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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 1h

So dang lovely!

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Edward Delandre @dedart.bsky.social · 19h

they are probably up to no good.
A little Halloween painting!
Oil painting on panel 14"x18"

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 20h

Your daily reminder that while military families are standing in food lines, the president is gilding the inside of the Whitehouse in gold.

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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 17h

Truly, every bale matters and you can give one today for only $8! donorbox.org/mmfs-2025-ha...

2025 Hay Drive | Merrymac Farm Sanctuary (Powered by Donorbox)

Hay, grain and supplements are the #1 expense at MMFS. It's part of the foundation of the farm's daily activities. As you may imagine, we go through a LOT of it, and it's not cheap - costing $8 per ba...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10h

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 2h

Massively Popular Dog-Themed Account Bashes ICE for Allegedly Shooting Pup in Rare Political Post. Of course they did given DHS Secty Kristi Noem is a proud puppy killer. www.mediaite.com/online/fckin...

‘F*cking Losers’: Massively Popular Dog-Themed Account Bashes ICE for Allegedly Shooting Pup in Rare Political Post

WeRateDogs, a popular social media account that shares heartwarming dog stories, took an unusual political turn Tuesday with a post bashing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over a story about...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 14h

Is that cheeky code for scissors?

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Skylar Patridge @skyepatridge.bsky.social · 16h

WITCHING SEASON is now live on Kickstarter with a cover by yours truly 🔮

A 150-page horror anthology, featuring a stacked roster of talent and brought to you by @cerealpancake.bsky.social & Lifeline Comics!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

Cover A for WITCHING SEASON. A dark-haired woman lies nude in fallen leaves. Sunlight filters across her through an unseen forest canopy above. She grips a bleeding pomegranate, red juices dripping,down her arm & mouth. Her eyes glow and golden tattoos light up across her skin.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h

@rweingarten.bsky.social, please cancel the @aft.org's partnership with this terrible company. They cannot be trusted to keep this away from products they offer children.

404 Media @404media.co · 16h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 23h

Today is the birthday of Grace Drayton (Oct. 14, 1878-Jan. 31, 1936), who was among the first popular female cartoonists. She created the Campbell Soup Kids campaign in the early 20th century, & the newspaper strips Dottie Dimple, Dimples, Dolly Dimple & Bobby Bounce, & The Pussycat Princess.

Samples of her work, including two from her Campbell’s soup campaign, as well as a Dimples newspaper comic strip, and paper dolls.

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 1d

so THAT'S antifa's gf

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

gene kelly is antifa

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 2d

ORCS! page by @larsenproject.bsky.social. Original art and published version.
#artlife #comics #art

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 2d

Rick Rubin by Mike del Mundo.
#comics #art #music

Floating head (and beard) of Rick Rubin against a dark blue bg

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 1d

Spider-Man by Gary Frank.
#comics #art

Spidey on a wall with a hint of cityscape

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Ben Fisher @wordblanket.com · 15h

Don’t feed your scripts into an AI. Full stop.

But as someone who HAS had a script fed into an AI against my consent, this is my takeaway:

Shockingly inaccurate. It highlighted scenes (both in praise and as problematic) that simply didn’t exist. It hallucinated the MAIN ANTAGONIST.

Useless.

Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 15h

“The humans won hands down when it came to notes, which require actual analysis rather than just distillation. The AI programs were ‘an almost total fail across the board.’”

Nice to know I wouldn’t have been so easily replaced at my old job by an A.I.

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Hollywood Script Readers Fear They Could be Replaced by AI. They Set Up a Test to See Who Gives Better Feedback

Fearing they could be replaced, Hollywood script readers face off against AI programs to see who gives better feedback.

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Sbooks @bemorelikeharper.bsky.social · Jul 31

Covid is a quadruple threat: respiratory, cardiovascular, oncogenic and persistent in the body to the point of disabling people.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15h

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE bought $2B of Trump’s crypto — and gets computer chips

Saudi Arabia gave Kushner $2B for a new Trump Tower — and gets weapons

Qatar gives Trump a private jet and a $5.5B real estate deal — and gets US military protection

This is how bribes work.
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Quid Pro Presidency

Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits fro...

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Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror @ooccouchgags.bsky.social · 15h

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 15h

This is why billionaires bleed the planet dry: so they can surround themselves with every whimsical trinket they can imagine. And just so they can have the cake they eat too, they'll donate a bunch to charity to off-set widespread disgust...

A picture of Gates' wall decoration with an inset of his smug, billionaire face and the caption:
Engineering Facts
Bill Gates has a wall-mounted periodic table with samples of each element in his office

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

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JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 15h

MEN IN BELTED SWEATERS

a man in a belted sweater is hugged by a woman instead of repelled for some reason. Maybe he's incredibly wealthy.

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