Ross Thompson (50ᵗʰ anniversary edition)
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...
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faineg.bsky.social
I mean we should also be continuing to hammer how Noem is a puppy-killer and Trump is the only pet-hating president ever, too
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faineg.bsky.social
I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.
wintermute115.bsky.social
No appeals = more innocent people being executed.

I mean, why *shouldn't* cops and prosecutors fabricate evidence, if they know the case is never going to be reviewed?
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electproject.bsky.social
It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave
atrupar.com
Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."
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sarahgailey.bsky.social
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jelenawoehr.bsky.social
I know the temptation is to just scroll past this with a “not surprised” reaction, but you should read this if you have the emotional bandwidth to encounter horrifying slurs and violent sentiments, because there’s an important takeaway: extremism is often performed to reinforce an in-group’s bond.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
wintermute115.bsky.social
It looks like Watson doesn't have the guts to stick with Matt Berry as Sherlock Holmes (as he was in voice over in season 1), and have replaced him with Robert Carlyle.

I can't say I'm not a little upset.
wintermute115.bsky.social
"Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!"
gregsargent.bsky.social
Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.
wintermute115.bsky.social
Thread.
courtneymilan.com
6. There is no such thing as free violence. All violence harms the wielder.

Every time someone tries to sell you on the idea that there is something we can do, without cost, that harms other people, realize that they are lying to you.
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swingingstorm.bsky.social
So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.
wintermute115.bsky.social
"The customer is always right *in matters of taste*"

The customer is right about what they want, not anything else.
raxkingisdead.bsky.social
few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats
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angus.bsky.social
Just a quick reminder that the disagreement over the globe between Columbus and his peers wasn't about the SHAPE, but about the SIZE—and that in that dispute, Columbus was the one who was wrong.
erinbiba.bsky.social
No he didn’t and no we shouldn’t.

“no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat”
wintermute115.bsky.social
Anyone who says "Frankenstein was the doctor, not the monster" doesn't know the book well enough to have an opinion, or they'd know he was a medical school dropout, not a doctor.
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
wintermute115.bsky.social
If you see this, quote with your favorite pokémon (wrong answers only)
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tlecaque.bsky.social
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.
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wintermute115.bsky.social
Tick-Tock The Clockwork Man!

I always love an obscure Wizard Of Oz reference.
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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social
I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas
paleofuture.bsky.social
Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”
Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance
Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.
www.10news.com
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
The tell is when the "free speech" warrior's argument equates to "the people criticizing me are silencing me and should therefore be made to shut up."

It's a pretty obvious tell; makes you wonder about those who keep falling for it time after time after time. Or maybe not wonder so much.
chronicleflask.katday.com
They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
henrymance.ft.com
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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wintermute115.bsky.social
If you see this QRP with a game that released the year you were born.

There really weren't that many options, tbh.
PEDIT5 - The first graphical RPG

Created in 1975 by Rusty Rutherford - "I wrote it all in about 4-6 weeks in the fall and winter of 1975"

Made on the PLATO network system

Based heavily on Dungeons & Dragons - "I used the basic features of D&D as much as possible: hit points, monster levels, experience and treasure awards, and so on..."

Deleted soon after its discovery by administrators

Recreated as Orthanc A screenshot of Pedit5, laid out kinda like a D&D character sheet.