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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 3h

One person on this list is a school counselor at a high school down the street from me and she’s been purged from the website so fast Google cache doesn’t know about it yet

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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John Osborn 🏳️‍🌈 @johnosborn.bsky.social · 24m

Wow, how long has it been since I've seen one of these? The VX is a fairly obscure trim of the Civic designed for maximum fuel efficiency. It was extra light weight, had skinny, low rolling resistance tires, and a special "lean burn" version of VTEC (VTEC-E) to get 48 mpg city, 55 mpg highway.

Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 1h

1992 Honda Civic VX Hatchback 5-Speed at No Reserve

No Reserve: 1992 Honda Civic VX Hatchback 5-Speed

Bid for the chance to own a No Reserve: 1992 Honda Civic VX Hatchback 5-Speed at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #215,612.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 13m

You are so fucking pretty

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 6h

Elon is figuring out that he can have everything he wanted out of a Mars colony (total and unaccountable control of a polity) without all the bother of getting to Mars

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 7h

SCOOP: SpaceX's company town Starbase has started up its own volunteer fire department.

It's the latest way SpaceX and Starbase are exerting control over the corner of Texas they occupy.

Also, Starbase has hired its own fire marshal service for inspections/permits.

techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/a...

At Starbase, SpaceX is taking firefighting into its own hands | TechCrunch

SpaceX's company town has formed a volunteer fire department, extending control over both the emergency response and permitting process as the company looks to expand Starbase.

techcrunch.com

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CatFrat @catfrat.bsky.social · 4h

This is why ridicule is an effective form of protest. Convening an Emergency Naked Bike Ride is ridiculous in the first place; having it give Mike Johnson such vapors that he calls it “the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet” is so over the top it’s ridiculous. Just perfection

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'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 🔜 Can*Con 2025 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 3h

Want to read a story about a matchmaking house that exists outside of reality?

Sure you do.

(One from the Flash Fics archive.)

Friday “Flash” Fics — 9 a.m. Monday, Sharp

Okay, so this isn’t a flash fiction piece. It’s a short story. Normally, I try to keep my Friday Flash Fics pieces around or below 1,500 words or so, but this story just kept going. The…

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 3h

Our house doesn't have a single fucking phone jack. Our last place didn't either.

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James @elchopo99.bsky.social · 3h

look we can be skeptical, but are you saying you wouldnt sacrifice an old growth forest and drain lake erie to have an AI generated anime chick with 3 nipples and 4 hands talk dirty to you???

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 9h

so, a big Resistance account on here kindly reshared my piece, then deleted their original post, and wrote another one linking to an article from a different site that aggregated my reporting here (and did so with due credit to be fair) … social media can be so weird

Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 13h

wrote about how Dr. Phil pivoted to wholesale MAGA punditry after leaving daytime TV to start his own company—and why his Trump friendship and ICE ride-alongs couldn't save his new venture from the bankruptcy proceedings that now have him tied up in court slate.com/business/202...

He Used to Dominate Daytime TV. Now He’s Sucking Up to Trump—and His Media Empire Is Collapsing.

When Dr. Phil signed off his talk show in 2023, he pivoted to MAGA politics. It’s not working so well for him.

slate.com

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Coffee III: Saison of the Witch @unlox.bsky.social · 13h

Pounded In The Butt By The Imaginary Long Island Family I Use To Contemplate How Swing Voters React To Policy

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Homeowner tip: If you keep forgetting to power wash the exterior of your home, you’ll end up with a spooky collection of authentic cobwebs just in time for the Halloween season. Very scary!

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 4h

This would get him fired in most jobs, but it'll probably be good for his standing in this GOP

Quoting from the article:

The judge also noted that after Langston filed a petition for the restraining order, Mills... “caused a public employee under his direct supervision” to contact her, too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 4h

I think allowing online gambling was one of the worst mistakes of the last couple decades

Misandrosaurus Hex @bexone.bsky.social · 5h

My bff is a high school teacher and can verify that the (freshman) children are absolutely mobile gambling in high numbers, an activity that *already* has laws defining it as an adult-only activity requiring age verification

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 4h

It's another example of things that suck for most people but makes extremely wealthy people even more money. And "if it makes rich people richer, it has to be allowed" is how the law seems to work

Sometimes I think it all comes back to Citizens United, but that's probably an oversimplification.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 4h

The better question is why *wouldn't* they? What do servicemembers stand to lose by obeying illegal orders, compared to what price they'd pay for disobedience?

We'll be asking the same question when the U.S. military is killing U.S. citizens, and the answer will be the same then.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 4h

Fenway has always been imperfect, but this is just fucking horrifying. I don't know what to say.

Let this be more evidence that living in a blue state, or going to one of the oldest and most established LGBTQ+ healthcare providers in the country, isn't enough to protect us from what's coming.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 5h

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h

I know the headline everyone's running with is "erotica" but "we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues" and "we are putting personality back in ChatGPT so it will act like a friend" are diametrically opposed statements

that's the cause of most of the mental health issues

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 11h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 8h

It’s trite but true that the antisemites love accusing people of antisemitism.

It’s one of the animating forces of the modern, Christian nationalist GOP.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Hey, I wonder if CBS News has ever had a Jewish woman as president before?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Z...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 5h

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Scott Campbell @susurros.bsky.social · 5h

"Like the other detainees released back to Gaza, Radee was never charged with a crime. And like many others, his detention was marked by torture, medical neglect and starvation at the hands of Israeli prison guards."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail

Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...

www.theguardian.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 5h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you for doing that legwork

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