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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 16h

guards ignore—but are trained—that withdrawal is a life threatening condition, and ignoring someone in withdrawal is both deliberate and indifferent

the fact that they were *wrong* about this person’s emergency doesn’t make their conduct any less deliberate or indifferent

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Jessika 🏳️‍⚧⛓️🤖 @jesikalashnikov.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being this food scientist from Breaking Bad. You're so excited to tell the CEO about your new "Franch" dressing that you've spent so much time on and then he just goes upstairs and kills himself.

Aforementioned scientist saying "Franch"

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 1d

cis people when trans people outside the west say theyre trans: no no its irresponsible to draw connections btwn such vastly different cultures

cis people when a cis male serial killer sniffs womens underwear before murdering them: is he a transsexual? itd be irresponsible not to speculate wildly

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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SPIROSAURUS 🦖 ((📱)) 🎼 @dottiedino.bsky.social · 1d

Autistic people don’t obey.

Trans people don’t obey.

Disabled people don’t obey.

This is why they come for us all the time.

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Callies Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things @calliedot.bsky.social · 1d

I do think it would be amazing if hundreds of protesters just showed up dressed like ICE. They’d be absolutely baffled, they’d have no way to tell who’s who. They’re all dressed in off-the-rack Cabelas clothes since they don’t seem to have a standard uniform so it’s easy.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 1d

We all wish democrats actually had this plan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

being online is amazing you can say "our democratically elected officials should be doing something and/or should have done something previously to prevent the current political climate from developing to this point" and someone will argue with you

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 1d

*very serious gender and sexuality studies academic who just published a 300pg book on trans people in oceania without running it by a single one of them voice* the real colonialism is thinking you, a filthy white transsexual, have anything in common with the noble [local word meaning trannyfaggot]

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 1d

its wild how across time, space, and culture we keep finding trans people describing having nearly the exact same experiences trans people have today and academics will bend over backwards to explain why they cannot be trans and how its actually offensive and degrading to even suggest that

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 1d

it's becoming apparent that there exists an amount of money that is literally a cognitohazard and confiscatory taxation is essentially a medical intervention at that point

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

i think it's apparent that the lack of any consequences or guardrails or competition or any constraints whatsoever for these freaks has made them mottled and rancid (see, eg, good times, soft men or whatever). no one will tell them they look stupid or that their ideas are stupid. played themselves

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

you will do joy my way or the highway

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

If our TV networks had not been captured by the right wing, some very easy journalism would be to play this clip besides a very not on fire Portland and then tell viewers that the President of the United States is living in an alternate reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 1d

it really is funny how many american liberals simultaneously believe their political system is the best in the world, that the democrats are optimal agents in this system, and that it keeps producing disastrous results by... magic?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

the list of things that needs to be done to repair this country is extensive but high up on it is breaking the power of the tech lords

they are convinced they are untouchable feudal barons whose money allows them to dictate everyone else's life and they must be disabused of that notion

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

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Jessika 🏳️‍⚧⛓️🤖 @jesikalashnikov.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being this food scientist from Breaking Bad. You're so excited to tell the CEO about your new "Franch" dressing that you've spent so much time on and then he just goes upstairs and kills himself.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

No creativity or ingenuity in thinking of ways of how to fight Trump but infinitely amounts of creativity and ingenuity when it's time to brainstorm reasons why it's actually smart to do nothing.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

A good example of Dems not adapting to MAGA war mindset is that they keep telling reporters they can't engage on Trump's military occupations because it's a "trap" to entice them into a losing debate about crime. That concedes too much up front and plays by old rules.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Rain DeGrey @raindegrey.bsky.social · 4d

Praying to the old gods

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Jessika 🏳️‍⚧⛓️🤖 @jesikalashnikov.bsky.social · 2d

You know what? I'd totally date Gale.

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Jessika 🏳️‍⚧⛓️🤖 @jesikalashnikov.bsky.social · 2d

Hehehe you're adorable

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Jessika 🏳️‍⚧⛓️🤖 @jesikalashnikov.bsky.social · 2d

You certainly may

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Jessika 🏳️‍⚧⛓️🤖 @jesikalashnikov.bsky.social · 2d

Done!

A beautiful trans woman in a beautiful collar

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Jessika 🏳️‍⚧⛓️🤖 @jesikalashnikov.bsky.social · 2d

Step 8: Install the hardware. I hold my collars together with tubular rivets because they're the most reliable even if you have to buy a desk-mounted press for them

Me pressing the rivets into place. And my pokies.

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Jessika 🏳️‍⚧⛓️🤖 @jesikalashnikov.bsky.social · 2d

No, if someone sounds fake during sex I'm just like hey let's just be friends no matter who they are

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