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LateToGaming|Henry @latetogaming.bsky.social · 9h

This is my first time hearing about this zine set. I'm glad to have been able to get my order in.

Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 21h

New exp. Dispatch! First images of the zine set (so fresh!!!) an update on exp. 2602 shipping (next week!) and all the usual article, zine and interesting things links! expzine.com/2025/10/12/t...

Last chance to order zines to go out in the first batch! expzine.com/shop/

a picture of all three zines together. It looks so good. I really am thrilled. What a nice thing to have!!!

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 9h

#TheTwen2ie5

#12 SWIM SCHOOL - Anyway (2021)

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 21h

New exp. Dispatch! First images of the zine set (so fresh!!!) an update on exp. 2602 shipping (next week!) and all the usual article, zine and interesting things links! expzine.com/2025/10/12/t...

Last chance to order zines to go out in the first batch! expzine.com/shop/

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 11h

This has been in my Youtube "watch later" list forever...

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 11h

A man sleeping on a pop art pilchard tin bed.
"I sleep in a pilchard tin. Do you?"

Homer Simpson: "I sleep in a big bed with my wife."

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 16h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 13d

hey y'all!!

my artist-sister-friend has created a BEAUTIFUL card deck & dice set rooted in the liberatory practices and guidance of our ancestors.

i had a chance to use a proto & want a set real bad, so please support this kickstarter!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...

How We Be Free: a Black fugitive study kit

Playing cards, dice and dynamic Black study... guided by the legacies and practices of freedom-seeking ancestors.

www.kickstarter.com

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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 21h

The liberal obsession with means-testing is both dogmatic and dishonest

www.lukewsavage.com/p/wealthy-ne...

"Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus"

The liberal obsession with means-testing is both dogmatic and dishonest

www.lukewsavage.com

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 21h

New exp. Dispatch! First images of the zine set (so fresh!!!) an update on exp. 2602 shipping (next week!) and all the usual article, zine and interesting things links! expzine.com/2025/10/12/t...

Last chance to order zines to go out in the first batch! expzine.com/shop/

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 2d

I'd love to know what every comedian who played the Riyadh Comedy Festival thinks of this piece by Jonathan Liew. It's an electrifying read. And really hard to think what any counter-justification from the participating comics would consist of. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 1d

#TheTwen2ie5

#11 MOGWAI - Dry Fantasy (2021)

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 1d

I'm not sure I ever did but I can't resist sniffing the steam deck vents...

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 1d

From what I can see of the shell from the picture it looks very special. Noticed it straight away

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1d

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 1d

No, but I kept playing it.

Hollow Knight (Team Cherry, 2017) - exp.

For not the first time, it is the children who are wrong.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

the illinois state police are helping ice because they support them and @govpritzker.illinois.gov is sending the isp to help ice because he supports them. if that wasn't true they wouldn't do it and it's fuckin stupid to write fanfiction trying to wishcast otherwise

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

In Broadview, IL this morning outside the Chicago area ICE detention center—

Just rolled up, immediately saw ISP/CCSO arresting a protester w/ a guitar (he appears to be in good spirits over it).

ICE vehicles have been coming and going, including a large bus driven by a masked agent seen earlier.

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the schedule for today's 24-Hour Horror Movie Mind Melter happening at secretcinematheque.com.

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 1d

Today! Join us at secretcinematheque.com for THE 24-HOUR HORROR MOVIE MIND MELTER starting @ 11:00 AM (ET) to watch a stream of rare, weird and wonderful horror movies. It's a secret line-up, but as the films play, I will reveal the titles and posters below:

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 2d

Incredible NYT headline and subhead where the writer has to remind you that this is a bad thing lol

Media literacy is being able to understand why that last part is included here, but not for any story about the US abandoning its clean energy initiatives.

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 2d

I almost think this piece doesn’t go hard enough. A completely thoughtless devolution of art into brand collab

Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 2d

“it just goes on and on, huge room after huge room filled with aesthetic crap.”

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Triple Trouble: Fairey, Hirst, Invader review – the most revolting visual soup imaginable

Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst and Invader join forces to make an exhibition that’s so bad, it’s like walking in on a crime scene

www.theguardian.com

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