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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 6h

Everyone knows what's going to happen with the Nobel, right?

A MAGA group from like... Noble, Iowa is going to make a "Noble Prize," award it to him, he'll issue an EO saying it's the real prize and we'll have to endure CNN and WaPo pretending there's "questions" about which is the real one.

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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 15h

People who think the idea of "give me ideas" is something genuinely creative people want have literally never experienced the absolute EUPHORIA of a brainstorming breakthrough, either solo or with a human collaborator. They don't understand what is happening when artists create, on a basic level.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 2d

STEPHEN MILLER: mark my words. terrorists will not reduce our great nation to ashes. we are ready, swords unsheathed, staring evil directly in the face as we reclaim what is rightfully ours

[camera cuts to man dressed as Dino from the Flintstones spanking a giant teddy bear with a rainbow dildo]

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 13h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 14h

sounds like someone doesn’t want to see me pole vault

Thread- I said not to brag but im probably really good at pole vaulting

Then some Addict cakes angry old bat said “it’s harder than it looks,” and I said “no it’s not.”

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All On The Board @allontheboard.bsky.social · 17h

Today is World Mental Health Day. It’s a day that should be every day of the year. You are worthwhile, and you deserve to be here.

#WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, another North Korea-style Cabinet meeting where underlings take turns praising the great leader

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Marco Rubio kisses Trump's ass and the whole cabinet applauds

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

i still think about the debate where marco rubio said donald trump had a small dick and look at where we are now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Marco Rubio kisses Trump's ass and the whole cabinet applauds

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Bina007 @bina007.bsky.social · 1d

Really loved #Olmo - a heart warming and funny coming of age story set in late 70s New Mexico. Watch it at this year’s BFI London Film Festival.

www.bina007.com/2025/10/olmo...

#LFF

OLMO**** - BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Day 2

OLMO i s a funny, heart-felt, glorious film about a good kid trying to get the girl of his dreams while real life gets in the way. The kid ...

www.bina007.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 1d

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

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

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

As I told @markjacob.bsky.social, Chicago journalists are doing a helluva job covering the ICE incursion of our city. The dogged, on-the ground- reporting reveals what's actually happening, not what ICE wants you to believe.

www.stopthepresses.news/p/the-press-...

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago

Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable

www.stopthepresses.news

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 1d

They’re not even trying to hide it.

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Anita @arsenalofka.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking hell Arsenal, what are these prices?????

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

A White Christian nationalist pastor argued recently on a right-wing podcast that the Bible--specifically Deuteronomy 21, about how a father must bring his rebellious son to the town square to be stoned--justifies state violence against Black boys and young men.

www.theroot.com/why-this-whi...

Article from "The Root" by Asheea Smith. Published October 8, 2025

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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 1d

Some top tier staring in new Arsenal merch advert with a cold wall 🔴⚪ 👀

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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 1d

Stupid Liars... He is not even on Traitors.
Hard to know if they mistook Celia Imrie or Joe Wilkinson for Gary. 🤷🏻

BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 2d

I can taste the panic these two felt doing their little stencilling. So casual with ‘own goal’ thinking they had all the space in the world. Look at the chasm between own and goal! Then sudden panic about whether there’s enough room for ‘Neville’. Eventually settling for ‘Nev’ after a crisis meeting

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 2d

when you say "Albany" wrong once and just roll with it and then you're in too deep

kos data: 🇺🇸🇦🇱 NYC Mayor Eric Adams is traveling to Albania for an official visit, one week after dropping his reelection bid.

(Via: NBC New York)

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 1d

Just to be absolutely clear:

The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person.

And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

Literally all they've got any more is KKK-style nativism, directed specifically at Latinos. Every single GOP message collapses back to this. They've become the Klan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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