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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 22m

Either universities are private businesses that get to set their own priorities or they’re public goods that are obligated to serve everyone. You can’t have it both ways.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h

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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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 31m

When you miss the Cape of Good Hope

Disappointment Island, a small island south of New Zealand

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4h

the idea that freedom is in our DNA is just a misinterpretation of the fact that we’re a nation of finicky whiners who don’t like to be personally inconvenienced

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

once Jesus Christ is firmly established as a DC character we can at last start having some important power level conversations

Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 4h

Holy shit.

36 Years Later, DC Will Finally Publish a Controversial Canceled Comic Where Swamp Thing Meets Jesus Christ | NYCC 2025 - IGN

In 1989, DC canceled a Swamp Thing comic that would have seen the noble hero meet Jesus Christ. Now, 36 years later, that controversial story will finally see the light of day.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

I'm in on the robot umpires with one caveat. They need to be like actual robots. I need to see Aaron Boone arguing with Johnny 5 over a bad call at the plate before he vaporizes him with a laser

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 3h

Never forget

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · Jan 4

Never seen a more spot-on description of a musician and his band.

A record album by Paul Winter and his Winter Consort, titled “Icarus.” The record store selling it has added the genre description, “top tier ethno honkey”

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 3h

The Paul Winter Consort

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 4h

What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 10h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 3h

Awww, safe travels Menna and Danielle!

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 5h

What drives me nuts about this dialogue: diversity and inclusion training was a corporate response to the statutory requirements civil rights laws. None of these laws have been repealed by Congress. Congress can pass the laws under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, which has also not been repealed.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 5h

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 5h

24th

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 5h

Minneapolis, are you guys all hip to this Papá Chuy’s Bakery on Lyndale South? I think it’s new since I left town and I just want to be sure you all know about it.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 6h

muppet fozzie bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a hat and tie .

ALT: muppet fozzie bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a hat and tie .

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 6h

Literally zero people have ever been spurred to action by an internet rando Bart-Simpson-at-the-chalkboarding "THIS IS NOT NORMAL"

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 6h

One very clear sign that it's time to log off is when you start getting the urge to post the same desperate sentence 17 times in a row in a single post because you think It's Important.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 7h

It's a little surreal to experience a city you lived in for years as a tourist. Everything is familiar but it all feels slightly off.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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frank @panndder.bsky.social · 8h

resource extraction and sports contests

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 10h

So ok so public health is gone.

The military is trying to kill us and the cops are mostly assisting a masked gestapo that is kidnapping people and sending them to concentration camps.

What exactly is the point of the United States anymore?

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 8h

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 20h

This is clearly a prank.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 20h

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, asking him to try again to form a government and produce a budget in a bid to end the country’s political deadlock.
https://to.pbs.org/4nMdf6g

Macron reappoints newly resigned PM Lecornu amid France's political crisis

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, asking him to try again to form a government and produce a budget in a bid ...

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 1d

looks like it went great

picture of trump half-assedly waving with a dejected look on his face. Caption reads President Trump Returns To The White House
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 10: U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the White House following a visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump traveled to Walter Reed to visit with troops and receive a medical check up. (Photo by Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

INTERESTING.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

churchleaders.com

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