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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 6h

Singaporeans: famously very obsessed with politeness to the exclusion of much else that is good, like having opposition parties

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 6h

I've only had that once as a kid, but I liked it

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 7h

FFS durian is fine, get over your honkey tastebuds RNZ

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 8h

I really don't want to punch down, particularly at [in some cases] literal teenagers, but THESE are the images the tory paper chose to represent "young tories"?? this is who they wanted to represent the party?

we got inspector sexpest, the riddler's corporate cousin, and tesco Stephen Miller

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

First accurate opinion from Thiessen in his time at the Washington Post

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 11h

Genuinely cannot work out if they means they think the FSU is too free or not free enough and it's funny either way

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 12h

A couple of members of the Free Speech Union have left to create what looks to be to be a Christian version of the Free Speech Union. Good to have diversity in the marketplace of ideas.

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 10h

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned

Detective Inspector Warren Olsson said the nature and volume of the threats met the threshold for investigation and subsequent prosecution.

www.stuff.co.nz

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hope50.bsky.social @hope50.bsky.social · 14h

RFK Jr.'s medical book

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 13h

Every fule kno babby are stored in placenta, it's just science

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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RNZ News (Unofficial) @radionz.nzcow.com · 14h

📢 Dann joined Morning Report in 2019.

Morning Report's Corin Dann appointed RNZ’s new Business Editor

www.rnz.co.nz

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 16h

...he named it after the Torment Nexus?

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 16h

i'd assumed "Colossus" was just a reference to the ancient wonder but it can never be that normal w/ Elon www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

"Musk decided to name the data center Colossus—a reference to a popular trilogy of sci-fi novels from the 1960s by D.F. Jones, in which scientists built a supercomputer named Colossus that gained autonomy and plunged the world into war and chaos."

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morgan godfery @morgangodfery.bsky.social · 1d

imagine being the MP for southern māori and thinking the party of eruera tirikatene doesn’t have the right to stand in it. idiot

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 18h

ill keep saying it and theyll keep doing it: podcaster occupied government

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19h

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

trib.al

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 17h

Next finding - autism caused by bagels, neurotic self-deprecation, yarmulkes

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 1d

this HAS to be a work

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 1d

"The titular wait seemingly amounts to nothing... I promised myself that if Godot didn't arrive by the interval I simply wouldn't stay."

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t even fight the KKK any more because of woke

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Hudson, Henry, Harry PolitiCats @liberalhenry.bsky.social · 1d

“The girlfriend is one of the founders of Antifa”

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Pregnant topless Anya from Wolfenstein New Colossus covered in blood and wasting Nazis with akimbo AK47s which is not a thing but who cares
It's a good game, play it

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 1d

At least RBG's decision is fully explained by an ordinary human failing: hubris in the face of imminent mortality

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 1d

Well only if he could see what the Trump regime was doing, like the rest of the world could see, and as he now makes clear he can see

Only if he had any substantive sense of responsibility for the institution of the court and the rule of law

But as it turns out he didn't, so it's all a bit weak

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 1d

RBG gets all the shit for trying to cling to power in the face of hard reality, and that is right and good

But here's this fucking guy still sucking air and he's just as guilty, arguably moreso given Kavanaugh's defining role in empowering ICE, and he should get some shit too

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 1d

If only there was someone who could have prevented Trump from enforcing an ideological supermajority on the Supreme Court by retiring a couple years earlier or later

O well, I suppose better things are not possible and nobody is responsible for inevitable bad things www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Retired Justice Kennedy laments coarse discourse of Trump era and its effects on Supreme Court

“The justices have to resist thinking of themselves as being partisan,” he said.

www.politico.com

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