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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 1h

Sorry, correction: "Infinity (1990's Time for the Guru)"

I did buy it on 7", but that was a while ago, ok? 😳

Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 2h

I'm clubbing at the local bar on its sleaze night and apparently someone has sampled Guru Josh "1990 ('s Time for the Guru)" into a dance track and I think I just turned to dust

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 3h

“A nation of neighbours, not strangers.”

I love that.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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Leo Herrera @herreraimages.bsky.social · 4h

Diane Keaton and America

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 5h

I wore this to an in-person workshop I was running yesterday and again it garnered not a single comment.

I like and respect my work colleagues but what the fuck y'all?

Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 15d

Ngl, kinda disappointed that nobody on any of today's calls has commented on my new t-shirt, with lots of kawaii versions of Derpy, the 바보호랑이 from K-Pop Demon Hunters

Me, wearing the t-shirt described in the skeet. A bike and 6-stripe Pride flags are visible in the background

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 8h

In what may be the greatest sentence of the year, this article reports that “Plot details for The Resurrection of the Christ are under wraps.” So expect a twist, ladies and gentleman!

deadline.com/2025/10/pass...

‘Passion of the Christ’s Jim Caviezel & Monica Bellucci Not Returning For Mel Gibson’s Sequel

Although the son of God is finally getting his long-awaited sequel, 'The Resurrection of Christ' will not feature the return of Mel Gibson's original cast.

deadline.com

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Molly White @molly.wiki · Aug 30

A version of the Texas “come and take it” flag, with the cannon replaced with a fountain pen

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 7h

Democrats did the dirty work, and then Trump takes the credit... which is a description that actually applies to an uncomfortable number of situations, not just this one!

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 7h

And I specifically said "US government" because it wasn't just Trump. The theft of TikTok was Trump's idea, but it actually happened under Biden - Democrats sponsored the bill and got it through Congress, and Biden signed it into law.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 11d

Trump has made it clear he's going to turn TikTok into a right-wing propaganda machines, so it's time to give a big thanks to Democrats - especially Biden, Schumer, and Gillibrand - for working so hard to destroy the one left-leaning social media platform!

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/t...

Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine

After years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, TikTok is likely being sold to a bunch of Trump’s billionaire technofascist buddies …

www.techdirt.com

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 7h

That's exactly why M*rc A********n and L****y E*****n were so eager to have the US government essentially gift TikTok to them. They know the standard VC approach of creating a competitor is too expensive to be feasible, so they'd much rather just steal it. Which is what they did.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 8h

It's worth noting that under fascist rule your body belongs to the state: it's almost the main defining characteristic. Autonomy cannot exist under fascism.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 8h

Ultimately what it comes down to is a worldview that denies the very notion of any right to bodily autonomy, which can only lead to sexual predation. There’s really nowhere else it can go

That’s why fighting it *has* to be about bodily autonomy, which is why it’s inextricable from trans liberation

Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 9h

On pedocon theory: why movement conservativism is inextricably entwined with paedophilia (and why the POTUS is probably a paedophile too):
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 7h

The gutting of TikTok is even more disheartening than the gutting of other platforms that we've seen over the last few years (Reddit, Twitter, etc.), because with TikTok, everyone on the platform knows it's happening, but there's simply no alternative to move to, and there may never be.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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TVLine @tvline.com · 7h

Diane Keaton, an Oscar-winning actress who starred in 'Annie Hall' and 'The Godfather' films, has died. She was 79.

Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning Actress, Dead at 79

Diane Keaton, an Oscar-winning actress who starred in 'Annie Hall' and 'The Godfather' films, has died. She was 79.

tvline.com

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 6h

This is such a beautiful thread; thank you!

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 1d

Today I’ve been visiting Reims (pronounced Rrrrass), a city in the Champagne region, about 45 mins from Paris on the train. Because it was hit hard by World War I, a lot of Reims was rebuilt in the Art Deco era, which means pleasing buildings galore. So here’s a thread 🧵

Cast iron window grating in the Art Deco style, from the Carnegie Library in Reims

Frontage of a random Art Deco building called the Hôtel de la Mutualité in Reims, built in 1927

Stained glass from the Villa Demoiselle, Reims

Stained glass from the porch of the former Cinéma Opéra in Reims

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 6h

I realise it's almost unheard of me to complain about someone on #Strictly being shirtless, but I really liked the chest panel thing of Harry's outfit 😅

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 9h

And this is why "more training" for cops is not the answer. We don't need to keep shoveling endless amounts of money at cops, when the problem is that policing is fundamentally incompatible with caring for the needs of citizens.

Eagan Officer Martin Jensen, a specially trained Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE), was called to assess whether Bimpong was under the influence of drugs. DRE training, provided by the Minnesota State Patrol to officers, emphasizes distinguishing drug impairment from medical emergencies such as strokes.

But the lawsuit alleges Jensen disregarded his training.

According to the lawsuit, body camera audio captured him saying a full DRE evaluation, which typically takes between 30-to-45-minutes, would be “a whole bunch of time wasted.” When another officer questioned whether Bimpong should be taken to the hospital, Jensen replied: “For what?”

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 9h

On pedocon theory: why movement conservativism is inextricably entwined with paedophilia (and why the POTUS is probably a paedophile too):
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 9h

“In interviews, federal judges called the Supreme Court’s emergency orders “mystical,” “overly blunt,” “incredibly demoralizing and troubling” and “a slap in the face to the district courts.” …Another said the courts were in the midst of a “judicial crisis.””
#giftarticle

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Jonny Deane @jondeane.io · 10h

You know, I think we have a real problem with market research. I don't believe for a second that 42% didn't know this. I'm betting the question was fucking weird.

jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 12h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 9h

Gods I was thinking the same thing yesterday

Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 9h

a girl in a red shirt is holding a bunch of money and says shut up and take my money

Alt: shut up and take my money

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 11h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 11h

This ad clocks in at 2 minutes and 4 seconds, and I think that's more time than all national Democrats have spent on the topic in the last 3 years *combined*.

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