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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1h

I am very happy to see the progress from the last Kraken game. This is against Vegas, who are really strong.

Let’s go Kraken!

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 1h

Happy #nationalcomingoutday! 🍵✨🦄

#tea #earlgrey #earlgay #queerownedbusiness

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1h

This is wonderful. Not just platitudes, but specific ideas and projects to ACT.

This is how it’s done.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 4h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 2h

Huh. Sounds good. I have cardamom bitters and never thought of infusing vodka with cardamom.

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 6h

SOUND ON to hear this adorable lion cub making cute squeaks and nom nom sounds

#caturday

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 5h

This is what they meant by making America great again, right?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up dozens of scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential. But after The New York Times reported the dismissals, a federal health official said many of them had been fired in error and would be brought back.

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

nyti.ms

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 8h

No identification, breaking laws, grabbing a reporter and lying about it, holding American citizens (including veterans), crashing into other vehicles as they speed away, stranding children on a highway after taking away the parent…

There’s no reforming for this.

This is “secret police” shit.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 8h

Oh no. 😓

Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 8h

In person, she was a gem. RIP variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning ‘Annie Hall’ Star, Dies at 79

Diane Keaton, who starred in "Annie Hall," has died. She was 79.

variety.com

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 8h

Interesting plan to have an authoritarian regime: don’t pay the military and DHS employees meant to help consolidate the president’s power. 🤷‍♂️

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Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. And if any patrons at this goth club are hostile to you for being trans, report them to club staff. If the club itself is hostile, leave, and tell EVERYONE. Goth spaces were queer spaces from the start. Any that aren't should be called out.

Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 17h

go the fuck outside. find a goth club. go there on a kink / queer night. go even if you think “you won’t fit in” (cheat code: just wear black).

be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.

life is for the living. do it scared.

🏳️‍⚧️🖤🏳️‍🌈

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 10h

Hollywood keeps threatening to use AI to cut runaway production costs, as opposed to firing the people who greenlit a $180 million TRON sequel with Jared Leto as the biggest name in the cast.

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 9h

They do not specify, either! Slice? Half? What kind?

Cakes.

And man, now I want and Orange Julius.

a group of women are dancing in a mall with the words let 's go to the mall

Alt: A group of women are dancing in a mall with the words “Let’s go to the mall”.

media.tenor.com

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 11h

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 9h

Cakes. 😜

Ice Orangeade!

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 9h

This morning’s mug is @fridaytea.com “Knuckle Sandwich”

Black tea
Dark chocolate
Crushed red chili flakes

🫖🍵

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 10h

The Wiggles.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 11h

What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 12h

Compare:

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social yesterday.

New York Times headline, today.

NY Times Pitchbot
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News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.
October 10, 2025

Photo of the paper edition of the New York Times. Headline says "Comparative Calm or 'Hellscape'? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 21h

the vibes are off the charts

Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 22h

You can’t script it. The Mariners are willed to victory by Humpy the fish finally winning his first race in the middle of the 15th inning. The crowd chants “Humpy Humpy” as the trident crosses off the ALDS win.