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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 9h

Top of the 15th Inning

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

SEN. @gallego.senate.gov on the terrible Milei rock concert: “Millions of Americans are about to lose their health care and have their insurance premiums double, but Trump & Republicans are giving this idiot $20 BILLION. Good job. Way to make America First, guys.”

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 12h

Every year at #NYCC there’s one cosplayer that takes the cake, the cookies AND the pie. It’s only Friday but I think I found the one.

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Dorothy Parker Fucks @dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social · 1h

Tweet from @dril: turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18d

IT IS TIME.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 56m

they're coming through wardrobes, folks, and they're coming over through portals on train platforms and schoolyard walls, and by using rings of various colors, and they're saying "oh bother" and "by Jove" and they're taking over narnia folks and eating all the turkish delight, they eat the delight

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16h

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 18h

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 1h

One of my favorite buildings here in Cleveland. The Hart Building is only 9 feet wide!

Originally the HQ of a furniture maker, built in 1868. Its facade is cast iron. Later the HQ of a biz that made scales, engines, pumps, and windmills. It's now apartments! Noisy club district though.

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 27m

Also, as a D&D player, this comparison is unfair to orcs.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 17h

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 28m

I fear that even if we do restore democracy and the rule of law, whoever's in charge isn't going to understand that you can't go back to the way things were. The status quo is broken beyond repair. We have to build something new and better.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 35m

They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 30m

They could have had like 30 separate articles of impeachment by that point. Realy hit the hammer home. This guy commits *a lot* of crimes.

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 30m

Yeah, I honestly despite "everything is the Democrats' fault" posting, but they 100% dropped the ball.

I understand the logic behind, "let's just impeach him for the thing we think we can get him on", but they really should have impeached him for *everything* that first time.

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 1h

None of this would have happened if anyone had even considered trying to enforce the Emoluments Clause in his first term.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1h

He gave US assets in exchange for riches for himself personally!

That’s absolutely textbook unambiguous slam dunk corruption we have never really seen before in a President.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2h

This alone should get him impeached and subsequently prosecuted and it’s barely even a story

Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 2h

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 15h

Vinyl stickers! Buy stickers by the dozen.

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Cover a venture capitalist's Cybertruck with stickers.

Blind a techbro's Google glasses with stickers.

  Buy them directly from the designer (me) for $2 a pop! 

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alt.tv.pink-opaque @maxrebosroadie.bsky.social · 15h

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 18h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Spike Friedman @spikefriedman.bsky.social · 18h

My reaction to literally everything happening (public health edition)

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