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Holly 🍄 @hollarity.bsky.social · 17h

I still care about a lot of people who hate me. Like I know it doesn’t matter, but I still wish you all the best, and hope you find happiness in things you love rather than joy in what you hate.

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Holly 🍄 @hollarity.bsky.social · 5d

Etsy deactivated my Remy Labeaubu Stickers because Pop Mart says they’re an IP infringement even though they’re a parody. Pour one out for the Gambit 🥀

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 6d

The only good thing to come out of all of this is no longer having to ask yourself if that thing you think is a thing is really and truly a thing.

Yes. It is a thing. It is the worst thing. They aren’t even trying to hide it now and if they are they’re doing it badly. Oh my god it is super a thing.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 12d

Remember when we were all Sleepytime bears? Papa bear sleeping in his armchair next to the fireplace, Mama bear putting us to bed in our little bear PJs, oh those were the days. Before we grew up and weren't bears any more. I'm very angry about this and blame foreigners. Return to Sleepytime bear!

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Cole 🎃🧙👻 @lilgay.club · 12d

There seems to be some powerful wishful thinking among corporate types that their businesses based on selling productivity software are suddenly going to increase in value when nobody has to use that software anymore…

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Cole 🎃🧙👻 @lilgay.club · 12d

One thing that consistently bothers me is that among the AI accelerators/boosters there seems to be no serious contending with what logically would happen if an economic system dependent on everyone having meaningful employment suddenly collapses because AI can do everyone’s jobs.

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Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · 12d

It's truly insane that it's legal to go "I'm going to spend $50 billion dollars to buy this company. Do I have $50 billion dollars? No, the company I'm buying is going to take out a big loan"

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 12d

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

www.businesswire.com

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 12d

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

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Holly 🍄 @hollarity.bsky.social · 12d

Streaming Silksong live with @icecoldbrew.bsky.social and @thecescalante.bsky.social !

twitch.tv/icecolebrew

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Elysia Tatsu @elysiatatsu.bsky.social · 14d

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13d

Yesterday people asked why Nexstar and Sinclair caved. The answer is simple: those who tracked which companies were advertising with them made a huge impact. Thanks to those calls, companies began pulling their ad budgets over the Kimmel blackout.

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🍁Apes🍂 @apeslion.bsky.social · 14d

All your protesting online, writing to your MPs, attending protests, sharing news, keeping the conversation going is making changes

All your complaints against war, especially your tax funding it, govs selling arms….

Is turning the tides.

Don’t stop.

They can’t ignore the public forever.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 13d

How hard is it to say “invading an American city with the US military is treason and the second we have power we will prosecute anyone who gave or obeyed an illegal order”

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15d

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 14d

JD Vance has the nerve to say that Tik Tok - under U.S. ownership - will NOT be used as a propaganda weapon against Americans.

*cackles into the abyss*

If 2025 is any indication: the billionaire class will ABSOLUTELY use their toys as propaganda weapons against Americans.

Over & over again.

“[TikTok US] will be majority-owned and controlled by United States persons and will no longer be controlled by any foreign adversary,” Trump said. “We have American investors taking it over, running it [who are] highly sophisticated, including Larry Ellison. Great investors, the biggest. They don’t get bigger. This is going to be American-operated all the way.”

TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, will retain a 19.9% stake in the US operation.

China has not publicly made clear whether it will approve the deal, although Trump said that he had “had a good talk” with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, who “gave us the go-ahead”.

JD Vance, the US vice-president, said the deal valued TikTok US at $14bn. “There was some resistance on the Chinese side,” Vance said. “But the fundamental thing that we wanted to accomplish is that we wanted to keep TikTok operating but we wanted to make sure that protected Americans’ data privacy as required by law.”

He added: “This deal really does mean that Americans can use TikTok, but actually use it with more confidence than in the past. Because their data is going to be secure and it’s not going to be used as a propaganda weapon against our fellow citizens.”

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mr potato @tweetpotato314.bsky.social · 15d

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15d

In short it’s not just about James Comey. It’s about whether the justice system remains neutral, or becomes a tool for those in power to punish their enemies.

Ex-FBI Director James Comey indicted on charges of lying to Congress and obstruction

James Comey has been charged with making a false statement to Congress and obstruction of a criminal proceeding.

apnews.com

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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 15d

laughs nervously in "needs vyvanse to be functional" 🫠

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 15d

Out of fucking control and if I were an elected Dem or running for office I’d be in front of every camera I could find telling America your prescriptions just got twice as expensive, your health insurance premiums are about to skyrocket from ACA subsidy cancellation, and oh the gov shuts down Wed.

WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The United States will impose a 100% tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the U.S., President Donald Trump said on Thursday.
"There will, therefore, be no Tariff on these pharmaceutical products if construction has started," Trump said on Truth Social.
Reporting by Jasper Ward and Ismail Shakil; Editing by Caitlin
Webber

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Holly 🍄 @hollarity.bsky.social · 15d

Which design do you like better for the Chuppy (rhymes with “puppy”) Cabra?

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Holly 🍄 @hollarity.bsky.social · 16d

It’s just most everyone in power. And the strangers who support them and who are trying to start a civil war. Or take away healthcare. Or treat women like second class citizens (if not just birthing vessels). Or treat LGBTQ people like pariahs. Or who don’t care about the lives of children.

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Holly 🍄 @hollarity.bsky.social · 16d

I know, the rottenness was always there, but so many are showing their true faces now and it is genuinely overwhelming.

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Holly 🍄 @hollarity.bsky.social · 16d

I’m so worried about everything.

Why have so many people become rotten and awful all at once?

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👻🌸 - Comms OPEN @paeonygalaxy.bsky.social · 20d

Got a little further on this thanks to a kind soul (who also wants to see me finish some work haha) we definitely still are in need of funds for food and my main account is still in the negative. ;w; Boosts appreciated and comms are open. #MABoost #KofiGoal #CommissionsOpen
ko-fi.com/paeonygalaxy...

Support Paeonygalaxy

ko-fi.com

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🌛Caio Santos Art🌜 @blacksalander.bsky.social · 17d

I find it very funny Hades 2 is launching on bissexual week

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Holly 🍄 @hollarity.bsky.social · 17d

Omg I love the energy in this artwork, excellent expression with body language 👌

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