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Christopher Broker @christopherbroker.bsky.social · 3d

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 16h

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

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Lucas DeRuyter @lucasderuyter.bsky.social · 2d

Actually just filed my review for today's episode to ANN!

Also can't help but feel like this kind of story is increasingly important as freaks try to censor media with "protecting the kids" being the go-to excuse.

Adolescence is supposed to be weird and Sanda gets that.

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CrimsonZen @crimsonzen.bsky.social · 1d

also congrats to fuyumura for somehow getting to enjoy both sides of a size gap

CrimsonZen @crimsonzen.bsky.social · 1d

I was not prepared for everything in Sanda ep 5.

I'm not sure I was prepared for *anything* in Sanda ep 5.

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CrimsonZen @crimsonzen.bsky.social · 1d

you, a video game UI/UX designer: "does everything have to be cards now?"

me, a raid planner: "I don't see why not, honestly"

An FFXIV raid diagram of Beckon moonlight in M8S. Playing cards depicting party formations are placed within the safe zones of each cleave, with the cards rotated to illustrate the perspective change between the first and second steps.

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CrimsonZen @crimsonzen.bsky.social · 1d

oy east coast #twewy fans, Sawa's performing in New Jersey for AnimeNJ

go listen to Twister for me, thanks 🙏 animenj.com/index.php

Anime NJ++ November 14-16, 2025 Hilton Hasbrouck Heights, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ

animenj.com

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 1d

While this represents a step up from traditional right wing propaganda. It’s important to note that this builds on decades of existing racist propaganda.

So even when they’re told it is AI, they’ll say it’s true anyway, because of those pre existing biases.

Both aspects are dangerous here.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

CULTURE TRENDS
SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown
One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as
SNAP benefits face cuts
By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News
Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

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CrimsonZen @crimsonzen.bsky.social · 1d

If I wake up at the same biological time tomorrow, it's so early that I can safely sleep another REM cycle, so fingers crossed that gets everything to line up neatly

CrimsonZen @crimsonzen.bsky.social · 1d

My internal clock has evolved to the point where it is griefing me based on the knowledge that Standard Time is Coming and I'm not the biggest fan

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Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social · 1d

realizing there is a profound modernity in the "maximize each time slot" ludonarrative of Persona or Consume Me, the pressure to balance all your resources towards barely fulfillable goals, achieving salvation only by weighing the costs and rewards of meals, hobbies, friendships

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CrimsonZen @crimsonzen.bsky.social · 1d

Man, how in the world is Hades II only $30

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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 1d

they killed him so they could fuck his wife that's crazy man

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 2d

i hate gay halloween what do you mean you're charlie kirk's ghost in the cuck chair

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 2d

Erika Kirk: “No one will ever replace my husband, but I do see some similarities of my husband in JD”

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.

Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

Jake P @jahre.bsky.social · 3d

Progressives really hope, and maybe even believe, that there is some magic thing they can hijack to attract conservative voters.

The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d

I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.

We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d

why did this make me wheeze out loud

He grabbed the edges of the table and raised his voice: “White, liberal women are a plague on our society.”

He proceeded to drink 11 iced coffees.

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CrimsonZen @crimsonzen.bsky.social · 3d

Er, hekki yeah.

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CrimsonZen @crimsonzen.bsky.social · 3d

Hell yeah.

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CrimsonZen @crimsonzen.bsky.social · 3d

Ryuu Naruhodo -> Phoenix Wright

It's a great translation lol

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🌸 // ꌗ꓄ꋬꉧ // 🌸 @staxdeadempress.bsky.social · 5d

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beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 4d

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

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Pumpkin Spice Chicken @werechicken.bsky.social · 4d

May as well make it a whole thing to blow up their lines once a day.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (4/5) @acvalens.net · 4d

Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear

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merritt @merrittk.com · 5d

Zohran caught in LIES: Mamdani claims to have "loved Final Fantasy III" when he was growing up. yet research indicates that the game he played was in fact the SIXTH Final Fantasy game

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 5d

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5d

After the Pentagon forced a mass exit of journalists who understood military finance, tactics and technology, their replacements have arrived: cranks, conspiracy theorists and both foreign and domestic propagandists
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model

The Trump administration is trying to muddle reality—and create apathy.  

www.theatlantic.com

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