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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 2d

10/07/2025

a crude drawing of a trash bin with a large human face sticking out of the top of it, surrounded by trash, with the caption "early testing for the public trash bins with human faces that beg to be fed garbage indicated that most found them too unsettling to use. However, the small number of participants, including some investors, who said they found the bins deeply erotic, and attempted to form romantic relationships with the bins was considered promising enough to continue funding the project."

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Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 19h

The leg the IDF is standing on is also made of stolen 3D gaming assets.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 20h

I don’t remember a much about the plot of Aeon Flux, but I do remember thinking “if tech billionaires built a city, this is EXACTLY what it would look like, and this is exactly who they would choose to populate it and how they would dress everyone.”

a close up of a woman 's face with the words charlize theron-aeon flux written on the bottom

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with the words charlize theron-aeon flux written on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 22h

My dope friend Adrian, who is trans, interviewed 90 transgender Texans. His project is finally out: www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

We surveyed 90 trans Texans. Most said they’re living in fear and weighing a move

Respondents said anti-trans policies have complicated their sense of home in Texas and pushed them to consider leaving the state.

www.dallasnews.com

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Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 21h

There’s a fellow in Washington DC whose whiskey collection got so out of control he filled out the paperwork and rented some office space to make a by-appointment liquor store, which I assume never makes a profit, but is a nice tax write off, and allows him to buy wholesale.

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 2d

THE BEAT AND K-COMICSBEAT ARE HIRING:

We are looking for a new person to fill the job of Managing Editor for KComicsbeat.com and manga/anime editor for The Beat. Knowledge of webtoon, manga and publishing business required. There is some pay as a PT position.

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Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 1d

I assure everyone I have been drawing a witch every day for #witchtober, but I haven’t gotten around to scanning them yet. I do have a life outside this app you know.

Here’s a cow giving birth instead, to tide you over.

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

It's a great day, like any other day but especially today, to buy books from indie bookstores or your local library, you sexy bastards

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Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a Tamagotchi tchotchke.

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Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 1d

ANDREESEN: I am also bad and wrong. And you can quote me on that!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 1d

What are these jackasses made of pudding and dust under those neck gaiters? If you poke them, will they start to bleed out? Do they glut the halls of the nation’s therapists with the immense psychic damage of being called “fascist” while engaging in fascist activities? Protected class my ass.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 3d

today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 1d

I took zero English or writing classes in college due to AP English courses, so who can say if that was good or bad?

Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 1d

I want one.

James Cano @jamescanoott.bsky.social · 1d

My wife and I rode this giant steampunk elephant in Nantes France two weeks ago

Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 1d

Showing up to a protest as a frog or Spider-Man makes reporters ask about your opinions and experiences. Showing up in a keffiyeh and sensible fatigues makes you a statistic.

Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 1d

The best part of how Portland is handling this is they’re not only protesting, but also angering the goose steppers by not taking them seriously.

Pretty genius. Because even ICE & the national guard don’t want to be displayed as that asshole fighting people in cute costumes.

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 1d

I have letter to the editor this week in our local paper.
Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...

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Niki Smith @nikismithcomics.bsky.social · 1d

It's Banned Books Week, so I dropped off copies of my challenged books at three little free libraries around town

@authorsabb.bsky.social @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Stacks of books inside it. On top are The Deep & Dark Blue (banned bc trans main char) and The Golden Hour (banned bc gay and school shooting)

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Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 2d

T.S. Eliot watching Cats: “They got it right. (Tear rolls down cheek) They got it exactly right.”

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Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 2d

For those of us who like books and dislike billionaires on an intrinsic level, this is good news!

Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 2d

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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Deb Aoki @debaoki.bsky.social · 2d

Hit me up if you have any questions about this gig! I’m still a part of CB/KCB but am focusing on other projects for a bit.

This is a great opportunity to take charge and shape the direction of a fast-growing and dynamic part of this Eisner Award-winning comix news site.

Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 2d

THE BEAT AND K-COMICSBEAT ARE HIRING:

We are looking for a new person to fill the job of Managing Editor for KComicsbeat.com and manga/anime editor for The Beat. Knowledge of webtoon, manga and publishing business required. There is some pay as a PT position.

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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · 2d

still available 💫!

Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · Sep 6

🎆hey you guys!🎆 I’m selling my Farmlander vis dev/character design drawings from season one of Fionna & Cake, along with a signed first issue of Adventure Time comics from @oni-press.bsky.social
$300 for everything. Message me here or email me at [email protected]

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Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 2d

Did Keith Urban come home one night to find a Venetian Carnevale mask on his pillow?

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 3d

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb
How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to
ALISON BOSHOFF

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Paul “BOO!” Ghostetler @phostetlerart.bsky.social · 2d

Tony Leung vs Sammy Hung

Best Wildlife Photos @bestwildlifephotos.bsky.social · 3d

A few moments in wildlife photography capture both terror and beauty so vividly. The photographer’s patience and timing transform chaos into art, revealing the fragile balance between hunter and hunted. 😍

#nature #wildlife

📷 Source: web.facebook.com/share/p/19uN...

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