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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 21h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 1d

CHOTINER: So let me get this straight. Anti-racists are the real racists, is that correct?
THIEL: right.
CHOTINER: and the anti-fascists?
THIEL: right, they’re the real fascists
CHOTINER: So now you’re saying Greta is the Antichrist.
THIEL: …
CHOTINER: I think you can see where I’m going with this.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 21h

And to a degree, they are right to assess that the message on its own sails past low salience voters. They think the government doesn't serve them, and the government is democracy, and thus "protect democracy" is not a call to arms. Where Dems are failing is in connecting material impacts to fascism

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 21h

This is not a defense of perpetually feckless Dems, but I bet Dems feel they ran on "Trump is fascist and undermining democracy" and they lost the election and so are giving up that message.

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 22h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 21h

This is not a defense of perpetually feckless Dems, but I bet Dems feel they ran on "Trump is fascist and undermining democracy" and they lost the election and so are giving up that message.

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 22h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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nick @vossbrink.bsky.social · 21h

It's not just AI bullshit whack a mole. It's that all the UIs have changed too.

nick @vossbrink.bsky.social · 21h

Sorry. ✌️upgraded✌️

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nick @vossbrink.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah I held off upgrading for a year. Finally succumbed this week because I found out about a horrible security hole that needed to be patched.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 21h

Skimming the @npr.org newsfeed and man, the Trump administration illegally laying off thousands of people during a shutdown crisis of their own invention has got to be the worst news I've read all day

Let me just scroll down a little more to confirm that

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 23h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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nick @vossbrink.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect that 80% of that is people's stereotypes about Philly fans.

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 1d

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

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nick @vossbrink.bsky.social · 1d

Okay the Team Mexico series caught me by surprise.

Trenton Thunder⚡ @trentonthunder.com · 1d

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nick @vossbrink.bsky.social · 1d

And our owner doesn't care.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
8:34 AM • 10/10/25 • 30K Views

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nick @vossbrink.bsky.social · 1d

Of course it's the STEM school that knows how to actually write.

Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 1d

MIT’s reply to Trumps shocking attack on education is a master class in deft rhetorical communication and positioning. It refutes without ceding ground. It negates without naming the charge. It accuses and rejects while sounding compliant. What a breath of fresh air after endless disappointments

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 1d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

Cam Skattebo had one of the greatest high school highlights of all time in the California state championship game (he had 393 yards and 3 TDs and they won)

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Spooky Ghostsulias 👻 @stacegotsbaseball.com · 1d

Oh my God, the replies to this are incredible.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

Jenna would make Liz write jokes for her, Liz would write a bunch of feminist material because she’s mad at Jenna and then try to pull it at the last minute because she’s worried for Jenna’s safety. Jenna would ham it up so hard that the Saudis would love it as parody of shrill American women

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 1d

which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 1d

The Disturbing Lessons of the 1937 ‘Degenerate Art’ Show

The Disturbing Lessons of the 1937 ‘Degenerate Art’ Show | Artnet News

7 points to keep in mind when the specter of the 1937 "Entartete Kunst," or "Degenerate Art" show, is invoked today.

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 1d

This is my hole! It's made for me.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 1d

California School Shutters Exhibition After Altering "Political" Art

Pepperdine University abruptly closed the show as at least a dozen artists asked to withdraw in protest of what they called an act of censorship.

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nick @vossbrink.bsky.social · 1d

I like to kid-added uniform numbers.

nick @vossbrink.bsky.social · 1d

I know this happened but this is just weird.

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