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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 8h

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 20h

It looks like the CW drama I want it to be, it’s great to see some old friends, and I’m excited to explore more of the 34th century setting.

(Still nothing to disprove my theory that the version of the EMH here is the one left behind in the Delta Quadrant, who woke up in a museum 700 years later.)

TrekCore.com 🖖 @trekcore.com · 1d

Here's the new extended trailer for #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy, just out from #NYCC!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHDD...

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025)

YouTube video by Paramount Plus

www.youtube.com

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 11h

so not only are they homophobic as fuck, refusing to shelter queer people, they're doing... THIS SHIT. the Salvation Army can go eat shit

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 21h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Evangeline “I’m Scared” Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 1d

just in general bending my life towards spending as much of my time as possible around freaks and queers and weirdos has been the best thing ever

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 1d

Good article! important to understand how nationalism uses & abuses historical narratives to fit their agenda.
I love studing history (it was my major) yet I'm frustrated so many don't understand how it's not a static thing, not a neutral thing; & our knowledge of history is connected to science.

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 1d

The late antique communion bread find was exciting. And it again came up what the oldest bread known is. As Stephanie Wong and I wrote about, the oldest extant bread appears to be from Jordan—not Turkey. hyperallergic.com/878348/disco...

Discovery of 8,600-Year-Old Bread Gives Rise to Half-Baked Claims

Turkey’s narrative surrounding “the world’s oldest bread” raises questions about how archaeological heritage is used for nationalistic ends.

hyperallergic.com

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Two-thirds God, One-third Man @shawnaldridge.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday to Rumiko Takahashi. Prob my favorite mangaka.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 1d

ALL IN THE MOST TERRIFYING PLACE IMAGINABLE:
~OHIO~

Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, I’m about to watch Perfect Blue on the same screen (in the same seat) where I watched The Birds last night.

Photo of a movie screen:
“All in the most terrifying place imaginable: Ohio.”

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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 2d

The administrators of Ohio State University seem to be fighting to be the strongest enemies of free speech and the most craven panderers to bigotry of any American university. Whatever you think about land acknowledgments before presentations, banning them is evil, cowardly, and petty.

www.nbc4i.com

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d

We are at the "Anne Frank" stage of the US immigrant raids campaign.

Neighbor hid a 7-year-old and her mother during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ 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 t...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jess Fink🍉🌈🎃 @jessfink.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday to the woman who let me in on the fact that I was queer 🌈

Rumic World @furinkan.com · 2d

A very happy birthday to Rumiko Takahashi! Born on October 10, 1957 in Niigata, she is entering into her 47th year as a mangaka! Happy birthday, sensei!

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 6d

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 6d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 4d

jesus fucking christ.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 5d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · May 23

Welcome to America

A sign in a parking lot reads:
NOTICE
MUST BE CUSTOMER AT ALL TIMES

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

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ciil 🦭 @ciil.bsky.social · 7d

1am delirious motivational comic from moi #comic

comic of seal being self conscious abt sucking but evil ominous aggro positive seal screams at her that actually its cooler to try and flop than not try and not flop. seal screams AT LEAST I DID IT BROOOO

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 8d

also woah hey, my mom has known for YEARS, but didn't say anything, because hey ho! outing people without consent isn't cool! go mom, that's actually the right thing to do!!!

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 8d

OMG!
I'M NOT THE ONLY GAY COUSIN ANYMORE!!!!
My oldest cousin's daughter is moving in with her girlfriend!!! 🥹💞🥰 I'm so excited for her!!!!!

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Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social · 8d

Yet again, Columbus is a sitcom town.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9d

Once again need to stress this is a real thing

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The Verge @theverge.com · 8d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 9d

SO GAY
gay FOR YOU

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 9d

i love you SO MUCH 🥹💞

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10d

This is LGBTQ+ History Month, and I urge my followers who are LGBTQ+ (or just curious) to dive into one thing--a movie, novel, TV show--from your childhood or before. Look at an older gay work as something other than a relic or an error. You'll be rewarded. Your world, your SELF, will get bigger. >

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