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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 1h

Doesn't Johnson have some really precarious underpinnings as Speaker?

Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 1h

EA'a buyout - investors get the profits.

Employees get the stick.

Also: "EA's proprietary generative AI technologies (which have reportedly been deemed crucial to paying off that staggering loan)" does not bode well, at all.

www.rockpapershotgun.com/unionised-ea...

Unionised EA workers slam billion dollar buyout for risking layoffs to "pad investor pockets", while senators worry about Saudi Arabia rewriting US history

Backlash against the Saudi-backed acquisition of Electronic Arts is mounting, as politicians and labour unions speak out.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 2h

Biggest of course meaning "the most blocks".

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 2h

The more available photos of a protest the higher the likelihood that the state will use them to prosecute people. Do not contribute to the problem by giving them something to subpoena. A few reporters working a crowd is less of a problem than 100s or 1000s of people doing it.

Big Chungus Bus Factory, MSW (NOT A MAN) @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 4h

Folks, if you are at a public protest, it's highly likely that you will be photographed. Definitely try to avoid taking identifying photos but there's a chance your face ends up in the paper.

Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 4h

Don't photograph anyone else at a protest either.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations

Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

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Outsider Comics @outsidercomics.com · 2h

FINAL UPDATE! We're at $4850/$10025 raised! While it's not enough to pay for everything we were able to make up the shortfall with a small loan and everything is not on fire right now! Hooray!

Thank you so much everyone for your support and stay tuned for the OMG WE ARE DESPERATE final moving sale!

Outsider Comics @outsidercomics.com · 5d

Our semi-final fundraiser update! Thanks to YOU we have enough to cover half our Surprise Moving Expenses without my having to dip into emergency savings / take out personal loans. We're gonna be closing our fundraiser on Oct 15th to allow time to design and engrave a plaque featuring ---

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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 2h

Fuck. That.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone at LAPD pushing this should be fired and any lawyers involved in this filing should be disbarred. "WE HAVE TO BEAT UP JOURNALISTS, IT'S AN EMERGENCY" "sounds like a great case, can't wait to cash this paycheck" you should all be exiled to a remote island overrun with botflies

People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 2h

“LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press” 😭😭😭

“Ahead of this Saturday’s No Kings protests, the Los Angeles Police Department has filed an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction that restricts their use of force against the press.”

LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press

The police department filed an emergency order ahead of this Saturday's No Kings protest.

laist.com

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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 2h

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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 2h

Make housing affordable.
Hell, make LIVING affordable.

...and people will have more kids.

roastedtato @roastedtato.bsky.social · 7h

Just saw this today and while it likely surprises no one here I'm glad there's robust data on this now.

medium.com/@hrnews1/new...

New Study: Global Fertility Rate Decline Now Linked Directly to the Commodification of Housing

In Germany, South Korea, and Italy, women are having fewer than 1.3 children on average — far below the 2.1 needed to maintain a stable…

medium.com

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 5h

historical dramas don’t hit like they used to

oh, you have a tyrannical government? the rich are exploiting the poor? everyone in town has the plague? the market is really unstable? someone is cheating it? your mother in law is batshit? you’re old at 25? someone says you need to have more babies?

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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 4h

Chicago folks.

Trump is looking for a casus belli, but this is also an edge case you might want to keep an eye on.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/p...

ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally | CNN Politics

The Department of Homeland Security says the officer, Radule Bojovic, overstayed a tourist visa that expired in 2015.

www.cnn.com

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 8h

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 11h

For the gym rats, and those who use protein powders - this may be worth a look.

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 11h

If ideas could be purged from human memory, clippy would be far from the top.

But it would be on the list.

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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 11h

But engagement makes numbers go up! </s>

A lot of the business models behind social media, and mobile gaming nowadays remind me of the things that led to the Butlerian Jihad in Dune.

I've seen people describe working with LLM agents as letting the computer "think for them".

A quote from Frank Herbert's Dune

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." -Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam,

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1d

Remember we're still in a pandemic, so wear your masks on Saturday

#nokings

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 16h

Let's hear it for the protester who remembered Shut The Fuck Up Friday:

"Once in custody, Korol declined to waive her Miranda rights and speak with any federal officers before she had a lawyer." www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Band member accused of interfering with arrest of another during Portland ICE protest, feds allege

"Who’s assaulting who is the real question?” said Oriana Korol's dad. “She was on the sidewalk playing music when the federal officers just bumrushed the band.”

www.oregonlive.com

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 16h

The best part is if you try to take the house back, they will swear vengeance on you, hunt you down, and murder you.

Polar Bears are one of the only carnivores who hunt for sport, the petty, petty beasties.

apnews.com/photo-galler...

Photos show polar bears chilling at home in abandoned Russian research station

Polar bears that have taken over an abandoned polar research station off Russia’s far eastern coast were intimately captured in drone footage by Vadim Makhorov.

apnews.com

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 1d

Although classified as carnivores, wolves may sometimes follow an omnivorous diet. They can eat meat, eggs and even fruit!

This time of year, pumpkins are a special treat for our ambassador wolves.🎃 #wolffact

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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 16h

I was thinking skulls, but armadillos also make sense.

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That Guy Mike @thatguymike.bsky.social · 17h

They say that CEOs are paid the big money because they shoulder the responsibility and risk of the big decisions.

When’s the last time CEOs suffered the consequences of their decisions? Even if they get fired, they still get a golden parachute.

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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 16h

mornin

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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 1d

Rest well!

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

Welcome, new users. Posts on Bluesky are called skeets.

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