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Heartsib @heartsib.bsky.social · 26m

A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a GIF

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finch is writing (another) horror novella ★ @foolsheart.bsky.social · 34m

hi! i'm a queer nonbinary writer! i primarily write fanfics with an untitled wlw horror novella wip under my belt that i'm working on for nanowrimo. here are excerpts of some of my fics! check out my writings here: archiveofourown.org/users/lovest...

happy to get to know other trans & enby writers!

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Will Burrows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 9h

Everybody talks about the "O'Brien must suffer" trope in DS9, but the number of times they put Kira Nerys on a mission that required her to cooperate with Dukat is peculiarly sadistic.

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Creep-E-Coyote 𓃦 Zack Loup @straysongdog.com · 5h

I was serving sexy crossroads demon vibes today

Man standing on the railroad tracks holding a guitar. He is wearing a black suit over a purple western shirt and a black cowboy hat. His eyes are shadowed by his hat and he is smiling

Man standing on the railroad tracks holding a guitar. He is wearing a black suit over a purple western shirt and a black cowboy hat.

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 7h

What I don't get about chronic generative text AI users. Is that they're happy someone constantly validates & agrees with them. Do people know, if that's happening in real life, they're either being scammed or surrounded by yesmen. It's unnatural to always be in the right.

jess m. @jametc.bsky.social · 7h

what troubles me isn't so much that it generates these fucking stupid sycophantic fanfics about you, but that that's all it seems to take to drive people insane?
nobody has any kind of fortitude stronger than that?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.

➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t worry because if they’re detained, agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And…

www.propublica.org

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 10h

Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 20h

Suddenly when puberty blockers are given to cis kids, the Daily Mail (the same newspaper which backed Hitler btw) finally admits that "their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal."

Which is true for trans kids too.

Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 22h

Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 9h

“We planted rice this year for the first time because we thought rice was gonna be a moneymaker. Turn out, all commodity prices [are] in the dump.” https://capitalbnews.org/black-farmers-tariffs-trade-war-impact/

As Tariffs Rise, One Family’s Fields Tell the Real Cost of the Trade War

A third-generation commodity crop farmer in Louisiana is facing losses as a result of the Trump administration’s trade war.

capitalbnews.org

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Andrew Turley @aturls.bsky.social · 9h

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start

If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 9h

I haven’t gotten my 2026 ACA plan yet because I’m afraid to look at how much it will cost. I’ve been paying $545 a month this year and that’s already hardly sustainable…

So yeah, please subscribe to The Flytrap. And maybe The Bugbear Dispatch too?

www.bugbeardispatch.com

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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 13h

This is why I share my "napkin math" crunching the numbers on the the top comics charts creative teams because this kind of "complacency and built-in prejudice" is there, too:

The Ankler @theankler.com · 5d

Eight years after #MeToo, Hollywood’s progress for women behind the camera has flatlined. Only three studio films this year were directed by women: the lowest in nearly a decade. Richard Rushfield crunches the numbers and calls it what it is: a crisis
theankler.com/p/female-dir...

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 10h

It has been 20 years since any Pennsylvania judge has lost a retention election.

But the GOP is campaigning for voters to remove three Democratic justices from the state supreme court in Tuesday.

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

boltsmag.org

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 10h

Democratic state attorneys general or governors from 25 states, as well as the District of Columbia, challenged the plan to pause the program.

The administration said it wasn’t allowed to use a contingency fund with about $5 billion in it for the program.

Trump Administration Must Fund SNAP During Shutdown

Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must fund SNAP using contingency funds.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

How long will this nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue last? We make sense of another week on the Coffee Klatch — with special guest @wkamaubell.bsky.social

Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich (ft. Kamau Bell)

Robert Reich

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Ruby 💕💜🩵 @fugitiverabbit.com · 1d

I'm going to be annoying about this until I can reclaim my basement storage. 😂 I'm so sorry in advance! Please buy a deck so I can send it anywhere but here (in the us, sorry)

Ruby 💕💜🩵 @fugitiverabbit.com · 2d

👻🎃✨Fat Folks Tarot final U.S. inventory sale is now live!!!✨🎃👻

We have less than 300 decks left, so hurry and grab yours while you can! We will not be reprinting or restocking - this is it.

Head over to fatfolkstarot.bigcartel.com and get your copy while you can! Sorry, US only.

A photo of the fat folks tarot deck with guide book

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Will Burrows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · May 6

I'm an untrained artist designing merch that draws on niche pop culture mashups for queer pride, nerd humor, and agitprop for a better world being possible. This thread includes a sampling of my work, which you can find on stickers and shirts, pins, prints, and patches at willburrows.art/shop

A vinyl sticker featuring a drawing of Garak making jazz hands in front of a rainbow, overlaid with the text, "Friend of Garak" in DS9 title fonts.

A poster featuring a drawing of Miles O'Brien teaching Rom and Leeta about unions over Guinness and snail juice in Quark's Bar. Above, it says "The boss needs you, you don't need them!" and below it says "Labor is entitled to all it creates."

A gold Starfleet delta insignia with the three arrows symbol in black enamel in the center, and a high gloss surface.

An embroidered patch featuring Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors growing in a can that says "compost the rich."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash

Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

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Utterly Magical @utterlymagical.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a doctor in the house? My Beverly Crusher enamel pin is running low AND she’s on sale right now so you can grab her at a steal!

Enamel pin on a blue background with yellow gold gem stars.

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Ao Lihui @aolihui.bsky.social · 1d

Jinuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!! l'm absolutely weak for the "from enemies to lovers" story!! 😫❤️ HELP!!!
#Jinu #KPOPDEMONHUNTERS

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

my favorite Pope Francis mode was “I’m saying a thing that SOUNDS like a general statement but is in fact a really nasty subtweet of one very specific guy”

I think Leo from Chicago might be even better at it

please bear in mind he declined to get dragged deep into the Charlie Kirk funeral theater

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

why would he come for online trads like this

In recent years, many young people have approached the faith through social media, successful programs and popular online Christian witnesses. The danger is that a faith discovered online is limited to individual experiences, which may be intellectually and emotionally reassuring, but never “embodied.” Such experiences remain “disembodied,” detached from the “ecclesial body.”

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Go fuck yourself

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

I grew up on food stamps--not SNAP, physical paper stamps that came in a little book that Mom kept in her purse.

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