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L.C. Webs, Now With Extra Spoopy @lcwebsxoxo.bsky.social · 23h

So, I just realized that in about a year and 3 months, I'll be turning 42, which excites me greatly since there's only ONE possible party theme for 42.

a full moon with the words so long and thanks for all the fish underneath it

ALT: a full moon with the words so long and thanks for all the fish underneath it

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

moments ago, the group of protesters marched across the street against objections from police and have occupied the fortified area next to the detention center.

the sidewalk is enclosed by concrete barricades.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

an interfaith group of protesters is leading the crowd in song.

things are chill. vibes are good.

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Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not just medical bills: Women are also more worried than men about paying for groceries, child care, housing and retirement, the polling finds.

7 in 10 women are worried about the cost of medical bills

Polling from The 19th and SurveyMonkey sheds light on one area of concern over costs as the fight over health care keeps the government shuttered.

19thnews.org

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

epic sign / costume combo

a person wears a cow costume and holds a sign that reads “this heifer hates nazis”

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Siri, what does greenwashing look like?

www.jpost.com/environment-...

Global Sumud Flotilla creates over 100 tons of pollution | The Jerusalem Post

A study by the solar energy company Volta Solar analyzed the environmental impact of the Sumud Flotilla, including the air pollution it created.

www.jpost.com

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

Missy Elliott and “Get Ur Freak On” coming through from 2001 with a perfect response for people who want to prompt their way through AI to “write” lol

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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 2d

sad to hear that George Miller is dead, there'll never be another :(

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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L.C. Webs, Now With Extra Spoopy @lcwebsxoxo.bsky.social · 2d

Every accusation is a confession.

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Rin Stedecore Pumpkins, Starfleet OSHA guy 🔪 @stedeco.re · 2d

joel fry is in this! frenchie nation where you at!!!!!

Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d

WAIT WHAT'S THIS?

💿There is a demo live for EARTH MUST DIE!

🕹️This gives you (most of) the tutorial section for the game! Have fun, and if you haven't wishlisted the full game yet DO THAT NOW PLEASE it really really helps us out.

Enjoy!

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

Earth Must Die Demo on Steam

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

store.steampowered.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

I've been reading up on this Jesus fellow and by gum he's got some piping hot takes regarding moneychangers and their presence in temples

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

bit.ly

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L.C. Webs, Now With Extra Spoopy @lcwebsxoxo.bsky.social · 2d

We're to the "they're marking ordinary people as political enemies and not letting them leave" phase, folks.

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 2d

"Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats. Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 2d

"I said I was Jewish. They ripped me by the ear and forced me to bend down and stare at the flag of the state of Israel."

5 Days in Israel’s Desert Prison: Jewish Flotilla Activist David Adler on Harrowing Detention Ordeal

Israeli forces have abducted over 500 peace activists over the past week who were sailing to Gaza in an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged territory. Organizers of the Global Sumud Flo...

www.democracynow.org

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 3d

Here's the complaint filed in the Western District of Louisiana. ADF lawyers—led by Erin Hawley—seek to end telemedicine prescriptions for medication abortion. Missouri's suit goes even further, targeting 2016 change allowing Rx thru 10th week of pregnancy
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 3d

NEW: It’s… another abortion pill lawsuit against the FDA, this time filed by Louisiana and an individual plaintiff, who argue the FDA should reinstate an in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone.

And if you guess Alliance Defending Freedom might be involved here, you guessed correctly.

Louisiana et al v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration et al 6:2025cv01491 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana | Justia

Other Statutes: Administrative Procedures Act/Review or Appeal of Agency Decision case filed on October 3, 2025 in the Louisiana Western District Court

dockets.justia.com

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angrytaco @angrytaco2.bsky.social · 3d

Jay got caught newly following a fucking transphobe after her “WAFFLES” incident; her team forcibly removed Link for calling her out and now nearly a week later the labeler is getting shut down. Fucking shameful behavior by everyone on the BlueSky team.

😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 3d

so bluesky finally got some thiel money huh

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 3d

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 3d

I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...

Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'

Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Matt Orion @orionjack.bsky.social · 3d

Some of the best entertainment I’ve experienced this year has nazis & white supremacists eating shit. Plus, they’ve all been financially successful

I would be hardcore counter programming this stifling censorship if I were a studio head of any kind right now

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 3d

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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L.C. Webs, Now With Extra Spoopy @lcwebsxoxo.bsky.social · 3d

Praise the Lord

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6d

FREE LINK NOW

This is a Black person who has been on Bluesky forever and apparently just got banned for calling Jay transphobic.

We are at the "hurting the mods' feelings is a bannable offense" stage of Jay's meltdown, now

Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 6d

So @spacelawshitpost.me aka Link got banned. I just got text message.

So yeah. We stop saying things are accidents now?

Link of all people?

Apparently Jay said something to him before taking him down. He didn’t even get a chance to reply.

He sent this image.

This is sad.

“Screenshot of a social media post showing ‘Post not found’ error message at the top. Below is a post from user ‘KC Complains a Lot’ (@kcclyburn.bsky.social) that reads: ‘jay Responded to you and you haven’t copypasta’d her, Im disappointed in you link’ Posted on October 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM”

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Gosh I wonder what they were up to there

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 3d

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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