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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.bsky.social · 3m

That exact copy lol!

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 9h

This is happening right now, to a friend of mine in Chicago. This is a peaceful area, with no previous unrest or crime problem. Just people trying to live their lives. My heart hurts. They're having conversations no family should have to have.

A white box with text. "Y'all. They're tear gassing my neighborhood. Right by the place we get hummus from. Right by where we get the extra large pizzas for sleep overs. Tell your people."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 6h

I really do think that you should ask “would I talk like this in real life?” when you leave a reply, especially to a stranger. That’s the easiest way to not be weird in the replies online. Being overly aggressive or overly familiar is bad.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6h

easy for me to say as another Large Account perhaps but: the idea that how you should treat another grown adult turns directly on which of you has more followers is among the most "please touch grass" opinions I encounter on here - and I am a leftist anime enjoyer

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 8h

This guy gives the game away with the misogyny but man—this attitude (if you have a lot of followers you should just let people be assholes to you) drives me nuts.

You walk into my dojo looking for a fight you’re gonna get it lol

@[email protected] on Mastodon @electricheadpt2.cryptoanarchy.network · 16h

This guy rocks (derogatory). You’re apparently a “thirst trap white woman” and were just all simps for thinking he’s a dumbass.

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Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @kamlager-dove.house.gov · 6h

Proud that my state is recognizing Diwali as a state holiday!

The festival of lights is celebrated by millions here in CA, South Asia, and across the world. I'm glad California will be uplifting the light during these dark times.

California makes Diwali an official statewide holiday

California is the third U.S. state to designate Diwali as an official statewide holiday

abcnews.go.com

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 17h

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 6h

Two bunnies snuggle together on a tiled floor, one tan and the other gray.

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · Jan 16

Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist

shaydh 🩸FLEDGLING MANOR OUT NOW🩸 @shaydh.bsky.social · Jan 16

Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.bsky.social · 4h

like she pulled a "*they* have weather-altering lasers" thing and it really wasn't all that long ago, can we not

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 9h

saw someone arguing that MTG's anti Israel noises suggest that she's a more reliable moral voice longterm than most centrist Ds, and...like, people really need to acknowledge just how antisemitic she is and what role that plays in her approach to Israel policy. 1

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parker parrella @parkparr.bsky.social · 14h

Haze on Two Horizons, 2023

A rectangular painting of orange and blue foliage layered as if double exposed. Above the plants a red sun with a large, pale yellow halo partially obscures a second sun behind

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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.bsky.social · 14h

humanity can be super terrible obviously but also every day I am amazed anew at the breadth of weird and wild and human we're capable of

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.bsky.social · 14h

"like many men before me, I know exactly one thing and I interpret everything I encounter through that one singular lens"

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

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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Rep. Mike Thompson @mikethompson.house.gov · 16h

Republican Leadership has told its members not to host town halls, so I'm glad to welcome their constituents to join mine! 42 U.S. Code 18081(a)(1) prohibits undocumented immigrants from buying healthcare on the ACA healthcare exchange. Hope this helps.

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Djamila Knopf @Polaris #196 @djamilaknopf.bsky.social · 4d

I painted a cat in a drawer. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

a painting of a white cat lying in a drawer full of cutlery and miscellaneous items

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 1d

That’s such a fluffy, sleepy pumpkin 🧡

#art #cozyart #caturday

Watercolor illustration of a bunch of colorful pumpkins, with a beige striped cat sleeping on top of them curled up into a ball, slightly resembling the round pumpkins itself.

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Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic @grubreport.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, but Bay Area person here: Salesforce has always been bad.

Every tech billionaire in Silicon Valley has always been bad.

We live here.

We live it.

We know it.

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 1d

Salesforce CEO says he suddenly supports Trump and wants the national guard patrolling San Francisco

‘Slap in the face’: Marc Benioff’s Trump turn stuns San Francisco

The tech billionaire's comments put the longtime Democratic ally at odds with city and state leaders.

www.politico.com

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in this weird period in which everyone is afraid of people that almost everyone despises

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.bsky.social · 1d

whoof lot of fellow atheists out here acting like mega buttheads today in people's comments

S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.bsky.social · 1d

you have never met a parent who will go to the mat for their kid faster than parents who have already had to fight the system to get their kid the support they're entitled to

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

I know Trump and his minions all have sneering contempt for kids with special needs, but trust me when I say that their parents will absolutely fucking destroy anyone who messes with the special education supports to which they are entitled by law.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.bsky.social · 1d

they really went all in choosing this American pope so that he'd go on record saying America is doing everything wrong, huh

(to be clear, he's right)

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.bsky.social · 1d

the thing about stunts like this is that this kid isn't going to do jack shit besides make public appearances and get paid, even though they'll fluff him and make him feel important. the actual bastards capable of bastarding are going to be in the background doing whatever the fuck they want.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.bsky.social · 1d

Chicken doodle during kiddo class and some abstract landscape paintings this week. Make art, it’s healing. #bskyartwalk #watercolor #sketchbook #inktober

Two watercolor paintings of a landscape with hills and a sunset in an abstract style

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