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Dookie @fattcactus.bsky.social · 12h

Marina ♥️

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 13h

I now have both Marnie and Gay Marnie. 😌

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 13h

It doesn’t redeem them as movies for me, but honestly yeah, real life is just as stupid, if not more. 😅

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 21h

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Ryo icewatersoup arc @ochacolle.bsky.social · 1d

Ame chan

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Anubis2814 @anubis2814.bsky.social · 8h

About damned time. Perfect timing with bsky melting down
social.erambert.me/@eramdam/11…

Mastodon snags Bluesky’s starter packs feature and includes the ability to opt out

Mastodon is working on a new “Packs” feature designed to help you quickly find accounts to follow. It’s similar to Bluesky’s Starter Packs, and lets you opt out of appearing in the lists.

www.theverge.com

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Nerd #7132 @nerd7132.bsky.social · 8h

we're in a second guided age, but we can turn things around, but it will require ripping up the corrupt social contract and starting fresh

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 16h

it just feels like.

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?
Ursula K. Le Guin

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punkitt ‼️💞 @punkitt.bsky.social · 9h

thing that i can do now that i have boobs that i think is awesome

A wolfgirl with her tongue out looking silly. She is resting her hands on her breasts like a shelf. There is text pointing to her that reads "Resting her Paws"

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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 12h

SB 79 IS PASSED. APARTMENTS ARE NOW LEGAL AROUND ALL RAPID TRANSIT STATIONS IN CALIFORNIA!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 6d

Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this.

Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7d

A protester with a mobility aid (cane) was sitting in the road. Illinois state troopers dragged them to the grass and arrested them.

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Anubis2814 @anubis2814.bsky.social · 9h

Stealing the CA guard from Newsom is a massively petty move.
infosec.exchange/@kevinrothroc…

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

setting aside the fact that they just don’t know what jokes are, this gives a big insight into the mind of white nationalists. they are deeply paranoid about the idea of being percieved as anything other than Epic Stoics

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 10h

I am feeling what I can best describe as a mental tension that wants to make my entire body coil and crumple itself into the shape of a charred pretzel.

Reason; KOSA, chatcontrol, OSA, the overall censorship shit, etc.

I have not felt able to relax in what feels like years.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Kentucky has sued Roblox over a "Charlie Kirk assassination simulator" being accessible to children.

BUT their age-verification law doesn't require Roblox to verify, so the AG is suing for *waves arms* "deceptive trade practices."

The right's assault on speech was never going to stop with porn.

Kentucky sues Roblox video game over ‘Charlie Kirk assassination simulators’ amid other child safety lawsuits

The state of Kentucky is suing Roblox, accusing the gaming platform of failing to protect children from predators and exposure to harmful content, including simulations of Charlie Kirk’s assassination...

www.oann.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

I love him

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 2d

Bonus Army BONUS Army BONUS ARMY

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 2d

#TheTroops™️ are starting to get grumpy

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Nerd #7132 @nerd7132.bsky.social · 18h

gambling is an indicator of desperation

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Nice Footpaws @ionotter.bsky.social · 1d

You have to understand what a difficult problem the military has here.

This is going to be a thread...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

From a strategic perspective, I'm struck by how the Trump administration seems to view its strategy as using 'red states' to hold down 'blue states' but the actual gap between Illinois and Texas is fairly small - IL is D+6, TX is R+6 or so. These aren't even 55/45 states, they're both 53/47 states.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like "a bunch of ICE new hires are actually registered sex offenders" is a shoe waiting to drop given how certainly little vetting anyone is doing of these guys.

♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 1d

half these people aren't even allowed to be this close to an elementary school

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Nerd #7132 @nerd7132.bsky.social · 19h

in 2019 we laughed at it, but in 2024 it just made a lot more sense

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 21h

you know what fair

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

They Live is a fantastic film but every time I introduce it to a Gen Z friend I'm reminded that the plot boils down to, "two hobos carry out a series of workplace mass shootings because they believe half the population are aliens wearing human skin"

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