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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 12h

“Machado’s politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, even appealing directly to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza’s annihilation, to help ‘liberate’ Venezuela with bombs under the banner of ‘freedom.’”

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

www.commondreams.org

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 23h

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 1d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 13h

NEW: CNN says it will air a town hall special with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social and Sen. Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov on the government shutdown.

The special airs Wednesday, October 15 at 9 p.m. ET.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 12h

Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.

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Starfleet Intelligence SCREAM Analyst @daxarian.bsky.social · 12h

“The T-600s had rubber skin. Bright, day glo green coloring. We spotted them easy. But these are new. They look like frogs. Slime, realistic croaking, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait til he moved on you before I could zero him.”

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 13h

2025. Even then there were barely any stores left. even though the worst had not yet come to pass, antifa supersoldiers already ravaged the land, clad in inflatable frog suits. all I can remember from those days - frogs, fire, and ash

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 22h

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 15h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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Dalton @daltonherriott.bsky.social · 18h

Antifa loves carpooling because the lack of other people allows them to radicalize easily. A bus or train filled with people prevents that.

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Rei 💖 @nocteacakes.bsky.social · 19h

www.grimdarkmagazine.com/interview-wi...

New article interviewing Sen for Alchemised! They talk more in depth about the characters and worldbuilding for the book

www.grimdarkmagazine.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 15h

The Catholic Church requires bishops to submit their resignation to the Pope when they turn 75 and the Pope chooses whether to accept it or not and as much as I hate having to hand anything to the Catholic Church, they are kinda on to something

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 16h

Dems building a bench of senators younger than 75 challenge fail

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 16h

Janet Mills's campaign account just posted this video of her saying that she just announced her campaign against Susan Collins. #MESen. Mills, 77, is expected to jump in the race against Collins. She would face Graham Platner, Jordan Wood and Dan Kleban.

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The Lincolnshire Poster @desiderratum.bsky.social · 10h

Netanyahu wouldn't have accepted this deal from Biden, but some commentators don't seem to realize that this makes Biden's deference to him all the more damning. He was obviously in the tank for Trump! So why didn't Biden play hardball?

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 10h

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 10h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 11h

We love you Chicago 🫶

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

A tow truck is bringing an ICE/CBP vehicle back to the facility—and its back window has been completely smashed out.

Front driver's side window is cracked, too.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

we also need to discuss how gay this is

Ulphia was said to be a young girl living on the banks of the Noye, who was determined not to marry, despite having a number of suitors. She would feign madness in an effort to discourage them. 2) At the age of twenty-five she received the veil from the Bishop of Amiens. She then retired to live as a hermit near what would
become Saint-Acheul, near Amiens in the Kingdom of the Franks.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 9h

“she placed the frogs under interdict” that’s a curse guys

she cursed them

you canonized a witch

a gay witch probably

this is my new favorite saint. team Ulphia forever. just a baby lesbian and her old man hermit bestie vibing in their French swamp

a portrait of two Saint weirdos standing on a swampy marshy riverbank with a bunch of frogs looking up at them. one is a very very old bald man in a brown robe with weirdly voluminous sleeves. the other is a young woman in a kind of sand beige gown with a white head scarf

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EXEGESIS FREAK @cryptotheism.bsky.social · 9h

People keep asking me if vampires can drink the blood of Christ: it depends if the priest was Catholic or Protestant. If that wine is transubstantiated, it kills the vampire. Protestant? Vampire gets drunk.