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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2h

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped

a jazz club named "Club Gombe" with a chimpanzee band going nuts on stage and more chimps hooting and hollering at the tables. one empty table has a card on it reading "reserved for Jane Goodall"

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Clowncone @clowncone.bsky.social · 18h

Give him an Aussie accent instead of a British one

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Clowncone @clowncone.bsky.social · 21h

If you’re already a Nazi hiding in plain sight whatever you can be blackmailed about must be really bad

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Clowncone @clowncone.bsky.social · 22h

It’s a built in warning device telling you to wear better shoes

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 22h

The suit names 11 products with some variation of the name Cloud that are alleged to cause squeaking.

Lawsuit claims sneakers cause ‘noisy and embarrassing squeak’

The suit names 11 products with some variation of the name Cloud that are alleged to cause squeaking.

www.oregonlive.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 22h

Downtown Portland has some new art at 5th and Washington🐸 👀

Click the link to read more about Portland's Protest Frog: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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Clowncone @clowncone.bsky.social · 23h

“Media School Dean” and he couldn’t come up with anything better than “the campus”. Might as well have just said, “oh, you know, people”

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

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

www.theguardian.com

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 1d

for Portlanders marching this Saturday who want the best tactical gear without feeding Amazon, our local party supply house The Lippman Company has plenty of inflatable costumes

Racks of Inflatable costumes like T-Rex, Sasquatch and Pokemons and such, photo grabbed from the Portland Reddit

outside The Lippman Co. with employees holding up rainbow flag balloons- there's no form more graceful than The Arch, no object more whimsical than The Balloon

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 1d

The "don't call us Nazis" crowd sure has a lot of swastikas

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Clowncone @clowncone.bsky.social · 1d

Enormous head or tiny face? Experts still disagrer

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Clowncone @clowncone.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon lumberyard bollard remains undefeated

WATCH OUT FOR THE POST WHEN BACKING UP
POST97 TRUCKSO

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Clowncone @clowncone.bsky.social · 1d

Good line

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Victor Fernando R. Ocampo @victorocampo.bsky.social · 1d

This was appropriated from the social media feed of Ted Chiang. I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 1d

collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do

To be honest, I wouldn’t be mentioning this if not for the fact that it’s a microcosm of how online platforms work today: Somebody makes an accusation based on evidence that’s spurious at best, big names with something to gain (viewership or the downfall of a perceived enemy) uncritically boost it, internet sleuths obsessively piece together supporting evidence by amassing context-free clips and ignoring everything that doesn’t match their intended conclusion, and all of the aforementioned parties spread performatively apoplectic videos across Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and wherever else they can sucker in uninitiated normies.

Some version of this happens every week – every day, on a smaller scale – without fail. It accomplishes nothing aside from giving the disaffected masses a brief glimmer of what feels like purpose, but is actually a bloodsucking waste of their precious time on this dying planet. And of course, it provides platforms with sweet, sweet engagement numbers. As a result, platforms will probably never intervene to disrupt this corrosive dynamic, which has broken the general public’s ability to perceive anything resembling objective reality, even as society collapses around them and people like Piker attempt to identify the real reasons why (hint: they don't involve dog collars).

The internet has been like this at least since the Depp v. Heard trial, which wannabe sleuths similarly feasted on in 2022 while getting pretty much every important detail completely wrong. At least back then they were obsessing over something of consequence. Now they’ve taught viewers to regard every trumped-up non-issue they can surface with similar gravity.

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Clowncone @clowncone.bsky.social · 1d

SF, do not surrender the freedom for which your ancestors fought for

youtu.be/m8coAuWZL20?...

Anti-Google Glass attack in San Francisco

YouTube video by Los Angeles Times

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Clowncone @clowncone.bsky.social · 1d

No its the youdamned squirrels in my attic

Clowncone @clowncone.bsky.social · 1d

I thought it was Claudia Black the whole time

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Clowncone @clowncone.bsky.social · 2d

Every sailor and officer involved in that strike needs to be prosecuted

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 2d

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Well, major internal developments this afternoon in Ukraine.

President Zelenskyy has revoked the Ukrainian citizenship of Hennadiy Trukhanov, the Mayor of Odesa.

I really could write a long essay on this but I'll try be succinct.
The reason? Trukhanov's Russian passport.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 3d

Among the reasons Americans risked it all to get rid of a tyrannical king:
“He has obstructed the Admin of Justice…made Judges dependent on his Will…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…kept among us Standing Armies w/o legislatures’ Consent” www.americaamerica.news/p/what-we-sh...

What We Should Demand, What We Should Oppose

Reflecting on a president's obligations and what history tells us about rejecting tyranny and injustice

www.americaamerica.news

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

Why wasn't this a bigger story? Odd

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 4d

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 4d

Portland police arrested a right-wing agitator at the ICE facility. Protesters say this man punched a woman in the face on video. I’ll update if I see the video, but it seems very likely given how fast PPB responded and what everyone is saying.

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Clowncone @clowncone.bsky.social · 5d

Bonus Army Part II

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