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Kara @karabi.es · Nov 16

god put me on this earth to repent for my sins through violence, i wake up every morning in a cold sweat hearing the screams of my enemies and their mothers. when i finally die i will storm into god's kingdom with all my hatred and beat the shit out of him with my bare hands. then i shall have peace

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Kara @karabi.es · 28d

coping for a second
I still believe THE HOLY was quoting Doctor/Penumbra Phantasm and that Toby had originally planned to use the full song in Deltarune. The demo released the same year as Buzinkai's passing, so it's likely that he course corrected into never using it again after the fact.

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America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · Sep 18

A cis white man killed a cis white man and everyone in the world are catching heat for it except cis white men.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Sep 18

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

FBI Readies New War on Trans People

“We’re looking at the entire web”

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Sep 15

News orgs HAVE to stop calling these porn bans. Yes, #HB4938, does also criminalize porn — also terrible — it goes far beyond that.

LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.

(XII) Any other pornographic material.
(B) Is a depiction, description, or simulation, whether real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory, that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of 1 biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex by means of a combination of attire, cosmetology, or prosthetics, or as having a reproductive

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X ΘΔ @xkeeper.net · Sep 15

storming off with a hammer to nail down floating elements

"there's this user interface pattern that i loathe", demonstrated on left by a (good) small status bar that covers the bottom of the viewing area, and then on the right by a (bad) floating widget that ends up making a lot more of the space unusable by obscuring it

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · Sep 16

it's v funny the way self-alleged leftists kept mocking anarchist critiques of parents owning their children as "bedtime abolition" considering we can now pretty conclusively say that """parental rights""" have been at the very spearhead of a successful fascist resurgence

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 12

Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies"

Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."

A screenshot of a tweet from the Daily Caller, which has been reposted by Rep. Nancy Mace. The tweet reads: "'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH': Rep. Nancy Mace comments on reports of Charlie Kirk's killer allegedly being 'pro-tranny'". The tweet includes a video thumbnail showing Rep. Nancy Mace outdoors wearing sunglasses and speaking to reporters. The timestamp is 11:29 AM, September 11, 2025.

A screenshot of a tweet from Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace). The tweet, posted at 10:36 AM on September 12, 2025, reads: "We know Charlie Kirk would want us to pray for such an evil, and lost individual like Tyler Robinson to find Jesus Christ. We will try to do the same."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 12

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · Sep 13

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

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Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social · Sep 13

"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · Sep 10

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 8

They'll never forgive you for being right too early. They'll smear you as hysterical and a doomer. Then when they change their mind to acknowledge reality, they expect all the credit for doing so.

Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · Sep 7

So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)

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🍹🤖Pasokon (アルマ) 🚲🐙 @pasokongal.moe · Sep 8

🌭WE'RE ALL TRYING TO FIN THE GUY WHO DID THIS

The Verge @theverge.com · Sep 8

Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

One Google exec recently said the web is “thriving.”

buff.ly

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onion person @junlper.beer · Sep 8

oh trump is everywhere in those epstein files

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 8

The Wall Street Journal just published the photo of the birthday letter from Trump to Epstein.

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

A stylized letter in the shape of a woman’s torso with dialogue printed inside. The text is a back-and-forth exchange labeled “Voice Over,” “Donald,” and “Jeffrey,” discussing life, enigmas, and friendship. At the bottom, it ends with “A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday—and may every day be another wonderful secret.” Signed “Donald J. Trump” with his signature. A caption below reads: “A photo of the letter, which has been turned over to Congress by the Epstein estate.”

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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · Aug 31

"The Republican Party wants to pull YOUR teenage daughter's pants down in the middle of gym class if they think she's too good at lacrosse, this is vile and depraved and only the start of their intrusive government overreach" should be the party line and I don't think it's a heavy lift

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · Aug 31

why do transphobes have a fucking monopoly on "having some concerns about fairness", can i have a concern about the fairness of normalizing kids getting their genitals inspected by strange adults for reasons entirely unrelated to health or hygiene as a prerequisite for peewee soccer?

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · Aug 27

there's an interesting divide on social media between people who post because they like posting and people who post because they are trying to earn money as on occasion you'll see the latter very upset at the former for any popularity which they feel is taking away opportunity and success from them.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Aug 4

This is the giant Canary in the coal mine of what AI will do to education. Improperly adopted, it will destroy critical thinking and educational attainment.

For the oligarchs, this is a feature of AI, not a bug.

restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams

When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

restofworld.org

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · Jul 31

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"

Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · Jul 24

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.

But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · Jul 24

SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con

If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.

SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con

If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.

www.comicsbeat.com

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (3/5) @acvalens.net · Jul 20

VICE's owner Savage Ventures has requested the removal of my Collective Shout articles. This is due to concerns about the controversial subject matter—not journalistic complaints

Effective immediately, I will no longer contribute to Waypoint. I suggest letting VICE's owner know if this upsets you

VICE 404 page. "Not Found: We're sorry, the page you're looking for could not be found. Please use your browser's 'Back' button or use one of the navigation links on this page."

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Bloody Mary (mirror entity, not cocktail) @marygillis.bsky.social · Jul 20

I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.

Headline from The Conversation:
More people are considering Al lovers, and we shouldn't judge

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onion person @junlper.beer · Jul 15

trump is doing a lot of work to make people forget that epstein was arrested and then killed in prison under donald trump in his first term

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 15

REPORTER: Did the attorney general tell you that your name appeared in the Epstein files?

TRUMP: No no. She's given us just a very quick briefing. These files were made up by Comey, Obama, they were made up by the Biden-- we went through years of that with the Russia Russia Russia hoax

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · Jul 15

A man who sleeps with an “underage girl” is rap*ng a child and a ped0phile.

A man who participates in “forceful s*x” is actually called rap3, and being a rap*st.

For some reason predators want to ignore the terminology and reject who they are. Label them, shame them. Call them out.

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