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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

I think in general leftists underestimate how far they can push liberals to the left if they are nice to them.

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Luke Griffin @lukegriffin.bsky.social · 6h

Very glad to see this as I wasn’t super confident my alma mater would make this correct choice

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 7h

paywall but headline tells the story www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

University of Arizona will not agree to Trump's higher education compact

UA President Suresh Garimella said the university welcomes continued discussions with the federal government to improve higher education.

www.azcentral.com

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NightOwl-O-Ween @nightowl.bsky.social · 15h

if you see this

just repost please

y'all need good music

this is the first episode of 10 hours of new wave music

no further than 1982

just listen

but it's not calm

so save for later

i made these mixes while remote DJing @freeformportland.org

full 10 hours is seriously the Nuggets Of NuWave

BAD TRIPPIN THRU THE TROUSER PRESS GUIDE TO NEW WAVE RECORDS (1983)

Thee Bad Tripper takes you on a trip to the radical years of early New Wave while perusing his old copy of The Trouser Press™ Guide to New Wave Music(1982). Choosing not to play all of the normal ban...

www.mixcloud.com

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 17h

Enslaved people built the White House. I don’t care if it’s defiled or burnt down. I care more about people being disappeared, families being ripped apart. I get the symbolic feeling, but we also need to get serious.

The building is bullshit theater. What matters is people.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 17h

I grow tired of people who mourn the veneer of civility. The presidency and its pomp and circumstance has always hidden war crimes and grotesque exploitation.

Trump has dropped the mask. Recognize the need for massive reform but don’t fetishize the past status quo. It was offensive, awful.

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Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social · 17h

Every few months we get news of how much better AI models are getting and how much harder it is to tell the AI from the reality.

And every time I think of this short story by Borges, and it gives me hope that AI’s pursuit of perfecting realism will be its undoing.

Let me explain.

A screenshot of a short story, “On Exactitude in Science,” by Jorge Luis Borges

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

"you should work nine hours a day six days a week making money for somebody else when you are young so you can (maybe) not have to work at all when you are 65" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

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Luke Griffin @lukegriffin.bsky.social · 23h

Really rickety mouthfeel too

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Travis Nelson @travisnelson.bsky.social · 1d

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

In the last known image of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, you can see the structural fatigue where she had started sagging in the middle. Freaky!

the last known image of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald at the Port of Duluth. There is a visible downward line in the metal where the ship is sagging in the middle

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Luke Griffin @lukegriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Coney’s or pizza? It seems like the food highlights are top of mind in the responses (perhaps 1a to the Mariners)

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 1d

The friction of the day.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1d

#Gothtober #31DaysOfHalloween

Vintage Halloween card of witch in pink flying over smiling full moon in starry sky on broomstick. Below, an owl is perched on a branch and two black cats run across a green landscape with forest in distance. At the top, it say’s ‘Halloween Greetings’.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Follow @joanmeiners.bsky.social as she cycles the 850-mile Arizona Trail to see and write about climate impacts in the region. 👇

Joan Meiners, PhD @joanmeiners.bsky.social · 1d

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 3d

'The legends of giants, dragons, and underworld kings are not mere fairy tales. They are folk memories, distorted and hazy, of genuine encounters with forces beyond human comprehension. To study Welsh folklore is not to study fiction; it is to study a corrupted and fragmented history of the Mythos.'

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Luke Griffin @lukegriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn’t be bothered to ensure use of American made Caterpillar equipment. Rookie shit

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 1d

"When the President called Portland, OR war ravaged, those in the reality-based community considered it a joke. Not a funny joke, since it was the pretext for invasion by the federal government. & not an unfamiliar joke, since local plutocrats have been promoting a similar ... story for years now."

Greetings from Charming, War-Ravaged Portland

When the President called Portland, Oregon "war ravaged," those in the reality-based community considered it a joke. Not a funny joke, since it was the

www.counterpunch.org

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Jamie Dimon really thinks Congress and the American people will believe that only one top exec at his multi-billion dollar bank enabled Epstein. Be serious. Today I’m giving Dimon and JPMC another chance to explain why they appeared to enable Epstein's trafficking for years.

With JPMorgan Chase Dodging Epstein Inquiry, Wyden Investigation Drills Down On Bank Executives’ Unexplained Conduct | The United States Senate Committee on Finance

With JPMorgan Chase Dodging Epstein Inquiry, Wyden Investigation Drills Down On Bank Executives’ Unexplained Conduct

www.finance.senate.gov

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“Here we’re having these little protests, and he has an insurrection, but he acts like we’re the hateful ones,” said Marcia Freund of Wichita.

"She attended with her husband, Dave, who said: ‘You can’t print what I want to say.’” kansasreflector.com/2025/10/18/s... #NoKings

Small No Kings event puts love ahead of politics in rural Kansas town where immigrants are detained • Kansas Reflector

Kay Krause hosts a "love in action" rally at her house in Cottonwood Falls as part of the 42 No Kings events that were planned across the state as part of a nationwide uprising.

kansasreflector.com

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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social · 1d

Why did Japan’s iconic magazine Popeye do an issue in English for the first time? I got the scoop.
www.getthemelt.com/p/japanese-m...

Why Japan's Iconic Men's Magazine Popeye Went English For The First Time Ever

City Boys of the Western world, rejoice!

www.getthemelt.com

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't get to go to college until my 30's. Learned about things like ideology. Helped me start deconstructing and decolonizing my own mind. Which is what nazis understand--it's not the ideology being taught they hate it's the tools to escape their prison they hate. My heart breaks for Texas kids.

J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 1d

So much coverage these days seems like the media wishcasting a return to "politics as usual," like they see this shit and say "wow these guys don't know how bad this looks, I'll fix it" when those guys know exactly how it looks and just don't care and in fact want it to look bad.

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 1d

“The ousting comes amid a critical dispute within academia about how to rebuild confidence in higher education in a politically polarized moment.”

This is such a tortured story frame it is functionally a lie. Greg Abbott is not trying to rebuild confidence, he is proudly conducting a purge.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 1d

Take it from us -- an organization that closely studies all the horrific ways people can die from common household items -- have the jelly donut.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 1d

His “journey” has been to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to legally harass the women he abused. Myself included. It has been unrelenting and if I were not a stronger women I would not be alive today. This man is an unrepentant monster.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Giridharadas to Andrew Cuomo: "It's been 8 years since the peak of the Me Too movement ... I'm wondering if you pursued any changes in yourself that would allow you to come back to City Hall and tell voters you'd be different when it comes to dealing with women?"

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Luke Griffin @lukegriffin.bsky.social · 1d

And just in time for every election cycle to come. Super exciting!

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 1d

44 years ago today
Black Flag at San Pedro High School on October 20, 1981 with new singer Henry Rollins in one of his first performances with the band.

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #blackflag #henryrollins #history #punkrockhistory

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