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Jake’s Stream of Consciousness @skeetracer.bsky.social · 21h

I went there years ago and it’s absolutely beautiful, can spend a full day, or at least an afternoon there

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 2d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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B mono hive mind type @bforestry.bsky.social · 2d

The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa

Aeryn Sun with a big gun shooting a big Lazer

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3d

Let me emphasize once again that if you’re inclined toward “no deal is possible with these guys” then trying to make a reasonable deal and getting this reaction demonstrates that far better than just asserting it and refusing to try would have.

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 3d

Memes serve as a tool of dark participation and are used purposefully “to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs narratives in the news” (Peters & Allan, 2021, pp. 2–3)

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Jake’s Stream of Consciousness @skeetracer.bsky.social · 3d

Liked this selfie I took, so here y’all go

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 4d

slamming? in the back of my dragula? it's more likely than you think

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Jake’s Stream of Consciousness @skeetracer.bsky.social · 3d

When that song Tipsy came out and was everywhere, I was so convinced it was AI generated and I still can’t quite make Moseley believe it’s isn’t

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Jake’s Stream of Consciousness @skeetracer.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Halloween to Moneychu

A cover of New Yorker Magazine from November 1st 1999 showing a scene of Halloween trick or treating, with a cheerful Pikachu in the foreground dragging a huge candy sack full of cash.

Presumably satirizing the massive commercial success and saturation of Pokemon in its American launch year, right after Halloween when branded Pokemon merch must have been huge

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Jake’s Stream of Consciousness @skeetracer.bsky.social · 5d

post something random, or you'll have an awful October

Escargot the stuffed snail plush that’s also French

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m @0m8.bsky.social · 7d

Drawing of an anthropomorphic cat holding a guitar while wearing the outfit used in Devo's music video "Whip it"

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 8d

This plate of crinoids is from Crawfordsville, Indiana. The Mississippian aged Edwardsville Fm. has tremendous density and diversity. There are over 85 crinoid species found here, often tangled together.

#FossilFriday

Three crinoids tangled together on a large plate

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Jake’s Stream of Consciousness @skeetracer.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve read that a lot of the “Reddit atheist” stereotype comes from Americans leaving religion but not realizing how hard cultural Christianity is baked into them, and it seems like Catholic converts are doing the same with cultural Protestantism

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Jake’s Stream of Consciousness @skeetracer.bsky.social · 11d

As the former I can read faster than the presenter talks, go back over something I didn’t understand more quickly, and there’s no risk of annoying influence voice

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Jake’s Stream of Consciousness @skeetracer.bsky.social · 11d

Tortoise and the Hare, enemies to lovers fanfic

A tortoise and a rabbit sharing a burrow

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 11d

Strip federal contracts from any company that hires a single ICE agent. Impound funds to any state or city that hires one.

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Big Art Thread @bigartthread.bsky.social · 17d

Paintings by American artist Al Held, 1970s-2000s, who said he wanted "to give abstract expressionism structure" with his Hard-Edge style.

Abstract painting in a yellow and pink palette with bits of blue, depicting a floating walkway surrounded by thin beams and curving lines.

Abstract painting in a blue, green, and pink palette depicting construction beams and overlapping curving paths.

Abstract painting in a yellow, orange, and pink palette depicting a large triangular structure surrounded by curving lines and gridded beams.

Abstract painting depicting a curving blue checkerboard background with various colorful shapes with lined and checkerboard patterns floating in the foreground.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 17d

Contractor: so how'd you want the tits? Perky? Big ole cans?

Iowa state legislature: the what

Contractor: me and the boys was thinking perky

Iowa state legislature: this is for the war dead?

Contractor: okay writin' that down as perky

Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 17d

Des Moines has you all beat

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Crispy Hanako @crispyhanako.bsky.social · 20d

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Jake’s Stream of Consciousness @skeetracer.bsky.social · 20d

No I’m not throwing the log you found, dummy

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Jake’s Stream of Consciousness @skeetracer.bsky.social · 20d

At my parents’ place and they’re watching some show about how own would build ancient monuments in the modern day

But this episode on the Parthenon falls a little flat given how they, you know, have to acknowledge Tennessee already built a full size Parthenon

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20d

again, again, again, again: autocrats like to declare themselves untouchable and all-powerful. sometimes they even write it into law. and yet that does not make it so

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 21d

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

V-Dem data

When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900

The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 21d

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 21d

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
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