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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 6h

“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15h

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants

Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Over-Informed Peasant @bridgetmckinney.bsky.social · 1h

"ceasefire comes under threat" is a funny way to say this when you've just described specifically Israel actively breaking the ceasefire.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3h

BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh

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Over-Informed Peasant @bridgetmckinney.bsky.social · 7h

What an unbelievably small, stupid, evil man our president is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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men's werehouse @elizaeffect.bsky.social · 20h

Somebody who isn't born yet is going to write a banger paper on the political spectrum of the frog as a symbol in the early-mid 2020s

tweety fish of innsmouth @sifu.tweety.fish · 1d

Protest sign saying “frog and toad protest” with a drawing of frog and toad holding protest signs

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Over-Informed Peasant @bridgetmckinney.bsky.social · 18h

Just placed a pickup order for Wendy's through their app and at checkout it offered me the option to pay for my spicy chicken sandwich in installments. This seems like a very bad development for, like, society.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21h

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

A young boy holds a sign that simply states in plain handwriting: Trump hit on my girlfriend

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Over-Informed Peasant @bridgetmckinney.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah. All average people with ADHD and autism can hope to gain from a diagnosis is validation that their condition is real and access to community, knowledge and tools that will make their lives easier and better in countless ways big and small.

Guess that doesn't seem worth it without a book deal.

ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 1d

Torygraph front page as well, giving out about celebrities making "autism look desirable"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to every Republican who warned about the massively dangerous pro-terrorist “I Hate America” rallies who now gets to see their words featured in a Daily Show montage with images of sweet little grandmothers waving little American flags

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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 1d

A friendly reminder that the @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter remains ongoing. Help a fabulous publication keep publishing for another year!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 1d

For every right to swing one's fist, there is the proverbial other person's nose that limits it.

This includes free speech.

Nazis do not have the right to speak freely about their ideology, because that ideology includes MASS MURDER OF HUMANS. Stop pretending it's just some equal, valid opinion.

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Over-Informed Peasant @bridgetmckinney.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while, I think sometimes that maybe we *don't* live in hell.

Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 3d

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad!

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

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Over-Informed Peasant @bridgetmckinney.bsky.social · 1d

This is the funniest headline I've ever seen. Like there's 3 million people who woke up this morning and were devastated to not see ROB SCHNEIDER on X. Sure.

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 2d

and may god have mercy on us all

Rob Schneider's X Account Vanishes Overnight, Leaving 3 Million Followers in Limbo

Comedian Rob Schneider's X account, @RobSchneider with over 3 million followers, disappeared on October 15, 2025

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 2d

oh man they did it for real

TMW panel with ICE officers arresting statue of liberty

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John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com · 9d

Since it's Black Speculative Fiction Month, I thought I'd share a story I love by a Black author each day. Since I'm starting 10 days in, I'll post a bunch to catch up. I'm going to do 15 from the Top 80 of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and 15 from Lightspeed/Nightmare.

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Over-Informed Peasant @bridgetmckinney.bsky.social · 3d

I continue to just be so mad, every single day, about how absolutely goddamn stupid this timeline is. Every single day is an absolute shit show of hateful, ignorant buffoonery, but also it affects the lives and livelihoods of real human people who are senselessly suffering for it. What the fuck.

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Over-Informed Peasant @bridgetmckinney.bsky.social · 3d

How "covert" can this action possibly be if a mid-west grocery store manager is reading about it before noon on their day off? These people are fucking buffoons.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

UN Ambassador Mike Waltz claims Maduro is an "illegitimate leader," citing the fact he was "convicted in the Southern District of New York."

Over-Informed Peasant @bridgetmckinney.bsky.social · 3d

I don't believe they've read Tolkien, personally.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3d

Have Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey ever read *anything* other than Tolkien?

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 4d

Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...

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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 3d

Reuters reporting this blatant crime as if it’s a lunch date is a prime example of the kind of careless, aloof normalization in journalism that has greased the skids of this catastrophic authoritarian power grab.

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

The Reconstruction Amendments were adopted to end slavery and provide Black people with equal rights, including the right to vote.

To use those same amendments as weapons of white supremacy today is not just legally incorrect—it is a tragedy.

Voting rights are on the Supreme Court’s chopping block

Tuesday's case pits fanciful claims of racial harmony against the reality of ongoing discrimination.

www.motherjones.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 4d

Drew Struzan has passed.

His oil paintings defined pop culture for many of us.

Rest well, Sir.

A collage of movie posters Struzan painted.

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Over-Informed Peasant @bridgetmckinney.bsky.social · 4d

I find it so charming that young people are discovering simple pleasures. It's going to be a great skill to have in the coming years I think. Weird seeds are cool.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 4d

Nah this rules, actually www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 5d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Over-Informed Peasant @bridgetmckinney.bsky.social · 5d

Great thread.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5d

Just FYI, here are my personal beliefs on the use of large scale violence.

1. Violence tends to be self-replicating, and so should be avoided as much as possible.

All violence has the potential to entrench itself.