you're not steampunk and i'm telling everyone
@homarus.bsky.social
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what kind of a world have we gone and created here?
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homarus.bsky.social
I know it's shelf stable, but non-refrigerated milk will always be weird to me.
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caioalmendra.bsky.social
Fun fact: Maria Colina Machado SUPPORTS Donald Trump sinking fishing boats off their coast.
logicallyjc.bsky.social
I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.
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shiningknightx.bsky.social
"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore
homarus.bsky.social
they're finally going to realize the "removing your ribs to suck your own dick" surgery
homarus.bsky.social
this would absolutely be allowed to happen today, and the PPV would make millions.
homarus.bsky.social
there aren't many situations you can look back on and think "we should've been more ableist", but this dimwit's stroke is one of them
atrupar.com
FOX: Do you think Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

FETTERMAN: If this sticks. I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace Prize is for ending wars and promoting peace. And if he brings the Ukrainian war to its end, I will be the Democrat leading the committee for his Nobel Prize Peace.
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raxkingisdead.bsky.social
people on here apparently need to learn a lesson most of us learn in elementary school, which is that it’s fucking rude to correct people on zero stakes things and doing so leads rightfully to social ostracism
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pizzalawyer420.bsky.social
When someone asks how I stay sane while being extremely online
Figure six a man being bombarded by invisible rays saying I don't feel a thing
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melissagiragrant.com
What we’re seeing now is not people “[beginning] to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army”—the federal agents are becoming an occupying army, and the violence is theirs. The violence is already here.
calebcrain.bsky.social
Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."
homarus.bsky.social
most people got wise to Worcester, so now I'd say Haverhill, probably
merriam-webster.com
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
homarus.bsky.social
I reserve all of my ire for media organizations and not for individual posters. And it's certainly not just you, lots of people, including myself, have been using "less than lethal". It's natural when it's what is written in practically every article.
homarus.bsky.social
If I had to venture a guess--and that's all it is, a guess--this language comes straight out of LEO and military PR, and media is just rehashing the words that were given to them, AKA the process that gave us the "officer involved shooting". Same shit, different day.
homarus.bsky.social
Maybe there are specific definitions for each of these terms in law enforcement and military circles, I don't know. But I've seen this change in the way the media talks about this kind of ammunition, and I don't think it's because they're trying to use the correct technical jargon.
homarus.bsky.social
Not a critique of the OP, just a thought:
The phrase "less than lethal" bothers me. We moved from "non-lethal" to "less lethal" in acknowledgement that this kind of ammunition can kill a person. Since then, it's slipped to "less than lethal", which again has a false implication of non-lethality.
rockshrimp.bsky.social
one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.
jackjenkins.me
Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.
homarus.bsky.social
it bothers me more than it should that he uses all caps for these and not the Truly Trumpian Randomly Capitalized Words
homarus.bsky.social
we can't afford to lose Stavvy in a time like this
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.
talleststone.bsky.social
I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.
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swingingstorm.bsky.social
Eternally disturbed by the number of Democrats who seem to see “affirming everyone’s basic right to freedom and safety is just too radical” as a reasonable argument.
homarus.bsky.social
Fuck off outta here with this garbage. Trans rights are non-negotiable. Liberation means all of us, not just some of us.
talleststone.bsky.social
I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.
homarus.bsky.social
there's not an AI that exists that could accurately recreate the faces he's making
asslatam.bsky.social
President Javier Milei of Argentina had a rock show to celebrate his new book, called "La Construcción del Milagro" (The Construction of the Miracle).