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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 5h

Playoff baseball is just the goddamn best

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 10h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 9h

The frogs have landed in Chicago! (2025)

YOU ARE NOT

ALONE IN THIS

ABYSSAL DARKNESS.

I AM HERE, AND WE

SHALL FACE THE

CHASM AS

BROTHERS.

Here comes that fellow
"My goodness, how do you do?"

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 6h

Detroit! Oh my

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h

Josh Naylor stealing a base is the same kind of joyful viewing experience as a defensive tackle pick six

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 8h

hm so that comes out to one million dollars per viewer

FOX NEWS
Bari Weiss joins CBS News as editor-in-chief, Paramount buys Free Press for $150
million
Brian Flood
Mon, October 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM EDT • 6 min read

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 9h

This shit is obviously contagious

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 12h

What happened at the ICE facility today?

Well the brownshirts got mad at a group of axolotls doing the hokey pokey, who were then relieved by a set of fluorescent macaws who spent the night dancing the collected works of Martha Graham.

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 14h

…. Excuse me?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 14h

Hell yeah

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 14h

My favorite coffee roaster (which also sells vinyl) is having a PRINE Day sale www.tandemcoffee.com/collections/...

Graphic with an old cutout black-and-white photo of a young John Prine with bushy hair and a mustache sitting on a chair playing guitar and the following text:

Tandem Presents: OCTOBER 10, 2025
PRINE DAY
ONE-DAY SALE
ONLINE ONLY
20% OFF
COFFEE & VINYL
USE CODE: PRINEDAY

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 14h

We’re so fucking cooked. This bubble can’t burst soon enough

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

“Another former OpenAI employee who also was not authorized to speak publicly argued that releasing a deepfake AI social media platform was the right business decision, even if it contributes to the collapse of everyone's shared sense of reality.” 💀

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?

www.npr.org

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 14h

trying to imagine an Obama appointee saying that an Arab nation was setting up a military facility on our soil and picturing the size of the boat Hegseth could buy solely from Fox News appearances attacking it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 15h

Right wing billionaires are buying up the entire information environment. And now they are buying video game and voting machine companies.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16h

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 15h

This is Twilight Sparkle. She was born with a bump on her head made of soft tissue instead of bone. It's led to a buildup of fluid in her brain and seizures. While there's no cure, it can be managed with lifelong medication and bloodwork. You can help her below ❤️‍🩹

15outof10.org/twilight-spa...

a tan puppy sits on a gray surface and looks at the camera. she has a bump in the middle of her forehead with a tuft of lighter colored fur, and her eyes are wideset. she's a magical unicorn.

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 15h

It’s a meritocracy now, you see

CNN @cnn.com · 15h

Breaking News
Trump's handpicked US attorney Lindsey Halligan didn't coordinate with DOJ on NY AG Letitia James' indictment, sources say.
https://cnn.it/46WoSjD

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 16h

Wait. The UK still has MTV channels that play music videos? I feel a bit cheated, tbh

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16h

Radio killed the video star

MTV to axe its music TV channels in the UK

The broadcaster will stop showing music videos in December, but its main channel will remain on air.

www.bbc.co.uk

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 17h

a certain candidate does not post on this platform so I will share this roundabout shot and chaser for all to see

Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo
X.com
In a democracy, the rule of law must be sacred - impartial, objective, and above politics. When the law is weaponized or manipulated to advance political agendas, it erodes public trust and weakens the very foundation of justice. Whether it comes from the right or the left, from prosecutors or politicians, the politicization of law enforcement is dangerous and corrosive.
We must restore faith in fairness, facts, and due process - because once justice becomes partisan, everyone loses.
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A Zohran quote post of the previous tweet with the simple addition: “what’s her name?”

