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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 38m

these people have the self-reflection of a vampire

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 4h

Eg Since CGPT (and enshittification of Google search) visits to BISH have been down. Page rank is lower so BISH is getting served less. So it's out to destroy advice websites (that are free and ad free). But there's another issue and that is:

Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 6h

I have many worries about AI and 'advice' giving, but two pressing ones are how much useful information from advice columns, books, charities etc has been consumed and ruined to churn out harmful crap.

And how clearly advice giving has never been valued and continues to be devalued. Destroyed, even

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 3h

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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rounding error @stealingzen.bsky.social · 3h

i'm built different (ikea particleboard)

🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 3h

I'm built different (no code, no prototype, no backup)

Mom Friend "Free Link" 64 @pengarr.postes.club · 4h

im built different (art deco)

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7h

Thinking of all the people who insisted that this admin was serious about "ending antisemitism on college campuses."

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 8h

ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown: tinyurl.com/37euaejk

Masked ICE agents throwing bags of brown leaves in unmarked van

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

I understand that there are right ways and wrong ways to have the age conversation about Dem leadership and I don’t know how I feel about specific solutions like age and term limits. I do know THIS PART HERE is a problem bigger than any one individual 78-year-old and it’s making us all furious

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11h

I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.

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rounding error @stealingzen.bsky.social · 10h

You are one of the most caring and kind people I know, and when your PMDD is kicking your ass, I wanna kick it right back.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11h

the subreddits for luxury watches are some of the darkest places on earth

Rolex subreddit post:

My uncle has Alzheimer's and is often forgetful of his possessions. One of them is a Rolex Submariner. Would I be justified in taking and caring for it as my own instead of having it left neglected and forgotten in his jewelry box? Thanks.

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rounding error @stealingzen.bsky.social · 11h

I meant by user, specifically

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 12h

"ICE shouldn't use full body restraints"
"ICE shouldn't use teargas"
"ICE shouldn't break into homes without warrants"

ICE shouldn't exist. We don't have to split hairs, energy, and resources. Its a private military that circumvents limitations on deploying military force on citizens.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12h

do people still not know what comes after "a few bad apples" in the aphorism

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 12h

The New York governor swiftly dismissed talk of "some bad apples" among leaders of the Young Republicans groups.

'This Bulls**t Has To Stop!': Kathy Hochul Takes On GOP Over Young Republicans Report

The New York governor swiftly dismissed talk of "some bad apples" among leaders of the Young Republicans groups.

www.huffpost.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h

The moment when he starts giving his canned response and she goes “that’s such bullshit” lmao I have no idea who these ladies are but they rock

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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rounding error @stealingzen.bsky.social · 12h

I know I’m super guilty of this, especially lately. I blame the Deep Depression.

I honestly wish BlueSky would implement the Twitter feature of turn off reposts for people you follow, so I don’t annoy folks who don’t want to see the flood of things I repost. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Jarrett P. @notcrucial.bsky.social · 19h

I've been scrolling BS a lot less lately, and I think it's due to a lack of personal posts. It used to feel like I followed individuals and now it just feels like a news feed or horrors. I know all social media reflects the times, but man, im so tired.

Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social · 20h

i need you all to post more daily life stuff. i know we're all here to stare into the void together but i want to know what you made for dinner and what you've been reading before bed between all the void-staring.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 19h

Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise
The operation involved at least 10 officers and suspects were jailed for up to a week for stealing knit caps, sweatshirts, and a pet toy.
publicola.com/2025/10/14/s...

Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett Last week, the Seattle Police Department announced it had completed a successful “Organized Retail Theft Operation”…

publicola.com

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 19h

Setting aside graverobbing woman who died in no small part due to men exploiting her image, copyright violations aren't "growing pains." It's literally the law. They’re breaking the law. Without copyright law, there is no creative industry, and without a creative industry, there is no genAI.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

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

www.scientificamerican.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

can't deport them somewhere they want to go

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 18h

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 20h

LOLLL This reminds me of when Amazon shut down @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social's affiliate account with them and refused to give us the money we had made because they they deemed our site as "porn" (citing specific comics), while THEY WERE SELLING OUR BOOKS WHICH CONTAINED THOSE EXACT SAME COMICS 😂

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 21h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 22h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Doctor Hurdy Gurdy @notarealdoctor.bsky.social · 1d

Capitalism has taken everything from my generation.

Headline reading "Daddy Drought Hits Gay Community as Aging Millennials Grapple With Rising Cost of Sugar Babies." Subtitle reads, "Would-Be Daddy's Lack Means to Penetrate Gay Sugar Baby Market"

The headlines are superimposed over a young looking Twink with an older daddy

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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merritt @merrittk.com · 17h

the microplastics and heavy metals in my body squaring up to decide who gets to give me cancer

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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should be scared by this blatant attack on someone
standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement.
Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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