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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 7h

same

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 9h

Dick is gone, Bush remains.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1h

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:

"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."

Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

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Jed (they/them) @ohshitcircuit.bsky.social · 1h

in retrospect?? I was 14 fucking years old and I was fully aware of and screaming about this at the time, as was just about everyone I knew. how are public figures who were grown-ass adults back then just noticing NOW

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 4h

This NYT Obit of VP Cheney mentions something that seems impossible in retrospect: That he and GWB were re-elected *after* it was proved there were no WMDs in Iraq.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84

www.nytimes.com

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 2h

Remember, gang, if you’re yelling insults at ICE, stick to things that will be deeply humiliating if they’re read aloud in court. Consider “Your parents only love you out of obligation, not because they like you,” “l bet you jerk off to the Teletubbies” and of course, the Yo Mama joke.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h

It's not just here but in some charged threat cases where DOJ is treating, "you're a Nazi" or "you're a fascist" as a threat rather than a reasonable observation.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.

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Jed (they/them) @ohshitcircuit.bsky.social · 1h

if anyone needs a lift to a ballot box or executive function support making voting decisions/accessing a printout ballot if you've lost yours, hit me up!

The Seattle Times @seattletimes.com · 5h

Preliminary data is showing record-low voter turnout statewide on the final day of Washington state’s 2025 election cycle.

Preliminary data shows historically low WA voter turnout for 2025 election

www.seattletimes.com

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 19h

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.

we’ll all subscribe en masse

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Babs the Postseason Ghostseason Shark @hockeybabbler.bsky.social · 17h

*touches earpiece* i'm being told he made the right call

his mom is still my source

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Babs the Postseason Ghostseason Shark @hockeybabbler.bsky.social · 17h

this ref's mom is disappointed in him

i know because she told me last night

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Jed (they/them) @ohshitcircuit.bsky.social · 21h

followups/self-QTs add that they fired all the trans staffers and Black women. so, SO fucked

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Jed (they/them) @ohshitcircuit.bsky.social · 21h

getting a totally random urge to rewatch The Big Short, I wonder why...

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

seems bad!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”)

In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed.

Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23h

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

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Jed (they/them) @ohshitcircuit.bsky.social · 1d

(I was actually aware that Weird Al did parodies and that the non-Yankovic versions had come first, but I was a horrible little attention-seeking troll and it was very fun to get reactions with this schtick whenever I encountered one of the originals for the first time)

Jed (they/them) @ohshitcircuit.bsky.social · 1d

musicians/bands I reacted to hearing for the first time around age 10/11 with "hey, this song is ripping off Weird Al!": Madonna, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Coolio, Barenaked Ladies, Hanson, Nirvana, the Kinks, Smash Mouth, Marilyn Manson

paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 2d

So many old people at No Kings and to those ageists asking “Why?” I reply we have been doing this all along, right along, and you’re just now noticing I guess. One of my earliest memories is being carried alongside a sign on a picket line, protesting racist hiring practices. And ain’t I a Boomer?

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Eric Lopez @astroericl.bsky.social · 2d

her response is even better. Absolutely roasting our old asses

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Jed (they/them) @ohshitcircuit.bsky.social · 1d

my partner is the hottest person on the planet and the fact that they detest both social media and being photographed is a tragedy for you all

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2d

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

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Iwas fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. A total bloodbath. The referee would have stepped in by now but they had knocked him out with a steel chair. The only others watching were either fascists themselves or the people trying to fight fascism with the power of love and kindness and they weren’t having a great go of it either. I kept trying to explain in between haymakers that we were better than this and on top of that it wasn’t likely to be ruled on favorably as far as the courts. None of it helped. I was on my knees now bleeding profusely from the mouth and nose. It spilled out of me onto the snow in a pattern that if you sort of squinted at it from the right vantage looked like a cartoon heart. See that I pointed. Look how beautiful the world can be I tried to say through my broken teeth. Alright well now he was pulling out a gun. I didn’t think we were allowed do that.

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Jed (they/them) @ohshitcircuit.bsky.social · 2d

holy shit the dinosaur from Toy Story is canvassing for Mamdani

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Clipping @clppng.bsky.social · 2d

People are convinced that “politics” is just gossip about the personalities of politicians and not, y’know, how we care for each other and allocate resources as a society

kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2d

Every business saying they're offering people a meal and adding "let's not make this political" deserve their asses on platters on social media. It is 100000% political. ENTIRELY political. There is nothing not political about the withholding of food money from citizens.

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Jed (they/them) @ohshitcircuit.bsky.social · 2d

animals are Good

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Jed (they/them) @ohshitcircuit.bsky.social · 2d

me: "so the cheeto wants to invade Nigeria"
T: "...why??"
me: "idk, kinda came out of nowhere? unless..."
*searches "nigeria rare earth minerals"*
"YUP now it makes sense"

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

I’m so sorry… at least you have universal healthcare!

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · Jul 4

Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

You can't make this up.

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.”

“Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

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Jed (they/them) @ohshitcircuit.bsky.social · 2d

one time someone doing registration at a blood donation event misheard me and said loudly enough for the whole waiting room to hear "YOU HAVE HIV???" and I was like "if that HAD been what I said, this would not have been the correct reaction"

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