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PJ Horror Dent @bsakat.bsky.social · 2h

Jesus, that's hot.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3h

OnlyFlans

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 4h

is this running the government like a business. do businesses do this normally

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jason Thibeault 🇨🇦 @lousycanuck.bsky.social · 4h

And sometimes also true, but the someone had more money

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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 4h

Libel is defined as the written and untrue defamation of someone who has money.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 4h

Did he just say "Sadly we had to destroy all the civilians to get to the military" with his whole chest?

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5h

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Blinken:

(2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue.

(3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.

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Jason Thibeault 🇨🇦 @lousycanuck.bsky.social · 4h

This man is cinema's gift to wrestling

Mary VanKoegel @maryvk.bsky.social · 8h

Props to @rjcity.bsky.social for turning his whatnot stream into a Diane Keaton Memorial show. #wrestlingsky #Wrestlesky #FilmSky

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 4h

On paper they are, the reality may be different. But the cognitive dissonance of the rhetoric vs what’s actually happening is the point. We don’t have the luxury of insulting in fantasies about what people in power are actually doing.

Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 5h

Are they under his control though? Is he afraid to test that?

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 20h

JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4h

They have beaten, arrested, and detained several people including a live-streamer; still kettling people. Apparently the mayor has put a curfew into place to claim that the protesters are “unlawfully assembled” instead of exercising their constitutional rights. The protesters are still there.

A line of cops prepares to rush protesters with Billy clubs

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5h

Live rn from a tiktok user at Broadview, Pritzker still has the Illinois state police out in force protecting 🧊 and brutalizing protesters there

A line of riot gear police with clubs advances on protesters in a “designated free-speech area” near Broadview, Illinois ice facility

Police aggressively clash with protesters, dragging one to the ground

Line of police before they started attacking protesters. Footage is from TikTok live of Amanda protests.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5h

Note the protesters are in a “designated free-speech area” for this protest outside of the facility. The IL police kettle them, & start beating several protesters to the ground anyway. Please keep this in mind when you see Gov Pritzker posting about how he is supposedly “standing up” against 🧊/feds.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

Nutrition is a force multiplier.

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 7h

do not forget to feed your troops

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

Salesforce replaces help with Agentforce AI — customers outraged

You WILL love Marc’s pet robot

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BUu... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251008-sal... - podcast

time: 4 min 24 secMarc Benioff of Salesforce in a silly hat

Marc Benioff of Salesforce in a silly hat

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Jason Thibeault 🇨🇦 @lousycanuck.bsky.social · 6h

Not to mention fear of crossing the border and being detained for being insufficiently white. Or non-binary. Or trans. Or for having an Internet presence where you've mentioned Trump unfavorably ever. We're afraid of succumbing to your fascism.

Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

President Trump’s tariffs and demeaning “51st state” rhetoric spurred a sustained boycott among Canadians traveling to the U.S.—and has cost the country tens of billions of dollars in visitor spending, according to tourism experts.

Canadian Visits To U.S. By Car Fell 35% In September—9th Consecutive Month Of Drastic Declines

President Trump’s tariffs and demeaning “51st state” rhetoric spurred a sustained boycott among Canadians traveling to the U.S.—and has cost the country tens of billions of dollars in visitor spending, according to tourism experts.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10h

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER

Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 2d

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours

www.kare11.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h

It always looks silly from these guys but this basic logic where the most marginalized people are actually elites representing “the machine” is also the shared understanding people running newsrooms and universities believe as well.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 7h

“In fact, let me put it a little simpler: all of those data center deals you’ve seen announced are basically bullshit. Even if they get the permits and the money, there are massive physical challenges that cannot be resolved by simply throwing money at them.”

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

www.wheresyoured.at

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

Two people asked Grok if a particular video is AI. One response says it is AI, another says it isn’t.

Please don’t waste your time asking AI chatbots if something is AI.

Pale Sun @PaleSun • 3h
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Yes, this video appears to be Al-generated. Visual artifacts, like the dog phasing through the fallen branch, and unnatural physics in the fall suggest it's synthetic, consistent with recent trends in fake CCTV clips.
10:12 AM • 10/11/25 • 2.8K Views

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No, the video seems to be real. It's a security camera clip that captures a genuine incident where a tree branch falls near a couple walking their dog.
It shows no obvious signs of Al generation, and there are verified reports of similar events. How lucky they were!
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Jason Thibeault 🇨🇦 @lousycanuck.bsky.social · 7h

I thought it was a 50/50 you'd remember him... Figured you were in around the science blogs sphere around that time but can't remember you specifically. :)

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Jason Thibeault 🇨🇦 @lousycanuck.bsky.social · 7h

They're always interesting phenomena though, where you can't tell if it's earnest (but schizophrenic seeming), or if it's a bit. And you just want to let them cook. Keep an eye on them in case they go Dave Mabus and need containing. You know?

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Jason Thibeault 🇨🇦 @lousycanuck.bsky.social · 7h

Dog learns to use tools to take herself out for walkies

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 8h

"this too was predicted by karl marx in vol 6 of Das Kapital" i yap as i dance ass to ass with my friends at a goth show in a defiled church.

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Chrissy Wiley @chrissyone.bsky.social · 9h

Never give up hop 🐸

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Jason Thibeault 🇨🇦 @lousycanuck.bsky.social · 7h

This is amazing. They bought ad space on Twitter apparently!

And over here I'm like "first off these people probably didn't exist but secondly this is how new splinter sects of Christianity have always formed so... *Gets popcorn* GO ONNNN

Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · Aug 15

HEY @beatskelton.bsky.social OUR FAVORITE WEIRDO IS BACK

some weird religious person going on at length about how Jesus is trans and married to Elijah

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Jason Thibeault 🇨🇦 @lousycanuck.bsky.social · 7h

Hooooooly crow. Ad space! That's commitment to the bit! I'm sold!

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