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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 2m

This shit sucks.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 38m

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 2h

For me it’s always the hair. You’re gonna walk into a salon and ask for THAT?

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Michael @scottgoblue314.bsky.social · 3h

Unless Jeffries's every line is "I am not going to acknowledge the Speaker until he seats my duly-elected colleague", he's just giving up the game entirely

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 1d

the "protein powder has a zillion percent lead in it" story explains a LOT of the conversations i overhear while waiting for a bench to free up

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 5h

Funniest thing about this is all the conservatives saying it’s “college aged kids”/“boys will be boys” and it’s actually a bunch of subcreatures in their 30s-40s.

onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 5h

…I have questions about the frequency with which you are approached for this

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah

Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen

Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah

Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 13h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 5h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 6h

a spoonful of gravel in a running garbage disposal told me that doctors not only don't have to wash their hands but shouldn't

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 18h

Also this is only because I started watching a terrible rip of MD Geist this afternoon and the company is top of mind

a close up of a man 's face with a yellow hair and blue eyes

Alt: a close up of a man 's face with a yellow hair and blue eyes

media.tenor.com

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 18h

I’m not fixing that typo

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 18h

The rights to Central Park Media’s 1990d library of titles, but they’re only released on HD-DVD

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 19h

It's wild that when Trump talks about how they're getting rid of Democrat Programs and keeping Republican Programs he means "public health" and "Sicario Fantasy Camp: Chicagoland." Full polarization, to the point where anything aimed at keeping people alive or alleviating suffering is woke bullshit.

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 19h

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 20h

My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 23h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23h

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Effing Candle Co.® @effingcandleco.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween is coming. Stay vigilant 😤

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 1d

Any journalist who talks to Kris Kobach for any reason should definitely ask about this.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 1d

Buying a newspaper specifically to look at the want ads and getting mad about it

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 1d

Goddamn.

FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 1d

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 1d

You sound like my second grader bitching because I downgraded our Paramount Plus sub to the one with ads because he’s the only one who uses it to watch Loud House and frankly seeing toy commercials is an integral part of childhood

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