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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 17h

This butch Chicana lesbian helped end LA’s ‘anti-masquerading’ law.

Arrested dozens of times in the 1940s and ’50s for wearing pants, Nancy Valverde fought back and opened a barbershop that became a queer safe haven.

This butch Chicana lesbian helped end LA's 'anti-masquerading' law

Arrested dozens of times in the 1940s and '50s for wearing pants, Nancy Valverde fought back and opened a barbershop that became a queer safe haven.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Jennifer Grand-Guignol 🔪🩸 @jennifergrand.bsky.social · 3d

#scriptsky

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

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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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3d

in my humble opinion it is journalistic malpractice for a verified account to be sharing garbage AI-generated news videos because they're too stupid and lazy to verify their sources

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 4d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

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Jennifer Grand-Guignol 🔪🩸 @jennifergrand.bsky.social · 5d

It looks like you posed your letterboxd reviews in front of the Paul Smith pink wall. 🩷

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 5d

🐶🐱 New California pet laws!

🐾 3rd party, for-profit sales of cats, puppies and rabbits are now BANNED
🐾 Cats CANNOT be declawed for non-medical reasons
🐾 Sellers MUST disclose origin and health info
🐾 Contracts for pets that include non-refundable deposits will be VOID

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

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Jennifer Grand-Guignol 🔪🩸 @jennifergrand.bsky.social · 5d

screen shot from South Park where Fox News asks "Is President Trump f*cking Satan?

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🎃 RiderBabe52 🎃 @riderbabe52.bsky.social · 5d

MAGA now owns what was Dominion Voting Systems. The new name? LIBERTY VOTE. That's right - MAGA owns voting machines. MUSK was just the beginning of the end of our safe & fair elections.
LIBERTY VOTE - all their goals align with MAGA.

Fuck us all

www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5d

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 5d

"The consumers won't care if it's AI."

Ah yes, horror fans -- y'know, the people who famously ask "Are the FX Practical?!" about literally every movie -- definitely won't care that you're feeding them prompt-generated slop. Good call there.

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 5d

Why is a class action lawsuit against Amazon alleging Prime Day is a scam getting zero coverage by mainstream media?

Could it be because media outlets get a cut when a customer purchases a Prime Day product when clicking through their featured deals?

h/t @juddlegum.bsky.social

UPDATE: Lawsuit alleges Prime Day is a fraud

The federal class action lawsuit has been ignored by major media outlets, which continue to promote Prime Day deals.

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Cinefeast33 (but scarier) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.social · 6d

My ★★★½ review of Angst boxd.it/bjlisN

Unnerving Austrian thriller traps us with inner thoughts of deranged madman.

No-frills presentation sometimes feels cheap. But frenetic camera work, discordant sound track, & creepy inner-monologue create visceral masterpiece of "yuck."

#filmsky 📽 #horrorsky

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5d

If you love your country, you must find a way to get to a No Kings protest on Saturday, Oct. 18. Go to this link to find an event near you. Bring your family and friends.
These protests are an upper, not a downer. They're proof positive that many of us are determined to defend our democracy.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5d

2/ No one who has ever been involved in raising a child thinks that the only or even the top 100th time the little guy was wailing like a freak and needed a pain reliever was after they got circumcised.

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🥀your ghoulfriend gore-igan.⚰️ @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 5d

YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTOOOOONES

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5d

There are now one or two of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every single day.

According to Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, that figure is only going to keep climbing.

futurism.com/space/elon-m...

Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky

Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns — and counting.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

The young progs yelled at you online, and, well, I guess you showed them! You helped render their culture an ugly, violent, stupid, contemptible wreck that will likely take decades to return to any form worthy of pride.

You showed those fucking kids! That will teach them to talk back.

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