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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 22m

If you hold any position of leadership in the republican party it's on you to affirmatively prove that your brain isn't oozing with nazi filth

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26m

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 30m

yesterday on twitter, some of the biggest far right doxxing users were suspended and then elon musk caught wind, and reinstated them. get everyone you can off twitter. it is firmly a pro-doxxing-if-you’re-far-right platform

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Smeefus Smonkus @shydemk.bsky.social · 1h

Adorable dog -> adorable dog -> SARLAAC PIT -> adorable dog

What an image series

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2h

honestly no one should have that much money, “can you sue someone for fun just to ruin their life” should be the marker on having too much money

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4h

People who side with the monsters who do this are monsters themselves

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 4h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 2h

Mass market paperbacks were the very best book form humanity has ever invented and it’s a travesty and a crime against the book-reading public that they have disappeared.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Smeefus Smonkus @shydemk.bsky.social · 1h

She has the highest percents overall of the percent raising boons, Hitch is mad good, and Born Gain is the best mana recovery boon in the game bar none. Hera stay winning

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2h

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 3h

the magic: the gathering card "bagel and schmear" from the spider-man magic: the gathering set. Yes this is a real card that is legal to play

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 2h

So, so many games in the Next Fest that are clearly full of AI garbage without any kind of indicator.

The worst telltale is when a game has ultra-detailed, overly greebled character art and the text boxes they're speaking in are the blandest, most mismatched My First Unity Prototype game possible.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 2h

what a fucking crock. what sanctimonious losers. we never should have let them be so loud and annoying if they were just gonna be like this. not one iota of spine. maybe the most pathetic, supine group of people in the broad spectrum of mainstream american politics which is REALLY saying something

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3h

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h

This is a sidebar but this is a form of manufactured consent of a more broader variety.

What is happening here is that elites enjoy finding everyday actions of the peons (you and me) that we insist a right to enjoy and, instead of taking a serious account of fault, find basis to ridicule.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Smeefus Smonkus @shydemk.bsky.social · 2h

Their inner voice that knows they're useless propels themselves to prove they're not, and that means breathing down our necks every minute of every day

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 15h

This concentration of wealth has progressed with every US presidency. And then people ask

“How did we get here?”

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 18h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

www.cnn.com

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Ged/Sparrowhawk @ged-sparrowhawk.bsky.social · 17h

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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 14h

Is AI really causing a creativity crisis, or is our education system and how treat young people in general, something which has been backed my massive research, and AI is merely exposing the lack of creativity we've fostered in our yourh

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Smeefus Smonkus @shydemk.bsky.social · 10h

The Taltos and Phoenix Guard books rip so fucking hard man. I blew through Jhereg to Vallista in one summer because I genuinely could not stop, and I had a job sanding countertops which is incredibly mindless work that needed filling. I think I loved every single one except Athyra

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Diamond Hands: Master Bag Holder @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 13h

May God forgive those who believe history began on 10/7 and may God punish those who tricked them

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13h

Now that the final 20 Israeli hostages are free, remember: those claiming violence “began on 10/7” want us to ignore that Israel was forced to free 2,000 Palestinians hostages—some 20 years w/o charge—& 8,000 remain.

If Hamas holding 20 is violence—& I agree it is—what is when Israel holds 8,000?🤔

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 15h

I stopped trying to make my TTRPG baddies "realistic" when I realized that our IRL villains were far more villainous than any character I could ever hope to write.

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Smeefus Smonkus @shydemk.bsky.social · 10h

And homedog has a motorized golf bag for his katanas. King shit

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Smeefus Smonkus @shydemk.bsky.social · 10h

"It fills you even now, doesn't it? The hunger. To bite down on my jugular, to feel the warmth fill your mouth and run over even as you drink deep. Good, good!"

Fucking cinema. Zenos rules. Man just hungers for blood and carnage and he wants to see that animalistic thirst in others too. Great stuff

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Monty Blazar @montypla.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of people hate Zenos in FFXIV because he doesn't have very deep motivation, he just wants to fight and I have been saying for years that, especially in a game with so many villains like Emet Selch, having a guy who is just a weird pervert who causes problems on purpose is really fun

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