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Jason

@lluxull.bsky.social

370 followers 520 following 430 posts

Semi-pro marketing professional. Professional idiot online.
Thoughts + opinions are bad and totally mine. Guy married to another guy. I don't care if that bothers u. 🏳️‍🌈
Trans People Rock 🏳️‍⚧️
Will block jerks, bots, and those looking to build follower counts

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Jason @lluxull.bsky.social · Dec 27

If you are a poster of “content” and looking for random followers, go elsewhere. I will block you. I don’t need your shit memes or reposts of other artists’ works.

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Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

hey on the plus side we live in a country too corrupt to pass even a baseline modern privacy law, and we just completely lobotomized our already barely-functioning regulators

Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

futurism.com/future-socie...

Futurism

Groxxing

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People
Grok is a stalker's best friend.

Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok.
By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins

Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST

December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM

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Graham Annable

@grickle.bsky.social

Surprise! 10% off EVERYTHING at gricklemart.com right now! Skip the billionaires and get prints, mugs, stickers, cards, signed books, and more, directly from my shop! #grickledoodle #cartoon #holidays #santa #horror #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of Santa vomiting a horde of living gingerbread men at the mall while traumatized children look on. Caption reads "It was technically a 'Christmas miracle' but none of the kids at Westgate Mall that day felt that way about it."

December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

Just two weeks ago Tremane Wood was scheduled to be executed for a murder his brother confessed to decades ago; at the 11th hour his sentence--again, for a murder his brother confessed to decades ago--was commuted to life in prison

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trema...

December 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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beetle moses

@beetlemoses.bsky.social

December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM

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Zach Leatherman

@zachleat.com

📮🔒 New post on the blog

No more tokens! Locking down npm Publish Workflows

www.zachleat.com/web/npm-secu...

Includes a checklist of 8 important things you can do to improve your security footprint when using GitHub and npm.

No more tokens! Locking down npm Publish Workflows—zachleat.com

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

www.zachleat.com

December 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM

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Eliot Higgins

@eliothiggins.bsky.social

Pity the many Brian Cole's about to get misidentified by right wing influencers.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 7h

Brian Cole is the person in FBI custody who investigators believe left the pipe bombs, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told NBC News.

December 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM

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Fat, Illiterate And Violent Hat

@kenwhite.bsky.social

If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20h

Hoooooooo boy

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Exclusive | Survivors of Boat Strike Were Actively Continuing Drug Mission, Admiral to Tell Lawmakers

Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley, the commander of the September attack, is set to provide an account of his role for the first time in a closed briefing.

www.wsj.com

December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM

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Fat, Illiterate And Violent Hat

@kenwhite.bsky.social

Fuck you if you support him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."

December 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM

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Matt Ufford

@mattufford.bsky.social

no one else has been so consistently artful in describing the last decade of conservative politics than David Roth, and for this accursèd talent the least he deserves is a Pulitzer defector.com/the-conserva...

The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector

Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...

defector.com

December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM

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Smooth Dunk

@smoothdunk2.bsky.social

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Red Guy looking way way too happy yells “Hey Guys! Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?”
Blue Guy next to him calmly says “Shhh”

Panel 2:
Blue Guy tenderly puts his arms around Red Guy and says “You don’t have to do this”

Panel 3:
Blue Guy still holds Red Guy tightly and repeats “You don’t have to do this every year”. Red Guy begins to break.

Panel 4:
Red Guy dissolves into Blue Guy’s embrace, sobbing. He finally feels the weight of Christmas Discourse lifting from his shoulders. He is finally free.

December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM

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Parker Molloy

@parkermolloy.com

How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

Here's what this is actually about, dumbass

December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM

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Adoptable Dogs

@adoptabledogs.bsky.social

Aston 🐾
Baby male Mixed Breed mix
Adoptable from Williston Animal Group (Williston, FL)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/aston-79748649/fl/williston/williston-animal-group-fl445/

December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM

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Paul F. Tompkins

@pftompkins.bsky.social

Screenshot: a search of The New Yorker’s posts for the word “Riyadh”

November 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM

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Thor Benson

@thorbenson.bsky.social

When I see that I'm not on the White House evil members of the press list

"I am going to create journalism that is so toxic"

November 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM

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Adoptable Dogs

@adoptabledogs.bsky.social

Rosie 🐕‍🦺
Young female Boxer mix
Adoptable from We're OK Foundation (Edmond, OK)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/rosie-79726845/ok/edmond/were-ok-foundation-ok542/

November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM

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Seth Cotlar

@sethcotlar.bsky.social

A White House website with a dedicated Lügenpresse tab marks a pretty bleak moment in US history.

Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 5d

Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/

Media Offenders

Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay inform...

www.whitehouse.gov

November 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM

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Adoptable Dogs

@adoptabledogs.bsky.social

Tucker 🐾
Young male American Staffordshire Terrier mix
Adoptable from District 5 Animal Alliance Detroit (Pleasant Ridge, MI)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/tucker-79712530/mi/pleasant-ridge/district-5-animal-alliance-detroit-mi1172/

Tucker is a Young American Staffordshire Terrier mix

November 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.

We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.

Our members keep getting papers.

Hey there Onion members,

This is Ben Collins, CEO of America’s Finest News Source™.

I am writing today, as we have arrived at a precipice in American life, to thank you.

Our government is employing masked oafs to kidnap our neighbors, ziptie our children, and play Call of Duty: Burger King Edition in several American cities. The White House, otherwise occupied with taping an episode of HGTV’s “Help I Wrecked My House,” is hellbent on politically mandated starvation of the indigent. Worst of all, America’s airwaves have been taken over by dull throbbing moans only recently identified by scientists as something known as “Morgan Wallen.”

In short, it is not a good time out there, and our captured media has been too scared to call that out.

But, because of you, none of that is true at The Onion. For reasons we don’t like or understand, our work has become increasingly important.

You and your contribution over the last year have allowed The Onion to thrive in this precarious moment — to take risks and to say sentences mere moments before those thoughts become criminalized.

We need your help in the next year to bolster that fight as things get precipitously worse.

Because of your support, The Onion is now the 11th-most distributed newspaper in the United States, sandwiched between The Boston Globe and The Chicago Tribune. In the next year, our goal is to crack the top 10, and to surpass the circulation of the propaganda project of a notorious space pervert, Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post.

We’re confident we can reach this goal with your help. Unlike other publications, which all appear to have a fetish for caving to an increasingly maniacal and unpopular authoritarian government, The Onion remains unafraid to print the truth, straightforwardly and without favor.

Due to your patronage in the last year, we have:
Published 13 newspapers since the relaunch of our print edition in September of 2024. Over the summer, by popular demand, we increased the size of the paper by half.
Took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times “calling upon lawmakers in Congress to sit back and do absolutely nothing,” then sent this op-ed to every member of the House and Senate and all 54,000 of our subscribers. Thankfully, they took our advice, and now people are starving.
Drove the Onion Newsvan in front of protests and ICE detention centers, blaring headlines about ICE’s one true love: teargassing elementary schools.
Released Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile in over 40 cities across North America and later on YouTube, and let independent theatres keep the ticket sales. It’s still unclear if we can write this off.

And, a year ago this week, we successfully bid on InfoWars at a bankruptcy auction, before the judgment was overturned by a judge for — and I’m paraphrasing here — being too cool.

Yes, despite a legal bill that rivals the GDP of West Virginia, we are continuing work to acquire InfoWars and evolve it into an galactically sized depot of lies, scams, and miracle cures for all of the world’s awesome new and untracked illnesses. The Supreme Court — yes, this Supreme Court — denied Alex Jones’ appeal just last month, a last gasp at evading justice, and we’re hoping this clears a path to reinventing the dumbest site on the internet very soon.

So ahead of this holiday season, please consider subscribing to The Onion for yourself, your friends, your parents, or your infant. People love getting something great in the mail every month amidst their requisite bills and death threats.

Look, we’re an independent company, we don’t use AI to write headlines and make art, and we’re one of roughly three publications who are up for the fight. Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically.

Are you?

If so, I hope you’ll continue to be an Onion member, get the paper, and help us deliver ulcers to those who deserve it.

Thank you, and Tu Stultus Es,
Ben Collins
CEO | The Onion

November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM

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Adoptable Dogs

@adoptabledogs.bsky.social

Hannah 🦮
Baby female Labrador Retriever mix
Adoptable from Throw a Dog a Bone Dog Rescue (Austin, TX)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/hannah-79701776/il/rockford/throw-a-dog-a-bone-dog-rescue-tx2305/

Hannah is a Baby Labrador Retriever mix described as: Affectionate, Curious, Friendly, Funny, Gentle, Loves, Loyal, Playful, Smart, Cat Friendly and Great With Children

November 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM

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Adoptable Dogs

@adoptabledogs.bsky.social

Lil Man 🐶
Young male Akbash
Adoptable from Companion Animal Protection Society (Thousand Oaks, CA)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/lil-man-79690650/ca/thousand-oaks/companion-animal-protection-society-ca3066/

November 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM

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Tommy Siegel

@tommysiegel.bsky.social

i won’t be able to sleep a wink tonight because i’m so excited to see my favorite macy’s parade float

November 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM

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Miami DSA

@miamidsa.org

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM

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Seth Cotlar

@sethcotlar.bsky.social

Trump’s base is crammed with America Firsters who claim to hate the way the US has interfered with the internal politics of other countries. This was one justification for cutting USAID and other forms of soft power. But when Trump crimes with his dictator buddy in Brazil, there will be crickets.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.

And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.