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People Against Prisons Aotearoa @papa.org.nz · 6h

Please donate if you can to help @peaceactnotautahi.bsky.social pay legal fees, transport and the other costs to support over 35 of their members and supporters who have been arrested for engaging in peaceful direct action against the National Aerospace Summit. chuffed.org/project/aero...

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"No Blood On Our Hands
Peace Action Ōtautahi
Wage Peace Disrupt War
The National Aerospace Summit in Ōtautahi was designed to align this government's interests with the US and Israeli greedy military goals, not space. Over 35 peaceful protestors were arrested for blockading the event, some were held in custody overnight. Donate to support our brave comrades.

tinyurl.com/peaceactionotautahi
@peace.action.otautahi
peaceactionotautahi.org"

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 8h

Few things annoy me like Christians saying God is the same "yesterday, today, and tomorrow" and how we need God to have an absolute and objective standard of morality, only for them to turn around and see them excuse God-endorsed murder, polygamy, etc. by saying "Well that's the OLD Testament"

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

“I’m a cop. I am not supposed to feel dread. He’s a brown person. HE’S supposed to feel dread!”

Bari nods sympathetically.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

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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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 14h

The weirdest and most surprising part for me was the scene where the evil Dr. Septimus Pretorius starts showing off the tiny homunculi he created and dressed up in costumes.

Doctor Septimus Pretorius homunculi in front of seven jars containing small little homunculi, each dressed in a different costume

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 14h

Watched Bride of Frankenstein last night. Name is off, thinking about it, since the bride is definitely meant for the monster. I actually enjoyed this one more than the original movie, it was fantastic, though the only stuff with the bride was only in the last 5 minutes or so.

a black and white photo of a bride and groom holding hands in a room .

Alt: The 'Bride of Frankenstein' and Frankenstein's monster hold hands

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Rojava Information Center @rojavainformationcenter.org.web.brid.gy · 13h

Sleeper Cell Report September 2025 – Number of ISIS attacks in NES rises for fourth month in a row

Key Points: 29 sleeper cell attacks killed 14 military personnel and 3 civilians, injuring a further 12 military personnel and 2 civilians 66% of attacks concentrated in Deir ez-Zor canton 54 arrests of suspected ISIS members Child killed by ISIS landmine left behind by Caliphate’s occupation UN conference on al-Hol camp calls for states to […]

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 9h

A survey, not a scientific poll

Groundswell are pretty open about their aim to influence industry bodies and politicians in favour of quitting the Paris Climate Accords

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Survey results: Farmers say it’s time to Quit Paris - Groundswell NZ

Read "Survey results: Farmers say it’s time to Quit Paris" on Groundswell NZ.

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 1d

So much of Objectivism is just them developing their own brand of Newspeak that obscures concepts for themselves and makes it impossible for them to engage with anyone outside their circle

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 1d

Had the pleasure with arguing with an Ayn Rand Objectivist today. It was like pulling teeth getting them to even concede that a fire exists and goes out when I light and extinguish a candle. I had to call it a "flaming entity" and they were still iffy about conceding that.

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 22h

Pretty much.

Jenny Wilson Leader of the pack 🐺🐺🐺 @jenchef.bsky.social · 23h

So we don't care about climate change. Farmers can sit back and continue to pollute while being paid well for their milk and meat.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 21h

New Zealand should make a horror anthology series where each episode is based on a frightening TV PSA commercial from the 90s. So much content to mine

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 1d

Is that a good price for crap?

Alt text: A market stall selling vinyl records displayed in plastic crates. One crate is labeled “50c Crap” and another “$1 – All Styles.” A sign below reads “RECORD MAN – Records Bought & Sold – Here at Riccarton Market since day one,” along with a phone number. The surrounding area shows other market stalls and shoppers.

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is using the government shutdown to carry out a purge of liberal-leaning federal workers. Expect to see him replace them with MAGA loyalists once the shutdown ends. It's a slow-moving coup.

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David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social · 1d

I just finished drafting a new introduction to Gordon Childe’s book, and there’s something very cool about being able to say that ..

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

“Sparking debate”

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sparking debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

Here’s what the science actually says:

RFK Jr. linked circumcision and Tylenol to autism. Here’s what scientists say.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparks debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 2d

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2d

nothing but respect for my Antichrist

Greta Thunberg wearing a keffiyeh and a black t-shirt with a skeleton dual-wielding assault rifles and the word "AUTISM"

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands?

chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨

Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:

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Brendan @brendanmcaleer.bsky.social · 2d

Busting out the Daihatsus to heal the TL.

A Midget II in front of a Ford F350 brodozer

A race-prepped Midget II. Grrrr... *bites a Porsche's ankle*

A bunch of Midget IIs racing in a Best Motoring video. They all have samurai-style banners.

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 2d

Screenshot of a post by "From a Comrade" that reads: "The reason the right thinks that antifascists are funded by some powerful source, is that they themselves don’t know how to do grassroots organizing without a rich backer and can’t fathom people risking arrest or harm for something they believe in without being paid. The idea that many thousands of people would keep a movement alive with their own time and money because they believe in something like “not having fascism come back” is foreign to them."

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 2d

Academic freedom in Florida is dead, killed in the name of academic freedom. Florida and Texas are the vanguard, but this is coming soon to all red states.

From a colleague and comrade at Florida International University—a glimpse at the infuriating stupidity of descending rapidly into authoritarianism

A view from South Florida:

1. Last week, the administration removed all of the international flags hanging in the dining area of the student commons, replacing them with a single American flag. At a university called Florida International University.

2. International graduate students in my department have reported being turned away from the student health center. Student IDs, which have always sufficed, no longer do. Now they're requiring passports.

3. Our campus police are in the process of training to serve as ICE agents. Some of our international graduate students are now avoiding campus.

4. Faculty Senates on all public university campuses have been instructed to pass a resolution for free speech and academic freedom in the name of Charlie Kirk. There's no mention of the multiple tenured faculty currently suspended for extramural political speech at Florida Atlantic University.

5. Despite this rhetoric, the provost's office has been going into faculty's Canvas shells and changing language on syllabi without informing faculty. A colleague in my department had an academic freedom statement, adopted directly from our collective bargaining agreement, deleted from her syllabus by the provost's office.

6. FIU's president, formerly DeSantis' Lt Gov, chaired a campus memorial service for Charlie Kirk a couple of weeks ago, declaring that Jesus is our sovereign. And she gave a speech this week declaring that FIU stands with Israel, with Israeli state officials present on campus.

7. There's talk of state-mandated textbooks being forced on our Intro to Soc classes, though nothing is concrete yet.

8. Another colleague in my department was told he wouldn't be reimbursed for giving a talk at a conference in Colombia because, upon reviewing the full program, someone else gave a paper on trauma and collective memory in wartime Ukraine. The administrator reviewing the program deemed use of the words "trauma" and "Ukraine" to be illegal use of state funds for DEI. The decision was reversed when he contested it, but the very *fact* that we are dealing with this crap...

9. Campus police are harassing undergraduates flyering for a sanctuary campus campaign, taking down their names and ID numbers and claiming that it violates the code of conduct to flyer more than 20 feet from their official table. The regulation was changed from 50 feet to 20 feet this year, student organizers told me.

10. The state legislature has proposed a bill requiring all public universities in the state to name a campus road after Charlie Kirk or else lose state funding. We'll see if it passes.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 2d

Because the characters don't age, Homer and Marge are millennials now. A recent episode sees Lisa wearing Marge's old clothes and becoming popular because Y2K fashion is very in right now

Lisa Simpson in in a sunflower dress and big boots

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