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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 20h

frog

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 21h

Step inside a Rocky Rococo Pizza Parlor for something just as specific and kooky

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 1d

Literal cucks

Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 1d

Ravenous (1999)

Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's a dead meme/"joke", but that BS TikTok scolding feels like something out of Orwell's 1984. Citizen, your content violated the joy of the platform.

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 2d

He is still going on about milkshakes? What a dweeb.

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 2d

ICE isn't supposed to detain pregnant women except in extenuating circumstances, but our reporting found that the Trump administration appears to be detaining pregnant women at alarming rates in deplorable conditions.

Read my latest for @theintercept.com

theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention

The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.

theintercept.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 2d

Possible rise of an already elected pope? The brain drain at The Washington Post is so evident.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 2d

What's with all the branding?! Restraint is the name of game, Kash.

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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 3d

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

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 3d

Joel Osteen and his kind looking around, befuddled. "Is he talking about me?"

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 3d

The FOMO of it all. Only available for 10 hours! This definitely won't be saved to someone's Google Drive and dispersed!

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 3d

May show otherwise? What is the wishy-washy weak equivocating?

How about shoving into the headline how many domestic terrorists have turned out to be explicitly right-wing?

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 3d

there needs to be a standardized scale of how bad thinsg are for you. its so confusing right now. like is it "eating plutonium" bad for you or is it "not going for a daily walk" bad for you

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 3d

Oof.mp4

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 4d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 4d

Why is that one dude in full kit? You're in a conference room, my guy.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d

1936

Men Are Becoming Less Manly, Scientist Thinks

Men today are not as roughly masculine as they used to be, according to Dr. Edward K. Strong, of Palo Alto, California, noted psychology professor at Stanford University. He set forth this conclusion in an article in the current issue of the Journal of Social Psychology.

The only he-men are engineers and farmers, he stated in an account of a survey of divisions of interest among the sexes.

But if you are a minster, a lawyer, a doctor, a writer or a newspaperman, you have feminine interests, which have become stronger with each generation.

--The Bonne Terre Register, 7 Feb 1936

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