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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14h

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 1h

Like yeah, firing all the experts from the CDC makes zero sense if your goal is keeping people healthy. But that's not the goal, therefore that's not what they're doing. I think people have to stop trying to make any of their goals/intentions be normal and humane. They aren't.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1h

and the Hamlet cast we see doing their thing in the background should all be other actors super famous for being in other things with Keanu Reeves

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 1h

After Waiting For Godot Alex Winter & Keanu Reeves should remake Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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Ben Jeddrie, yeah? @zyblonius.bsky.social · 23m

Gonna dwell on that headline for a spell. That shit's way fucked up.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 7h

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

Ben Jeddrie, yeah? @zyblonius.bsky.social · 50m

This is Aziz Ansari hiding out from his critics.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 1h

Other than the obvious eugenics, I think one of the reasons acknowledging that neurodivergence is actually a normal part of humanity is that it has led to people questioning everything from ableism to child rearing practices to education and even how society functions as a whole.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

To make up for how Power Rangers is an old Japanese show they filmed additional scenes with Americans for we should do the opposite and make the casts of Law & Order SVU and Grey’s Anatomy stop a couple times an episode to fight people in werewolf costumes

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Abz-J-Harding ☾ @abzjharding.bsky.social · 5h

Becky and Ratmir lost in the snow.
Pencils from 2024.
Inked 2025.

A little girl and her big Romanian werewolf guardian trudging in the snow.

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Gabriel Hardman @gabrielhardman.bsky.social · 9h

The Ed Asner Family Center auction is live. Here’s the my contribution this year. I’m always happy to help. Please bid! comics.ha.com/itm/original...

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Marsha (Scary Name)🔐 @marsha.bsky.social · 5h

I just got a message from NYCC that Jim Lee just announced that the Batman audio podcast will next be doing an adaptation of Batman: Ego. That’s so cool! Dar would love it

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 6h

perplexity’s whole thing was “we steal journalism” and they did it big enough that, after they tried and failed to buy tiktok, usa today was just like “here’s a thought, would you like to steal journalism for us?”

Controversies
Copyright and trademark infringement allegations
In June 2024, Forbes publicly criticized Perplexity for using their content. According to Forbes, Perplexity published a story largely copied from a proprietary Forbes article without mentioning or prominently citing Forbes. In response, Srinivas said that the feature had some "rough edges" and accepted feedback but maintained that Perplexity only "aggregates" rather than plagiarizes information. 1461 47) In October 2024, The New York Times sent a cease-and-desist notice to Perplexity to stop accessing and using NYT content, claiming that Perplexity is violating its copyright by scraping data from its website. 481 In June 2024, Dow Jones and New York Post filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, alleging copyright infringement. The lawsuit also alleges that Perplexity attributed quotes to an article on F-16 jets for Ukraine that never appeared in the original article. 1491 Perplexity released a blog post to address the lawsuits on October 24, 2024. It stated that the complaints are misleading and reiterated that it was open to revenue-sharing programs. 501 On January 31, 2025, Perplexity was sued in the United States for alleged trademark infringement by Perplexity Solved Solutions (PSS), a software firm founded in 2017.(51)

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 6h

CNN: "Thousands of Palestinians are returning home to northern Gaza, finding destruction and heartbreak."

The situation on the ground for civilians is horrific. They rely on donations to survive.

Please give to my friend Tasneem so she can feed her children. And to others. ❤️🙏

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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Ben Jeddrie, yeah? @zyblonius.bsky.social · 6h

Today's Comic! You know what, David Lloyd's work outside V For Vendetta is bizarrely underrated. Guy's got some beautiful, intense work out there. Anyhow, I need 3 more of these.

Ben Jeddrie, yeah? @zyblonius.bsky.social · 6h

It always bummed me out that after New Frontier they immediately gave up on adapting any art styles from the comics.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 7h

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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The Art of Asty @theartofasty.bsky.social · 6h

Even the OG humanoid feet with that spur on the back

AND THE FACEHUGGER HEELS?

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Ben Jeddrie, yeah? @zyblonius.bsky.social · 6h

It must be real weird to just stand around while he says these things.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 10h

"Peter Thiel Gave Me $200 At The Antichrist Lecture" sounds like a Mountain Goats song.

screenshot of tweet from Talha Khan reading "Peter Thiel gave me $200 at the Antichrist Lecture LOOL" with a photo of Khan next to Thiel. Khan is holding 1 one hundred dolar bill.

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Ben Jeddrie, yeah? @zyblonius.bsky.social · 7h

It's amazing how many of these guys really do need to shut up.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14h

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 7h

Some kind of pathological compulsion to convince yourself that anyone who is upset about watching people being slaughtered every day for years is a hipster from Brooklyn, the stereotype from like 20 years ago.

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Spicy @coreyhenderson.bsky.social · 10h

James Bond in...

RetroOoOoOo~ BOOmercial Screams @retro-commercials.bsky.social · 13h

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Natasha Tara Petrović @ Portland Retro Game Expo 732 @1000deaddraculas.bsky.social · 13h

YOU WOULD DOWNLOAD A CAR

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Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 12h

love to be uncovering a long hidden child's drawing or fresco portraying a mysterious atrocity in a decrepit and abandoned manor by candlelight while furtive sounds of movement get closer and closer to my position

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Ben Jeddrie, yeah? @zyblonius.bsky.social · 12h

Dunnoth Hannaby, give him a call! #SketchADoodle

Drawing of a man with an old-fashioned telephone receiver atop his head, the cord from which leads down to his chest, whereupon lies also a rotary dial.

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