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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 2d

I wish someone would ask Trump every day in pressers about his social media AI videos, but the gag is that the reporter can't tell they are AI, so it's like "Sir, how are you feeling after all that explosive diarrhea from a fighter jet? Did they have to specially outfit the jet with toilet doors?"

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 3d

Also the song is not good but it seems to be pretending to be from an actual real country artist

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 3d

There’s one Twitter post of a TikTok of someone being like “when MAGA loses country music” but the actual song is very AI slop, especially if you’re used to listening to production, kind of fascinating

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 3d

I feel this so hard

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 3d

One day I wish someone would follow up with “so, you don’t really do anything, do you?”

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 4d

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Evilly Essley @antimle.bsky.social · 4d

I never got my "beautiful sign, professionally made" from Antifa HQ, so I had to make one myself.

A sign that says, "I ❤️ froggies, I 👎🏼 fascist toadies." It includes a crude drawing of Kermit.

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Jenn | Reappropriate @reappropriate.bsky.social · 5d

This is devastating. NBC Asian America has done incredible work covering our community, especially given their greater resources and institutional clout relative to indie outlets like us.

www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 6d

The Louisiana argument is essentially that you CAN use race to be racist but you CAN'T use race to ameliorate racism.

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 7d

Psycho Joe is my favorite Boston sports coach in a good long while

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 8d

well that’s the hardest name in the history of names I’m pretty sure

jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 8d

FINDS THEM AND KILLS THEM

"Finds Them and Kills Them (Osh-Tisch) looked like a man, but wore women's clothing and had the heart of a woman.... she was brave and good."
― Pretty Shield

Her strength as a warrior is what earned her the name Osh-Tisch, which translates to “finds them and kills them."

Who is Osh-Tisch?
Osh-Tisch was a Apsáalooke Badé, a role within the Crow Nation that defied traditional gender norms, embodying both masculine and feminine qualities. Before colonization, Badé were deeply respected for their unique spiritual gifts, artistry, and contributions to community life.
As a Badé, Osh-Tisch carried responsibilities tied to culture, ceremony, and social balance. Their life shows how many of our nations embraced gender diversity long before Western colonial powers imposed rigid binaries.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist who took part in Stonewall and remained an advocate for the decades that followed, including caring for AIDS patients & pioneering needle exchange & defending the rights of incarcerated trans people on both coasts, passed away. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 11d

If you don’t know what happened to the professor described as “an expert on antifa” who was on TPUSA’s list and the Trump admin accused of BEING antifa, please read this thread.

He and his family finally escaped the US yesterday. They had been getting death threats for years.

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 11d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17d

Among other weird things about this Tilly Norwood situation, it’s surreal being a trans woman and watching anti-trans conservatives defend the use of an AI-generated “actress” that would take away work from women in Hollywood. It’s almost as though they never really cared about women.

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 18d

Signal can only be as secure as the person using it

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 19d

Every kid being in a garage band with their friends

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 19d

As a burgeoning young wannabe, even before Prince did it, everyone trying to make it was always talking about how you needed to own your masters, and that the compromise wouldn’t be worth it in the end, but how do you make it if you don’t compromise with the machine, etc etc. we need to bring back

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 20d

Yes it’s basically one step removed from a dog whistle, because there’s a legit reason to be upset, but that legit reason gives plausible cover to the Racism That Dare Not Speak Its Name

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21d

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 22d

I mean also you can watch it here, people just don't want to believe that the Hollywood patriotic movie ideal of America isn't true

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 22d

you know historically Rome didn't consider itself an Empire instead of the Republic until about a century after Julius Caesar's death, so I'd give it a few decades at least

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 23d

Moral principles aren’t principles if you change them based on what 30% of the country thinks. Actions, sure we can talk about actions but the principles aren’t up for political convenience

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 24d

Spectacularly bad readings of Revelation, just another item in the long list of evidence that these guys, but this guy in particular, are just lucky fucks and not the soi-disant next steps in the evolution of humanity

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 27d

Justice for Dave

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mo @mzmo.bsky.social · 27d

Man I wish anyone would actually RTFR (read the f-ing Revelation)