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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 1m

(Sees that the futures markets are opening in about 5 hours voice):

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 53m

My “don’t worry about China, it will all be fine” shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt

A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT”

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14d

100,000 mexicans repatriated alone, a couple thousand people disappeared into a blackhole, hundreds in torture camps, closing in on 2 dozen deaths and another dozen forced abortions but any day now they’ll be brought to their knees. Here’s my clever white guy analysis on how you’re overreacting.

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Lloyd’s Soil @toil.bsky.social · 3h

Smiling through it all… Can’t believe this is my life

A grinning tusked boar with black hair, eyes closed, resting in the morning sun

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 4h

My god...

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone is thinking this at the purchasing table when they see they got the mineral rights

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Edward @edwardodell.bsky.social · 14h

We should just go back to not driving at night

kenny gesserit 🦝 @kennygesserit.bsky.social · 14h

The bright LED headlights are gradually pushing me into a killdozer scenario

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 20h

Some kind of cosmic irony in the cult of productivity producing literally nothing

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 19h

Always time to post

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 21h

What's really crazy is when this shit finally hits the fan, everybody who got stupid rich on all of these obvious scans are going to be like "nobody saw this coming"

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 21h

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 21h

I've been informed on many occasions that this extremely reasonable and low bar to clear makes me, among other things, unrealistic, undemocratic, and a murderer

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 1d

it feels like more perfect union is going to follow the exact same story arc as vice

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Evil Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 1d

God I go to CVS and what do I see, they already have the decorations out for No Nut November.

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 1d

It's so funny that China has this entire arsenal of ways they can easily hurt the U.S. and all Trump has is a tariff dial that he keeps turning back and forth and looking at the audience for approval

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump announces he's putting a bajillion percent tariff on China

It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them. This affects ALL Countries, without exception, and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago. It is absolutely unheard of in International Trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing with other Nations.

Based on the fact that China has taken this unprecedented position, and speaking only for the U.S.A., and not other Nations who were similarly threatened, starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying. Also on November 1st, we will impose Export Controls on any and all critical software.

It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 1d

It wouldn't seem so "incredible that these people exist" if this dude actually had friends

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 1d

A fun dynamic on this site is that as a post gets more and more favs the replies increasingly give the impression that there is a gas leak in peoples homes

⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 3d

met my wife on twitter and got a job on bluesky

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn't matter what the subject matter is, either. Every post that lives long enough starts growing mold

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 1d

Correction, we would've all been learning a lot more about the Senate Parliamentarian

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 1d

Duke's mayo is such a slam dunk of a Costco item that I'm positive Hellman's is slathering some palms to prevent it

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 1d

One of the fun parts of running your own media server is occasionally you hear the Winnie The Pooh theme song in Hindi

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 2d

They're calling it corvid 19 and they won't stop crowing about it

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 2d

I don't care so much about features. I care about how much material was used. is the metal thick, does it have heft. basically

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 2d

shopping for faucets

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 2d

Leave it to boundless capitalism to take the absolute miracle of LED lighting and managing to make them so cheaply and poorly that they need replacement faster than any other type of bulb

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 2d

Not to get all "this is just like severance", but

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Lontar @lontar.bsky.social · 2d

"I want to live forever" okay, maybe you don't, though? Think it through

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