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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a quaint indie bookstore that went into my neighborhood a couple years ago called Black Cat Books. They started running little festivals in town – a cryptid festival, and yesterday, a kind of dark carnival. #Halloween #October #BookSky

Anyway, I got all dressed up and checked it out:

Photo of a pale skinned human in full costume. They wear a black leather cavalier hat and a black brocade topcoat with a white ruffled shirt underneath. In one hand, they hold a cane topped with a stylized crow skull. Their mask is an articulated skull with a hinged jaw crafted from leather. It is decorated with pink and red gemstones and has bright red raffia hair. Behind them is a large white gazebo.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Still dying at Flanagan accidentally writing one true sentence in her blog through her own illiteracy

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 1d

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 1d

be a long pause, and then I trot out the statistics about how many dogs get shot by cops every year, and all but the far-right will at least admit that cops who shoot dogs are pretty bad people.

And while I love dogs and hate people who abuse them...maybe we could love women & POC just as much?

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 1d

If I say "most policemen are going to Hell," I'll get jumped on by everyone in the center & right of center.

If I say "most policemen are going to Hell because of the way they treat women and POC," same thing.

If I say "most policemen are going to Hell because they love shooting dogs," there'll

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 1d

doing my part to help

Texts:
Gavin Newsom here, asking if you can reply to a simple question: Can we count on you to vote YES on Prop 50?
Just reply Yes, No, or that you're unsure.
There will be a volunteer - a real person - waiting for your reply when it comes in.
Donald Trump asked Texas to redraw their Congressional maps to find him five seats. It's a deeply unfair attempt to rig the 2026 House election in his favor.
California will respond by redrawing our maps, but only if voters like you approve the measure in an election coming up in a few weeks.
So, can I count on you to vote YES? Just reply to let me know.
- Gavin
Paid for by www.stopelectionrigging.com. Top Funder:
HMP. Stop to stop.
Yesterday 11:37 AM
I'm a volunteer with the Yes on 50 campaign. We reached out last month and may have caught you at a busy moment.
Can we count on you to vote YES on Prop 50?
Just reply Yes, No, or that you're unsure.
I'll be here waiting for your reply.
Paid for by www.stopelectionrigging.com. Top Funder:
HMP for Prop 50. Stop to Stop.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t always proofread these posts, but glad I did this time or it would read “a chronic liar, a Batman for the rich…”

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Thread for Minneapolis people!

Jacob Frey is, as my grandfather would say, a bum. A chronic liar, a bagman for the rich, and an enemy of any meaningful progress in the city. Please don’t rank him! Thank you.

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1d

I hope @dewayneforminneapolis.com doesn't mind me retelling a story he told me when we first met last winter. I kept it to myself because he wasn’t telling it publicly but he mentioned it yesterday. It’s one of the things that’s leading me to rank him first. A hope-its-ok-and-I-get-right 🧵:

Soren Stevenson @sorenwithward8.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, I hosted an incredible event, "Ward 8 for a New Mayor." We talked about why we need a new mayor and then @jazzformayor.bsky.social , @omarfatehmn.com , and @dewayneforminneapolis.com laid out why they should be our next mayor. I came away excited about all of them and will rank all three!

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Mark Balletto @myrecordplayer.bsky.social · 1d

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try,"..

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 1d

Man it really sucks that people heard “Jews and Israelis aren’t synonymous” and interpreted that to mean “you can be as antisemitic as you want if you just say Israeli instead of Jewish”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

you're god damned right

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Corey 🌈🎃 @coreypoetry.bsky.social · 1d

This brought to by the cute penguin socks I just remembered exist and immediately put on.

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Corey 🌈🎃 @coreypoetry.bsky.social · 1d

Y'know how sometimes people are like "ugh socks and candles are so impersonal, they're terrible gifts"? I like those things. You got a pair of socks or a candle you don't want? I will happily take them off your hands. Why would I say no things that keep my toes warm and a little fire as a pet?

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · May 21

There's a kid in my neighborhood who is always running. Yesterday I saw him stop, pull out a tiny bound notebook, open to the center and quickly scan the contents with a look of deep contemplation. He tapped the page with the back of his hand, said "Yes. Become stronger," and broke back into a run

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 1d

Heads up, people of the internet: This isn't me. I don't have a TikTok account. This person is apparently messaging people over there, but this person, again: not me. Feel free to report the account, or whatever TikTok's version of that might be.
www.tiktok.com/@eloranoso?_...

Cherie priest's Creator Profile

www.tiktok.com

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 1d

why can't the brexit go out in the sunlight

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Ill, Mooned By MetLife @reginasrand.bsky.social · 3h

Yesterday I was playing Microsoft Bubble and every ad was some weird cross promotion between Tron Ares and MacAfee. Two shit products that are shit together. 😠

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 1d

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 18h

Furries do actually try to keep the gross/evil ones out

Not really an effective way to do that when there's no organization to speak of, though. But still, way more effort than the Catholic Church

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KLM @klm.bsky.social · Sep 10

who's your favorite Jeffrey? 🖖🏼 mine's Shran

Text banner that says, "Welcome to Star Trek. We have:" that is followed by nine pictures of characters played by Jeffrey Combs in different Trek shows. His name is under each one.

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