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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 9h

ANTIFA Arts And Crafts Division is a joke to you, old man?

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

Trump: “You see people holding this gorgeous sign with beautiful wood, beautiful cardboard, wood, everything, everything’s perfect, paint job, and they’re all the same. There are thousands of them, you know, that they weren’t made in the basement out of love. They were made by anarchists.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

Trump: “You see people holding this gorgeous sign with beautiful wood, beautiful cardboard, wood, everything, everything’s perfect, paint job, and they’re all the same. There are thousands of them, you know, that they weren’t made in the basement out of love. They were made by anarchists.”

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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 11h

It's why George Lucas had such a hard time faking the Moon Landing when he was filming on Pluto.

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 11h

#TrekkiesAgainstFascism

star trek inspired illustration of 4 hands holding up a picket sign. the hands are wearing the colorful uniforms of the Star Trek The Original Series crew. The sign says "Together We Resist." to the left, it has a sign of the Vulcan symbol for IDIC: a triangle in the center of a circle. at the bottom right of the sign is a drawing of a crown that is crossed out. At the bottom right of the image, the white text says "Trekkies Against Fascism."

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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 22h

No. None of us that are honest with ourselves can remember a time American Conservatism wasn't a fig leaf to cover up baked crony capitalism, as that has been the default position of Conservatism once in power for... A Century? A little more?

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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 1d

a werewolf with its mouth open is standing in the dark

ALT: a werewolf with its mouth open is standing in the dark

media.tenor.com

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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 1d

Patel would employ .50 cal armed robots in the streets if he could though.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 1d

Your video might actually be worth watching (assuming it contains no AI), but I'll never know, because I see AI, I block. Period.

And if more of us did this, maybe, just maybe, we'd stop seeing it.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 1d

Why do people use crappy AI thumbnails on YT videos when the topic of the video already provides a wide range of useful images?

If your video is of a computer game, movie, TV show -- just USE A FUCKING SCREENSHOT OF IT! Using AI just makes me say "Do not recommend this channel".

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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 1d

"Somebody get us two Snickers Bars, stat!"

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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 1d

Not gonna lie... I prolly would vote for him as Supreme Federation Commander.

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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 1d

I thought that was Mick Jagger? I mean, the song says...

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Oh it's a metaphor? Wow.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

"I don't like Trump, but you have to admit--"

Nope, we're good, you can stop right there--actually, back up about five words, pull over, and get out of the car you're about to drive over a rhetorical cliff.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I called Pritzker this morning. This ain't it.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

twenty-four people were arrested by state troopers, eight by cook county sheriff's police, and two by broadview police, according to periodic updates from the sheriff's office.

eighteen people were arrested on saturday alone.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 3d

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Also, yesterday's derided pop culture is tomorrow's high culture

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 1d

That's not an excuse for the behavior of many, many MANY fans the past two decades in reference to discourse surrounding genre works mind you.

M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 1d

This also explains all the dust-ups on social media in regards to all these well worn corporate owned franchises and characters. For whatever reason, blunt cultural inertia, widespread penetration into the collective psyche, regardless, these things are now "canonized" and have accrued meaning.

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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. Shakespeare is filled with what to his audience of the period, are references to various social and political events, views and then well known personalities that almost all fly over the head of people experiencing the works today because most of us myself included have zero context.

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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 1d

Okay... His administration of the Mars colony had some controversies and he was killed by a brainwashed construction worker, but other than that...

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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 1d

Jellico did nothing wrong.

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 1d

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This is extreme.
I’m an immigrant in Spain, and I never have my passport unless traveling. I have my NIE if I have my wallet with me. This is a silly, over-the-top enforcement.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 2d

If Joe Biden was unable to close an umbrella there would have been +/- 1,000 think pieces in the newspapers of America questioning whether he was capable of discharging the duties of the office of President of the United States.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump gets some help closing his umbrella while boarding Air Force One

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M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 2d

Jake...

Why should I care what you think again?

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 2d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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