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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 13h

wtf, solar wind

Solar wind tears a chunk from Comet Lemmon's tail

See how the solar wind shredded Comet Lemmon's tail in an extraordinary view from Earth

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 14h

Let’s go!

The American Prospect @prospect.org · 15h

Four months after the last No Kings protests, millions will descend onto the streets again on Saturday to protest Trump’s autocracy and the government shutdown. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:
trib.al/7hUhZBm

Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday

A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history.

trib.al

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, there are many “functional substitutes” if you ignore the function “taste like coffee.”

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 1d

[covertly-self-referential meta-pedantry joke omitted]

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 1d

The “Democrat Party” soon to be added to the CBS News style manual.

Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 1d

The misspelling is on purpose. A flex. Like saying, "yeah, CBS News is basically the Post Millennial now. What are you gonna do about it?"

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 1d

Closeup of Trump’s neck flipped and rendered in black and white

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 1d

The unitary executive theory is toast.

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 2d

🎯

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 2d

That Biden wasn’t even President at the time makes his ability to stage the riots with FBI agents *all the more insidious*

Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 2d

Who was President that day, Pumpkin?????

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 2d

Sarah would have got back to him by now but didn’t have ChatGPT to help her craft a quicker response.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 2d

More on ICE Gestapo tactics, with a tip on how you can help if you’re at the scene of a Kavanaugh stop.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 2d

#typography

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 2d

If you underline tab characters (ctrl-tab) or fixed-width spaces (ctrl-shift-space), you can avoid these ugly underscore signature blocks that break for text.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

"Sensitivities and Exposure:" Six Stupid Things about Lindsey Halligan's First Filing

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/12/s...

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 2d

I just use prefab tables, but I’ll have to try this.

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 3d

The solo break on the album cut is even greater. The *sound* he gets. The rhythmic play and displacement. Right up there with Bird’s legendary break in Night in Tunisia.

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 3d

Yep, still on track for our very own Aktion T4.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

(watching a population vigorously oppose subsidizing the welfare state while also maintaining one of the world’s largest prison systems) these are people who love to be free

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 3d

A method adopted more recently (to slightly different artistic ends) by Johnny Cash.

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 3d

“[T]here were rumors (probably mad and unfounded) that Michelangelo murdered a man and watched him die in order to be able to paint the agony of Christ.”—Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 3d

“[T]here were rumors (probably mad and unfounded) that Michelangelo murdered a man and watched him die in order to be able to paint the agony of Christ.”—Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 3d

Similes, metaphors, and analogies are all the same fucking thing.

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 3d

The contemporary experience suggests that, for the most part, it’s just snakes.

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 3d

“[S]ycophancy should always be examined to see if it ha[s] in it a prescription. Language makes demands. It is an excavatory skill; each word needs to have its surface dusted, to see if below there is gold or snakes.”— Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 3d

The 6 in the middle group are performing judicial neutrality.

Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 3d

Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 3d

I agree with you.

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Hollywood DFPD @hollywooddfpd.bsky.social · 3d

The joy of fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

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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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

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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