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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 2d

Now support trans people.

DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

www.theverge.com

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 2d

People are literally parking in the thru lane right now

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 2d

I love how SeaTac arrivals is the new cellphone waiting lot.

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 2d

two men are doing push ups with the words " we 're not worthy " behind them

ALT: two men are doing push ups with the words " we 're not worthy " behind them

media.tenor.com

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 2d

Maximize profits at all human cost

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 2d

The human need to stand absentmindedly in the middle of a busy walkway

two men are walking down a sidewalk and one of them is carrying another man

ALT: two men are walking down a sidewalk and one of them is carrying another man

media.tenor.com

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 3d

Big “even if the seas were rising people would just sell their houses and move” energy

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 6d

I have never seen SeaTac this empty, made it through general screening in less than 5 minutes. Absolutely bizarre

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 7d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 8d

Barely squeezed in there. Clearly I need to annoy you more.

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 8d

Just sitting here thinking of what the bailouts will like be when the AI bubble bursts. I hate this dumbest timeline.

Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 8d

I didn’t understand the context of this so I went looking and it’s honestly disgusting. Jay is doubling down on ignoring calls for safety on Bluesky. It’s a big joke to Jay.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8d

Yikes.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 8d

Amazing breakfast this morning. I love waffles

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 9d

Post something random or have an awful October.

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 9d

Coming back to your notifications and not yet knowing the context…

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 9d

It’s not even 4pm and we’re eating dinner. What have we become 😔

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 9d

Forever a legend. RIP

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 9d

👇 👇 👇

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9d

i don't understand conservative toughness, which involves being scared shitless of everything but also talking about how tough you are

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 10d

“EA’s new owners are planning an AI pivot to maximize profits by laying off developers and artists

(via Capitalism Times)”

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 10d

EA's new owners are planning an AI pivot to significantly cut operating costs

(via Financial Times)

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t talk about this publicly, but hegseth drives me out of my silence.

I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11d

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 11d

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 11d

“That’s all I ever wanted as a platoon leader.”

He has always wanted to flout the law and kill with impunity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

Doldrums ☕️ @doldrums.bsky.social · 11d

It don’t want to watch or read, I want to listen.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video