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🎃Woooo Spookybill🎃 @spoonbill.bsky.social · Mar 8

I see Trump as a composite of various figures from the Late Roman Republic. He exemplifies the vindictiveness and dementia of the returned Marius, the 'promise them anything' populism of a Clodius, and the consuming greed and frustrated desire for approbation of a Crassus.

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🎃Woooo Spookybill🎃 @spoonbill.bsky.social · 6h

They voted for him, so forgive me if I shed no tears.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 6h

Stop puppeteering the dead. It's ghoulish.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 7h

The moral compass here isn’t just broken, it’s spinning wildly in the dark.👇

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🎃Woooo Spookybill🎃 @spoonbill.bsky.social · 15h

You know, now that I think of it, Donald Trump has achieved remarkable things in the field of international relations.

You've been kidnapped.

Your kidnappers allow you to keep posting on social media media to pretend everything is alright.

What would you post that would alarm your followers, without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help?

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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 15h

I've met the most wonderful man! We met online, through a dating app, and we're totally in love!

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Body of text: Your kidnappers allow you to keep posting on social media to pretend everything is alright. What would you post that would alarm your followers, without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help?

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham

Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 3d

Zoe Williams interviews feminist philosopher @manongarcia.bsky.social - the English translation of her book about the Pelicot trial was published last week

‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists

When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...

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🎃Woooo Spookybill🎃 @spoonbill.bsky.social · 19h

Let's just say that our recent trip to Paris and Berlin graphically illustrated just how little of my high school French and German I've retained.

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom: "Masked men. Jumping out of unmarked vehicles. People disappearing. No due process. No oversight. No accountability. People say I'm being hyperbolic. Bullshit. This is happening in America today."

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🎃Woooo Spookybill🎃 @spoonbill.bsky.social · 19h

Brazil actually sent 25,000 troops to fight in Italy. So the snake was smoking after all.🇧🇷 2/2

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🎃Woooo Spookybill🎃 @spoonbill.bsky.social · 20h

TIL that it's a reference to a Brazilian saying, 'cobra vai fumar' (a snake will smoke), used in the same way as the English expression 'and pigs might fly'. People were sceptical about Brazil's commitment to the war effort, doubting that their involvement would mean anything substantial. 1/2

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Malcolm @mdpb53.bsky.social · 20h

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He released the Epstein Files.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20h

😡😡😡😡

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 21h

"We are a decade into Trumpism. These Young Republicans have never known any other type of Republicanism....We’re talking about a full generation of Republicans who *only* understand politics in the context of an authoritarian project."
www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

All the Pretty Little Nazis

The shape of things to come.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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🎃Woooo Spookybill🎃 @spoonbill.bsky.social · 20h

C'est toujours la sauce gauchiste!

a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32

Alt: Stereotypical French chef from a Bugs Bunny cartoon kissing his fingertips in a gesture of Gallic fervour.

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🎃Woooo Spookybill🎃 @spoonbill.bsky.social · 20h

I liked how Brazilian Army forces fighting in Italy in WW2 had a shoulder patch of a snake smoking a pipe.

Second World War Brazilian Expeditionary Forces patch of a green snake on a yellow background smoking a pipe. The word 'Brasil' is at the top in white letters on a royal blue field. The entire insignia is bordered in red.

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Decker Reported @laurabrevitz.bsky.social · 21h

This may be objectively the best thread ever on Bluesky.

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

A group of far right assholes have showed up to protest at David Douglas high school after students allegedly pushed back at a formation of a turning point chapter. School is out & they are outnumbered by predominantly Black & Brown students roasting the fuck out of them.