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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 14h

15 years of every C suite going “we need to fire the skilled workers and do more internet” and this is how every business works now.

Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 14h

Wife did a gravel order from Lowe’s for me to pick up. I drive to the pick up dock. Guy with a radio comes out. I show him the order receipt. He radios inside. They tell him to tell me to tell my wife to download the app so that she can check in on it to let them know I’m here to pick up the order.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 8h

Send everyone in Congress to prison.

onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 8h

As I've been saying: there has been an ongoing project to turn every law enforcement agency, from your local sheriff to the NYPD, into a heavily armed right wing paramilitary organisation. This project has been largely successful and has had bipartisan support since 2001 at least.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

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

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Kermit D @krmtdfrog.bsky.social · 8h

I protested watching Justin Fields as QB

Kermit D @krmtdfrog.bsky.social · 10h

jfc this absolute unit

Caitlin @hellocaitlin.bsky.social · 10h

This guy is fucking killing me lol

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 13h

OpenAI is fucking disgusting and so are the people who use it

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 12h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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CB⚾️ Baseball Highlights @badgerbaseball.bsky.social · 11h

….is that

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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Kermit D @krmtdfrog.bsky.social · 13h

I walked into a Lids after work today with a jets hat on and the guy behind the counter said "trash teams in green are over there" and pointed at jets and eagles hats.

I couldn't even be mad

Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 20h

Justin Fields had -10 net passing yards today! Congratulations Bluesky users, we all have more net passing yards than an actual NFL quarterback!

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13h

Republicans love to make up conspiracy theories of child trafficking to hide the fact that they are the biggest supporters of child trafficking in the country. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Kermit D @krmtdfrog.bsky.social · 13h

Trump take money

Chart showing % change in US dollar index for each year from 1991 through Sept 18th. 2025 is at or next to the lowest.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

There are, of course, ways to save money in this business. Many US clothing factories run on what's known as a "piece rate" system, where workers are paid per operation, not by the hour. This system allows factories to skirt minimum wage laws.

It's also how we get US sweatshops

A garment worker peeking out behind some sewing equipment.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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Kermit D @krmtdfrog.bsky.social · 18h

Wow, you're fucking dumb

Kermit D @krmtdfrog.bsky.social · 18h

Joe Knew U has high standards? Really?

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Kermit D @krmtdfrog.bsky.social · 1d

The whole event is up on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj3p...

🔴 Bare Knuckle Fighting ON ICE | Ice Wars | No Puck, No Sticks, No Gloves #boxing

YouTube video by Fubo Sports

www.youtube.com

Kermit D @krmtdfrog.bsky.social · 1d

The good news is this is a joke. The bad news is I had to stop and look it up just to be sure, because that feels like it could be 100% real these days

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect posting from Tim Heidecker, 24 hours apart.

What an incredible experience, getting to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. I left feeling grateful and humbled by his majesty's generosity. I'll never forget this memorial experience and all the fun we had. Hope to do it again soon.

upon further reflection, there is a small part of me that feels I sent the wrong message, regarding the Riyahd Comedy Festival last night. While, I do think it's important for comedy to have the opportunity to thrive in all parts of the globe, there are some aspects of The Royal Highness, King Salmon and his leadership in the region that i don't agree with entirely, but it's a different culture when it comes to freedom and rights and I gotta respect that we are all different and have different values. My manager is now investigating the possibility of donating some of my fee to a charity for Vetrans of War.

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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By Way of Plymouth @bywayofplymouth.bsky.social · 1d

I'm getting the idea that U.S. Christian nationalists' position on child indoctrination is not so much that it's wrong (which it is); it's that child indoctrination & grooming is THEIR right, that they believe the minds & bodies of children are theirs to do as they please.

Wild Faith

Esquire Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that la...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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Kermit D @krmtdfrog.bsky.social · 1d

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

I will not use ChatGPT to plan a road trip with my bestie.

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Kermit D @krmtdfrog.bsky.social · 1d

Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski III

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Kermit D @krmtdfrog.bsky.social · 1d

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Kermit D @krmtdfrog.bsky.social · 8d

Sad part is he's 45 cosplaying as 25

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