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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17h

I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

"republican staffers are all literal nazis" is less of a groupchat thing and more of a posting on main thing at this point

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h

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

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 19h

i want one of these assholes to be sued in a two party consent state

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 1d

Actual safety notice from my alma mater:

Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses being used exactly as everyone expected

The techbros are not okay (it’s a completely open campus…not all the buildings, obviously)

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Office of Public Safety

Crime Safety Advisory:
Suspicious Occurrence Reported

Dear USF Community,

We want to make you aware of recent reports of a suspicious occurrence on and around campus. Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions. Reports indicate that this individual may be attempting to post these interactions online under the account name "pickuplines.pov" on TikTok, Instagram, and possibly other social media platforms.

While no threats or acts of violence have been reported, we want our community to stay informed and take steps to support one another.
If you encounter this individual or any suspicious activity:

Take immediate action to report the incident at the time it occurs by calling Public Safety Dispatch.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 22h

this is true, and I also would like activists to finally figure out that Facebook hates you and works for Donald Trump

Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 1d

"The DOJ will continue engaging tech companies to *eliminate platforms* . . ."

This is your daily reminder Bondi specifically, and MAGA generally, spent the last 4 years accusing the Biden admin of jawboning tech companies to take down content in violation of the 1A.

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 1d

congrats!

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 1d

Israel has already broken the ceasefire.

We need to be strict here to maintain peace and move towards a free Palestine and Israel

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

“Cease” fire

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 1d

What purpose does a Fenway Health that abandons trans youth, and presumably will soon abandon trans adults, even serve?

At that point, you may as well shut the entire clinic down. This is tearing the entire heart out of the organization, sacrificing it's mission and sabotaging it's legacy.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

Alt text:
Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 1d

i know the tsa probably isn’t being paid, but I got here >1 hr before my flight, there was no security line, and i still won’t have time to chill before i have to get on the plane

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 1d

it took 5 minutes to wait in line and 35 minutes for my bag and jacket to scan completely clear at pdx.

like, they pulled it aside, didn’t get an image, ran it back through, pulled it aside again, then looked at the image and didn’t even open it.

thirty. five. minutes.

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 1d

Our education system is structured in a way that requires most people to read Great Literature before they have the reading skills or life experience to make any sense of it.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 1d

My mom’s family is from Lebanon and experienced the same thing.

The english-language version of the family tree from the 1950s has several paragraphs on the correct spelling because two cousins went through different lines at Ellis Island and came out with two different spellings.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

One of the things that happened is that if you were Chinese and got here early enough, your family members would have different legal last names--that wouldn't even read the same to white people here--because there was no standard romanization.

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 1d

One of the hardest things about so many surviving medieval texts—particularly in Arthurian Legend—is you don’t know if they were meant to be taken seriously, or if they were meant to be jokes, told to drunk people, while drunk

This is one reason Monty Python is FR one of the best retellings

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 3d

I want to see a movie about this

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

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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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 3d

accidentally went to drag queen bingo in Portland.

gotta say that the Boston Sisters do it better.

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 4d

YES

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 4d

went for a walk and found a gay bar in portland.

a lebanese man has already said hi because i have the flag on my otherwise VERY QUEER denim jacket.

definitely winning vacation

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 4d

this one is so good

where is my lesbian comedy horror with mellissa joan hart and sarah michelle gellar in lead roles

berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 4d

clarissa exsanguinates it all

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 4d

our racist son of a former mayor city councillor in boston thinks this about the city he lives in and i just think he must not get out much

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Brian Liberge/Freddie (she/he) 🔜Dungeons and Drag Nuns @brianliberge.bsky.social · 5d

Seth Moulton, I don't believe for a moment that you actually give a shit about the mental health of your constituents.

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 5d

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

This is the problem with the Schumer-backed Mills run blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 5d

D leadership would rather have a dead Congress member than one they do not control.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

the idea that the only way we can have a primary is to run a 77 year old career politician against a newcomer is a sign of a tragically unimaginative politics

We need retirement from being an elected official to be a thing for politicians

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Wesley 🏳️‍🌈❌👑 @wessaidwords.bsky.social · 5d

Get in loser, we're reclaiming amphibia back from the alt right

Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 5d

Frogtifa

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