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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 14h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 4h

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 7h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 21h

Day 11: COZY 🛋️

#SuperBatober #Inktober #inktober2025

SUPERBATOBER 11: COZY -- Ah! A nice and lazy, rainy weekend. Good for hanging out on a couch, a purring cat to your right, a cup of tea to your left, and a good book resting in your blanket wrapped lap. That's how Batgirl is spending it! I wonder if Supergirl, half on the floor completely passed out, minds that her friend is taking up half the couch to do so. Judging by her snoring, probably not.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21h

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com

Title: Where writers really get their ideas.

A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying:
"I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."

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geneva @gdbee.bsky.social · 23h

🌈 ramen noodles

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 1d

Digital doodle of the three people in inflatable frog costumes in the quoted post. One has a sign saying, “frogs together strong”

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Pit (Comms Open!) @pitganart.bsky.social · 19h

another illustration of @rollingroly.bsky.social's sol :)

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Ale @alepresser.com · 21h

Oh no oh no oh no

It's a cup and the hat fits both the bird and the tiger I'M GONNA SCREEEEAAAMMMM

www.instagram.com/reel/DPERXfo...

Screenshot from Instagram, a porcelain cup of Kpop demon hunters' bird with the hat. It shine And very well made.

A d the porcelain HAT also fits the porcelain tiger cup, right behind it.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 22h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 17h

Cartoon for all the writers I follow here from the inestimable Ellis Rosen :) www.facebook.com/EllisJRosen

cartoon by Ellis Rosen. Set in a gloomy bookshop
"The madman who wrote this dedicated himself to the dark arts, despite knowing perfectly well that all the real money is in YA"

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ketty @keetydraws.com · 15h

Raven

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

Elevating today’s ICE arrest of a journalist and American citizen in Chicago

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TitaniaDioxide @titaniapersists.bsky.social · 1d

Fun(?) fact: there’s one strong predictor that separated the bystanders from the people who concealed Jews during the Holocaust.

It’s not religion, race, or wealth. It wasn’t knowing the person they hid.

The ~97% predictor for hiding someone is BEING ASKED to hide someone.

Fuck ICE. Go humans.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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ACLU of Washington @acluwa.bsky.social · 1d

The power of the people is stronger than the people in power. We reject any and all attempts to strip away our rights and dismantle our democracy.

Black graphic with orange and white text: We the people protest: escalating abuses of power, troops on our streets, targeting of immigrant communities, attacks on free speech, threats to our democracy. Saturday, October 18 in cities across the country

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Mad Doctor Mookie @mookiebean.bsky.social · 2d

If by "assaults" they mean "relentlessly mocking them," then yeah I believe that.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

n.pr

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Charles M. Schulz Museum | The home of Snoopy & the Peanuts Gang @schulzmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on October 10, 1979.

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Sophie Alboronzo @freyathedragon.bsky.social · 2d

This is the best thing I’ve ever seen

Ribbit ribbit motherfuckers

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Washington Department of Veterans Affairs @wdva.bsky.social · 1d

🌎 World Mental Health Awareness Day is October 10! Let's raise awareness and mobilize efforts for mental health care. Learn more about available resources: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-mental-health-day?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

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Sam Logan @samandfuzzy.com · 1d

Facts about Dipper

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

Once again: if President Trump & Russ Vought decide to do more mass firings, they are CHOOSING to inflict more pain on people. “Reductions in force” are not a new power these bozos get in a shutdown.

We can’t be intimidated by these crooks.

Vought sounds layoff siren: 'The RIFs have begun'

At least nine agencies appear to be affected.

www.politico.com

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