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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 52m

I was at this concert and lemme tell you, I've never seen a bigger audience pop than this.

If only there was some kind of message Democrats could read from this. Oh well!

www.thedailybeast.com/pop-star-cha...

Pop Star Pauses Concert to Say ‘F*** ICE’

Chappell Roan slammed the federal agency on Friday, while Chance the Rapper put out the same message at a different concert.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1h

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

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 1h

I’m starting to believe in manifestation only in so far as to explain that guy. Seems like he was created through the sheer force of the collective unconscious Making Up An Internet Guy and I will likely not be dissuaded of this theory.

Because if not that …. Wow.

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 1h

I rushed home from a work trip in Cape Town to coach kids’ soccer games today.

The ⚽️ games are now canceled bc of ICE activity nearby.

WTAF 🤬😡😤

FUCK 🧊

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 16h

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 2h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 1h

Serious antifa indoctrination happening in this house:

Teaching my four year olds to enjoy yacht rock. And communism.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h

JD Vance blames Chuck Schumer for the fact that the White House mistakenly laid off key public health officials, including those dealing with measles and ebola.
The Trump regime's message is: We demand total power, but we're not responsible for anything.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 3h

I’m so sorry

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 4h

His bio sure does skew “make up a guy” but there he is, repeatedly, a real person. Fascinating

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

we need to abolish this shit

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The Rabbit Hole Cartographer @quacksanonymous.bsky.social · 23h

After years of the War on Terror campaign, we've gotten to the point where they can blow up boats in international waters by calling them terrorists. Then the head of DHS says that they will deal with Antifa in the same way. It's a threat. It should be taken as such.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 18h

I think the average person does not realize how ableist our entire country is, and relatedy how bad most media outlets are at covering disability issues.

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 20h

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 18h

Watching Aladdin with the kids for movie night and having latent regret over never beating the Cave of Wonders level for the Sega Genesis game in 1994.

That level was So.Fucking.Hard.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18h

Who do they report to @jbpritzker.bsky.social.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 19h

What restaurant is this because Connecticut is not that big and those look SO GOOD.

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 19h

No, that’s how they prevent the Tylenolization of our zygotes

Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 19h

Honest to god, was like “weird CATS playbill, but also, I saw the movie so…”

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Jul 14

atari jaguar, print ad, excerpt (1994) archive.org/details/Vide...

black background, red bloody claw marks, two piercing jaguar eyes up the top.
white caps text font that slowly gets bigger:
64 exploding bits of raw power.
16.7 million brain burning colors.
and 3-d graphics real enough to make you blow chunks.
you've been warned.

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 19h

I can think of worse but I don’t love it 😂

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 19h

I accidentally paid for a subscription to an app designed to curb my social media time (HA!) and every time I try to open it, it forces me through a “breathe in / breath out” exercise and all that has done is made Bush’s “Machinehead” permanently stuck in my head.

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 21h

They don’t care if it’s legal or not.

But we have to keep reminding everyone that rules once mattered. And they will again, eventually.

I’m just not in a place where I can see the future at all anymore and I hate its abyss.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

A little on the nose: His last name is Miranda, same as the guy whose 1966 case established constitutional “Miranda rights” for informing arrestees of their rights at the time of arrest.
apnews.com/article/us-c...

US citizen detained and held at ICE building in Portland for hours before release, lawyer says

A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, says he is representing a U.S. citizen who was detained and held at the city's U.S.

apnews.com

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 21h

RIP, Diane Keaton. You were the OG Manic Pixie Dream Girl

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Jun 29

“ This bill will raise your electricity costs and cook the planet to give tax cuts to the richest people ever.” - Sen Schatz

“Trump is jamming through a bill that rips away health care, closes hospitals, raises grocery and utility bills to give tax breaks to billionaires.” - Sen Warren

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