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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 6h

How do you Speak Truth to Power?.........

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social · 1d

Superman won a Harvey Award for best comic adaptation at New York Comic Con! The award is named after and inspired by the great Harvey Kurtzman, who revolutionized comics and left the world a better – and much wittier place than he found it. Thanks to everyone at the Harvey Awards for this honor!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

This is AI.

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Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) @antonpnym.bsky.social · 16h

Sherman stopped too soon. And there is no pit in Hell hot enough for Andrew Johnson.

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Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) @antonpnym.bsky.social · 16h

Dumbass mutant freak accusing other people of being the Antichrist when he doesn't recognize the Antichrist he sees in the mirror every morning. #MAGADelendaEst

Tori Williams Douglass @toriglass.bsky.social · 1d

HE SAID IT MIGHT BE GRETA THUNBURG. PETER THEIL SAID THAT THE ANTICHRIST MIGHT BE GRETA THUNBURG

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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 23h

From the Larchives :)

cartoon of a pig in lipstick and a boustier
Rocky Horror Picture Sow

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Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 23h

THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS: "wait the game is still going? Why doesn't one of the teams simply score 7 runs in a single inning?"

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Teufelaffe @teufelaffe.bsky.social · 23h

"I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on" is metal af

Post by user @jamellebouie.net that reads, "from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

Nothing made slavery's toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper Sout, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers "learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter." The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the "goodlooking" daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, "every private in the ranks" cursed "that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women," according to one member of the regiment. When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, "By G-d I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on."

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 22h

Incredible Mitts

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Bibulb @bibulb.com · 21h

And I'm gonna reskeet this as well, because in addition to the previously stated obvious analogy, it reminds me of what happened at the beginning when the "consultant" came in to Brown Book Shop to "analyze the shop's business to keep the business solvent".

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 17h

This. Stop looking for sense or reason in fascists either side of the Atlantic. These are tiny people with tiny ambitions that extend no further than feeding the endless, famished void for validation they have in place of a soul.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 23h

Their goal is revenge against every scientist who told them something they didn't want to hear or made them feel inferior by knowing more than they do.

Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 1d

WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · Mar 21

The person who punched Richard Spencer and instantly made him a meme never got caught. Just threw one punch and skipped off into immortality. I think about that a lot.

Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · Mar 21

one of the most important things to learn, if you're out there doing things:

you don't get to talk about it.

you don't get to brag about it, you don't get to tell your friends, you don't get drinks bought for you in the bar off the story.

it's *always* shut the fuck up friday

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 1d

So there's this Vietnamese logger named Ho Khanh. One day he's out searching for agarwood (aka eaglewood aka Wood of the Gods), a fragrant, resinous wood used in incense & perfume.

Ho Khanh is out in the jungle and finds what seems to be an entrance into an undiscovered cave.

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Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East @bobchipman.bsky.social · 1d

You should be SUPREMELY distrustful of *anyone* who becomes particularly bothered when people are angry that person is being criticized for animal cruelty as opposed to some other supposedly "worse" offense, in language that minimizes said cruelty. They reveal their priorities, and not how they mean

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 1d

Heh. ☺️

Mndrew @mndrew.bsky.social · 1d

Post a mage!

Benedict Cumberbund in full Dr.Strange costume reading "So you want to be a wizard" by Diane Duane.

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Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) @antonpnym.bsky.social · 1d

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Charles Hildebrandt @cghildebrandt.bsky.social · 1d

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Remains of the Day.

James Hodden @jameshodden.bsky.social · 1d

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 1d

Trump announces 1500% tariffs on Lutefisk

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Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) @antonpnym.bsky.social · 1d

I'm reading everything; I'm just not fixated on export markets that likely won't exist in the very near future. energytracker.asia/bnef-renewab...

BNEF: Renewables Are Becoming Cheaper than Natural Gas in Southeast Asia

Despite the large number of benefits, many countries in Southeast Asia are planning to expand their use of natural gas.

energytracker.asia

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to apologise for the inaccuracy in my original post, though. I should have said: “Liverpudlians debated Mosley in the marketplace of ideas with a vigour to which he was hitherto unaccustomed”

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

Two beetles on a stick.
One beetle says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out to reveal that they are in a glass case with two scientists studying them.
One scientist says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out into space. Abouard a spaceship, two aliens watch the scientists on a screen.
One alien says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
The aliens turn to look out at the reader.

Text below the cartoon reads:
From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld. Preorder it at www.tomgauld.

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Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) @antonpnym.bsky.social · 1d

Live, from the Oval Office:

Baby Herman Roger Rabbit GIF – Baby Herman Roger Rabbit Tantrum – discover and share GIFs

Click to view the GIF

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 2d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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