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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 14h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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An Enigma Shrouded in Mystery (Shadowlab) @shadownetworks.org · 15h

"Redefining the world wide web."

Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 15h

Arachnotechnology.

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 1d

Its almost like anti-porn laws are never actually about porn. 🤔

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

www.wilx.com

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 1d

Food shelf visits tripled between 2020 and 2024. We are in a very precarious state in this country around hunger, and it's about to get worse with deep cuts to SNAP.

The shutdown will end. Hunger won't end with it.

Chart showing a steep rise in food shelf visits 2021-2024

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, news is not recommended.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 10d

For a headache the GOP caused, in many cases

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 11d

That is wild

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 14d

By investing huge amounts of money on car infrastructure and underinvesting in everything else, the government is basically creating another tax: you need a car to participate in society. It’s another cost that the government forces you to incur due to its transportation and land use decisions

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 14d

Driving didn’t “naturally” become inevitable. We designed a society that make driving inevitable in most places. We can design something different

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 14d

When I was 17, a car died for me and my two dear friends who were my passengers. We all walked away, shaken but uninjured. Hanging upside down from a seatbelt has a way of giving you a new perspective of the world.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 16d

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!

It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

"How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" pocket guide. Instructs readers to Watch the Road and Slow Down. Further text humorously insists that watching the road and slowing down are indeed important.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 1

The third fascistic tactic to watch out for is their tendency to label anyone they disagree with who is to their left "a Communist." Fascists claim that they alone can save their nations from "the communist menace." Anyway, the 2024 GOP platform contains the phrase "Christ-hating communists."

3. It is accurate to call a member of a communist party a "communist." For short, he is often called a
"Red." Indiscriminate pinning of the label "Red" on people and proposals which one opposes is a common political device. It is a favorite trick of native as well as foreign fascists.
Many fascists make the spurious claim that the world has but two choices either fascism or com-munism, and they label as "communist" everyone who refuses to support them. By attacking our free enterprise, capitalist democracy and by denying the effectiveness of our way of life they hope to trap many people.

Hitler insisted that only fascism could save Europe and the world from the "communist menace." There were many people inside and outside Germany and Italy who welcomed and supported Hitler and Mussolini because they believed fascism was the only safeguard against communism. The "Red bogey" was a convincing enough argument to help Hitler take and maintain power. The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, whose aggressions plunged the world into global war, was called the "Anti-Comintern Axis." It was proclaimed by Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito as a "bulwark against communism."
Learning to identify native fascists and to detect their techniques is not easy. They plan it that way.
But it is vitally important to learn to spot them, even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.

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▲▼▲▼▲▼ @arajay.com · 16d

what if we kissed on the pretty freight machine

a boxcar with graffiti parody of the nine inch nails album cover art for "pretty hate machine" but it says "nine inch rails pretty freight machine"

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 16d

Hell yeah! Owls fucking own

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 16d

"we take your privacy. seriously."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17d

Saw someone post about how it's really fucked up that we all have to speculate about whether or not the FBI manufactured evidence to back their version of events. The thing is, you should always suspect that about law enforcement—these guys are just more clown-ish and obvious about it.

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 18d

It wasn't just a good dildo, it was the strapture

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 18d

For real. Especially the cleaning-guns-in-the-living-room-when-he-picks-her-up-for-a-dance kind of dads need to understand that they are telling their daughter it isn't safe to come to dad when she has a problem.

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 18d

Well they're law enforcement and if you've ever watched a cop show you know that cops always know what they're talking about

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 19d

If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖

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John Breen’s Body @acab.dad · 19d

Maybe there shouldn’t be titans of industry

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19d

Kamala Harris on MSNBC now saying she “always believed titans of industry” would be guardrails for democracy but now—shocker—she reports that turns out they’re not. Only, she still’s waiting! “At some point they’ve got to stand up.” This kind of willful naïveté & denial doesn’t need airtime.

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