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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 4h

Frog and Toad stand up to ICE

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jay Garmon @jaygarmon.bsky.social · 4h

Mood

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 5h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

there are breads that i enjoy making myself — any quickbread, sourdough boules and batards, flatbreads, biscuits etc. — but you’ll never catch me making a baguette or croissant at home. i live a short bike ride from three boulangeries!

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

a big thing i learned about myself during covid is that i just want to buy a goddamned baguette from the store or the bakery, i literally never want to make the damned thing myself

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 14h

Friends, some advice if you plan on spending time outside in an animal costume, sharing for no particular reason:

-You will sweat a lot more than you think. Have water/snacks

-You cannot move well (the Left Shark guy is a trained experienced professional dancer). Don’t run or you’ll trip and fall.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 11h

By “this has got to come to an end” he means opposition to Republicans’ destruction of the country. They seek subjugation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 11h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 12h

Charlie Kirk was a terrible person, but his prowess at organizing was astonishing.

Democrats, progressive and moderate, are using tactics from the 1970s.

Republicans spend hundreds of millions on networking, jobs, and outreach every year. Democrats waste their money on obsolete stuff.

flux.community @flux.community · 12h

Charlie Kirk was a religious extremist and an advocate for mass censorship of academics he hated.

But as a political organizer and creator of opportunities for his comrades, there's much that can be learned from what he did. @matthewboedy.bsky.social discusses on the latest Theory of Change

What Charlie Kirk knew

The slain co-founder of Turning Point was a masterful political organizer—and a religious extremist

plus.flux.community

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 13h

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 16h

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com · 11h

Scare quotes on justice for sure.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

fleabag from the show fleabag looking horrified and offended (because she shags a hot priest)

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 19h

Nicely done

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hallowellie maybe 🕷️ @ellie.thecancellations.com · 1d

Looking for a foster for a cute cat in the Nashville area. 1.5 yrs old, male, neutered, litterbox trained, very sweet. Currently being treated for fleas. Short term, long term, even potential adoption are possible. Can discuss details over DM/e-mail if you're interested! 🦞

a long-haired grey cat lays on the floor upside down

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Dawn of the Dead 💀 @502eire.lol · 16h

I have met this person a few times through mutuals friends and liked them and - if true - is a good reminder that we don’t really know anybody

Manual High School theater teacher facing child sexual abuse image distribution charges

Manual High School theater teacher under FBI investigation. What we know

An FBI spokesperson declined to comment on the ongoing investigation. It is unclear what charges he faces.

www.courier-journal.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Was a mistake to drop the "weird" attack

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

i feel like everything bari weiss does is treated like she's a network exec in 1973 when she's really just a LARPer at the helm of a particularly irrelevant brand while TV news is dying.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 18h

lol @people.com didn’t hold back

PEOPLE MAGAZINE HEADLINE: Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan Politician María Corina Machado After Repeatedly Saying He Wants the Award →

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happy new brick @bigblocks.bsky.social · 16h

they once made a movie about a rock and roll opera about a guy who was super good at pinball and you want to tell me autism is new?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h

the DOGE-ification of CBS news

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 14h

i think what defines bluesky is your ability to craft the tone and content of the conversations you want to have, it’s like real facilitation

aside from blocking, you have:
- detach quote
- hide reply

that surely is hampering engagement, strictly speaking, but it significantly raises the quality

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12h

🧵 from the always invaluable Dr. Taber.

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 12h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to the new animated series Frog & Chicken, about two lil inflatable buddies just running around Portland shaking their stuff at bullies.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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