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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1h

“The Heritage Foundation [which spearheaded Project 2025] says it will ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors over alleged bias.“ 9/18/25 … 1/ www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

The right wing is coming for Wikipedia

The Heritage Foundation says it will "identify and target" Wikipedia editors over alleged bias. What does that mean for Wikipedia’s future?

www.wbur.org

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 1d

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 553: There's not much point in quibbling about a prize that already went to Henry Kissinger, but US-backed regime change and peace don't usually end up on the same side of the ledger. www.indignity.net/indignity-mo...

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 553: Redefine criminality.

THE PURSUIT OF PODCASTING ADEQUACY™

www.indignity.net

JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 1d

QATARI EMERI AIR FORCE FACILITY IN IDAHO

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Just gonna note that this blog was published long before Elon Musk climbed the list

Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 1d

My favorite formulation of this one remains @tomscocca.bsky.social 's: hmmdaily.com/2018/10/16/n... so short, yet convincing

No Billionaires

hmmdaily.com

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 1d

NINE INCH NAILS SOUNDTRACK THO?!?!?! DAMMIT I'M IN

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 1d

TRON ARES - JARED LETO OOF - ALSO: LOL

IMDb cast list: Kara Swisher: Self https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6604188/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 2d

NOTHING ORIGINAL EVERYTHING IS LIFTED

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 2d

BRING BACK JARTS

JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 2d

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 181, COLUMN DEP’T.: MR WRONG: I am not a dispenser of Medical Advice or Diagnosis, but if anybody at your next Medical encounter says words to the effect of “How’s it goin’? Be ready to tell ‘em stuff, don’t be shy or polite, lean in!
www.indignity.net/mr-wrong-cold-medicine/

MR WRONG: Cold medicine

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 181

www.indignity.net

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 2d

SIDEBAR: IS HOMEGUY DRESSED LIKE A PRIEST TO EXORCIST WHATEVER THE HECK'S GOING ON WITH HIS FACE LOOKS A LI'L BIT PAZUZU THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU THE POWER OF

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Rogan on Trump’s cruel mass deportations, racially profiling non-criminals and ripping apart families: “This is crazy. That shows no heart. You’re not gonna get any reasonable people to go along with that. Any kind person would go ‘this can’t be the only way to do this’.”

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 2d

DUDE IS AS FAR AS IT GETS BEFORE YOU HIT G-D

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

What do you mean "possible rise," dude is at the top of the pack. He is the literal pope

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

Pausing in a tunnel underneath Rockefeller Center to yell “THANKS SO MUCH FOR SUBSCRIBING TO FLAMING HYDRA” in the direction of Chris Hayes, like some sort of indie media bog witch

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 2d

THE "TIGHT T-SHIRT" SCENE WOULDA HIT DIFFERENT

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 2d

WHAT AM I A FRICKIN THORN BIRD OVER HERE

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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🎃 Harm City Slasher 🔪 @sprawlhater.bsky.social · 2d

Baltimore pls

Edward Russell @byerussell.com · 2d

The head of Vancouver’s transit agency can sum its ridership recovery in one word: Frequency.

“Running the bus every 30 minutes isn’t going to cut it if you want to grow ridership.“

Many Vancouver 🚌 run every 5min or less, and the SkyTrain runs every 3-4min, via @davidzipper.bsky.social

The Secret to Vancouver’s Public Transit Ridership Recovery

The Canadian city’s transit agency, TransLink, bounced back from Covid even as other North American systems have struggled. Its leader explains why riders returned.

www.bloomberg.com

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 2d

LET'S GO CANADA

Ian Hunter @bluejayhunter.com · 2d

Kevin Gausman does not give a bleep about the censors.

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 2d

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 552: If you press on until you get to the 22nd paragraph of the 27-paragraph story the Times does finally write “Recent polls suggest that Mr. Mamdani is winning the support of a substantial portion of Jewish New York.” www.indignity.net/indignity-mo...

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 552: Watching the world burn.

THE PURSUIT OF PODCASTING ADEQUACY™

www.indignity.net

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 3d

Would you like to read about something else? heck yes

Here is @tomscocca.bsky.social on learning the names of things

and more adventures on the road with Jack Pendarvis and his friend Ace

flaminghydra.com/issue-419/

What’s the poop? / Where’s the dough?

Tom Scocca learns new words; Ace and Jack on the gambling type atmosphere of Hollywood

flaminghydra.com

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 2d

DO YOU PARTY

JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 2d

www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/09/step...

Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder

“So dramatic, so strong, so visual,” artist Stéphan Gladieu said of his first encounter with the revival of an ancestral folk art movement in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Kinshasa is the ca...

www.thisiscolossal.com

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Spooky Scary Sarahtons 🎃 (they/them) @sarahndipity.bsky.social · 2d

well now I have to show you my little sign by my desk and its entirely your fault

a felt letter board that says "I don't always whoomp, but when I do, there it is"

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 2d

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 180, LAW DEP'T.: Anti-Trans Professors Pretend to Understand Sports www.indignity.net/rewriting-the-rulebook/

Rewriting the rulebook

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 180

www.indignity.net

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ikckckcabod bring back llink 🎃 @katecrane.bsky.social · 5d

Ann Everton of Darsombra died in a car accident. Unfathomable loss to music, to Baltimore, and to everyone — the many, many someones — who loved her

Darsombra - Live at The Paramount Theater, Boyle Heights 1/25/2020

YouTube video by Daniel Kirby

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 3d

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT PARTYING OR ANYTHING ELSE

EMAIL SUBJECT: Do You Really Need to Use Airplane Mode?

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 3d

TODAY: @tomscocca.bsky.social on learning new things in an unfamiliar and only partially legible place. “The longer we wandered the garden, the more affection I had for the signage.” flaminghydra.com/roots-of-und...

Roots of Understanding

a fiery writer-owned cooperative

flaminghydra.com

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