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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 1h

COVID really made every billionaire to a man insane, huh

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 4d

If Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban can't make it, what hope is there for me and the black monolith that knows all things

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 11h

“we are watching one of the great postseason games certainly of this century” wow is that right

some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 11h

watching my first baseball game ever, i really like that they do 14 innings every game

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16h

One Battle After Another

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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 th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 16h

fuck

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 18h

this is straight up insider trading

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18h

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 19h

FOUR PERCENT MY GOD

some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 20h

by like half a day if i’m not mistaken?

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 20h

JEALOUS

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 20h

justin bieber is wearing a hooded jacket and asking what do you mean

Alt: justin bieber is wearing a hooded jacket and asking what do you mean

media.tenor.com

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 20h

conservative principles!

some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 20h

gonna throwback and hit this with a 📌

some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 20h

they said “Democratic” instead of “Democrat”, GOP is cooked

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Diary of a Black Cat Crossing Your Path in Despair @jcc333.bsky.social · 21h

Alright, who's gonna start OnlyDems, we can draw straws for it if we have to

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21h

this has been a periodic complaint for decades and I'm curious what is standing in the way of fixing it

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 21h

It's basically impossible to earn a living as an independent commentator on the left.

By contrast, Fox and its imitators *constantly* elevate new voices and encourage people to get involved.

They pool their resources. They recycle their dollars and keep them in-network. They crowdfund like crazy.

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 21h

actual lol

Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker says NO KINGS, SHOW UP ON 10/18

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, Pritzker says more Dems must sound the alarm, though he notes some exceptions (like Chris Murphy).

"I am surprised that more leaders have not stood up," he says.

He urges people to join No Kings protests to let the country know something's wrong. 5/5

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 21h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 22h

not signing a newsom apology forum but maybe let him finish second to last in the 2028 primary

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 22h

itch.io is more like Wikipedia than Steam

www.rascal.news/itch-io-isnt...

Itch.io isn’t like other platforms

It’s like a 3.5 star Chinese restaurant.

www.rascal.news

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ATIM Instant Messenger @atim.app · 23h

Sneak peek at a new client for Bluesky that is nearly ready for a beta release. atim.app

A classic 90s-style chat window between two users, Peggy and Joan, discussing getting a drink after work.

A classic 90s-style instant messenger friends window showing users, chats, and timelines.

A snapshot of a user's timeline feed in a 90s style window.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 23h

This is super cool not just that it exists, but it's at the center of a quasar detected in the 19th C (because the dust around the black hole is so hot, and thus bright), which means people literally saw the two black hole system, which is counterintuitively bright, before black holes were theorized

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 23h

they're gonna have to start antifrog

Philip Seymour Hoffman saying "Oh, there are frogs falling from the sky" with a look of deep concern

frogs cover the ground near a swimming pool, with more falling from the sky, with the subtitle "[FROGS CROAKING]"

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