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404 Media @404media.co · 2h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 32m

She's cheering on ICE in Hillsboro. White supremacists in the comments are saying Hillsboro will become a ghost town because of all the people ICE will disappear so they should start buying up properties for cheap. Gross...

happy white woman with a MAGA hat. @basedinportland post: "I hear ICE is in Hillsboro" with a flexing arm symbol #MAGA

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 32m

Harvard Medical School Nixed a 2024 Graduation Speaker Over Pro-Palestine Statements

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Medical School Nixed a 2024 Graduation Speaker Over Pro-Palestine Statements | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Medical School administrators removed from consideration a potential speaker for the school’s 2024 Class Day out of concern that pro-Palestine messages she had posted on social media would be ...

www.thecrimson.com

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 41m

You've probably heard how a high percentage of #Nobel laureates are immigrants. The US in particular has benefited from the influx of bright minds.

@jennaahart.bsky.social ran the data for this century's Nobel prizewinners — and shows more than 30% immigrated. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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TheDoorOKC @thedoorokc.bsky.social · 32m

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare archive.is/GSzMf

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Island of Reil - medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome @islandofreil.bsky.social · 33m

Because their actual job is pushing the propaganda that their billionaire bosses want them to.

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The Scorpiono/Scorpioso 🦂 @scorpiono.bsky.social · 1h

Of course, CNN is a part of the rebranding of MTG.

The same lady who chased a teenage survivor of the Stoneman Douglas school shooting down the street to troll him.

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Hudson River Crew @hudsonrivercrew.bsky.social · 2h

Nothing gives liberals and centrists a bigger erection than the possibility of white washing and hugging a fascist or war criminal.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 1h

“but more than that, a loving mother”

as much as I loathe MTG, what in the misogynist seeing motherhood as the most important thing about a woman fresh hell is this

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 41m

The Jewish space lasers woman? That politician?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

Following MTG's lengthy CNN sitdown interview, Wolf Blitzer tells her:

"You‘re a courageous politician, but more important, a loving mother. Thanks very much for coming in. We hope you‘ll come back here in the Situation Room."

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 1h

No heroes here.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Multiple current and former JAGs — military lawyers who are members of the judge advocate general’s corps —told CNN that the strikes do not appear lawful.

Pentagon lawyers, even if they have concerns, cannot overrule the OLC opinion, which is the prevailing legal interpretation of the executive branch. Many DoD lawyers are also reluctant to openly dissent, three current JAGs told CNN.

“The way forward is just to eat it and put your head down and act in accordance with [Secretary of Defense] Hegseth’s new policies,” said one. “No JAG is trying to rock the boat or get noticed.”

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 48m

Brian Niccol needs to stop taking Starbucks backward and settle a fair union contract so we can all move forward together.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 54m

yes, removing the power to block housing projects from the people who most frequently block housing projects from being built *will*, in fact, mean more housing gets built.

hope that helps!

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1h

When parakeets cosplay

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1h

they literally talk about how this is "Lavender Marriage 2.0", like it's a fun hack. It's so clearly a "we're paid well as influencers for this" thing and I fucking hate how its couched in so much bullshit faux-inclusivity-for-conservatives language.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1h

it's obviously not going to be how its reported, but telling that we're in an era of increased public homophobia, and the ever revolving for of "will they roll back gay marriage", to suddenly do influencer posting about "gay-straight relationships"

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1h

you don't say!

Greenstone said some of their most supportive commenters online are conservative. “It’s a safe package for them,” she said.

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Jesse Singal Vapes Piss @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 47m

this is a perennial topic, almost always with this exact headline, and it's typically right-wing bait bc yeah it's trying to sell marriages of convenience, closeting and comphet as a trend piece and "prove the case" that same-sex marriage bans aren't discriminatory bc gays can just get het married.

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1h

The Washing Post just discovered beards

He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married.
Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages.
By Shane O’Neill

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 53m

While people on here and Twitter go back and forth over whether or not to suck Trump or Biden or both or neither's dicks, it's worth noting that this plan is strikingly similar to the Biden-Blinken one, is strikingly bad in many of the same ways, and is not likely to be fully enforced at any rate.

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Island of Reil - medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome @islandofreil.bsky.social · 45m

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 5h

Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line.
The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes.
Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.

On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld

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The picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.

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Island of Reil - medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome @islandofreil.bsky.social · 46m

Not surprising; I was speaking of my own experience.

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Island of Reil - medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome @islandofreil.bsky.social · 47m

Girls are bombarded with these messages about their bodies from a very young age. It really fucks us up well into adulthood.

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Island of Reil - medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome @islandofreil.bsky.social · 49m

No doctor who performs this should be allowed to keep their license.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

this reads like an ad for getting your ribs removed to treat body dysmorphia and i’m pretty astonished it was even published

I Fractured My Ribs to ‘Remodel’ Them and Cinch My Waist

No matter how much I worked out, I felt boxy. So earlier this year I got RibXcar to change my shape once and for all.

www.thecut.com

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Data for Progress @dataforprogress.org · 58m

NEW with @refugeeadvocacylab.bsky.social and @refugeesinternational.org:

Voters support the U.S. having a refugee resettlement program that helps bring people seeking safety to the United States.

This includes 79% of Democrats, 68% of Independents, and 59% of Republicans.

Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress.
Title: Likely Voters Across Party Lines Believe the U.S. Should Have a Refugee Program.
Description: A refugee is a person who is forced to leave their country in order to escape war, violence, or persecution due to factors such as their race, religion, or political opinion. Do you believe the government should have a refugee program that helps bring some people seeking refuge to safety in the United States?

Key:

a = The government should have a refugee program

b = Don’t know

c = The government should not have a refugee program

Results:

All likely voters — a: 69%, b: 9%, c: 22%

Democrat — a: 79%, b: 7%, c: 14%

Independent / Third party — a: 68%, b: 10%, c: 22%

Republican — a: 59%, b: 11%, c: 30%

Yes, I know someone who is a refugee — a: 84%, b: 1%, c: 14%

No, I do not know someone who is a refugee — a: 69%, b: 8%, c: 23%

Survey conducted September 26–28, 2025 among 1,231 U.S. likely voters.

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