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MilkyWay @curlysquare.bsky.social · 36m

is this good or bad

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 3h

may your iced coffee be cold and your croissant be crunchy [nods]

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 3h

same guys who are "concerned!!!! about women's sports" when it means excluding and isolating trans girls from sport lol. misogyny all the way down. for so many men, women's sports is something inherently lesser and another stage for objectification and comedy with female athletes as the punchline

WIRED @wired.com · 5h

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

www.wired.com

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 23h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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🦊remy/emi✨ @remihime7.bsky.social · 18h

girls are super awesome

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 16h

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17h

Indonesia is denying Israeli athletes entrance visas, which will prevent them from keeping in the world gymnastics championships.

This is what real solidarity against genocide looks like.

apnews.com/article/indo...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia will block Israeli athletes from competing at the upcoming gymnastics world championships in Jakarta, a government official said Thursday.

The decision to deny visas to the Israeli athletes comes after their planned participation had sparked intense opposition in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, which has long been a staunch supporter of Palestinians.

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frozen-cranberry.bsky.social @frozen-cranberry.bsky.social · 2d

I am SO ANGRY about the people saying that if we aren't good somebody will be shot. THEY HAVE ALREADY FUCKING DONE THIS. They killed a man in cold blood. They shot a woman *five times* and left her to bleed out - it's a miracle she's alive.

It is happening right now!!

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23h

With SCOTUS set to legalize conversion therapy, I think it's important for states to get around this decision by implementing new legislation applying private rights of action to practitioners of conversion therapy by their victims with large damages and long statutes of limitations.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 16h

essentially no one looks worse in all this than Biden, followed closely by the tiresome, morally bankrupt blue wave scolds who shouted at all of us about how Biden couldn’t do anything

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 17h

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 21h

Maybe this is only news to me, but signal boosting this anyway because it can't be understated what a treasure trove this archive of Game Freak's zines is. These volumes only show up VERY occasionally online and command a lot of money; obtaining a full set to scan would've cost thousands of dollars.

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 22h

These were added to Internet Archive in their entirety after the Game Freak giga leak, where previously only a handful could be found.

同人誌GAME FREAK : GAME FREAK : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

☆同人誌GAME FREAK.7z タイトルページ数サイズ発行年月日備考 GAME FREAK Vol.1 14 A5 1983/5/28 ...

archive.org

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MilkyWay @curlysquare.bsky.social · 17h

were guitar hero controllers so common manufacturers made accessories around them? why do so many wii storage towers have a slot for them?

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MilkyWay @curlysquare.bsky.social · 17h

learn from your predecessors

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 19h

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 20h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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pencilforge.bsky.social @pencilforge.bsky.social · 18h

The Tron franchise is kinda like if they named the Star Wars franchise ‘Luke’

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tori 💖 @satorimaidens.bsky.social · 4d

day 5: tenshi 💙🌈
#touhou #touhoutober #東方Project

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unhinged eldritch abomination @rhymeswithk.bsky.social · 1d

ok bsky mods it's your turn now

RetroAchievements @retroachievements.org · 1d

Our founder, Scott, would like to discuss the recent situation that happened on RetroAchievements as well as the measures we will be taking going forward to ensure a healthy, welcoming community for all enjoyers of retro games and achievements.

retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

Clarifying RetroAchievements’ Goals

TL;DR RetroAchievements supports openness and celebrating retro gaming, but we will not provide a platform for games that contain illegal, hateful, or otherwise abhorrent content. Achievement sets for...

retroachievements.org

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Daywalker Ratt @hoodrattanak.bsky.social · 18h

duolingo announced an anime but i hope yall don’t forget how the CEO shoved his head up AIs butthole and fired a bunch of human translators and language experts. don’t let that stupid streak hold you hostage

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 20h

Hold the line and stay the course.

Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 22h

If a ceasefire holds, you boycott Israel HARDER, you divest, you push for sanctions. You don't perform for apartheid. You don't whitewash genocide. You don't pretend like Israel isn't still a violent occupier stealing land and collectively punishing Palestinians daily

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BAD BOY lada 🍉🇵🇷 @cherrytonic.bsky.social · 19h

lol

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20h

Drake’s federal defamation suit against Universal Music Group has been thrown out of court, TMZ reports

Drake's Federal Defamation Lawsuit Against UMG Over 'Not Like Us' Dismissed

Drake just took a big legal loss against his own record label ... because his federal defamation suit against Universal Music Group has been thrown out of court.

www.tmz.com

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 2d

want to close your Wells Fargo account because you want to punish them for siccing ICE on a building of impoverished immigrants that Wells Fargo execs wanted to foreclose and sell?

here's how

Mama Murphy☘️ @mamamurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s how you can close your account:

Call 1-800-TO-WELLS (1-800-869-3557)
Visit a Wells Fargo branch near you.
You can close most accounts immediately when:

The account has a positive or zero balance.
All deposits, outstanding and pending items are posted.

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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 22h

Nothing began on Oct 7 and Israeli genocide doesn't end with a ceasefire.

Even when the bombs stop dropping, Israeli violence continues is a myriad of ways

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MilkyWay @curlysquare.bsky.social · 20h

Sal Jiang popped ult at the end

MilkyWay @curlysquare.bsky.social · 20h

Sal Jiang was funny as hell for making an OL yuri manga where there's some ecchi scenes but the buildup feels natural for how they escalate their relationship, the main couple. and then after publication there's a bonus chapter that's like "oh yeah the other coworker has lesbian sex"

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