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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 6h

Hi what

Headline: “nature’s labubu: why are gen z unboxing conkers?”

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Karen Meisner @whatnext.bsky.social · 8h

digital killed the video star

Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 8h

wow.

thegrio.com/2025/10/13/g...

Goodbye to the MTV we grew up with: Paramount pulls the plug on its music channels

The move marks the end of an era for MTV’s music programming as audiences continue to shift to digital platforms.

thegrio.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10h

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

Look at this incredible work by our dogsitter.

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Karen Meisner @whatnext.bsky.social · 8h

AI;dr

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

Accessibility services can cost money. And as a society, our reps got together and decided, 'we're going to take some of the money we take in by taxing, and we're going to spend it on making sure kids with disabilities get an education'

Trump is saying, "🖕🫵, give that 💰 to my billionaire buddies"

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

This is evil

Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Oh hey Chels! @chelsisright.bsky.social · 9h

If you want to see an economy, really take off and hit the stratosphere. Try this.

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 9h

Big fan of universal free child care!

New Mexico Is Providing Free Childcare for All. It’s Time for Others to Do the Same

The state is setting a powerful example with its first-in-the-nation plan. But the policy has support across the US.

www.thenation.com

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 9h

This happens to me ALL THE TIME. Need to stop following frogs but I'll never learn

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 13h

when a frog is our call to adventure

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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 9h

I was embarrassingly old before I understood this: Go meet people in your town or neighborhood. Join a book club. Join a church. Become a regular at a bar or coffee shop. At some point, someone will need help. Help them.

David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest challenge is convincing people that things could be different and that their actions matter.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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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...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

audio on for community whistling repelling ICE/BP from the scene

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began

WASHINGTON—Touting a new crime report as evidence their ramped-up operations were improving American life, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Friday that there had been zero murde...

theonion.com

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Goodnight.

Georgia O'Keeffe's Train at Night in the Desert, 1916.
www.moma.org/collection/w...

watercolour of a train approaching the viewer, only its headlight is visible and a large plume of smoke

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 2d

SF Bay! This is *tonight*! Don't miss it!

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d

Bay Area friends! Food! Trauma! Healing! All that and more with me, @soleilho and Lee Lai, tomorrow night, 6pm at Mrs Dalloways! Free! It's all part of @litquake.org!! litquake2025.sched.com/event/28S9x/...

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like it should be a slightly larger story that amid all the administration’s screaming about “antifa” (whatever that is for them), Trump and his cronies are more aggressively and more frequently calling journalists they don’t like terrorists.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 14d

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜

The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces.

They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading.
#bookhistory 💙📚📜

Detail of a manicure and a little face gesturing towards the handwritten text of a manuscript in gothic script written on parchment. The man depicted seems angry. The manicure has a sleeve

A manicule with a stretched sleeve drawn in red in the margins pointing towards a text in Gothic script written on parchment

A manicule used to highlight a rubricated section title in a medieval manuscript written in gothic script on parchment

A very large vaguely drawn manicule pointing towards text in gothic script written on parchment

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 2d

Need everybody to bring the same fire they had for Jimmy Kimmel to this

ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 2d

✅ He fired a U.S. Attorney who refused to bring charges against her
✅ He replaced them with someone with NO prosecutorial experience

This isn't justice. This is retaliation.

When Black women do their jobs with excellence, they face attacks. But AG James isn't backing down, and neither should we.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 2d

This is the coolest thing I have ever heard

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2d

It’s so fucking irritating how these people unaccountably exert power but then also demand we bless it as legitimate. You’re the ones tearing up every contract, we don’t owe you shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 2d

Turducken Lowery
@kenlowery.bsky.social
I didn't have the words to express it at the time, but growing up I definitely thought of Gary Busey as Nick Nolte's Wario
August 18, 2024 at 11:16 PM

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 3d

reminder to check your kid’s trick or treat candy this year to make sure there isn’t any ai in it

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