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ds @dylanschenker.com · 6h

There's a context bot that will show you the post behind a block but I don't remember their handle and when I've asked nobody has replied

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 10h

Something poetic about these frog costumes becoming a symbol of defiance to an authoritarianism often associated with another frog, Pepe. Except whereas the latter represented grievance and nihilistic irony the former is joyous and celebratory in the face of violent suppression

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 14h

I'm so close to 1000 followers. I think at my peek I had 1300 or 1400 followers on Twitter?

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 14h

Anyone who has ever worked in the service industry or as a janitor understands the utter indignity of dealing with the excrement of the public

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 14h

Once again, my politics is I never want anyone ever to be subjected to cleaning a public restroom ever again

unpaid shirtz dot cool brand ambassador @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 15h

i think it's a pretty clear repudiation of modern capitalism and capitalism as a whole that what people actually want robots to do is shit like laundry, taking the trash out, vacuuming, etc, and instead the market has forced robots to be The Future Of Everything. no, please just wash my dishes thx

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 15h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 15h

Favorite part of the lore is it was started by the country musician Jason Isbell

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 15h

To be honest before I realized the post was about actual hogs I thought feral swine was being used euphemistically to identify ICE deployments

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Rookie Picture Horror Show 🏳️‍⚧️ ✝️ @gaywad.lol · 19h

For Sale: Baby Shoes, financing available through Klarna

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 21h

BIG STAR MENTIONED

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 1d

Tom Waits
Nick Cave

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 1d

a single "Greatest Living" feels way to difficult to nominate but some people I would include on a list:

Mike Cooley (Drive-By Truckers)
Paul Westerberg
Robert Pollard (Guided by Voices)

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 1d

It would be nice if more people would look at this post as a perfect example of how you can include a link to the article and a screenshot with the byline

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

ds @dylanschenker.com · 1d

They desperately need to redesign the site

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 1d

This is the future

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 1d

The left needs to make shit this insane I am not even joking

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 1d

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 1d

Indictment only means charges have been brought and it will go to court, not that she's been found guilty, right

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 1d

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 1d

THIS IS INCREDIBLE

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 1d

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 1d

Hot take but people constantly assume many conservatives don't have actual beliefs or everything they do is calculated and cynical but that minimizes the threat they pose. MTG is a horrible person but it doesn't mean she won't have stances at odds with her own party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 2d

This is why no one is writing 10k words a week to counter Zitron's ~10k words about the uselessness of models, inevitability of collapse, &c.

You don't need to write 10k words every week arguing that the moon should continue to orbit the earth. People who like the moon's orbit can chill.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 2d

Based on social media, you might think the US was in the middle of a Butlerian Jihad. But IRL neither party has shown much appetite for regulating AI; universities aren't trying to ban it; content industries are adapting to it. The venting is anti-correlated with change.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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ds @dylanschenker.com · 2d

Uhhhhh

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

ds @dylanschenker.com · 2d

Videos either don't work or stall whenever I try playing them in the app.

They play fine on my laptop and I even just copied the link to a post from the app and posted it into my mobile browser and it played immediately when it wouldn't play at all I'm the app

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