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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1h

Or they hired an "artist" for cheap who conned them and they were too stupid to know the difference

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2h

A bunch of grandmas standing and hooting for Nuremberg 2? Something for the opposition party to think about

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 2h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 4h

I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4h

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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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 3h

They could've just put art from the original Marvel comics on the merch and everyone would be impressed. But then they conceivably might have to pay someone a few dollars, instead of the pennies it cost to have an intern slop this up on their laptop

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 3h

WE'VE GOT NITS IN THE HOUSE 😩

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 5h

This has been *confirmed*: so not only did this make it through dozens of levels of decisions where no one spoke up to say "this is unethical and looks like shit", it's also so bad it was instantly spotted by thousands of people like me who in a split second said "hey that looks like shit".

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 16h

Someone tell me Disney didn't just use a bunch of fucking AI slop for the new Wonder Man show

Wonder Man screenshot featuring merchandise which appears to be decorated with AI slop.

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Nesma☘️ @johk12.bsky.social · 1d

💔 My little girl
In a small tent in southern Gaza, my daughter suffers from scabies and severe malnutrition. She endures cold, hunger, and no access to treatment. Please pray for her and help provide medicine and food 🩷
gofund.me/a9a610a4e

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 8h

“In this environment that we’re in right now, it feels like an understatement to say that there’s misinformation being spread about this community. People really forget that we’re human beings.”

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

capitalbnews.org

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 5h

This has been *confirmed*: so not only did this make it through dozens of levels of decisions where no one spoke up to say "this is unethical and looks like shit", it's also so bad it was instantly spotted by thousands of people like me who in a split second said "hey that looks like shit".

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 16h

Someone tell me Disney didn't just use a bunch of fucking AI slop for the new Wonder Man show

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 5h

Butlerian Jihad now

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 6h

last night sean was giggling to himself and when i asked what was so funny he said he was imagining a southern mouse in a white linen suit drinking a ‘cheese julep’

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 6h

On the one hand, yes, demand answers as to why this happened. But release him now independent of the answer — there is no justification for this. No society that hasn’t hopelessly devolved past the point of return does this to kids. I don’t care whatever they can possibly cook up as an excuse.

Boston judge orders release of 13-year-old from ICE custody

The federal court ruled the boy must be freed unless immigration officials can justify detaining a juvenile with adult detainees at the Burlington facility.

www.masslive.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

we need to abolish this shit

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 11h

When I was homeless in 2019, the Salvation Army shelter refused to give me a bed (even though they were available), because I was on immunosuppressant meds and they didn’t want to be responsible or liable if I got more sick or died on premises. They’d rather I die on the street.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Max Bernhard @mxbernhard.bsky.social · 9h

Seems like the worst time to start sharing your citizens' biometric data with the US government

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

"Border Security" with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states | Matthias Monroy

The European Commission wants to negotiate an agreement that would allow US authorities direct access to police-stored fingerprints and facial images in Europe. Potentially, all travelers could be…

digit.site36.net

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 12h

I can't believe this is real

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 22h

“F**k ICE forever.”

— Chappell Roan at her show in Pasadena

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 15h

Those lines are not lining

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 17h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 16h

They used it in Secret Invasion but I dont think they have since

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