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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 6h

statements like

"half the marines I know have tattoos like that"

"the average millennial had a Nazi phase"

just expose your social circles lol

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 6h

I love when white people suddenly start exposing how many white supremacists they surround themselves with by pretending it's a normal, universal experience.

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 1h

the mesothelioma law firm ads from this are going to be off the fucking chain

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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MRNA Loy @coolwitchaunt.bsky.social · 1h

similarly, caring about local sports can produce the same sorts of moments - we're all thinking different thoughts for different reasons, but together we are all furious at a man in a black and white striped shirt.

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MRNA Loy @coolwitchaunt.bsky.social · 1h

there's a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson along the lines of "the secret of drunkenness is it insulates us in thought, but unites us in feeling." I often think that about live concerts; that I can't know what the people around me are thinking, but we're all feeling this moment *together*

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 8h

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 5h

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h

why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 6h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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BT @mode7.bsky.social · 8h

It sounds even more like a JRPG battle theme like this.

Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 8h

IT'S BACK!!!

John Tesh performs "Roundball Rock" live on TV 🥹

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

You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America.

Link below.

No Other Land Film - Support Masafer Yatta - Watch No Other Land

supportmasaferyatta.com

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 20h

Art in America, Art News, Artforum are all Penske properties.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23h

Scoop: Jay Penske, who owns the Golden Globes, is pitching far-right podcasters with a proposal that they spend upwards of $75,000 to boost their chances of winning this year's inaugural podcasting award.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/golden-glo...

Penske and the Podcasters

Jay Penske’s Golden Globes are debuting a “Best Podcast” award—and documents obtained by Status show he’s trying to sell pricey packages that could boost the chances of right-wing extremists winning t...

www.status.news

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 18h

The Jays have the chance to do the funniest thing Canada has done since 1814

Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 18h

Imagine winning the World Series. You'd get to visit the ruins that used to be the White House

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MRNA Loy @coolwitchaunt.bsky.social · 1d

"Subtext rapidly becoming just Text"

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1d

*meeting in a parking garage*

Deep Throat: A massive part of the White House is missing

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

Not the point, I know, but couldn't the Post have had a reporter walk over and take a look?

"...according to a photo shared with The Washington Post and two people who witnessed the activity and spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe it."

wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 1d

people think this isn't feasible but the average american spends ~20% of their income on car-related expenses and in your wildest dreams you can not even imagine how much public transportation that could build

ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

imagine if getting across town was just a totally inconsequential thing you could do without any drama or anything. nobody asks if you paid, nobody needs to see your pass, nobody bothers you at all. you get on, you go someplace, you get off.

doctor, park, work, food truck you saw online, whatever.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Bringing back this thread. These so-called "crime free ordinances" are getting worse. They're the most racist laws you've never heard of, and they're most prevalent in BLUE states. And they're spreading.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Nov 15

A couple of years ago, a client of mine was attacked in their apartment by an abusive partner. The police were called. Charges were pressed against the abusive partner, who later pleaded guilty.
The landlord filed an eviction action against Client for *allowing* a crime to occur in their unit.

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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 1d

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

🎁link

David Mullin @rdmullin.bsky.social · 1d

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

doug emhoff's law firm cut a deal with trump to provide him 100 million in pro bono law services and eliminate all dei initiatives. seven partners resigned, doug emhoff did not 💙

Doug Emhoff @douglasemhoff.bsky.social · 3d

No Kings Santa Monica

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 1d

ADHD is just one continuous parade of doing your best to keep up with everything and every week you learn you've forgotten to do something crucial

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bundgaardf.bsky.social @bundgaardf.bsky.social · 3d

I am living for the sumo wrestlers having fun playing tourists while preparing for the sumo tournament in London

Sumo wrestlers having fun posing with Stonehenge

Sumo wrestlers posing like The Beatles on Abbey Road

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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 2d

Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice?
"You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There's only two kinds of politics these days, and you can't breathe the same air as the other kind."

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 2d

what's up im a TV mic from the 70s how do you like thick consonants

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Boo-Rian Making Comics @necroknights.bsky.social · 2d

Keep asking questions about the Epstein file, it clearly makes Trump incredibly angry.

Keep calling ICE a terrorist organization & refer to their agents as Nazis, the social stigma is causing them to quit in record numbers.

Call your representatives *especially* if they’re republican. ANNOY THEM

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