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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

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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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 19h

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 19h

God I fucking hate owning a car.

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 19h

Car brakes cut into the rotor apparently, being told I need to replace both. Well, that was $1000 I don’t fuckin have to spare.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 1d

tyty

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 1d

Oh damn that looks cute as fuck tho, where did you get it if you don’t mind me asking?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Haunted Rickobrine @abnormal.gay · 1d

The “we can’t stop thinking about children’s genitals” party strikes again

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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NB 🖤 Princess Jade 🖤 @princessjade.bsky.social · 4d

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$72 left on September rent

$248 for gas bill due on the 17 or will be disconnected

$650 now due for Oct rent
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Extremely depressed & burned out. Suicidal thoughts are constant lately.

Cash.me/ikemi93
Venmo.com/jadedragon12
Throne.com/jade_asakura

Any help is appreciated

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 2d

every fucking time

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2d

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 2d

This is the way.

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 3d

Check out our Halloween BOOO-nanza sale, created by my partner @mzspress.bsky.social. Some of our best loved books are (briefly!) being offered at horrifyingly low prices (50% to 70% off). Order more than $100 and we'll throw in a free A24 cap! [THUNDERCLAP; LIGHTNING] mzs.press/BOOO-nanza-S...

BOOO-nanza Sale

mzs.press

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 3d

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 3d

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 3d

hades gals 💀🌸

fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?)
her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian

fanart of Nemesis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (red jeans, black crop top with the Hades sigil as a pattern on it), moon shaped necklace, tattoos on her left arm and pecs, as she's about to tie her hair using a green hairband, her eyes closed
(green light on her right side cause she's standing next to Melinoe's glowing arm, off camera)

fanart of Eris, from Hades 2, she's sitting, right leg with her knee bent, in front of her
right hand on her right foot, left hand on her face, framing her left eye between two fingers
she's wearing big sneakers, micro shorts, some sort of sweater with stripes showing her shoulders
she has apple tree branch tattoos on her thigh and left shoulder

fanart of Medea from Hades 2, but wearing modern clothes (tiny leather shorts with double belt, red/purple leather crop top), a nose ring, necklaces, also big tattoo covering the entire left arm (a snake, a moon crescent, flowers and leaves)
She's sitting, resting on her left hand, her right hand next to her face, conjuring some plague magic that bathes her in green light

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · Jul 9

do you have an extra $20 but feel immobilized by the number of Gaza fundraisers you see in your feed that all deserve support?

feel free to take this post as your sign to give the $20 to the next one you see

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 3d

Great read on a classic game and an incredible remake, from @dreamcastaway.bsky.social on @eurogamer.bsky.social, can't recommend their piece enough.

Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 3d

"None of our current world was on Matsuno's mind when he wrote this tale so many years ago, but it's hard not to feel that Ramza is an even more resonant hero in 2025 than he was back in 1997. All you need to do, to see the 'ease at which men are branded heretics', is open your morning newspaper."

The revolutionary politics of Final Fantasy Tactics, and why Ramza Beoulve is a hero for our times

Final Fantasy Tactics' original writer-director Yasumi Matsuno signalled the timeliness of this remake for a reason: its hero offers a model of resistance.

www.eurogamer.net

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 3d

In this period she was the subject of a news article, Gizmodo literally wrote about her as the example of needing real help in the face of cruel moderation that marks everyone spam--and since that article came out she's lost many more accounts still! Bsky has been showing us who they are for years

The Rise of AI Is Making Life Even Harder for Real People in Gaza

Gizmodo spoke with desperate Palestinians who were accused of being AI creations.

gizmodo.com

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 3d

Bookshop.org is a great site for your book-buying needs, always use this over Amazon if you can!

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 3d

So glad I saw this excellent thread absolutely demolishing that 'Definitive History of SNES RPGs' book that looked pretty gorgeous before I hit 'buy.'

わたしがExceed Gunblaze Vengeanceわけないじゃん、ムリムリ！（※ムリじゃなかった!?） @takamomchi.bsky.social · 8d

alright gonna put myself out there a little bit

oh my lord I do believe I regret purchasing a book. i am not done and I intend to read far more of it to finish judging it but I'm already pretty upset.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

It’s like if Joe Montana was Mr Bean

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 4d

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHMYGOD
Trevor Lawrence is something else

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