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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22h

Note: This is me — I asked this question.

You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 1d

this has got to be the weirdest tarot deck I've ever seen

An ad from the October 22, 1945 issue of Life Magazine. On a wood table, a woman's hands place cards marked Roaster-Oven, Coffee Maker, Air Conditioner, Iron, Vacuum Cleaners, Home Freezer, Table Appliances, Fans, Washer, Laundromat, Dishwasher, Refrigerator, Electric Range, Clothes Dryer, and Steam Iron. The copy headline: "A bright future is in the Cards."

"Think of a tomorrow when you can put your whole dinner in the range, turn on the oven, toss away your apron...and take the afternoon off.

...When doing the family wash will be reduced to 'put 'em in...set the dials and add soap...take 'em out'.

...When meal planning is simplified to selecting delicious meat, ready-cooked foods, sea food, poultry and sun-ripened fruits and vegetables from your Home Freezer. The new upright model will provide freezing and storage facilities with 'Reach-in Convenience'.

...When most of the drudgery and routine of running a house becomes merely the flicking of a switch or the pressing of a button.

Idle dreaming? No, indeed. These 23 Westinghouse electric appliances give a hint of what's to come. And other exciting new products...like the Steam Iron and Automatic Clothes Dryer...are on the way. Soon, there'll be a bright tomorrow when you will know, firsthand, 'There's a Lift to Living Electrically'!"

EVERY HOUSE NEEDS
Westinghouse
MAKER OF 30 MILLION
ELECTRIC HOME APPLIANCES

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22h

In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 20h

the media class is so cooked. people rightly complain that journalists don't know history but they also don't seem to know journalism. the idf's relationship with nypd has been reported on many times over the last decade.

senior Politico journalist Marc Caputo earnestly asking if there is a "rational non bigoted link to draw between NYPD and IDF." politics writer cathy young retweeted.

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"Frankenstein" is the monster's name, Victor is MY name @victorperfecto.bsky.social · 15h

And here's the real secret sauce: Larry wrote this scathing, on point observation of Fascist tendencies KNOWING his main demographic was 8-12 year old children. Larry did not hold back AND knew his audience were toy buying kids!

💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · Aug 14

The comics were way more serious, with genuine social commentary (no snake people) that depicted Cobra as being more like a reactionary militia. Cobra Commander was a failed used car salesman who blamed "big government" for his problems, and decried "welfare" and "handouts" in some of his speeches.

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Jake Nelson @jakenelson.bsky.social · 15h

"I wasn't making a derivative of their work, I was making a derivative of this US Government-produced work, which as we all know, cannot be copyrighted by definition"

Suriel Vazquez @suriel.bsky.social · 20h

The funniest thing that could happen is if, because they're not willing to sue the US gov over the co-opting of their IP, Nintendo/MS end up losing a copyright/trademark case when someone uses this as part of their argument

alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 20h

Shocking: they’re leaning in to the evocation of nerd imagery to further rally their base of reactionary antisocial gamers

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Suriel Vazquez @suriel.bsky.social · 20h

The funniest thing that could happen is if, because they're not willing to sue the US gov over the co-opting of their IP, Nintendo/MS end up losing a copyright/trademark case when someone uses this as part of their argument

alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 20h

Shocking: they’re leaning in to the evocation of nerd imagery to further rally their base of reactionary antisocial gamers

We will reach people where they are with content they can relate to and understand, whether that be Halo, Pokémon, Lord of The Rings, or any other medium. DHS remains laser focused on bringing awareness to the flood of crime that criminal illegal aliens have inflicted on our country. We aren’t slowing down.” - DHS SPOX

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17h

Breaking: Murderer Actually Found Guilty of Murder

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help.

A photo of Sonya Massey on the left, and Sean Grayson on the right

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 15h

Bo Duke in extremis

Gre-Gory's House of Nonsense @garaujo1.bsky.social · 15h

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Jake Nelson @jakenelson.bsky.social · 15h

"we're sending a message" Sure, and they're receiving a different one (that you don't care/are unreachable).

If you want to scare them, primary them

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.

two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works

ALT: two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.

two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works

ALT: two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works

media.tenor.com

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17h

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown.

