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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 6h

gf wanted a sweet treat so i put some honey, brown sugar, apple slices, cinnamon, and then puff pastry on a baking sheet. boom, domesticated.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

= NATIONAL REVIEW
Oct. 19, 2025
THE MORNING JOLT
WORLD
Why the Democrats' Activist Class Couldn't Celebrate the Cease-Fire
They Demanded
By JIM GERAGHTY
October 14, 2025 10:08 AM

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

You can count The Minnesota Star Tribune among the Sunday newspapers that did not put protest news on the front page

hand holding front page up with articles about a brain injury caused by a scooter, a candidate for governor, a lake that has rebounded ecologically, and the federal shutdown ... there is a teaser about the No Kings protest

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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 3d

saved a ladybug trying to escape out a window at a store yesterday and now there are no fewer than 12,000 ladybugs on my house.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 4d

it’s called döppelbangers

Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 4d

can you be gay for yourself

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 6d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 5d

ok yes instagram i’m listening

Quit Your Job and Homestead Full-Time
•Backwoods Home Magazine

text shown over a cozy winter scene with a cabin in the snow surrounded by pine trees, a wood pile, and a dog ready to come back inside.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 6d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 6d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 5d

they’re in their 30s though?

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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 5d

watched ‘maze runner’ for the first time last night and keep thinking about how the only time i felt actual fear during a scene was when a girl showed up unconscious to a self-run village of teen boys.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6d

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 6d

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 6d

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 6d

cauliflower crust pizza smells like a pepperoni fart, i can’t pretend anymore

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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 6d

“the king’s taxes have rapidly increased the price of tea — a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. yet tea may also be the one thing…”

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 8d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? 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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d

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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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 10d

terrifying halloween playlist made of songs exes loved

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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 10d

my english teacher had a college degree and knew romeo and juliet ended in tragedy. honestly so did my gym teacher.

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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 11d

it hurt her “feelings” (ego) so much. savoring that like a hard candy.

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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 11d

i’d ride that high for the rest of my life

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 11d

how amazing do you think it felt to tell kristi noem she can’t use the bathroom in your business

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 11d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 11d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11d

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 11d

The secret police performatively praying over fast food hamburgers before a hard day's work disappearing immigrants. They'd call you a hack for making a joke like that. I feel like one just noticing it having happened in real life.

www.welcometohellworld.com/everything-i...

Everything is so stupid and so dangerous at once

Out here is where the monsters are

www.welcometohellworld.com

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