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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 1m

(I exclusively use the "following" feed and never the "Discover" one, or any pinned feeds.)

Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 1m

I don't think this place can hold a candle to Twitter in its prime in terms of immediately breaking news events, but I don't follow an insane number of journalists/news sources and feel like my feed gets me a lot of current events coverage.

(Though I also get too many Rupar reposts, that's true.)

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 8m

I guess I didn't expect the earthquake drill to talk.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 32m

DHS counts that as an assault on an officer.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 50m

83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 32m

Maybe one thing we could do to make things a bit better is stop having our government and society run by ancient, rapidly deteriorating husks who barely seem to know where they are on GOOD days. Feels like that would be a good place to start.

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 11h

It's a ways away, but now's a GREAT time to grab tickets to my favorite show of the year... the THANKSGIVING FEAST SHOW! We've been doing this show once a year since 2007!

Nov 26 at The Elysian! Grab tix: www.elysiantheater.com/shows/thanks...

The 19th Annual Thanksgiving Feast Show — The Elysian

Ditch your real messy family and join our fictional one for an entirely improvised holiday meal! Once a year, pretentious uncles, live-streaming teens and neighbors who may or may not be serial kille...

www.elysiantheater.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

a person too narcissistic and egotistical to engage in self-reflection and who has also surrounded themselves with people who will indulge their worst qualities, many such cases.

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 23h

Sam Altman in 2023: “Soon, we will have solved hallucinations and ChatGPT will surpass human beings in all endeavors! Humanity will
Never be the same!”

Sam Altman in 2025: “Soon, we will add a jerk off mode.”

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 1d

The defining element of this era is not wanting to download the app but being forced to download the app.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 1d

Finger got too fat for my wedding ring.

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 1d

I watched Night School (1981) the other night, a slasher I'd never seen. And the way that movie is maybe the most baffling choice I've ever seen a movie make.

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 1d

I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One is my prime "it's a little chilly and the sun is nowhere to be seen" album.

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 1d

They’re just doing politics the right way.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing a promising, young candidate who appeals to voters outside the normal bloc of Dem voters in Maine and reacting by recruiting a very old, moderate, mainstream Dem to run against him in the primary is like the platonic ideal of current Democratic leadership decision making.

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 2d

Mmm yup. Weather change a-comin’. Soon it’s gonna be time to listen to Yo La Tengo, I reckon.

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 2d

Hello, I am an adult human being who is heavily invested in the celebration of Columbus Day. I am the weirdest man alive.

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 3d

One of the most insane things that centrist pundits seem to believe is that normal people don’t care about the genocide in Palestine, they just say they’re against it because “it’s popular.”

Perhaps the biggest example of shitty people telling on themselves in recent memory.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

The real story here is not about how scared individual cops are (they're almost certainly exaggerating), but about the fact police depts in the US openly intervene in partisan politics, and decline to obey reform-minded politicians. We effectively have no democratic oversight of police in the US.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 4d

Is Rihanna still Smurfette?

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 4d

TONIGHT! The 5th annual Convoy Gourds Nuts, a very serious celebration of gourds and improv!

9pm at WGIS! With improv from Convoy and Chris Tcholakian, May Darmon, Isabella Escalante, Benny Wayne Sully & Leonard Smith Jr!

Grab tix: www.crowdwork.com/e/convoy-gou...

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 5d

But the dumbest, most immoral people on Earth told me that this was nothing like fascism!

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

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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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 5d

Watching conservative idiots complain about the Portland frog as if he is an incredibly dangerous national threat is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.

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