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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 5h

If SCOTUS were not also simply an organ of Trumpist rule, Voughts entire vast papertail of "I hate the government and will break laws to destroy it" would make these layoffs illegal & the workers could rightfully expect court to rule in their favor. Unfortunately, SCOTUS

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Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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experimental22.bsky.social @experimental22.bsky.social · 3d

American Nazism right there. Greg Bovino is exactly what the Greatest Generation fought against.

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thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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kalina2hu.bsky.social @kalina2hu.bsky.social · 1d

They're seriously out here calling it safe horny to view hardcore stuff in the genre you're talking about and unsafe horny to have softcore stuff in mainstream games that they never jork it to because they've somehow looped around to the same sexual politics as when f*gs were the only ones sexual

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kalina2hu.bsky.social @kalina2hu.bsky.social · 1d

The worst thing is that it actually is ideologically consistent for these same losers to consider themselves anti porn

I got stellar blade assholes telling me they don't want porn just bare naked tits in mainstream videogames. That they don't jerk off to. Because that would be safe horny

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Mom @milph.mom · 11h

Or as this reply from another thread on the topic has stated, these guys truly think there’s a conspiracy that everyone left of John Fetterman actively tries to make things unattractive and are scared of horniness, when in reality, leftists are the most creatively horny people I know, in many ways.

Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 13h

others have pointed it out, but it really isn't about horniness

it's about exclusion - they think that this will scare off the wokes. Because they're fucking stupid.

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Mom @milph.mom · 11h

For 25 years, gamers have been constantly clamoring for “MORE REALISM! MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A MOVIE!” in their AAA games.

And now that we’ve reached it with scans of actors looking like themselves, it clashes head-to-head with people that can only cum to AI images trained off airbrushed magazine scans

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Mom @milph.mom · 1d

I had to check the original source on twitter to make sure it wasn’t a homie being sarcastic and unfortunately the OP is a 100% Trump-lovin’ anti-DEI gooner.

I’m a fucking sex worker and these guys think about jerking off more than me.

Ricardo Regis @ricardonauts.bsky.social · 1d

pensando muito nisso aqui

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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 11h

Can’t help but remember when this picture was enough to spark months of scandal

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Christian Marsham @firehair12000.bsky.social · 12h

A valiant attempt indeed! @tolkoto.com @danryckert.com

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VoidBurger 𝑓 (AKA Jess) @voidburger.com · 1d

Vivi missed us 🥹 and I got him a cute collar he doesn't seem to mind at all!!

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 12h

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 19h

He must really hate Trump then

In all seriousness though what do they think the average European person ate for the vast majority of history

They weren't dining on duck l'orange and foie gras I can tell you that for free

A tweet Trump sent on May 5, 2016: with a photo of him at a desk smiling over a taco bowl. The tweet says, "Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!"

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onion person @junlper.beer · 20h

setting aside the fact that they just don’t know what jokes are, this gives a big insight into the mind of white nationalists. they are deeply paranoid about the idea of being percieved as anything other than Epic Stoics

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 20h

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 21h

NPR’s ombudsman this afternoon:

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Ankle Megami Tensei @stochasticooze.bsky.social · 22h

Everything about this is stupid but I especially enjoy people referring to Disney as "woke"

When will these people learn that corporations largely have no moral values

Decisions are made based on what they think will make the most money

Micah @rincewind.run · 23h

"I’m sorry but this is an absolutely worthless update. Also, when did Tesla start partnering with woke companies like Disney? Didn’t Elon just go a rampage LAST WEEK against woke?"

ads? who cares

WOKE ads? outrageous

the mind of Tesla cultists is fascinating

Ryan McManus @ryantomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

Tesla pulls an Apple U2. electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 22h

More service journalism today @remapradio.bsky.social as @danika.bsky.social joins us to help identify the most practical and cost effective coffee maker for an extremely specific set of requirements. twitch.tv/remapradio || www.youtube.com/live/1Fk5-ft...