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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 23d

Going to be real, the hate towards this guy reaches a level of engagement that is only possible because of racist hysteria and I know this is the case because I regularly see 40-50 year old white men, on this website included, who feel obliged to pass judgement on him regularly.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23d

streamer discourse is near uniformly ridiculous, but it does appear that Hasan Piker did not shock his dog youtu.be/XZU2qy3CRk0...

What actually happened.

YouTube video by HasanAbi

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 26d

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

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🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🪕🧿 @schizanon.bsky.social · Oct 2

You're never too old to learn FPGA programming with VHDL or Verilog

Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · Oct 2

You're never too old to start making indie games.

Davis Bickford @davis.social · Oct 1

You’re never too old to start drawing.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · Oct 1

SHIVERS - In a little alley next to Boogie street, a man in stained overalls steps out of a workshop for a cigarette. His hands are bruised and soaked with motor oil and dirt. He breathes smoke out of his nostrils and closes his eyes. The next five minutes are his and his alone.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · Sep 29

"There was no hidden, better version of Harris that was muzzled and limited by circumstance."

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 29

Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik

This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic, says columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · Sep 29

They just saw a brown guy on a bike and decided to try and kidnap him. These people need to be treated like they’re the gestapo.

Refuse service to them, don’t talk to them or yell at them (if you can), make every waking minute a living nightmare that will only get more expensive to be maintained.

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · Sep 29

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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drumm, colin @drumm-colin.bsky.social · Sep 27

My essay "Money is a thing: coins and bills in late medieval Europe" is now out in the Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy. This is a relatively concise statement of the numismatic (i.e. anti-chartalist) view of medieval European money. I hope it's of interest and use.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Sep 24

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…

Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.

The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · Sep 23

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Screenshot from New Yorker interview by Isaac Chotiner with Cass Sunstein

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · Sep 24

Look, here are some Palestinians in need of help. That’s the deal and I’m sick of explaining things. Nobody can possibly read every individual story and somehow find the most deserving one.

Donate if you can or share it you can’t.

gofund.me/53b6d6ce5

gofund.me/ba14d755e

gofund.me/536166902

Donate to Urgent Aid for Sahar’s Family – Food, Shelter & Medicine, organized by Mahmoud Shehada

Hi world , it’s Sahar Please read this as if I'm a member … Mahmoud Shehada needs your support for Urgent Aid for Sahar’s Family – Food, Shelter & Medicine

gofund.me

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Sep 23

Okay what about those of us who aren't milquetoast white cis men with global recognizability

Mediaite @mediaite.com · Sep 23

Jimmy Kimmel’s Return: A Rare Opportunity for Grace, Empathy and Healing

As Jimmy Kimmel returns to ABC, his words may shape more than ratings — he has a rare chance to lower the temperature in America’s fractured discourse. The post Jimmy Kimmel’s Return: A Rare Opportunity for Grace, Empathy and Healing first appeared on Mediaite.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · Sep 22

If there’s one single philosophical position I will always fight against tooth and nail it is normative naturalism. Give it an inch and it will take a mile.

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highball @highball371.bsky.social · Sep 19

adopting a firm, unapologetic 'anti-metaphysics' stance

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · Aug 30

I forgot I made this I crack myself up lol

Seinfeld meme
Kramer, what's going on in there?
STALKER
We're now standing at the threshold. This is the most important moment - in your life. You must know that your most cherished desire will come true here. Your sincerest wish, the desire that has made you suffer most.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Sep 16

UN official says Israel's "deliberate shooting" of the single building where a fertility clinic was "immediately reminded me of the Rwanda genocide where I was a judge and where they ripped the bellies of pregnant women, pulled out the fetuses because they wanted to kill off the entire Tutsi group."

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Sep 16

Remarkably blunt words from United Nations officials who just declared Israel is committing genocide:

"Gaza will be with me for the rest of my life."

"Netanyahu, like everything he says, is simply lying."

"The treatment of children, the amputation without anesthetic…That will haunt me forever."

BREAKING: UN Commission Concludes Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza

In an exclusive interview, Mehdi speaks with two of the UN commissioners behind the shocking new report, which lays out the evidence for the crime of crimes.

zeteo.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Sep 15

one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 15

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Line chart showing that there's been a rapid escalation in how quickly the world installs a gigawatt of solar power capacity.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · Sep 15

so ICE murdered a father in cold blood from a routine traffic stop, we're murdering random Venezuelans in foreign waters, we're shackling S. Koreans for building the factories we need to keep the southern economy alive, and we have a majority party trying to tie passport status to political views

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Mar 16

This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · Sep 12

UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · Sep 12

Nancy Mace tweet: Time to bring back the death penalty

superimposed on an image of Mr. Burns tenting his fingers as he talks to a crowd

Nancy Mace tweet: We truly belive if Tyler Robinson had ever sat down across from Charlie, the great debater, the man of faith and grace he was Tyler wouldn't have pulled the trigger

superimposed on an image of a chastened Mr. Burns speaking to the crowd about a different subject

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · Mar 12

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky's Sea View (1841), Among the Waves (1898), Gibraltar by Night (1844), & North Sea Storm (1865)

'sea view' is pretty self-explanatory - a painting of the sea (probably) at dusk, the left side of the painting is dominated by dark brown cliffs with rocky outcrops staggered around the center of the painting, with the sun above them in a dark sky with pale clouds. there is a boat in the foreground to the right, and a tiny white boat in the background to the far right. somehow the sun's light feels almost blinding, gives a bright green cast to the water.

a painting of choppy sea waves and nothing else - the light seems to come from above the painting on the far left. the water is dark blue, nearly pitch black in the background. toward the center and foreground, the water is foamy, in shades from a bright aqua green to cornflower blue.

painting is about half sky and half sea - there's a bright full moon in the sky, partly obscured by a haze of pinky gray clouds. the moon is slightly off center, hanging above the silhouette of the Rock of Gibraltar. in the foreground on the right is the dark shape of what looks like a sinking ship spitting red sparks, there are two ships behind it heading toward the rock. the sea appears almost gold at its center, with choppy, swooping waves behind it that appear opalescent, containing colors ranging from pale blue to lilac.

a tempest at sea - there's a ship in the distance, slightly off-center, and tilting over to the left. there's a full moon in the sky above almost completely concealed by gauzy blue-gray clouds. in the bottom left corner of the painting, there is a boat with sailors who look like they're reaching out toward the ship. the moon creates a column of light illuminating the top of the choppy, dark blue-green sea all the way to the bottom of the painting.

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Hal Schrieve - preorder Fawn’s Blood 🩸 out sep 16 @halschrieve.bsky.social · Sep 9

controversial take for an author at this moment but I think libgen and free access to information is good actually; I think people taking advantage of this for profit are the bad guys, but broad access to books around the world that aren’t published in all countries ….good actually

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merritt @merrittk.com · Sep 6

hi, it's been two years since you applied for a job with us. can we keep your resume on file? we have no intention of ever hiring you, but in our archives you may attain a kind of immortality, your skills and accomplishments forever commemorated on our servers

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