We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

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dr. hazel 🐇 @hazelmonforton.com · 16h

gamedev

twitter user @uckersket

They need to invent the opposite of a gym. You go there and you just get more frail and sickly. Maybe instead of lifting you just sit in a cold dark room and starve

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ethers.elixirs 🏳️‍⚧️ @eviemae.ink · 17h

lmao, the irony

“All I can say is that the irony was not lost on us when we were in the middle of making the first game. Railing against corporate power and all this stuff — and we were bought by Microsoft!” Boyarsky says. “But we’ve only had support from them. They liked what we were doing with the first Outer Worlds, and they support us making this game. We’ve had absolutely no pushback or messages from on high telling us don’t do this, or make sure you do this.”

While it may be true that Microsoft has not interfered with Obsidian’s creative processes on The Outer Worlds 2, the company certainly had preferences on how the leads at the studio discussed it. The game, with Boyarsky’s interests in exploring the plight of what happens to those who aren’t in power when people with base interests come into power, seemed particularly relevant to Microsoft’s business entanglements with the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

Before we get further, a Microsoft rep interrupts to note that the company’s latest statements on the matter can be found online, and that they wanted to keep the conversation with Obsidian “focused on the game.”

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Prof. Ramses: retro/hobby PNGtuber @professorramses.vtubers.social · 16h

This is just Ravage from Transformers

New Super Blue Shirt Bart 🕹️🐑 @smedis2.bsky.social · 1d

you ain't from fuckin detroit unless you got the Game Dog with the ripoff 8BitDo controllers

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Purity Tester (Nazis Bad?) @anem0ne.net · 22h

after looking this up it's wild that jamie oliver used absolutely no korean ingredients in his "korean fried rice"

- american bbq sauce
- thai/viet sriracha
- american basmati (ben's original), boiled
- mint and coriander
- plain western cabbage

it's as korean as i am nigerian or venezuelan

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 1d

I'm looking at Uncle Roger's comments and they are cursing Jamie Oliver out in hangul. Koreans are PISSED

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 18h

Stagflation

The Fed Chair is describing stagflation but does not want to say the word.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Powell: "In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside, and risks to employment to the downside -- a challenging situation. There is no risk-free path for policy as we navigate this tension between our employment and inflation goals."

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Bekoha @bekoha.bsky.social · 18h

As a huge New York Style Hot Dog fan for years, felt compelled to recreate the poster in a high resolution and managed to find the original photo used in the texture

Many thanks to folks from VGPC for help with identifying blobs, especially Prominos and TBemme

bekoha.github.io/yakuza/New%2...

Infamous texture from Yakuza series. Huge black letters on top of the image read "New York Style Hot Dog". The image is of a burger. Side by side comparison, on the left is the original texture with corrected black levels blown up to a higher resolution, on the right os a recreation by yours truly.

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Jake Nelson @jakenelson.bsky.social · 16h

had a very nice conversation with my usual waitress over lunch that included me spreading the good word of the Angel's Egg screenings, and then later at work telling my lead about it, so I'm doing my part of culturing the youths

it will be very funny if I recognize multiple people at the theater

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

i do think vance is mostly just regurgitating the half remembered ideas of dead slaveholder extremists but also this gives off the unmistakable scent of “i’ll say whatever you hogs want me to say,” which is fitting coming from america’s premier hogman

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 21h

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

vance answers the question of what if you made a moblin the vice president

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

noteworthy that rather than funding experiments into challenging conservative message domination on the local level or building between-election outreach capacity at the state level, centrist donors are throwing millions at what amount to online factional battles among a couple dozen people

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 21h

it is mostly driven by this guy who represents large dollar donors.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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CHOAM Nomsky (frightening) @samthielman.com · 21h

Jesus Christ if you don’t want to live next to people who speak a different language why on earth is it incumbent on those people and not you to go somewhere else

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 21h

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 21h

This is the scariest part of the Halloween season. They need to make this into a haunted house kind of deal.

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/

Beyond the Ballot Quiz - The Survey Center on American Life

www.americansurveycenter.org

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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 20h

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