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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Damn yo what if the United States empire was collapsing. Just imploding & losing all its function because its white supremacist history culminated in a dictator. That would be crazy, yo. Nah that would never happen.

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Emi @cleveremi.bsky.social · 1d

The tiered fringe is something else but I’m digging the flower angel wings

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Philippines is the only one this year that even comes close to Mr Laos in terms of the giant amazing outfit. It's a very different approach to that kind of look but it's spectacular.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

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Emi @cleveremi.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely hot man, fantastic smile, good knitwear, feet like Baba Yaga’s hut. 5/5

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Ecuador. Look at how happy he is. This is a chap who is just *thrilled* to be there. Also look at how tiny his feet look peeping out of those giant fluffy trousers.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

This kind of partisan political message, under the guise of a public service announcement, is illegal on several levels.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d

I just want to live in a world where kids learn civics and history in school and words mean things.

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 5d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 5d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jan 27

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5d

we live in the dumbest timeline

The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 6d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Emi @cleveremi.bsky.social · 5d

I was going to post this if I didn’t find it

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 5d

Ah yes let us not judge her based on the words that come out of her own mouth but rather whether or not she created shareholder value

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Emi @cleveremi.bsky.social · 6d

I can see it if I'm here in a browser, but not if I'm in the app. The website does have the login nag/overlay, and it will only play the one video before it requires a login to continue.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 6d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

I kinda remember Trump pardoning a bunch of people for this, many of whom beat up cops and put them in the hospital. I think they were yelling something about the Vice President as they stormed the building.

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 6d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Emi @cleveremi.bsky.social · 6d

I read that letter and this GIF appeared unbidden in my mind

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says channel 4 news team .

Alt: a man in a suit and tie (Ron Burgundy, fictional character) is standing in front of a sign that says channel 4 news team. The animation shows the words I don't believe you.

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 6d

the people who thought these signs were fascism are the same ones responsible for actual fascism

a sign from the nyc government that says “hungry? choose snacks with under 200 calories per package”

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 7d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8d

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

At least one other person, who identified herself on social media as Kat Abughazaleh, a former journalist also running for Congress, landed on the ground during that same protest after she was pushed by a federal law enforcement agent in a camouflage uniform wearing a full face covering, sunglasses and a helmet, video by CNN affiliate WBBM showed.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 8d

Why was Emmett Till killed?
Because a white woman told a lie.

Why was Black Wall Street burned down?
Because a white woman told a lie.

And why did Kyren Lacy take his own life?
Because a white woman told a lie.

Our society infantilizes white women, so much so that we forget they owned slaves too.

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