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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 8h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · May 10

It is the devil’s excrement. We are drowning in the devil’s
excrement.
—Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, former Venezuelan oil minister
I wish your people had discovered water.
—King Idris of Libya, on being told that a
US consortium had found oil

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 8h

Morbed again

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 10h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 20h

Imagine how bad scif and operator brained the astartes are

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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sean morley @seanmorl.com · 13h

the flesh prince of bel air

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1d

TikTok works for the MAGA regime. It is every bit as fundamentally hostile to pro-democracy, pro-liberty dialogue as Xitter.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 14h

Does anyone have any clue what “any and all critical software” means

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 1d

Never in my life have I ever read a medical report that lists "cardiac age" in it. That isn't a thing.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 1d

I have frogs everywhere :)

Tigas @bluetigas.bsky.social · 1d

(distant rumbling of manufacturing machines)

Amazon page of a seller of the Ice Cold Frog showing 500+ sold

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Been off the beat for a hot minute, but the US has for decades housed training units for foreign Air Forces at US bases? Singapore has had a base in Arizona since 2001, and they train in Idaho sometimes.

This is routine hegemon stuff, not a new/unique evil www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

To actually get a mass mobilization you need a lot more than the people who are jonesing to man the barricades

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 1d

Johnson in particular seems frustrated with the realization that being Speaker of the House hasn't brought him respect and an automatic win condition. This is a guy in denial about the trajectory his legacy is taking.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 1d

For the No Kings protest do I wear my business suit so law enforcement takes me seriously or my otter kirigumi so fellow leftists take me seriously

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

I really need people who call Biden genocide Joe to understand that the deal that Trump just made was Biden‘s deal. But Trump and BB worked together so that Bebe wouldn’t agree to it under Biden.
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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 1d

Get an ebike it’ll change your life

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 1d

i obviously prefer oystah guy but this is fucking entitled baby shit. “primary everybody” means primary everybody, and i certainly don’t mind somebody who’s never run before getting poked and prodded

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently this has been in the works since 2022 which imo makes it more weird www.stripes.com/branches/air...

$12 billion deal may bring hundreds of Qatar, US Air Force members to Idaho base

www.stripes.com

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 1d

An insanely over the top response to a large peaceful protest dominated by normie grandparents and kids is historically the kind of thing that brings down governments so go wild Mike

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 1d

The entire federal government is missing a paycheck next week and this guy is doing Hitler larp

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 1d

I know someone who had an high two digit millions contract cancelled because it had the word mRNA in it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

it's giving Germania

"On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial"

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 1d

The plastic and upholstery is ending up in the trash for the most part, the glass gets trashed or crushed up as asphalt filler or similar and the metal which is the vast majority of the mass gets recycled

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