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Brynnester @brynnester.bsky.social · 6d

Me: *thinking to myself after someone wrongs me* You made an inconsequential and powerless enemy today my friend

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Chris Doyon @nilbog3000.bsky.social · 47m

Be sure to wear comfortable shoes for the five minute hike around the car to open the door for your date

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Chris Doyon @nilbog3000.bsky.social · 1h

Balloon Halloween costume is looking great

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 1h

more and more people are seeing this man in their dreams at night

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Chris Doyon @nilbog3000.bsky.social · 1h

They make lying to librarians sound like it’s some kind of kink or fetish

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1h

Hertfordshire County Council rules for library use, 1930

RULES FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
BAN ON LIARS AND DIRTY FACES
Strict rules, which have been approved by the Hertfordshire County Council, are to be imposed by the Hyde Institute Library, Barnet Vale.

LIBRARY USERS iN FUTURE MUST NOT:
Enter the library if their faces are offensively dirty.
Fall asleep on the tables.
Eat their lunches whilst reading papers, books, &c
Smoke in the building.
Leave their business cards behind.
Make themselves a nuisance.
Kick or damage the furniture.
Bring dogs within the portals.
Tell lies to the librarian.
Enter when they are in an inebriated con- dition.
If they have small-pox.

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Chris Doyon @nilbog3000.bsky.social · 1h

When I saw that I wondered if lying about not having smallpox was the real issue with dishonesty

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 10h

Seen on LinkedIn: “Staff at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention across multiple programs being fired tonight, including all current (civilian) Epidemic Intelligence Service, and several people working on the Ebola response.”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 14h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 17h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Chris Doyon @nilbog3000.bsky.social · 14h

They've already appointed very French citizen as Prime Minister, so now they're going through the list a second time

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 14h

Macron Reappoints Lecornu as France’s Prime Minister

President Emmanuel Macron is trying to calm the political turmoil that has gripped the country and jeopardized the passage of a budget.

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Doyon @nilbog3000.bsky.social · 14h

It's weird that even if a post blows up right away, the weird scary replies still take about 12 hours to arrive and then its 24 hours of hell

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 15h

This is the way. Frog costumes blasting Yakety Sax and the Imperial March at these losers.

Fascists want fear. They crumble when you point and laugh in their faces. Turn the protests into circuses! Dance! Bring tamales! They HATE IT.

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 18h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 16h

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 16h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · Dec 10

when the other shoe finally drops on this guy he is gonna make dennis hastert look like a fuckin saint

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Dec 10

So what's the message here? Is the MAGA Speaker stating that vigilante justice against a mentally ill Black man who killed no one is heroic but vigilante justice against a wealthy white CEO whose policies killed thousands is criminal????

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 16h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 22h

Oscar Chichoni, art for Starship Titanic, 1998

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 19h

remember this one

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MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social · 19h

Hot-joining a handle to a glass cup.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 19h

"'No one’s ever seen a candidate like me in Virginia and quite frankly most places across the country,' Reid boasted not long ago. He’d be right—except that, for those keeping count at home, Reid is the second Republican to be engulfed in a Nazi porn scandal in just over a year."

The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified

Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 19h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

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