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tanner @kaiby.bsky.social · 1d

happy birthday sotc :)

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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 1d

No words.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 13d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 13d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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tanner @kaiby.bsky.social · 2d

I made big man

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 3d

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

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Stein Makes Games ➡️ #GodotFest @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 4d

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Miner surrounded by spiders
#indiedev #gamedev #madewithgodot #indiegame #gaming #spiders #gameart #digitalart

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 5d

One of the most messed up parts of the "nazis are sexy and funny now" GQ article about Nick Fuentes is that it doesn't cite a single source or data point. It's all just vibes. I have no idea how something like this made it past an editorial team unless it was clearly a story they wanted to tell

traced this rumor across TikTok and Tumblr. I watched fancam edits, mapped accounts, and interviewed a dozen people in their twenties and early thirties, both people who’d made posts about Fuentes and those whose fandom was more private.

TikTok is where most outsiders misread the signal. Fuentes is extremely shareable — he basically speaks in soundbites. Every other line is a joke, and many of those jokes land. When they don’t, that in itself can be funny. His thick Chicago accent, his cartoonish tone of voice—the man was made for broadcasting, for better or worse.

It’s true that he has inspired a viral “sound” several times, but on TikTok that doesn’t equate to fandom. A sound is just a short audio clip that users layer under their own videos. It might come from a movie, a podcast, or a livestream; it doesn’t matter who said it. What matters is how easily it can be reused to set a mood or deliver a punchline. Popularity here measures remixability, not admiration. Serial killers, pedophiles caught red-handed, and random bystanders could theoretically all go viral this way. Fuentes happens to clip well.

There is a dedicated and TikTok-native Fuentes fandom, but searching through the misspellings and alternate tags that users reference him with (to avoid the filter TikTok uses to suppress content about him), only a few prolific editors dominate the results. The rest is noise—ephemeral accounts spun up around attention spikes.

The interviews I conducted reflect what the feeds suggested. Several sources said their very online friends, regardless of politics, share Fuentes clips because he’s funny. The same people said no one they know actually watches his multi-hour streams. One woman described him as “weirdly unhateable,” and suggested he’s a bit of a meme—another way of saying the trend is more of a joke than a nascent political shift.

There is, however, a small female fandom orbiting Fuentes, many of whom identify as being on the left. On Tumblr, a community cal…

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 5d

Israeli ceasefire means it will massacre the emaciated maimed shell of a body they left you in for entering your own home, then claim Israeli terrorists were feeling unsafe near your house while they were destroying what was left of your life and family.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 6d

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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tanner @kaiby.bsky.social · 10d

every day the mario galaxy double pack becomes funnier

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 12d

SILENT HILL f is now on GOG ($69.99) buff.ly/aLg0umv #ad

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15d

Over 400 arrests of protesters in London thanks to the government’s refusal to admit that their decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group has been a disaster

The Labour gov has so far arrested well over 1,000 people for holding up signs

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Police make more than 440 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London

Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleas

www.theguardian.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15d

“They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” says Turkish activist and Sumud Flotilla participant Ersin Celik

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 15d

Absolutely heinous.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16d

It’s almost impossible to figure out how to bear witness to horrible things while also knowing those things are absolutely getting off on controlling your emotional state and my only advice is that they remastered Final Fantasy Tactics with some really nice voice acting

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · 16d

This is beyond unacceptable, but especially galling when it's being reported that one of the two deceased victims was killed by the police.

(Screenshot from The Guardian)

Text reading: Metropolitan Police urges organisers to delay or cancel Palestine Action protest

A pro-Palestine protest planned for Saturday in London should be cancelled following the terror attack in Manchester, the Metropolitan Police has insisted.

A statement from the Met published on social media site X on Friday morning said:

The horrific terrorist attack that took place in Manchester yesterday will have caused significant fear and concern in communities across the UK, including here in London.

Yet at a time when we want to be deploying every available officer to ensure the safety of those communities, we are instead having to plan for a gathering of more than 1,000 people in Trafalgar Square on Saturday in support of a terrorist

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tanner @kaiby.bsky.social · 17d

had a nightmare about silent hill f and it was really cool

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 18d

On the Gaza flotilla live stream, one by one, boats are intercepted by IDF & blasted with water cannons until comms are jammed & the feed for each boat goes down.

Israel is illegally kidnapping civilians on international waters, & they're preventing the world from witnessing.

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tanner @kaiby.bsky.social · 18d

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tanner @kaiby.bsky.social · 20d

graded mario party jamboree sold for $23 less than msrp

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 20d

Kind of want to put this bit on a billboard somewhere (or, idk, replace every web ad everywhere with this text) bsky.app/profile/edzi...

Text describing the current state of business in media and tech (and most industries, truly)

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Steinntroll artdolls @steinntroll.bsky.social · 21d

Trico art doll

I made a few Trico dolls back then in 2017/18 and this is one of those few creatures that I wanted to repeat after so many years. Surprisingly, I sculpted his head 90% from memory and only opened references to touch up some details. Definitely a quite memorable fella.

Size: 22*48 cm

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tanner @kaiby.bsky.social · 22d

bro who the hell got mario party jamboree graded

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tanner @kaiby.bsky.social · 22d

they're going to go after everyone with a final fantasy tactics pre order

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

www.kenklippenstein.com

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tanner @kaiby.bsky.social · 22d

If I did rokos basilisk at a spooky campfire story night as a kid I would get pelted with roasted marshmallows like they're tomatoes

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tanner @kaiby.bsky.social · 23d

silent hill f 👍

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