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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

The Trump admin being incredibly vindictive to the federal work force and threatening to withhold pay and conducting mass layoffs are really self defeating moves because they need a staffed work force for to actually enact the policies they want.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 18h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 15h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 18h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 13h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 21h

So Pete Hegseth is getting gender affirming care while kicking highly qualified, highly trained trans service members out of our military? Got it.

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LindsAI ➡️ Penti-con @neomeruru.bsky.social · 21h

I'm gonna quote this post one more time as a public service, because people definitely showed up in the comments with recommendations.

LindsAI ➡️ Penti-con @neomeruru.bsky.social · 1d

As burnout control, I'll soon be in the market for a game that absorbs my every waking hour and cushions me from the bleak reality of needing to be a person with free time again. These ones have helped in the past, and I'm taking suggestions.

A list of games in a Steam category titled 'Years Off My Life'. Titles include:

Against the Storm
Anno 1800
Baldur's Gate 3
Banished
Bear and Breakfast
Cities: Skylines
Coral Island
Crime Scene Cleaner
DAVE THE DIVER
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Goind Medieval
Graveyard Keeper
House Flipper 2
Let's School
Medieval Dynasty
Megaquarium
The Planet Crafter
PowerWash Simulator
RimWorld
Roots of Pacha
The Sims 4
Stardew Valley

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Jaspurr 🎃 @pugliacci.bsky.social · 21h

insurance rejected my first request for short term disability coverage! while I'm pretty confident I can jump through enough hoops to make it work, please consider donating or reposting what you can to help us out during my recovery ❤️

Jaspurr 🎃 @pugliacci.bsky.social · 6d

Friends, I am thrilled to announce that we have finally obtained everything needed for my tit banishing ritual! If you would like to help support myself and @pat626.bsky.social through the recovery period, this thread will include some links.

It's just a picture of me in a tank top getting a big kiss from my baby bichon Starbuck. She's white and her ears and tail are usually chalked to either compliment mine or a fun holiday design. We're both between dyejobs in this photo, with my hair sorta blonde-ish and her ears a faded purple.

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PAT 626's Overthinking Emporium @pat626.bsky.social · 21h

Big thanks to everyone who has donated time, money, or the promise of food so far. We're having some hiccups in expected aid so any help you can give us, even just sharing the link in the comments, would be helpful.
Jasper's top surgery is on 10/28
ko-fi.com/nicnevins

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 1d

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

they need to be mocked relentlessly for this

oh did your special little guy not get his little prize? did your wittle boy not get his wittle trophy? is pee paw sad he didnt get his trinket? these people are a fucking joke

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

On the left is how the White House reacted to the Nobel Peace Prize announcement.

On the right is what President Trump posted about Maria Corina Machado back in January, just two weeks before nominations closed for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Steven Cheung * B @StevenCheung47
X.com
President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives.
He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.
The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado and President-elect Gonzalez are peacefully expressing the voices and the WILL of the Venezuelan people with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the regime. The great Venezuelan American community in the United States overwhelmingly support a free Venezuela, and strongly supported me. These freedom fighters should not be harmed, and MUST stay SAFE and ALIVE!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 3d

Why are we still paying Jared Leto to do things, I thought we learned our lesson about that

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PAT 626's Overthinking Emporium @pat626.bsky.social · 1d

If you watch the pattern (dot-com, 2008, AI) the bubble gets bigger every time. Not only do these greedy morons not learn their lesson but they make it worse. Too much money should be classified as a mental illness.

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1d

A friend sent me this article and genuinely it’s f***ing insane and I can strongly recommend reading it. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 1d

Who knew that giant inflatable frog costumes were the perfect protest outfit because they can deflect pepper balls while also making anyone who gets mad at you look like a huge doofus?

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 2d

God if the outcome of all this is a discovery that a specific type of black mold makes you a weird bigot I'm gonna have a hearty chuckle then fill my pockets with stones and walk into a lake. We are now living in the mold age. The mildew years. The roaring fungis.

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

Suuuure it's the "molds" fault. Whats next, a very specific strain of mold that turns children's book authors into raging terfs?

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PAT 626's Overthinking Emporium @pat626.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to a couple of friends' generosity, @pugliacci.bsky.social and I will be at MAGFest for the first time in, like, 8 years this January.

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PAT 626's Overthinking Emporium @pat626.bsky.social · 1d

3 years. 39 games. Some of the best damn players a GM could ask for.

Jaspurr 🎃 @pugliacci.bsky.social · 1d

Colony Kids has been such a rewarding game for literal years! It's incredibly exciting to think that we're finally drawing to a close, we're going to Make Peace Happen and achieve everything we have worked/played so hard for...but I'm also gonna miss the hell out of this setting, these interactions

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Adam Seats 🔜 PAXU @iknowadamseats.bsky.social · 2d

There's a very real chance I'm gonna have to repair a LOT of my house soon. Part of that may involve getting new carpet. If it does, someone is gonna have to fight me so I don't put roller rink carpet in my house & ascend to the final form all nonbinary people crave: LOUD PATTERNS EVERYWHERE.

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Crystal @arcanecrystal.bsky.social · 2d

look, it's simple. the GM is a friendly collaborator to the players and a malicious devil to the characters.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 2d

Ken Paxton’s plan

“How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?" is a reaction image commonly used to respond to users pretending to be part of a community that they are clearly unfamiliar with. The image features the actor Steve Buscemi dressed youthfully and holding a skateboard, and is usually subtitled with the tagline. The image is often photoshopped to adapt to a particular subculture, and the phrase is often used in conversation without the image. It’s edited to include random trans symbols including a trans Texas saying “y’all means all” and a badge that says “fuck the cis stem” and a trans hat with the hammer and sickle symbol.

Text reads: How do you do fellow transgenders

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Jaspurr 🎃 @pugliacci.bsky.social · 2d

Including minority groups in your art not only enriches your work and makes the world you evoke more real, it has always been and will always be a form of resistance. Seeing someone in a more privileged position say 'actually human beings DO look like this and it's fine' is kind of a big deal?

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