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𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social · 9h

"must be able to lift 50 pounds" the fuck you do. the cashiers are not the ones pulling pallets around.

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𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social · 9h

did you know they do this so they don't have to hire disabled people

Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 11h

It is deeply immoral that cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 8h

This is murder, and this administration is responsible and needs to be held to account

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 14h

With alt text.

Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

banjessesingal.bsky.social @banjessesingal.bsky.social · 9h

Don't want abuse hurled at you? Don't hurl abuse.

Don't want your glasses stolen? Don't start fights.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 9h

so yeah congrats if youre a left leaning american who has over the last years normalized The Woke Agenda just by speaking about it publically, good job. you have helped mobilize the normies for the defense of democracy.

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 9h

that doesnt mean those people dont hold racist/homophobic/national chauvinist beliefs. they absolutely do. but they think they dont, and when someone else publically professes to holding those beliefs, they find it repulsive. the average american would not cosign "we need more racism"

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 9h

like, "racism is bad", "homophobia is bad", "the government should not be tyrannical" and "maybe we should be decent to other countries" are obvious baseline assumptions for a lot of people to such an extent that they get quite surprised when their government says the opposite out loud

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 9h

by the way, the fact that things are panning out as they are IS to an extent shaped by decades of radical activism, because that activism has shaped public consensus to a large extent. the overton window for normal people is actually pretty far left

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 9h

look i wish that the failure of fascism was brought about exclusively by the black bloc and radical activists as much as the next left wing weirdo but unfortunately thats not how history pans out. its a coalition, which, unfortunately, includes normal people

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 9h

in those fascist takeovers that have historically actually taken root it is almost universal that the middle class has arranged itself with it becoming the new reality long before it does. in that regard, the US fash takeover has been a massive fucking fumble

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 9h

cannot overstate the degree to which "relatively comfortable middle class people with low political consciousness" is unfortunately the axis on which fascist takeovers fail or succeed

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

In the same article it says that Microsoft executes believe OpenAI would fail
www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...

After striking the blockbuster deal in 2023, several top Microsoft executives told colleagues around that time that they thought OpenAI’s business would eventually fail, even if its technology was good, according to a former manager who discussed it with them.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 20 years, the most extreme, reactionary, "return to tradition" masculinity influencer is going to adopt this uniform and you'll have to calmly explain that this was once considered non-traditional

Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård shows up for the London premiere of his new movie “Pillion." He's wearing a sleeveless white dress shirt with a black leather necktie and black leather pants with metal grommets down the crotch. He's also wearing black leather boots. A black motorcycle is behind him.

Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård shows up for the London premiere of his new movie “Pillion." He's wearing a sleeveless white dress shirt with a black leather necktie and black leather pants with metal grommets down the crotch. He's also wearing black leather boots. He's hugging a dog.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Folks will be quick to ridicule people who do this, but it can’t be separated from the media hype and ai boosters telling us the tech is a magic answer wizard that knows all and sees all.

Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was

The owner of a restaurant in South Wales potentially saved the lives of two swimmers, who ventured out after asking ChatGPT for tide times.

banjessesingal.bsky.social @banjessesingal.bsky.social · 1d

Nah. If the right wanted to be seen, it shouldn't have been raging assholes.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 1d

Yugoslavian women who date Navajo men expose them to Yugoslavian culture and time travel.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Happened at the NC Democratic Party's last set of meetings in June when they voted on a litany of different resolutions including foreign policy.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Easy to forget or even outright miss if you don't follow things like me but North Carolina Democratic Party was the first, and I believe remains the only, state Democratic Party to label Israel an apartheid state and call for a total arms embargo, offensive and defense, until apartheid ends.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.

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TEMU Mark Ruffalo @brianvan.bsky.social · 1d

This is the closest thing we have to “crime in my neighborhood”. Good job on the NYPD to suss out a terrorist before he … oh wait. No it was a bunch of Wikipedia editors who got him. They should collect next year’s $13B police budget

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

This is horrifying, but I’m glad the Wikipedians are safe. It could have been far worse, given that the MAGA fascists have been trying to incite violence against Wikipedia editors, and trumpists are defenders of pedophiles like the gunman. gothamist.com/news/gunman-...

Gunman storms stage at Wikipedia conference in Manhattan, no injuries reported

The unidentified man was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

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dirt squirrel @dirtsquirrel.bsky.social · 1d

do you do your job better or worse when being belittled and micromanaged by management or owners? are you more or less productive when you enjoy your workplace, and are trusted that you know your job and responsibilities?

the owner class doesn't work. they live off of poor people's labour.

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dirt squirrel @dirtsquirrel.bsky.social · 1d

you supply the product or service to your employer. their wealth wouldn't exist without their employees. labourers are entitled to the fruits of their labour, and the fact that "profit" for the owner class exists at all is unnecessary and devalues the work done by labourers

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dirt squirrel @dirtsquirrel.bsky.social · 1d

the most popular and widespread form of theft is wage theft from employers. the fact that your employer can call the police if you steal from them but you can't call the police if they steal your wages, should tell you almost everything you need to know about the police and their function in society