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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 13h

lots of people still don’t believe Team Trump want to crash the economy, likely because it’s hard for normal people to think like sociopaths

Sarah Kendzior is smart to invoke memories of 1980s corporate raiders. That should give many Boomers and some Gen X food for thought. We remember that crap.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15h

On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

Quotes from here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

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Marshall @llahsram.bsky.social · 5h

Say what you want about Star Trek: The Motion Picture it was an absolute master class in “how do we make this orifice not look like a butthole”

A tiny USS Enterprise the giant entrance to V’Ger’s inner body, an entrance that resembles a six-petaled mechanical flower and, by some miracle of production design, does not look like a butthole

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

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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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 15h

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

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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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 18h

There's so little for teens at the box office that Netflix released a movie that had been streaming for two months already and it still made $18M in just one weekend. KPOP DEMON HUNTERS is a great example of doing it right in 2025.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 20h

This isn't rocket science, Hollywood. When you make movies for Gen Z & Alpha, they pay to see them. FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S opened to $80M WITH a day & date streaming release on Peacock. When you make movies for their dads, those dads have a choice between the theater or their bitchin' home theater.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 21h

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13h

this is more than just marching in full regalia to Broadview and praying outside of it

this is very deftly trapping ICE into the position of having to literally - LITERALLY, to them - turn Christ away from the door

any Catholic ICE officer was probably shook, I’m really not exaggerating

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 1d

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

media.tenor.com

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

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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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

Amusingly, the feverish investment into data centers comes as AI adoption has *already* passed its peak in Enterprise, the AI companies themselves admit hallucination is ubfixable, and studies are revealing that workslop is not merely low-value but actually negative value for companies using AI.

"Workslop" was the logical outcome of productivity maxxing

Local throughput optimization always externalizes costs onto downstream colleagues.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

Evidence that AI is accelerating our economy!

The phrase "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" is no longer true, because of the incredible rate at which this nonsense is burning money.

The correction is already upon us, it's just not evenly distributed.

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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

The Trump admin being incredibly vindictive to the federal work force and threatening to withhold pay and conducting mass layoffs are really self defeating moves because they need a staffed work force for to actually enact the policies they want.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 2d

So Pete Hegseth is getting gender affirming care while kicking highly qualified, highly trained trans service members out of our military? Got it.

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LindsAI ➡️ Penti-con @neomeruru.bsky.social · 2d

I'm gonna quote this post one more time as a public service, because people definitely showed up in the comments with recommendations.

LindsAI ➡️ Penti-con @neomeruru.bsky.social · 2d

As burnout control, I'll soon be in the market for a game that absorbs my every waking hour and cushions me from the bleak reality of needing to be a person with free time again. These ones have helped in the past, and I'm taking suggestions.

A list of games in a Steam category titled 'Years Off My Life'. Titles include:

Against the Storm
Anno 1800
Baldur's Gate 3
Banished
Bear and Breakfast
Cities: Skylines
Coral Island
Crime Scene Cleaner
DAVE THE DIVER
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Goind Medieval
Graveyard Keeper
House Flipper 2
Let's School
Medieval Dynasty
Megaquarium
The Planet Crafter
PowerWash Simulator
RimWorld
Roots of Pacha
The Sims 4
Stardew Valley

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Jaspurr 🎃 @pugliacci.bsky.social · 2d

insurance rejected my first request for short term disability coverage! while I'm pretty confident I can jump through enough hoops to make it work, please consider donating or reposting what you can to help us out during my recovery ❤️

Jaspurr 🎃 @pugliacci.bsky.social · 7d

Friends, I am thrilled to announce that we have finally obtained everything needed for my tit banishing ritual! If you would like to help support myself and @pat626.bsky.social through the recovery period, this thread will include some links.

It's just a picture of me in a tank top getting a big kiss from my baby bichon Starbuck. She's white and her ears and tail are usually chalked to either compliment mine or a fun holiday design. We're both between dyejobs in this photo, with my hair sorta blonde-ish and her ears a faded purple.

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PAT 626's Overthinking Emporium @pat626.bsky.social · 2d

Big thanks to everyone who has donated time, money, or the promise of food so far. We're having some hiccups in expected aid so any help you can give us, even just sharing the link in the comments, would be helpful.
Jasper's top surgery is on 10/28
ko-fi.com/nicnevins

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 2d

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

they need to be mocked relentlessly for this

oh did your special little guy not get his little prize? did your wittle boy not get his wittle trophy? is pee paw sad he didnt get his trinket? these people are a fucking joke

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

On the left is how the White House reacted to the Nobel Peace Prize announcement.

On the right is what President Trump posted about Maria Corina Machado back in January, just two weeks before nominations closed for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Steven Cheung * B @StevenCheung47
X.com
President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives.
He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.
The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado and President-elect Gonzalez are peacefully expressing the voices and the WILL of the Venezuelan people with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the regime. The great Venezuelan American community in the United States overwhelmingly support a free Venezuela, and strongly supported me. These freedom fighters should not be harmed, and MUST stay SAFE and ALIVE!
MODA
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1/9/25, 2:14 PM

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 4d

Why are we still paying Jared Leto to do things, I thought we learned our lesson about that

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