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Count Crunchula! @peanutbcrunch.bsky.social · 10h

Welcome to The Resistance, Reptar!

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

War is hell, Portland style

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 5h

Jesus Christ! You took the wrong 79 year old!

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Raptorized Ira @raptorizedira.bsky.social · 26m

Real friends use their manners legs for photos with their short friends:

Justin Trudeau using his manner legs for a photo with Kim Jin-pyo.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 26m

Guy falling over after putting a stick in the wheel of his own bike

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Spongster High @spongey444.bsky.social · 3h

According to Wikipedia, over in China, "the first confirmed patient started experiencing symptoms on 1 December 2019/".

So if we're gonna use his logic, the movie that caused it is actually one of these, the last films released before that date.

why did i look this up

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 44m

#OnThisDay October 11, 1987, "Maggie's Brain" first aired on The Tracey Ullman Show on Fox. Animation: David Silverman, Wes Archer & Bill Kopp. Wr: Matt Groening. #TheSimpsons

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 4h

Diane Keaton could have directed Annie Hall but Woody Allen could NEVER have directed the music video for Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven is a Place on Earth"

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official HD Music Video)

YouTube video by Belinda Carlisle

youtu.be

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CultureSlate @ #NYCC @cultureslate.bsky.social · 1h

Here’s The Thing… at New York Comic Con! 🪨#TheFantasticFour #Marvel #NYCC

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1h

best guesses are 14 to 21 million dead. It's arguably the single worst genocide the US has ever perpetrated.

(when a Nazi deliberately murders millions of non white people in the name of eugenics and efficiency, I think it's reasonable to call that a genocide.)

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 1h

People really need to stop counting the damage done with this ridiculous idea (that was spawned from Twitter’s techbro men culture) in terms of $$$ and start approaching this in terms of the harm it has done globally (e.g. number of deaths due to USAID cuts).

Dollar metrics are meaningless.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2h

Elon Musk’s DOGE never came close to cutting as much money by Sept. 30, when the government closes its books on the fiscal year, as he promised. Because its work has been obscured by crude accounting and White House maneuvers, it’s impossible to know how much DOGE actually did cut from the budget.

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Chris Washington 🧛‍♂️ @cwashington.bsky.social · 4h

And who can forget.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 9h

Best part of the Marvel booth imo

Jeff the land shark dressed like an adorable pumpkin at the NYCC Marvel booth

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 3h

If only someone had warned us literally every day for the past three years

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.

futurism.com

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 3h

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2h

chat is that bad

those data centers at least aren't being used for stuff with no path to seeing any profitability even according to the actual people who work with it and surely aren't estimated to last three times as long as they actually will before needing to be replaced so it'll work out right

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 4h

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Matthew Blanchette @mattpb.bsky.social · 3h

I love it when people just outright say they don't care about democracy as part of the point they're trying to state.

Dr Satan, MD 🇵🇸 @rueshine.bsky.social · Oct 11

'Trump will destroy democracy' like you did in Latin America.

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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 11h

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BILL OAKLEY @thatbilloakley.com · 9d

Carolina Beach NC! I’m coming! Tix at BillOakley.com

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Andy Merrill “Brak” & I maybe love🫘 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 3h

I think I missed my calling as a food photographer.

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Tron's evil twin brother Troff @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 16h

The Dr. Demento Show finale, which just got released to subscribers, is mostly a countdown of the forty most-requested songs in the entire history of his show, but at various moments he paused to read off the top forty ARTISTS in the history of the show...

...And I'm #36.

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Tron's evil twin brother Troff @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 5h

La di da, la di da. #RIP

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Becky Hopkins @beckyhop13.bsky.social · 5h

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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 8h

That "It doesn't have to be good, it just has to exist. You can make it good later." thing is what gets me in the booth, relieves me of perfection. And then typically I'm relaxed enough to be satisfied with one or two takes max.

S'why disciplined daily writing or warm-up sketches are important.

InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 9d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 5h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Aron Ambrosiani @aron.ambrosiani.se · 1d

Company/staff magazines are a useful source, especially when company archives have been discarded or destroyed. David Michelson uses ”Telephone Talk” to chart the history of the North-West Telephone Company (of British Columbia, Canada) #shot2025

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