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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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David 🍂 @gearm.bsky.social · 2d

This was done in Skyrim's "radiant quests" and they are broadly agreed to be shallow and unimpressive. Adding LLM-generated text and audio would not improve them - turns out the human touch is what makes art "art."

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 4d

“everything is broken & i think we should have a civil war about it & it should be fought by people who aren’t me & i will absolutely not make a phone call that takes me 2 minutes but i will take 2 minutes to let you personally know death is coming” is a thing i hear a lot on here & it’s a bummer.

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David 🍂 @gearm.bsky.social · 4d

If you find yourself tempted to post lyrics... please, reconsider - lol. These aren't poems, ya dork. They're songs. You know...music? You need to hear it to have an informed opinion.

By all means, listen to the music and critique it for its totality! But don't lyric-post. It's goofy.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot believe these lyrics from the new Taylor Swift album are real

Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes"

"You made a deal with this devil, turns out my dick's bigger"

"Everybody's so punk on the internet"

"So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire"

"Got me drеaming about a driveway with a basketball hoop - Boss up, settle down, got a wish list"

"Please, God, bring me a best friend who I think is hot"

"He dick-matized me and opened my еyes - Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see - His love was thе key that opened my thighs"

"Good thing I like my friends cancelled - I like 'em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal"

"Did you girl-boss too close to the sun?"

"Who's the baddest in the land? What's the plan? - You could be my forever night stand"

"They ripped me off like false lashes - And then threw me away"

"Her name was Kitty - Made her money being pretty and witty - They gave her the keys to this city - Then they said she didn't do it legitly"

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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 4d

Republican Congressman offers bold statement defending the government shutdown.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 6d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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David 🍂 @gearm.bsky.social · 6d

And if it didn't (it does!), it would mean... people who think we should have a more global world? That cooperating with other nations and people is good? That being global is good?

Anyone using "globalist" as a pejorative is a fool/tool at best and an antisemite nazi chud at worst.

Shayna Moon (scary) @themoonis.gay · 6d

reminder that 'globalists' inevitably just means Jews

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6d

chat i don't think this is good

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 8d

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

Posted by the President of the United States.

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 10d

Seems important that the Speaker of the House does not even try to dispute that the president is unwell.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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David 🍂 @gearm.bsky.social · 10d

Obviously not your intent, but a little darkly funny that this can be read like you're exasperated that your doctor wife just won't stop talking to you about this.

David 🍂 @gearm.bsky.social · 10d

The old adage of "they accuse us of doing what they would like to do" is old indeed, but this one is striking because this is what the southern states accused the northern states of doing *when we were writing the constitution*

The plantation owners really haven't changed much in these 250 years.

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 10d

It's becoming difficult to hide that a major purpose of the Trump administration is siphoning tax revenues from Blue states and redirecting them into subsidies for Red states. At what point does this become intolerable?

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 10d

Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats

David 🍂 @gearm.bsky.social · 11d

If you're a Democrat and you can't tell it like it is like Pritzker does, I don't trust you to lead anyone.

We cannot win if we cannot name the enemy. Pritzker gets it.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 13d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13d

Live now with @bencollins.bsky.social !!! Learning how to play Balatro 😎 Tune in here: www.twitch.tv/katabughazaleh

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David 🍂 @gearm.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah, I agree - feels like it'll have to be a pretty artifact-heavy set. Maybe they'll manage to make small creatures interesting with mechanics or equipment? Sagas could fill an interesting space, too.

Ultimately, the best Trek just is not about combat, so it's a weird fit, no doubt. But maybe?

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David 🍂 @gearm.bsky.social · 15d

After Edge of Eternities, it's likely that there will be many Vehicle - Spaceships in this set, crewed by smaller power creatures.

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Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.social · 15d

It is kinda insane how much better #Peacemaker is than most of the superhero media from Warners/Disney.

Using the genre to actually engage with big ideas about the insanity of contemporary American life.

Peacemaker Dc Universe GIF

ALT: Peacemaker Dc Universe GIF

media.tenor.com

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David 🍂 @gearm.bsky.social · 18d

Kat is a journalist who worked at Media Matters and has been published in Mother Jones and The New Republic. Her "internet fame" includes video essays on right-wing ideology and a great deal of actual on-the-ground protesting.

You may have seen this week a video of her thrown to the ground by ICE.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 19d

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

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David 🍂 @gearm.bsky.social · 19d

This one is evil, but deserves to be sampled for a song. Too Much Liquid going into that baby at too big a number, a - too big a - too big a number

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 19d

Vaccines cause adults
Tylenol causes pain relief
Neurodiversity is good

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19d

it's important to make these companies more afraid of people with empathy and good sense than they are of weird fucking brigading authoritarian babies

we outnumber these assholes by a wide margin

Matt Belloni @mattbelloni.bsky.social · 19d

KIMMEL IS BACK

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 19d

Protest, resist, yell, mock, organize.

Dissent and dissent LOUDLY.

We live under a fascist regime, not a successfully totalitarian regime.

These people are not bright and they are not competent.

They will lose.

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