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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 3d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Timoxenos @magipolycarp.bsky.social · 3d

I dunno about zen, but having more robust block features would be nice. For instance a quick way to just block every person that likes a particular post.

Like if I never had to see anyone who thought these posts were worth liking it would be great, but I'm not gonna do them individually.

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 3d

It's always super creepy when tech companies think they can solve human emotions. Cut it out. People want an edit feature, private accounts, and a bunch of other, doable stuff that isn't weird culty social engineering, which is what people DON'T want.

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Answermancer @answermancer.bsky.social · 3h

Yup, good point

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8h

Paves the way for the Monster Under the Bed Act

RepMTG:

The Sunshine State is getting it RIGHT! 🌞

Florida is shutting down dangerous weather modification and geoengineering schemes because our skies belong to the people, not globalist elites and their experiments.

Now it’s time to do the same nationwide. My Clear Skies Act will END chemical spraying, geoengineering, and weather manipulation across America for good.

No more tampering. No more lies. Just clear, God-given skies! 🇺🇸☀️
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Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
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Oct 8
🚨 BREAKING: Florida's airports are now closed to any weather modification and geoengineering activities under new state law, Florida AG says.

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Answermancer @answermancer.bsky.social · 8h

I've been saying for a while that it will take a career Dem getting thrown in prison or worse for them to start taking any of it seriously

Honestly I'm still not convinced they'll move past strongly worded letters but I've at least seen something new from Jeffries and Schumer

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 10h

i wrote a whole thing about this once as a joke, and it just keeps happening

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 10h

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Federal charges dropped against 3 protesters arrested outside ICE facility in Broadview last month

Federal prosecutors have dismissed charges against three of five protesters arrested outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on the same day last month.

www.cbsnews.com

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Answermancer @answermancer.bsky.social · 9h

Oh this is that game I put in my cart the other day

Sold!

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 14h

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 12h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10h

This was true of January 6. There were videographers and documentaries crews and their film was subpoenaed and used in court cases. #j6 #video 👀⚖️🎥

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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Answermancer @answermancer.bsky.social · 9h

I'll have 1 CANCELLED Tuna Salad but can I get that as a melt?

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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 12h

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Answermancer @answermancer.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah is there a source or is this just feel good bullshit for our side

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 10h

Too many U.S. Attorneys have weaponized that horrifying statute for too many years. It was only a matter of time before it slipped into the arsenal of the worst political players.

I won't take responsibility. That's the American way, of course.

Answermancer @answermancer.bsky.social · 10h

@audacityofdespair.bsky.social any thoughts on this? 😑

Nash @radiodeadair.com · 10h

Hold on.

Hold on.

Did ... did the Trump Administration get this whole thing about prosecuting people for mortgage fraud from The Wire?

They did, didn't they. Because the show called it "the headshot."

Jesus fucking Christ.

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Answermancer @answermancer.bsky.social · 10h

Understood, just a wild time to be alive and see the dumbest and most corrupt fuckers alive deliberately taking all the worst cues from art

I know that's what fascism does but man

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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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Answermancer @answermancer.bsky.social · 10h

@audacityofdespair.bsky.social any thoughts on this? 😑

Nash @radiodeadair.com · 10h

Hold on.

Hold on.

Did ... did the Trump Administration get this whole thing about prosecuting people for mortgage fraud from The Wire?

They did, didn't they. Because the show called it "the headshot."

Jesus fucking Christ.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12h

this is a remarkable reality check on bari & CBS. wow.
read every word.

"I mean that you’ve obviously been put in charge of CBS News as a way of appeasing the Trump administration — something to allow the merger to go through."

I don’t mean that he’s going to personally come for you, Bari. I mean that you’ve obviously been put in charge of CBS News as a way of appeasing the Trump administration — something to allow the merger to go through. Carr blessed the Skydance acquisition after CBS paid $16 million to President Donald Trump in what was definitely not a bribe, and didn’t renew Late Show host Stephen Colbert’s contract. Skydance promised Carr an anti-DEI, pro “diversity of viewpoints” nanny in the News division. That nanny is a Republican donor who somehow has even less journalistic experience than you do.

So that kind of puts you in a precarious position, babe. The moment that deal is closed, you’re disposable. And there are just so many ways to dispose of you! Every day will be a thrilling new adventure. Will a Truth Social post end your career? Will you accidentally publish AI slop? Is there going to be a mass quit, leaving you with a gaping hole in your programming? Or will a MAGA-pilled influencer inevitably goad Musk into an advertiser harassment campaign that ends your career? Perhaps there will be a newsroom scandal I have not adequately foreseen! This is a deck that’s stacked against you, and you haven’t got the skills to finesse your way through the deal.

Congrats on that $150 million payout for The Free Press. Someone else owns it now.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 12h

From a Russian indoctrination camp to freedom—Valeriia's story unfolds in Evgeny Afineevsky’s new documentary Children in the Fire, shared by The Times.

🧵 1/9 ⬇️

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 15h

Chicago and Portland showing us how it’s DONE!!

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 2d

VIEWER FEEDBACK: One viewer says I won't read negative feedback and another viewer says I'm a lying viper from hell

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Baxter's Mom @pnwbaxter.bsky.social · 1d

We are all targets.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d

Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems.

Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE

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