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nightcheeseriot @nightcheeseriot.bsky.social · 1d

Evergreen.

Tweet by @KateHarding that reads, “What haunts me is that I am just not smart enough for so many people to be this much stupider than I am.”

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 1d

Science is amazing and may the people in the current administration trying to fuck it up never know a moment's peace.

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 5d

The north endzone is full of heartbreak but I'm sad to see it go.

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 5d

The white "M" is my favorite look.

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 5d

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5d

President Donald Trump’s threat of a “massive increase” in China tariffs shook Wall Street at the end of an already-volatile week.

S&P 500 Tumbles 2% as Trump Ramps Up Tariff Threats on China

A months-long calm on Wall Street came to an end Friday when US stocks erased early gains to touch session lows after President Donald Trump threatened “a massive increase of tariffs on Chinese products” imported into the US.

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 7d

Other than IV bags, all those items could be found at every SAG stop on every organized bike ride I've ever participated in.

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Minda Haas Kuhlmann @minda33.bsky.social · 8d

DOLLY PARTON JUST POSTED A TIKTOK SHE IS ALIVE AND WELL
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMSJmFm2/

I ain’t dead yet!

TikTok video by Dolly Parton

www.tiktok.com

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 9d

Blue and yellow pie chart. The key shows blue is "no." Yellow represents "no but in yellow."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10d

Every DoJ attorney promoting and defending at this stuff should never again eat food that is less than 10% spit

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 11d

A tweet that says “I bet this shit hits so hard if you’re stupid”

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 11d

Arch should give the money back and ask them to stop running ads featuring him.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12d

A Stephen Miller staffer calling Kash Patel a “douche canoe” in a Signal chat. The perfect way to end my day on the internet.

taber @kvetch.gay · 12d

a White House staffer was just tapping away all kinds of shit talk in the secret secure Signal chat in a place where someone could take *numerous* photographs of his phone screen undetected and walk them over to the Minnesota Star-Tribune

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12d

Welcome to antifa <squints> wait are we sure about that <looks again> uh Cato Institute.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12d

ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 13d

A general lack of self awareness is not the biggest problem our country faces but it's top 10.

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 14d

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 14d

As a rule, tough guys don't need to shout how tough they are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 14d

I got worn out just looking at that cassette.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 14d

Queen.

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 15d

Getting 89% of the electorate to agree on something is truly amazing.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 15d

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 15d

I should limit myself to one cider donut but I instead order the largest apple fritter they have.

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 15d

Team white campus. 😂

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 15d

*figuratively

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Matthew @matthewmu.bsky.social · 15d

I lived in Mumford Hall

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 15d

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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