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 16h

Courtesy of Link himself

Fund Friday post :

Happy Friday Yall. Post fundraising links, cashapp links, whichever campaign needing help on . ♥️

Screenshot of a text message conversation on a purple background. The first message from AJ Link at 7:48 AM reads: “Howdy pals. Can I ask for a favor. If anyone has capacity or time today can they do a fund Friday post. I know lots of people need help.” This message has a heart reaction. The second message, also at 7:48 AM, replies: “Obviously what everyone does with their CPU is sacred. So no pressure.“

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 17h

When Pam Bondi tried her hand at insult comedy this week, four Senators asked her about antitrust corruption. It's a real point of vulnerability, and the pressure has led to a few better outcomes. More importantly, states and the public are squarely attuned to fighting corporate power. From me:

How Antimonopoly is Enduring Despite Trumpian Corruption

Public pressure and partisan attacks have yielded some new cases, and citizens are waking up to corporate power’s harms.

prospect.org

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 18h

I mean the Kochs and their ilk have been around for a while wreaking havoc.

But it really does feel like we’ve entered a new stage of the billionaire class war against the people. Particularly their takeover of the media. Not in the string pulling sense but in the literal acquisition of all of it.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 18h

trying to think through what's unusual about so many AI startups, and about the gaps between their pitches, the real world, and what they would actually need to succeed nymag.com/intelligence...

This attitude toward externalities — not my problem, and in any case worth it in exchange for a small advantage — follows the approximate logic of a spammer and often comes wrapped in the language of AI hustle culture. It's also understandable from the perspective of a job seeker who feels constantly thwarted by automated systems employers use that seem to treat seekers with similar indifference or contempt, or by platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed that, while nominally intended to connect two parties with shared interests (one needing specific services, the other offering them), can feel more like social-media-style black holes for engagement. It's an escalation that will likely be met with more escalation: countermeasures by job-listings platforms and hirers to prevent access by AI agents; more aggressive automated filtering; different hiring routines altogether, making it even harder to get through the door to a coveted interview. Mercenary (and slightly deceptive) automation tools like this, which are being pitched all over right now and already wreaking havoc in, for example, online dating, depend on two temporary circumstances to work, if they ever actually do: (1) that most other people don't have access to them, giving the user an edge and (2) that the people and parties on which they're used will tolerate and take no action against them. In other words, if you take their pitches at face value, they're pretty obviously doomed in the medium term, in the sense that they'll either be rejected by the systems they operate in or simply ruin them for everyone.

Taking stock of the first few years of mainstream AI deployment, though, raises an important question. What if that's sort of the point? Or at least a world worth thinking about in a more thorough, long-term way? Generative image and video tools, for example, have significantly degraded social-media platforms, allowing bad actors and regular people to fill them with slop, intensifying existing problems with spam and deceptive content while thwarting old solutions. And, hey, look at that: Suddenly, OpenAI and Meta are launching new social networks based on AI, on which posting generated content is the point, not a problem to be solved. Generative AI may be placing immense stress on educational institutions and worsening the already strained relationships between teachers and students, but wait — every AI company is selling ed tech now.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h

Sister Jean was a role model in Illinois — inspiring us to embrace our neighbors.

As a lover of life, she taught us to channel positivity to keep us hopeful in times of need and kept that attitude all the way to a life well-lived at 106 years old.

May her memory be a blessing.

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 18h

Yikes

Simon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 18h

'Many of the seeps were found at sites that had been repeatedly studied before, suggesting they were new. This may indicate a “fundamental shift” in the methane released in the region, according to the report.' www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

www.cnn.com

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Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 1d

A two-minute standing ovation.

Not at a State of the Union, or other big public event. Just at a small meeting, with no cameras, for maybe a dozen (maximum two dozen) people.

Two. Minutes. Set a timer, and imagine a dozen people clapping that long.

For a boss who isn't Kim Jong Un.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rollins: "We had an amazing cabinet meeting. President Trump walked in before the cameras were there. We all stood up & gave him a two minute standing ovation. There's so much love in that room & respect & just appreciation for him. No one could do what that man is doing today. So I was so grateful"

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