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Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 15h

I think it should be clear at this point that like the US federal government has collapsed.

There are no branches. There are no rules.

There is just one man and his truth social posts.

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 15h

No this has really annoyed me for a while now.

Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 16h

This is the pettiest of complaints, but I’m sick of websites and apps removing “no” as an option. It’s been replaced by “maybe later” or “ask again later.”

I swear there is a direct line between anger about women’s consent and this and it WILL be what drives me to villainy.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h

I saw someone say that 79 years old is young and no it is not. Living until you are almost 80 means that you have been blessed to live a long life.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 11h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 20h

Peter Thiel strikes me as a guy who somehow drove himself mad trying to come up with little quips for cocktail parties. If you pay attention to his political statements, they are all oft-repeated anecdotes and observations where the payoff is that he's actually quite clever.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 9h

The $5 footlong has become the $6 six inch. I don't even eat Subway and I still think it's time to knock all this shit over

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 9h

"Boston Jeremy" is bananas

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13h

Social media absolutely is coming to an end

But it’s being killed and even though I am sick about it

I’m more worried that.. yall we are in multiple disasters , genocides and about to have a couple hard revelations AFTER A penny

No one is coordinating the response

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Standing up to fascism is always the right choice.

Rejecting censorship is always the right choice.

Fighting for marginalized and vulnerable communities is always the right choice.

A Wyoming librarian refused to purge books with LGBTQ+ content and was fired for it.

She won a $700,000 settlement

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

www.nytimes.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 13h

Yea, we're all responsible for our own nervous systems and if people with big accounts are evoking big feelings in us, we need to put down the phone ourselves

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14h

people really think like this huh

Ed
@ed3d.net
Follow
accounts with tens of thousands of followers do not get to "vent" or make shit up to panic their followers. there is no "but" after this sentence.
I do not have tens of thousands of followers but explicitly refuse to sow panic; these people can do likewise
October 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Very Old Pic of D. Gray @blurbette.blacksky.app · 13h

That’s two 79 year olds in the news with Darryl Hall 🎂 and Diane Keaton 🕊️.

I feel like the angel of death got its D’s mixed up because there was another very obvious choice!!

a woman with red hair is saying i was rooting for you we were all rooting for you

ALT: a woman with red hair is saying i was rooting for you we were all rooting for you

media.tenor.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12h

They are dragging 15 year old girls and hiding the case files of people who did things to 15 year old girls

At what point does it not matter what needs to be “released”

As opposed to making sure that until it is they don’t have access to kids

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twitter's spicypiscespdx but make it spoopy @palkyrie.bsky.social · 1d

Right now, the most radical thing you can do is survive.

Keep waking up. Keep moving. Keep walking.

There will be an end to this. It may take a spell. But have you lived through 3-5 economic collapses to fold now?

No. No you didn't. Get some rest. Reconvene tomorrow. Keep living. It's radical.

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laura’s aura @lauragiron.bsky.social · 10h

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 10h

The fact that white nationalists feel a need to make a halftime show just for them communicates clearly that they understand safe spaces. They just don’t want anyone they deem “other” to have one.

Safety for me, not for thee. In that regard, they sure got the “All-American” part right.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

One evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries consoles another evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries for not getting an award for which neither evil man is even remotely deserving.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 10h

Dolly is a true gift.

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 1d

These inflatable frog suits are taking me out but they are also...healing to watch? I'm upset about what's happening in Portland but laughing is letting the stress out.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18h

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 12d

I listened to that podcast you all talked about yesterday during a very long flight and I realized that Klein and Coates are not having the same conversation Klein thinks they’re having.

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