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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

The president freely admits he's using your tax money to repress you and interfere with your free choice of representatives. He's looking into the camera and telling you he's a tyrant bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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Geoff B @diosenrab.bsky.social · 11h

Great character.

Image from Master Detective Archives: Rain Code. In it, the Nun tells Yuma: "What are you, blind? I'm a nun, obviously."

Image from Master Detective Archives: Rain Code. In it, the Nun tells Yuma: "You got some nerve, calling me here out of nowhere! Do you know how busy I am with choir practice?!"

Image from Master Detective Archives: Rain Code. In it, the Nun tells Yuma: "I'll kill your ass in the name of God!"

Geoff B @diosenrab.bsky.social · 13h

Pretty grim!

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 14h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

Geoff B @diosenrab.bsky.social · 14h

I haven't even gotten around to grabbing a PlayStation 5 yet, so I guess I might as well keep waiting. But I also don't expect these consoles to release in 2027 (and the Xbox one could be a different kind of "console"), so we'll see. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps6-and...

PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC

Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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Africana Studies at Penn @africanaupenn.bsky.social · 23h

106 years ago, one of the deadliest race massacres in American history took place in Elaine, Arkansas after Black farmers, seeking fair payment for their crops, organized through the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. #workersrights

106 years ago, one of the deadliest race massacres in American history took place in Elaine, Arkansas. Black farmers, seeking fair payment for their crops, organized through the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America.

When their meeting was attacked by a group of white men, the confrontation left one white man dead. In response, white mobs, joined by federal troops, launched a days-long assault on the Black community, killing well over 100 Black men and women.

The headlines below show the cost to Black families and how a disinformation campaign was used to justify the violence against Black Americans. The claim, all too familiar, was that the Black organizers were trying to start a socialist revolution.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 17h

The entire economy depends on this horseshit so it's your patriotic duty to ask the computer to honk your bingus several times a day

The Verge @theverge.com · 22h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 23h

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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Geoff B @diosenrab.bsky.social · 16h

I posted on @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social about how the news of an intensifying Xbox Armageddon from this weekend was a bit exaggerated, though it's still clear which way the winds are blowing. www.dcgameblog.com/2025/10/exam...

Examples of Damage Control in Gaming: X Marks the Spot – Damage Control Blog

The news of Xbox's total demise has been greatly exaggerated... for now, anyway.

www.dcgameblog.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Geoff B @diosenrab.bsky.social · 17h

Boy, it's going to suck if this actually happens, and it won't be that big of a surprise if/when it does. theonion.com/israel-agree...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20h

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health

Neo-soul singer D'Angelo joins growing list of Gen X Black male performers who are dying relatively young.

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Geoff B @diosenrab.bsky.social · 20h

ICYMI I wrote about how the Dragon Balls were used to revive Dragon Ball FighterZ from the dead, with Super Saiyan 4 Goku (Daima) set to be the first character in about four years, for a @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social. www.dcgameblog.com/2025/10/the-...

The Dragon Balls Revived FighterZ – Damage Control Blog

Super Saiyan 4 Goku from Daima will be the first new character in several years, in a game once thought finished.

www.dcgameblog.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

this is, flatly and subjectively, intolerable to anyone who fancies themselves free people. simply intolerable

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Geoff B @diosenrab.bsky.social · 23h

Looking at the details for the new Dissidia title, and the concept makes it very clear why this is a mobile game. The gacha potential here is intense. I'm also having a nice giggle at the name "Duellum." www.gematsu.com/2025/10/diss...

Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy announced for iOS, Android

Square Enix and NHN PlayArt have announced “three-versus-three team boss battle arena” game Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy for iOS and Android. It will launch as a free-to-play title wi…

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1d

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Geoff B @diosenrab.bsky.social · 1d

The main city in Master Detective Archives: Rain Code, Kanai Ward, looks really nice. It makes sense when you're spending a lot of time in it, but they nailed the cyberpunk dystopia feel. It's even raining all the time.

Image from the city of Kanai Ward from Master Detective Archives: Rain Code.

Image from a roof in Kanai Ward from Master Detective Archives: Rain Code.

Image of a restaurant in Kanai Ward from Master Detective Archives: Rain Code.

Image of a street and classic car in Kanai Ward from Master Detective Archives: Rain Code.

Geoff B @diosenrab.bsky.social · 1d

Miss this earlier, but this is good news for anyone who thought Warner Bros. DC animation was over outside James Gunn stuff. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

‘Batman: Knightfall’ Animated Films Set at Warner Bros. Animation

A multi-part animated film adaptation of "Batman: Knightfall" is currently in production, Variety has learned.

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Geoff B @diosenrab.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI I wrote about how perplexing it is to see so many great movie directors talking positively about AI, considering how the technology works and its imperfections, for a @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social post. www.dcgameblog.com/2025/10/cogn...

Cognition Dissemination: What’s with Movie Directors Praising AI!? – Damage Control Blog

They seem to want to get in on the craze without realizing the consequences, or don’t care about them.

www.dcgameblog.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Geoff B @diosenrab.bsky.social · 1d

I posted on @damagecontrolblog.bsky.social about one bit of surprise gaming news from this weekend: Dragon Ball FighterZ was wished back to life with a new character announcement. www.dcgameblog.com/2025/10/the-...

The Dragon Balls Revived FighterZ – Damage Control Blog

Super Saiyan 4 Goku from Daima will be the first new character in several years, in a game once thought finished.

www.dcgameblog.com

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Geoff B @diosenrab.bsky.social · 1d

It's a shame those now-fake rumored times weren't accurate, which would have been hilarious, but these are still pretty long.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Ross Duffer reveals the official runtimes for the first four episodes of ‘Stranger Things 5’

E1 — 68 min
E2 — 54 min
E3 — 66 min
E4 — 83 min

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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