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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 22h

Wife text me a small household request. I replied okie dokey which was auto corrected to ok donkey. Now I'm making my own tea. Fuck you technology.

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Smoking Hot Satan @darthmarmalade.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve seen the occasional shelf.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 5h

Unironically, yes, and thousand times over, to say nothing of the Tokyo tribunals.

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 6h

hard to escape the conclusion that the nuremberg trials were too gentle an admonishment

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❤️‍🔥 🍁 Otoño @llfarm.bsky.social · 19h

It’s #BannedBooksWeek and yes, they banned To Kill a Mockingbird because it “makes people uncomfortable.”

That’s the point!

Books that expose racism and injustice SHOULD make you squirm. Silencing truth is cowardice.
Read what they fear.📚

To Kill A Mockingbird
Winner of the
PULITZER PRIZE
HARPER LEE

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 5h

rib, and i cannot emphasize this next part enough, bit

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 13h

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 8h

Pepe is Portland Frog’s Wario

Spooky Witch Kat (hag/witch/banshee) 🖤💜👻🎃💀🐈‍⬛💜🖤 @switchkat13.bsky.social · 8h

Pepe walked on the wrong side of history, so his fellow frog persons are making up for that in spades.

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Smoking Hot Satan @darthmarmalade.bsky.social · 7h

Link.

Haunted Rickobrine @abnormal.gay · 8h

Link.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 8h

Link.

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Miracle Man @kimota1977.bsky.social · 13h

Dude was like “IF THE DEMOCRATS WON YOU’D HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY FOR MILLIONS MORE PEOPLE!! CAN YOU IMAGINE THE HORROR!?!?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 14h

Debbie Brockman is a journalist for WGN, Chicago's most iconic television news station.

Here she is being wrestled to the ground, handcuffed & detained by masked ICE agents in broad daylight.

ICE rammed into her vehicle, dragged her out & whisked her away. Whereabouts unknown.

This is fascism.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 9h

Because they saw, and still see, America as something far superior to the tinpot shithole regimes we opposed. And there's nothing more insulting to them than seeing someone go and try to turn America into *exactly* that kind of country.

Binzie @binns.bsky.social · 10h

My boss is a Reagan Republican and has been enraged since this all started. I seem to remember being plenty angry at that group of Republicans back then but again, nothing like this.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 20h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 9h

Also just also, also, is everyone in this administration just uncritically ingesting AI? Jesus a Christ I know it could be they are all just lying and hoping to wag the dog and etc but HE seems like he can't distinguish reality and fantasy, can ANY of em? Fuck. Hahaha we're gonna die lmao.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 9h

So no one told him since the last time he said this that it's not true? How do people still put up with journalism/media/all politicians? Saying a city is on fire when it's not would be the end of every presidency until this fucking clown. It's beyond absurd.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 1d

AMERICA: let’s give $20 billion to Argentina, what is money anyway

ALSO AMERICA: HeaLtHcaRe FoR aLL? wHo iS gOinG to PaY FoR It

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 11h

A similar pattern can be seen in the history of printing in Scandinavia. In 1482, Johann Snell was commissioned to print the Odense Breviary, but before finishing this work he printed De obsidione et bello Rhodiano, on the siege of Rhodes, which was a pamphlet against the Turks.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11h

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20h

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 9h

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Jan 9

Who up wandering around like Théoden King muttering hauntedly "how did it come to this"?

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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 9h

This entire thread is worth the read but thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis

I've said before how much I do not understand this attitude. I never hate writing. I hate when things get in-between me and writing. I hate when something about *me* is keeping the writing from working. But I never hate the work.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 10h

I've always been annoyed at the performative self-hatred a lot of artists/writers do of their own work. if you've followed me for a while, you've seen me counter-argue against it often. but I think now I want to impress it's praxis to talk about why creativity feels GOOD to do. because it does.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 9h

America fought an entire war about fascism doing this shit and now we're just doing it ourselves

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 16h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 5d

"Get Rory a top with a 7 on it for his birthday."

Apparently, this isn't what my wife meant.

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Smoking Hot Satan @darthmarmalade.bsky.social · 15h

Clouds in a blue sky, over the desert, from one of our road trips.

Clouds over countryside, out the window of our van, from another road trip, or possibly the same one.

Clouds in a blue sky, through some trees and vines, nearer home.

Clouds over sunset in my suburban neighborhood.

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Smoking Hot Satan @darthmarmalade.bsky.social · 15h

Are those Spielberg clouds?