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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 7m

But I hear those artist types are just rolling in cash already!

Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 7m

I wonder if this was a Marvel decision or a Disney decision. 🤔

Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 9m

Don't tell RFK, Jr.!

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 37m

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 37m

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 9m

Beat me to it 😎

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 14m

City payouts from LAPD traffic collisions top $90m since 2019, more than $57m in the last two years alone.

2025 is already almost $25m and the fiscal year (7/1-6/30) isn't even a third over.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

When police are bad drivers: LAPD crashes kill — and payouts soar past $90 million

Two brothers injured in a crash caused by a speeding LAPD officer were recently awarded an $18-million legal settlement — one of many cases in recent years where taxpayers shelled out for dangerous dr...

www.latimes.com

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Christian Ward @cjward.bsky.social · 37m

This weekend DC and Jim Lee denounced Ai

Just saying

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 1h

The in-universe products for Wonder Man were reportedly artwork made by artists, but then touched up by AI.

Marvel’s ‘Wonder Man’ In-Universe Poster Art Is Reportedly “Touched Up By AI”

The in-universe products for Wonder Man were reportedly artwork made by artists, but then touched up by AI.

comicbookclublive.com

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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 11m

It's like he can read Schumer's mind!

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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 20m

#BookSky #Books #Read #EpsteinFiles
Reminder that Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre will be released on October 21st.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712958...

Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre: 9780593493120 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The unforgettable memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who dared to take on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell The world knows Virginia Roberts Giuffre as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghi...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 27m

New logo dropped

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 30m

The ebook version of ALTER EGO, my USA TODAY-bestselling/Anthony Award-nominated follow up to SECRET IDENTITY, is still on sale for $2.99 across all platforms! Less than a fancy latte. Don't miss it!

bookriot.com/book-riots-d... @flatironbooks.bsky.social

Book Riot's Deals of the Day for October 12, 2025

A comics world mystery, bestselling Sally Rooney, a National Book Award finalist, Palestinian history, and more of the best book deals of the day

bookriot.com

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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 31m

What are the Top 10 Elements of the Authoritarian Playbook?
Divide and rule: Foment mistrust and fear in the population.
Spread lies and conspiracies: Undermine the public’s belief in truth.
Destroy checks and balances: Quietly use legal or pseudo-legal rationales to gut institutions, weaken opposition, and/or declare national emergencies to seize unconstitutional powers.
Demonize opponents and independent media: Undermine the public’s trust in those actors and institutions that hold the state accountable.
Undermine civil and political rights for the unaligned: Actively suppress free speech, the right to assembly and protest and the rights of women and minority groups.
Blame minorities, immigrants, and “outsiders” for a country’s problems: Exploit national humiliation while promising to restore national glory.
Reward loyalists and punish defectors: Make in-group members fearful to voice dissension.
Encourage or condone violence to advance political goals: Dehumanize opposition and/or out-groups to justify violence against them.
Organize mass rallies to keep supporters mobilized against made-up threats: Use fearmongering and hate speech to consolidate in-group identity and solidarity.
Make people feel like they are powerless to change things: Solutions will only come from the top.

Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 31m

A handy guide
commonslibrary.org/authoritaria...

Authoritarianism: How You Know It When You See It

The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.

commonslibrary.org

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 46m

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve seen posts claiming this “truth” is evidence of dementia, but IMO that’s not the right frame. This is strategy. Since 2021, the right has been rewriting history, bending timelines, to connect their grievances (Covid) and conspiracy theories (Jan 6, censorship, etc) to the Biden administration.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 38m

This is Trump's America

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/shot-in-th...

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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 36m

Fuck every single bit of this.
thehill.com/homenews/552...

‘National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk’ is this week: What to know

Last month, both chambers of Congress approved resolutions to honor Charlie Kirk, designating a day this week to remember the conservative influencer.

thehill.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3h

Best part of this is the subtle aside about how it took them so long to know to be mad about this because it’s not a movie for children

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 7h

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Brian Keene @briankeene.bsky.social · 6h

This week's newsletter is live. briankeene.substack.com/p/letters-fr...

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Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 1h

Everything he does is a grift. Everything.

Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 22h

An underreported aspect of the Gaza ceasefire: The business deals that Trump's family made with Gulf Arab states gave Trump a personal stake in restraining Netanyahu — my piece @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 7h

In all the horrible news Israel & the US generate when they work together, it is instructive that I learn that Israel’s strike on Qatar didn’t even kill the Hamas officials it was allegedly targeting *from an article about how Trump will personally profit from the ceasefire.*

Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 22h

An underreported aspect of the Gaza ceasefire: The business deals that Trump's family made with Gulf Arab states gave Trump a personal stake in restraining Netanyahu — my piece @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 4h

Being president is a pretty unique job. I feel like a man who doesn't know when he had that job is probably not qualified to continue in that job.

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