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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 20h

God: Any other requests?

Angel: Ooh! Do a cow in sunglasses, holding a cigarette!

God: No problem.

A lightning bolt with a branching pattern in the night sky, with power lines visible in the foreground.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

The generals said "sir are you sure you want to fly the diarrhea bomber over the AI city with the nonsense billboards" and I said [zesty] we've got to shit the hell out of 'em. And no one has more loose stool than me. And actually that was very smart. Making myself the diarrhea president was smart.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

So what the president's 22 year-old Nazi minions are saying is they want him to be a king who goes to battle like most kings do: shitting himself to death before even seeing the other side face to face.

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BabyKenKen~ @babykenken.bsky.social · 1d

Highlight from #NoKings in Nacogdoches, Tx today

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Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · 1d

you should probably not average in me, an outlier who eats three hundred pounds of cheese a day

🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · 1d

Its a photo of blocks of cheese white and yellow and it reads "This is ninety pounds of cheese. The
average American eats this much
cheese every day. Let that sink in"

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I had this intense moment of grief today for young people, specifically those in their 20s, who have spent the entirety of it living under the specter of Trump, Covid, or both.

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Flobby Bashpants @bobbyflashpants.bsky.social · 1d

Nice! We were at Hands Off in Carrollton a few months ago in the exact same spot!

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Alexander @octatron3030.bsky.social · 1d

We got the Lucha contingency out here

No fascist no ice sign with a luchador drop kicking an ICE agent.

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Flobby Bashpants @bobbyflashpants.bsky.social · 1d

My fam and I showed out in Lagrange, GA today #nokings

My self and my friend Jane. Jane has a stunning crown made from a lampshade.

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OrangeSage @orangesage.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings Miami!

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No War But Class War @deliberatelyobtuse.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t make it out today (toddler has mud butt) so may I just say

Arya Stark and Sandor Clegane on horseback, with meme sunglasses pasted on, and a caption reading Fuck The King

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1d

I know he does this for "Live and Let Die" but it's better if you don't turn the sound on and, instead, pretend it's for "Blackbird" bsky.app/profile/john...

John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 2d

83yo Paul McCartney with *significantly* more pyro than any of us expected.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 3d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 3d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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graeme @g--0.bsky.social · 4d

if 40% of the US economy is tied up in chatbots and it’s the only reason the US is not in a recession, that means the US is actually in a recession for all intents and purposes

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 3d

AI dudes just sound like every other kind of dude who thinks their hobby will fix the entire world

We all need to be vegan, we all need to be microdosing, we all need a gun

I get it, you’re in crisis

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

you have to call off the state police that is roughing up protesters if you are serious.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 4d

This meme made me laugh.

A meme with a character from Watchmen whose name I can’t remember, saying:

It is 1982. I am one year old. Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2010. I am
twenty-nine years old.
Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2025. I am
fourty-four years old.
Tron bombs at the box office

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 4d

In the waning hours of world hagfish day, please join me in appreciating not only their prodigious production of gooey, sticky, suffocating slime, but also the fact that they’ve been sliming things up for at least 100 million years 🧪

100-Million-Year-Old Hagfish Complete with Slime Kit Discovered

Scientists recently discovered an important clue about hagfish origins, in a fossil dating to 100 million years ago, that includes traces of preserved slime.

www.livescience.com

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 4d

What the fuck are we doing?

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Hell Ray-ser @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · Feb 10

It's impossible to play the hurdy gurdy without making it your whole personality. No one is a casual hurdy gurdy player.

Hurdy gurdy guy dressed like some kind of dingus cowboy

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4d

No 👏 Kings 👏 includes 👏 Draft 👏 Kings

Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 4d

CNN is covering prediction market odds from an online casino as if it’s actual polling data

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The Haunting of RandBall's Stu @randballsstu.bsky.social · 4d

Of all the things that didn't happen below, Eric Trump having four friends is the one that didn't happen the most.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Eric Trump: "Now every single time a boat goes out of Venezuela it's getting blown up into a million pieces. That's exactly what's happening every single day. I personally have 4 friends who have lost children to fentanyl."

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KINDAFREE | IRI @denofsin.bsky.social · 4d

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 5d

The concept of rich men using a technology that’s ruining the planet to exploit the dead so they can avoid paying the living is so viscerally vile it made me shudder.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 7d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 5d

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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