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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 7h

I work in the biggest department (a writing program) in the biggest undergraduate school (our liberal-arts college) at a multi-billionaire-dollar research university in the wealthiest state in the USA. Anyway, leadership just terminated our entire front-office staff this morning.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 2h

I don't think kids today really appreciate just how tryhard edgy video game marketing was in the 90s.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1h

I am never ever going to forgive a single one of these motherfuckers.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 2d

Just a reminder that anti-queer and anti-trans policies aren't actually popular.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of Robert Roberson. Roberson was scheduled to be executed on October 16 for a crime that never occurred. www.theacabreport.com/p/texas-court-stops-execution-of-innocent

Texas Court Stops Execution of Innocent Man on Death Row

Robert Roberson was convicted and sentenced to death for killing his daughter, a crime that never occurred.

www.theacabreport.com

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Six-Eyed Kitten (But Scary) @andrewkozma.net · 6h

Just released an audio postcard. If you would like these sent directly to your inbox (no more than once a week), then you can join my Patreon for $1! This one is free as a tantalizing sample or a free rickroll for people you want to get off your back.

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Deeply Unsexy Scary Gorgon Costume @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 11h

5 minute study of a rat sitting like people.

Very quick ink sketch of a rat, sitting on its butt.

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Six-Eyed Kitten (But Scary) @andrewkozma.net · 6h

Just released an audio postcard. If you would like these sent directly to your inbox (no more than once a week), then you can join my Patreon for $1! This one is free as a tantalizing sample or a free rickroll for people you want to get off your back.

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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 8h

"A Tinderbox Itself Is Innocent," from _Dogwitch_, up at the Wardrobe c/o the Sundress Blog today.

sundressblog.com/2025/10/10/t...

The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: Dogwitch by Catherine Rockwood - The Sundress Blog

This selection, chosen by guest editor nat raum, is from Dogwitch by Catherine Rockwood (Bottlecap Press, 2025). A Tinderbox Itself Is Innocent Last night my husband dreameda long fenced-in yard. At t...

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Zappit @zappit.bsky.social · 1d

Link requested this be boosted so we can help Dr. Divya raise money for Palestinian families in need.

It is also a good day to reinstate Link’s account.

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 1d

It's the Gestapo

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 9h

Wait what.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 9h

so is nobody talking about the ammunition plant in tennessee that blew up and left "several people" unaccounted for?

Massive blast at military explosives plant in Tennessee leaves multiple people dead, several ‘unaccounted for’ | CNN

Multiple people are dead or unaccounted for after a military explosives facility in Tennessee blew up Friday morning, rattling nearby homes and setting off smaller explosions, local officials say.

www.cnn.com

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 9h

The problem with trying to do budget negotiations with this tinpot regime is that it’s like the King Solomon and the baby story. One side wants to preserve the baby (democracy, a functional government) and one doesn’t give a shit if it gets carved up as long as they win

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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 9h

I think about this article from September 2020 pretty much every day at this point:

"America has already collapsed. What you’re feeling is exactly how it feels. It’s Saturday and you’re thinking about food while the world is on fire."

indi.ca/i-lived-thro...

I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There.

Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 21h

i think people who have a hard on for Ai truly cannot understand that some people are just talented in the arts and have worked hard to become better at their craft. saying this to the creator of one of the best shows ever written is insane.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16h

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 13h

Okay, I really don’t want to keep talking about this, since frankly - I hate KP. She’s an example of toxic management, and I saw what she did to my friends.

But I’m really disturbed by the number of women, specifically white women on Threads and on here, justifying her cursing at staff.

Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 1d

Going to be honest: Threads going to bat for Katie Porter is one of the most 🫠 things I've seen today...

And really speaks to my ongoing belief we shouldn't stan politicians. At all.

Fellow Dems, hold politicians accountable for their work, not for who you THINK they are only on camera.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

One way of thinking about the Trump administration is that the worst people in American government are pushing out the best people in American government
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Their interview, described in a federal lawsuit filed last week by Mr. Driscoll and two other recently fired senior FBI officials, began with benign questions about the gravest threats to the nation and possible adjustments to the FBI's structure, but then took a swerve: Who had Mr. Driscoll voted for? When did he start supporting President Donald J. Trump? And had he voted for a Democrat in the past five elections? He declined to answer those three, noting to the 29-year-old attorney and former podcaster that the questions were inappropriate and potentially violative of the Hatch Act.

Mr. Ingrassia asked another question that would in the ensuing weeks take on greater significance: Did Mr. Driscoll think the FBI agents who had "stormed" Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 should be held accountable? Mr. Driscoll said no, since they had been executing legal search warrants.

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Six-Eyed Kitten (But Scary) @andrewkozma.net · 1d

I can't believe someone like Miller exists even as he directs our nation to murder innocents for optics.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

Rally called for tomorrow in support of New York Attorney General Tish James following an indictment against her which has been broadly criticized as manufactured as a means of attacking Trump’s political enemies.

Foley Square - 530pm - NYC

www.instagram.com/p/DPnHwLegJ0-/

flyer in huge block text that says: solidarity rally. hands off tish james. friday 10/10. foley square at 5:30.

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Six-Eyed Kitten (But Scary) @andrewkozma.net · 1d

John Carpenter's Being John Malkovich

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 1d

John Carpenter's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 1d

John Carpenter’s Lawrence of Arabia

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