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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2h

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 1h

WHAT NOW - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELITON AT THERE COMPUTER " CANT BELIEVE I DIDNT LOOK UP MORE COOL SHIT WHEN THE INTERNET STILL WORKED" ,,, THE FUNNYEST THING ABOUT A SOCIETY IN DECLINE IS YOU DONT REALLY EXPECT IT TO HAPPEN TO YOU AND WHEN IT DOES IT FEEL'S LIKE A PERSONAL OFFENSE, WE WATCHED COMPUTERS AND NET GET BETTER AND BETTER FOR SO MANY YEARS THAT IT SEEMED OBVIOUS IT WOULD CONTINUE, WHY WOULD THINGS GET BAD ON PURPOSE, HOW CAN YOU MAKE MORE MONEY WITH WORSE PRODUCT'S , WELL THEY FIGURED OUT HOW TO DO IT , THEY SOLD OUR COMMUNITYS AND RESOURCES UP THE DAMB RIVER TO MAKE A FEW MORE TRILLION'S, AND WHAT CAN THEY EVEN BUY WITH IT, OBVIOUSLY NOT THE ABILITY TO ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE IN PEACE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN BBUT IM STILL KICKEN A$$ AND ADDING CUSS WORD'S TO MY GOGGLE SEARCHES SO THEY DONT SHOW ME AI SHIT !!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1h

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 30m

Well....This is not how it works in the UK. Which is maybe good! But I think a normal person would feel it was defamey, as normal language has it.

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 35m

Certified!

Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 37m

Like, okay? American law. But like the the song definitely said he was a peado. That's the whole song. That's what I took from it.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1h

NEW: Federal judge dismisses Drake's defamation case against Kendrick Lamar storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The issue in this case is whether "Not Like Us" can reasonably be understood to convey as a factual matter that Drake is a pedophile or that he has engaged in sexual relations with minors. In light of the overall context in which the statements in the Recording were made, the Court holds that it cannot.

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 5h

Oh no

Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 6h

Must be quiet in Mumbai

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 6h

@gavinjackson.bsky.social did a great speech on these a few years back. Worth reading if he has the time to share the link?

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 10h

Yglesias makes the case that preventing a full authoritarian takeover hinges entirely on Democrats retaking the Senate in 2026; the House isn’t enough. Hence the entire ballgame is how to win uneasy Trump voters in even vaguely gettable GOP states, ie Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Maine, Florida. 1/2

The authoritarian menace has arrived

And so has the backlash — but the resistance needs to be smarter

open.substack.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

I really don't know what to do about a situation where a plurality of the group that (rightly!) takes up most government spending thinks that it is unrepresented in politics.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 11h

Hollow laughter

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 11h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 12h

"Was stabbed" would you mind being a good student of english and turn that into an active sentence? Then elaborating on what was happening when the police arrived.

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 14h

Hmm. This socratic dialogue maybe isn't going as well as I'd hoped, okay. What was happening before the police arrived?

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 14h

Okay keep going, we'll get there together

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 18h

What about Habeas Corpus? Did she die in vain?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Unironically, you can see how these guys’ Twitter brainrot has progressed to this stage where they have trouble remembering that you’re supposed to talk about the Nazis as the bad guys. It’s not a winking nod to neo-Nazis so much as them genuinely forgetting which way is supposed to be up

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 1d

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 1d

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

The direct address straight to the camera at the end of this is 100% right out of professional wrestling. Finally.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1d

you've maybe missed the point

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1d

Woated country

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1d

Unless of course you pronounce it cunt, or, alternatively, cunt.