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Nic Weyand

@nicweyand.com

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founder, lilac party (committee ID: C00899518) https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00899518/ https://lilacparty.us • socialist werewolf he/they. 32. somerville, ma. https://www.nicweyand.com/ https://linktr.ee/nicweyand

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Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · Sep 7

Reposting with a comment so I can pin this to my profile lol!

UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · Sep 6

ICE has just ramped up its presence in the BOSTON area.
If you see something -- a raid, cars with masked agents, etc. -- call LUCE right away and record everything you can.
Support your neighbors!

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lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one · 1d

lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one • 8mo

it's so crazy how the real Al widespread use case seems to be "skimming an email and missing the important stuff" which is one of the things i'm best at

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘We called ourselves the lifeboat crew’: how fired USAID workers launched a rescue project ‘to save as many babies as we can’

After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people

www.theguardian.com

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Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 10h

The main character of the day on the hellsite was often punching down, and just bullying. I'm glad to see such growth here on Bluesky! We're really hitting the right targets, with the right points lmao

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 12h

sally is putting together an Ohtani career on this site. she has bad takes. she’s had meltdowns. her value over replacement poster is off the charts. we have no choice but to be awed in the face of greatness.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 14h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11h

Who cares? God you act like you’re proclaiming how we turn water into wine. So you’re rooting for Bari Weiss. How daring! How bold! Such raw bravery! I bet you wear a hat that says “the NASDAQ” on it

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 11h

tl;dr

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 11h

Power move

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · Sep 30

New DDT show has one of my favorite match types where there is a single light tube in the ring and if you break it you lose🤼‍♂️

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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 23h

Bogs against Russian fascism: Latvia’s military has revealed that the country’s extensive peat bogs could play an important role in its border defence strategy against Russia. Rather than missiles, it is the mud that poses the real threat to tanks, APCs and unmanned ground vehicles.

Peat bogs could be Latvia’s new border defense, says army

The biodiverse wetlands can make a formidable natural obstacle.

tvpworld.com

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Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 23h

I love how many "battle-ready" katanas are for sale on Amazon. God, I love this stupid country lmao what an amazing thing to find at 3 am instead of sleeping.

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 4d

namby AND pamby? In this economy?

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Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 23h

My experiences as a man have been on the conservative side, if you don't have massive muscles and low body fat, you're some kinda disgusting slob. On the left is body appreciation, which generally accepts people, provided they're not hurting themselves or others. The left is far more loving overall.

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1d

I'm reminded of those comments about how manosphere shit is basically just men subjecting themselves to the same body image problems that women have dealt with for generations and getting one-shotted by it

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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badwebsites @badwebsites.bsky.social · 1d

They've arrested Habeas!

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Antifa leader Habeas Corpus has been arrested in Portland.

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Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 1d

That's a great country ya made, conservatives!

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

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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Bryn 🏳️‍⚧️ @sables.ooo · 1d

Genuinely might be the funniest subreddit of all time

r/kitchencels

sometimes i have inappropriate thoughts about other men and i hit myself in the head repeatedly

Photo of a ziploc sandwich bag filled with sausages? Carrots? Idk. Sitting in a stainless steel sink.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Nic Weyand @nicweyand.com · 1d

Idk why but this feels important enough to actually do, is very easy, and will help investigative journalists do their jobs. So imma pass this along.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 1d

What a fucking embarrassing thing to have to do. ICE should obviously quit their jobs, but I would quit so fast if I had to turn away a bunch of nuns trying to provide the sacraments.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Lee Harveryscary @valleyguitarist.bsky.social · 1d

People say snake oil salesperson derogatorily but it's actually a really difficult job, because so few people have snakes that require lubricaction

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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🌸Gretch🌸 @whothepuck.bsky.social · 1d

Logging on and seeing trans folks trying to throw teenagers experimenting with identities and sexualities under the bus

SpongeBob meme "wait you guys actually are still having queer discourse/infighting, I thought we've already established were all maggots in the eyes of the state"

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

There are a number of accounts on Tiktok and IG that do extremely important work walking viewers through AI-generated slop videos like this and help them think critically about what they are seeing, how to spot it, etc. It’s a new era of critical media literacy instruction and I am happy to see it

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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