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Lindsey Galloway @lynxsey.bsky.social · 1d

Not Obama making me think he died. Don't worry the podcast is ending, not Marc!

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll miss @marcmaron.bsky.social’s voice, but I hope his legacy of deep conversation and connection will continue. Listen to my conversation with Marc on the final episode of the WTF podcast.

Episode 1686 - Barack Obama — WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

For the final episode of WTF, Marc travels to Washington, DC for another conversation with the most significant guest in the show’s history. Former President Barack Obama welcomes Marc into his o...

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Maggie Marbles @maggiemarbles.bsky.social · 4d

It doesn't have to be one of the big rallies, either. The big ones in the big cities make the news individually, but seeing small and medium rallies EVERYWHERE means more people see them in real life and not as filtered by the media.

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Lindsey Galloway @lynxsey.bsky.social · 4d

Liberté, égalité, grenouilles!

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 4d

“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣

Troops to Portland still on hold, multiplying protest frogs, fact-check on Trump claims: Get caught up

It’s not clear when the 9th Circuit panel will issue its ruling, but it will likely come before an Oct. 17 hearing

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Lindsey Galloway @lynxsey.bsky.social · 5d

Frogs are so back

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 6d

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 6d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 5d

This is A Minor victory for Lamar

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Lindsey Galloway @lynxsey.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes humanity doesn't suck. Creativity, culture blending and handmade craft infusing folk tradition, just beautiful.
www.nytimes.com/card/2025/10...

Oktoberfest’s New Drip

At Bavaria’s annual celebration of autumn and beer, new generations of partyers and new arrivals to Germany are adding their own twists to traditional fashion.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7d

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.

Fact checking is not going to do shit.

Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.

We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

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Lindsey Galloway @lynxsey.bsky.social · 8d

It's so embarrassing for Denver lol we're not sending our best

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12d

I’m sorry, which is it: are boys in an acute crisis that demands that all the nation’s resources and attention be leveraged toward their improved happiness and status? Or is their natural superiority only obscured by affirmative action for women? You have got to pick one because you can’t have both.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 12d

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR. POPE

Painting of King Henry VIII in all his glory wearing white stockings, a red coat, and a grey and white embroidered silt undercoat and a red/white/black cap

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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 13d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”

Jane Goodall

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Lindsey Galloway @lynxsey.bsky.social · 15d

I mean we had hot in herre and that is about goddamn it

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 15d

i am trying to come up with things one could ACTUALLY miss about 2002 because they're gone now and the best i can come up with is "serena and venus meeting in slam finals"

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Lindsey Galloway @lynxsey.bsky.social · 15d

And this emergent ideology seems to be a fetishization of late-stage capitalism and AI lofi aesthetics!

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Lindsey Galloway @lynxsey.bsky.social · 15d

Nostalgia is a particular type of forgetting. Treasuring some imaginary past that never really existed. Fredric Jameson describes the concept as “a desperate attempt to appropriate a missing past, [refracting it] though the iron law of fashion change and the emergent ideology of the generation”

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 15d

This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.

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Lindsey Galloway @lynxsey.bsky.social · 15d

Yep just sitting here in Boulder sipping my chardonnay and discussing how we take down coal mining, as we do

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Autopia Furiosa @pierrette1789.bsky.social · 19d

All my best to this FEMA employee, and may they succeed in their mission:

"I'M THE TYPE of person where, like, if you push me I'll push back. I don't like to live in a mindset of despair and negativity. When these people do this shit, it just lights my fire. It makes me more fucking mad. This used to be the best job I've ever had, the best environment I've ever had, the best culture I've ever had-and they fucking ruined it. I will never ever forget how much they ruined it. I'm like, fuck these people. They can't get me scared. I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I'm going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads." -FEMA employee

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Lindsey Galloway @lynxsey.bsky.social · 19d

Independent theatres ftw!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19d

Look, I don't think it's good that we can't make fun of the world's biggest dead pedophile because he was friends with the president.

So we kept going.

We called every independent theatre we knew in major metro areas to see if they wanted to air Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.

Most said yes.

Lindsey Galloway @lynxsey.bsky.social · 22d

Did I miss the rapture?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23d

Yeah, I had to try three sites to cancel Disney+ but the runaround only made me more determined to do it.

Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 23d

Incidentally, I’ve heard buzz on here about the company making cancellations more difficult and that was my experience. I could not cancel directly through account management. It would just cycle back. I had to go through the help menu. Stay vigilant! If you’re still in line, stay in line. Etc.

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 23d

Happy Earth, Wind and Fire day! L

Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO

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A-damned Goul Lord 🧟🏈👻🎃 @authorgaylord.bsky.social · 23d

This country has always been racist but at least, for a relatively short while, we didn't celebrate racists.

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Lindsey Galloway @lynxsey.bsky.social · 23d

@theonion.com has never been better

An image of hot tea in a mug with the headline "relaxing tea better fucking work" from the onion

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 25d

Kat is still out there fighting four hours after this. I'm just fucking livid.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25d

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 26d

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 26d

Already a crowd outside the Disney lot! A friend send me this. I am out of town but there in spirit. Oh, and Kimmel didn't lie like he's being accused (objectively true), Trump and his whole retribution crew have just been after him and finally found a way to twist his words that gained traction.

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