don't worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we'll play some more soon!!!!"

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🎃 Fall-mode pink cat 🎃 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 19h

The rape whistle are actually a good idea. It's very audible and people WILL turn around to look at where the sound is coming from.

And God knows these assholes don't like people to focus on what they're doing.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 23h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 13h

a stuffed fox with a beard is laughing and says chaos reigns

Alt: a stuffed fox with a beard is laughing and says chaos reigns

media.tenor.com

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 9h

Christ these two

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 9h

Frog and Toad went back to the river.

They looked for the button in the mud.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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The Force Will Set Me Free 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️ @clearcutcontempt.bsky.social · 23h

When people stop giving MAGAts the benefit of the doubt, their true intentions are very clear.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

very little of this is hard to understand if you let go of your priors with regard to what an American administration can do, and, instead, accept the reality that the Republic has fallen to Trump, an authoritarian, and his MAGA personality cult.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

It's **not at all hard** to imagine how this happens.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 1d

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

www.statnews.com

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 1d

This is incredibly sad.

AlTA for pointing out my daughter's "imperfections" after she said understood why her father cheated on me since I gained so much weight ?

I (45f) feel extremely guilty. I wonn't act as if I'm the most desirable wife in the world. I did gain a lot of weight. I did let myself go. My husband (47m) is, by far, the better looking one. But I don't think I deserved to be cheated on. He did the stereotypical thing of cheating on me with a young, thin, woman (28f).

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Of course, my husband didn't want to be the one to tell our daughter (22f) that we're getting divorced. We only have the one daughter. Even though she's an adult, I expected it to hurt her. Our daughter was always closer to her father than me.

The talk was just between my daughter and I. I told her that her father and I both love her more than anything and that nothing will change that. That neither of us regret a marriage that gave us her. But we're getting a divorce. She just stared into space and I hugged her.

After the hug, she was just staring at me. Out of nowhere she asked if her father had cheated on me. I had no plans on telling her that but I didn't know what to say given that she asked. I said yes. She asked me what did I expect. She said she understood why he did it since I had gained so much weight. I was devastated all over again. That was the last thing I expected her to say.

I know that my daughter has a boyfriend (25m). I told my daughter that she's not so thin herself and I asked her what if her boyfriend cheated on her because of her weight. I asked her what if her boyfriend cheated on her because of her acne. I told her that right now she smelled and she's wearing crappy clothes. I asked her if she expects her boyfriend to love her as she is or to cheat on her. She had tears in her eyes. She told me that I shouldn't be picking on her since my man don't find me sexy anymore.

Right now I'm just broken and I can't trust my own judgment. I was expecting more sympathy from my d

Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother's fate.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

*rehabilitated by substack

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 1d

Politico is recommending a column by a guy who literally blogged for Richard Spencer's original alt-right site--but who has since been rehabilitated as a very serious political commentator--on why we need to bring back "internet gatekeepers."

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

The curse of knowledge is a hell of a thing. If you want to talk to ordinary Americans like you're in a graduate semiotics course, you lose. And, btw, the actual beltway dem thing to do is to accept the bad frame and disavow antifa, instead of saying, "i'm proudly anti-fascist. why aren't you?"

Omg. Seriously. Who cares? Let's not do the normal Democratic Party thing and start splitting hairs on something that literally does not matter.
It's the same damn thing. If people don't like the term ANTIFA they were never going to warm up to Anti Fascist. Smh

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The Force Will Set Me Free 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️ @clearcutcontempt.bsky.social · 1d

“One more thing, Mr…Azozthoth was it? Lord of the blah blah, sorry we don’t have all day. I have in my pocket the contract that you negotiated for that soul, and I have a feeling it isn’t notarized. I’d hate to have to run that down to the judge, get you evicted, or you can come out on your own.”

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The Force Will Set Me Free 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️ @clearcutcontempt.bsky.social · 1d

Reading queer novels gives me an excuse to keep going, since I gotta read more queer novels! Doing something silly in leisure is what gives life dimension.

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The Force Will Set Me Free 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️ @clearcutcontempt.bsky.social · 1d

Horror novels by queer authors are literally getting me through the day. Like, I gotta keep going or I’ll never get to read Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle!

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Nov 25

Looking for a supernatural queer read?

🏳️‍🌈 F/F friends to lovers
💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god
🦅 Weird birds
👼 Queers with wings and claws
🌲 Cursed forest
🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality

Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell
Available here:

a.co/d/bufFU4f

Cover of the book Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell, which features a young woman looking up at trees descending from the top. Text next to the book: A quiet town. A sinister cult. A fallen god. Two friends. One chance to prevent the end of all things. Come and see. A available in paperback ebook and on kindle unlimited

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22

Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?

Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Nov 25

Looking for a supernatural queer read?

🏳️‍🌈 F/F friends to lovers
💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god
🦅 Weird birds
👼 Queers with wings and claws
🌲 Cursed forest
🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality

Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell
Available here:

a.co/d/bufFU4f

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Prime157 @prime157.bsky.social · 2d

MLK said decisions like this were worse than the KKK's out right hate, and I'm inclined to agree.

Eff this 💩 decision

First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."

Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

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WhimsickleSquirrel @whimsicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 2d

You can either have cool, fun, interesting, and good things, or you can have things white people like.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

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The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

Hey I tried to whip up a moral panic against you and now people are being mean to me. Can you please accept total responsibility for the behavior of a bunch of strangers and also admit it's your fault I'm being yelled at?

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Simpley Thom. 🏳️‍🌈 @mongreldog.bsky.social · 3d

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"Saying you're 'buying a house in New Zealand' is kind of a wink, wink, say no more," Reid Hoffman previously said. The same presumably goes for bunkers.

But there's a distinctly human flaw.

I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking.

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 3d

The thing about AI is that although it looks like a bubble and is obviously a bubble and anyone who thinks about it for a moment knows it’s a bubble, unlike all other bubbles in the past I’m sure it will just be fine. I’m investing in tulips.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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