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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 32m

Bluesky is a small place but it contains multitudes nevertheless. for instance Olga Nesterova has 85K followers thanks to her "foreign affairs journalism" that's more Facebook slop than Twitter AI chatbot pretending to be human

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 44m

"foreign affairs journalist" yeah sure and I'm a mamma mia herbalist

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17h

A rat ran across the table at Al Jazeera during a broadcast 🐀 😬

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 15h

least racist Jewish American who grew up in New York and at some point decided their own kids should be raised as Israelis somewhere in Palestine

Antisemitism has been skyrocketing in NY for years. This man will take it to a whole new level.

So to my brothers and sisters in NY, what is your next move because the chances of him being your next mayor are incredibly high? 🥺

If he gets elected, which he looks like he will, will you really stick around? Will you move to the another city? State?

Or perhaps you should come home? 🇮🇱

The world keeps getting crazier and crazier by the day.

Jews, please come home. 💪✡️❤️🙏🇮🇱

(Hillel Fuld having a normal one about the prospect of New York City electing a mayor like Zohran Mamdani)

“Why don’t we tattoo a Star of David on the forehead of every terrorist we have to release?” - My daughter

Proud father.

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 16h

the opening of For Roseanna, 1997 (original title Roseanna's Grave)

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 19h

can't even make an Ottoman trojan horse type joke because the moment he got indicted Turkey was like Adams...? the Canadian singer?

Adams wiping away a tear as he puts on another national costume knowing this may be his last

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 20h

this guy did a bunch of "leftist" genocide propaganda early on when it mattered the most and just generally can't help Israeling...naturally also feels attacked if you mention he is in fact Israeli... average leftist Israeli running anything leftist in Israel, all 50 of them or whatever lol

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 21h

Hamas has been asking for his release from the start. the parties that want Barghouti either murdered or dying in Israel's prisons are your country and it's collaborators like Mahmoud Abbas.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

lol but this is actually worse in that unlike Iraq then, Venezuela has an actual opposition leader who arguably won last year's presidential election, but instead Amanpour is anointing some.DC based dude because he's like Mr Trump, my country yearns to be bombed by the US.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

no one would believe Homer seeing a mysterious object now commonly known as Honda Odyssey so he just made stuff up instead

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

a bunch of recognizable media brands now just floating online as ragebait zombies

Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 3d

The conservatism that's resurgent in the U.S. wants women to get married and have babies—so Taylor Swift's latest lyrics about getting married and having babies genuinely bummed me out.
www.jezebel.com/the-life-of-...

The Life of a...Tradwife?

The conservatism that's resurgent in the U.S. wants women to get married and have babies—so Taylor Swift's latest lyrics about getting married and having babies genuinely bummed me out.

www.jezebel.com

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

the Portland frog thing is clever and funny, ppl should also do this at UK protests where they arrest grannies as terrorists

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

the new US admin would be unlikely to restart Israel's genocide in 2025 had the Dem party pushed the Biden crew to end it about a year earlier, which could have very well also denied Trump the presidency.

huge lasting costs all around, and for what, to what end...

Support for a ceasefire was already overwhelming among Democrats in early 2024 and Biden never came close to getting one, and according to Israeli officials never tried. It’s more like 50/50 among Republicans and Trump did it twice.

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

I will never forgive those who could have ended this genocide years ago, and those who lied to protect them. Biden, McGurk, Sullivan, Blinken, Harris, Tapper, Ocasio-Cortez, and the rest. Shame is not enough

This should wind up as one of the defining photos of our era.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

do you ever pause to wonder what might it look like to people who don't share yours views to insist that they too legitimize a state like Israel on your specific terms in the year 2025? do you for instance think the good guys insisted on framing Germany like this during the Holocaust?

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

I see... doubt it will help them any but if it makes you feel better, Israelis are victims of historic antisemitism, or just another society doing a genocide while also occupying and bombing several nations besides Palestinians, or whatever works for you :)

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

Western govs have gotten Serbia so used to spitting on them for any and all chetnik politics reasons, Vucic went auto pilot mode with Turkey and had to read his apology on camera like he's auditioning for some Turkish soap opera lol

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić now regrets his accusations against Türkiye yesterday over Kosovo arms deal:

Yesterday, I reacted strongly, some would say sharply, maybe too sharply.

I will always be a good host to the Turkish President Erdogan… he is the greatest Turkish leader after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Türkiye’s behavior is of the utmost importance for the stability of this region.

We want the closest relations, the best relations with Türkiye.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

Israel didn't invent colonialism or genocide or any of that, what makes them unique is being an old fashioned perpetually expansionist colonial "and* hyper genocidal society that's entirely reliant on external great power enabling.. there's just no dynamics that can sustain that long term.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

none of the theoretical Zionism stuff does anything now, no one anywhere in the world would be comfortable with Israel anywhere near them. in any case the internal Israeli dynamics are too Nazi society wide, the see the prospect of no Jewish supremacy as calamity, they'll keep going until they can't

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

like its founding political ideology, Israel is ethnoreligious supremacy predicated on domination & expulsion of Arabs on/from Arab lands; they will never willing accept that as legitimate just like no one else would. there's no version of Israel that's not Jewish supremacy, that's not Arabs' fault.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

I mean not that what you and I say on here moves the ME needle either way lol but as just discourse, there's nothing to litigate, Israel has always been illegitimate, the enablers it has relied on could have legitimized it as a normal state but did the opposite and now that ship has sailed

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

Israel is unique in the ME as a foreign propped old fashioned colonial project but root illegitimacy wouldn't matter if they became a normal contemporary state eg 50 years ago. instead they increasingly want to dominate everyone, not sustainable thanks to Israelis & enablers, not ppl being mean now.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure there's a few ppl saying whatever abt anything but 'Israel will just evaporate' is not an actual thing in pro Palestine idealists or pro Israel alarmists. sounds like you're projecting strategic analysis from people saying unkind things about Israel, which yes is very common the world over.

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

when ppl talk about Israel as the regional hegemon, IDF being formidable etc..that's not Israeli might lol they couldn't even fight like this for 6 months w/o US etal support, ran out of interceptors in 12 days with Iran despite the US exhausting a big chunk of own inventory
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

just gonna add in here that over these last couple years--especially towards the beginning--i saw a lot of cope on here about how obviously the IDF was in decline, "becoming a levantine militia," whatever

what the IDF is doing is pretty horrific, but you'd be a fool to underestimate them