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It is absolutely ✨incredible✨ that anyone believes these jokers when they say shit like this. Motherfucker, you fucks won't pay us living wages NOW while we're actually DOING ALL THE WORK. Why would I possibly believe this?

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit

Peter Diamandis tweets: "800,000 layoffs in 2025. 10,000 in September alone tied to AI. Jobs are disappearing fast. But here’s the truth no one wants to say: It’s the start of a new gold rush... for those who learn how to build with the machines, not fight them."

Elon Musk replies: "Working will be optional in the future.

There will be universal high income."

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nihilisticuffs @nihilisticuffs.com · 15h

Homie out here lookin' like a hobbit who would ✨immediately✨ turn to serve Saruman.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 15h

this is really Milei's official portrait? really?

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nihilisticuffs @nihilisticuffs.com · 15h

🤣

One of my friends was particularly unpleasant one day and I just kinda brushed it off and left her be and she texted me back like two days later apologizing and just being like, "IT WAS THE LUTEAL PHASE!" and I figured I had to just let her have that one. 😅

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 17h

I guess I just feel like it should be a bigger deal that Penske Media owns the Golden Globes and ALSO Rolling Stone, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, GoldDerby, and Deadline, plus 20% of Vox Media

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

Scoop: Jay Penske, who owns the Golden Globes, is pitching far-right podcasters with a proposal that they spend upwards of $75,000 to boost their chances of winning this year's inaugural podcasting award.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/golden-glo...

Penske and the Podcasters

Jay Penske’s Golden Globes are debuting a “Best Podcast” award—and documents obtained by Status show he’s trying to sell pricey packages that could boost the chances of right-wing extremists winning t...

www.status.news

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nihilisticuffs @nihilisticuffs.com · 15h

Hey, yeah, so I'm gonna go ahead and climb aboard the 'she probably didn't do that to herself' wagon right now.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

You know it’s bad when this is like the 4th or 5th worst Republican scandal of the day.

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Cemetery Rozier 🎃🦇 @velodus.bsky.social · 16h

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16h

And then you’re 30

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nihilisticuffs @nihilisticuffs.com · 15h

Chanting 'rule of cool' unto eternity.

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Boo! bo @boboispost.ing · 16h

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 19h

not for nothing but one of the things nero did that really sealed his fate is build a giant monument to himself on grounds that were long seen as belonging to the people rather than any individual autocrat.

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nihilisticuffs @nihilisticuffs.com · 18h

I would very much rather be dead. 👍

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

“we will provide you with company owned housing, roommates you don’t get to choose, and pay for your meals, and in exchange you work 12 hours per day, every day”, yeah, man, i know about company towns and company stores, hardest of hard passes

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nihilisticuffs @nihilisticuffs.com · 18h

Imagine squeaking by on getting prosecuted for constitutional violations in 2030 because you were judged too pathetic for Nazi-U.

Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 19h

SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

www.theatlantic.com

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nihilisticuffs @nihilisticuffs.com · 18h

Brother, I don't take pictures from the vacations I *do* take. I sure as hell ain't fakin' 'em for the 'gram. Please be so serious right now.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 3d

A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you | TechCrunch

A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

techcrunch.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 22h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 22h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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nihilisticuffs @nihilisticuffs.com · 22h

🎶... I wish I could go along
Babe, don't get me wrong
You know you're bright as the morning
As soft as the rain
Pretty as a vine
Sweet as a grape
If you can sit a barrel, maybe I'll wait

Until that day...🎶

~ Hozier - "Too Sweet"

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