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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 5h

i’m Team Throw That Guy Under the Bus Immediately but maybe this could at least be a moment to examine the predominant culture of the U.S. armed forces lol

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 15h

if support for UBI isn't a 2028 litmus test, we're cooked

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. internal strategy documents viewed by The New York Times reveal that Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots.”

@nytimes.com $AMZN
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

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NightOwl-O-Ween @nightowl.bsky.social · 6h

so here's part deux

starts off with a song called

SO HUNGRY SO ANGRY

seems fitting for today

first ep got up to about the letter M in the book

this picks up there

this was all music that i hadn't heard

i went through it and picked songs from bands that i may have known names but not music

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13h

Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...

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"Basically, I'm just fed up with the fact that I'm cis-gendered, I'm a white male, and I lean right, towards the Republican side," said Fears, 28, wearing a pin of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS. "And I get demonized if I don't accept certain things."

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Luke Griffin @lukegriffin.bsky.social · 12h

I would like to introduce you to my cutlery and dish rotation. V important as a single man not to anger the tiny household gods 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3d

I think in general leftists underestimate how far they can push liberals to the left if they are nice to them.

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Luke Griffin @lukegriffin.bsky.social · 20h

Very glad to see this as I wasn’t super confident my alma mater would make this correct choice

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h

paywall but headline tells the story www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

University of Arizona will not agree to Trump's higher education compact

UA President Suresh Garimella said the university welcomes continued discussions with the federal government to improve higher education.

www.azcentral.com

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NightOwl-O-Ween @nightowl.bsky.social · 1d

if you see this

just repost please

y'all need good music

this is the first episode of 10 hours of new wave music

no further than 1982

just listen

but it's not calm

so save for later

i made these mixes while remote DJing @freeformportland.org

full 10 hours is seriously the Nuggets Of NuWave

BAD TRIPPIN THRU THE TROUSER PRESS GUIDE TO NEW WAVE RECORDS (1983)

Thee Bad Tripper takes you on a trip to the radical years of early New Wave while perusing his old copy of The Trouser Press™ Guide to New Wave Music(1982). Choosing not to play all of the normal ban...

www.mixcloud.com

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

Enslaved people built the White House. I don’t care if it’s defiled or burnt down. I care more about people being disappeared, families being ripped apart. I get the symbolic feeling, but we also need to get serious.

The building is bullshit theater. What matters is people.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

I grow tired of people who mourn the veneer of civility. The presidency and its pomp and circumstance has always hidden war crimes and grotesque exploitation.

Trump has dropped the mask. Recognize the need for massive reform but don’t fetishize the past status quo. It was offensive, awful.

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Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social · 1d

Every few months we get news of how much better AI models are getting and how much harder it is to tell the AI from the reality.

And every time I think of this short story by Borges, and it gives me hope that AI’s pursuit of perfecting realism will be its undoing.

Let me explain.

A screenshot of a short story, “On Exactitude in Science,” by Jorge Luis Borges

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

"you should work nine hours a day six days a week making money for somebody else when you are young so you can (maybe) not have to work at all when you are 65" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

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Luke Griffin @lukegriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Really rickety mouthfeel too

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Travis Nelson @travisnelson.bsky.social · 1d

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

In the last known image of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, you can see the structural fatigue where she had started sagging in the middle. Freaky!

the last known image of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald at the Port of Duluth. There is a visible downward line in the metal where the ship is sagging in the middle

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Luke Griffin @lukegriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Coney’s or pizza? It seems like the food highlights are top of mind in the responses (perhaps 1a to the Mariners)

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 1d

The friction of the day.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1d

#Gothtober #31DaysOfHalloween

Vintage Halloween card of witch in pink flying over smiling full moon in starry sky on broomstick. Below, an owl is perched on a branch and two black cats run across a green landscape with forest in distance. At the top, it say’s ‘Halloween Greetings’.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Follow @joanmeiners.bsky.social as she cycles the 850-mile Arizona Trail to see and write about climate impacts in the region. 👇

Joan Meiners, PhD @joanmeiners.bsky.social · 1d

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 3d

'The legends of giants, dragons, and underworld kings are not mere fairy tales. They are folk memories, distorted and hazy, of genuine encounters with forces beyond human comprehension. To study Welsh folklore is not to study fiction; it is to study a corrupted and fragmented history of the Mythos.'

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Luke Griffin @lukegriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn’t be bothered to ensure use of American made Caterpillar equipment. Rookie shit

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 1d

"When the President called Portland, OR war ravaged, those in the reality-based community considered it a joke. Not a funny joke, since it was the pretext for invasion by the federal government. & not an unfamiliar joke, since local plutocrats have been promoting a similar ... story for years now."

Greetings from Charming, War-Ravaged Portland

When the President called Portland, Oregon "war ravaged," those in the reality-based community considered it a joke. Not a funny joke, since it was the

www.counterpunch.org

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Jamie Dimon really thinks Congress and the American people will believe that only one top exec at his multi-billion dollar bank enabled Epstein. Be serious. Today I’m giving Dimon and JPMC another chance to explain why they appeared to enable Epstein's trafficking for years.

With JPMorgan Chase Dodging Epstein Inquiry, Wyden Investigation Drills Down On Bank Executives’ Unexplained Conduct | The United States Senate Committee on Finance

With JPMorgan Chase Dodging Epstein Inquiry, Wyden Investigation Drills Down On Bank Executives’ Unexplained Conduct

www.finance.senate.gov

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“Here we’re having these little protests, and he has an insurrection, but he acts like we’re the hateful ones,” said Marcia Freund of Wichita.

"She attended with her husband, Dave, who said: ‘You can’t print what I want to say.’” kansasreflector.com/2025/10/18/s... #NoKings

Small No Kings event puts love ahead of politics in rural Kansas town where immigrants are detained • Kansas Reflector

Kay Krause hosts a "love in action" rally at her house in Cottonwood Falls as part of the 42 No Kings events that were planned across the state as part of a nationwide uprising.

kansasreflector.com

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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social · 1d

Why did Japan’s iconic magazine Popeye do an issue in English for the first time? I got the scoop.
www.getthemelt.com/p/japanese-m...

Why Japan's Iconic Men's Magazine Popeye Went English For The First Time Ever

City Boys of the Western world, rejoice!

www.getthemelt.com

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