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Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group · 1d

A whole bunch of right-wing food industry adjacent business owners that continually complain about SNAP are about to find out how much of programs like SNAP are actually a subsidy for them.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 2d

Nearly 42 million people could miss food stamps next month thanks to the Trump-Republican government shutdown.

And Republicans would rather keep the government shut down than help feed our families.

The cruelty is the point.

Millions of Americans are at risk of losing food stamps next month amid shutdown | CNN Politics

Roughly 42 million people are at risk of losing critical food assistance in November amid the federal government shutdown. And it’s not clear whether the Trump administration will step in to find the ...

www.cnn.com

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 2d

I deeply hate and love with equal measure that I've come to respect the Insane Clown Posse.

I am begrudgingly down with the clown.

Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2d

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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President Ark @presidentark.bsky.social · 4d

he is The Lobster That Fried That Rice

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President Ark @presidentark.bsky.social · 5d

also every time i play this deck i imagine sam very excitedly telling frodo about these sixteen tomes he found full of descriptions of magical summonable creatures he wants to see while frodo just smiles and nods, bemused

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President Ark @presidentark.bsky.social · 5d

(ridiculously gigantic numbers meaning that, according to some people on reddit, the full setup of teysa + drivnod + mondrak + ojer taq will get you about 10^20,000 tokens)

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President Ark @presidentark.bsky.social · 5d

(also you get kinda a fun robot food chain thing going on since a lot of modular creatures are robot animals)

President Ark @presidentark.bsky.social · 5d

SAM: recur sagas over and over; you're not planning on ever actually eating food, you're basically using them as energy to pull stuff out of the GY over and over. there's a lot of sagas that get real nasty when you play them multiple times back to back. also works great with FF summon creatures.

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President Ark @presidentark.bsky.social · 5d

RAGOST: use modular creatures to pass counters around. you can abuse a lot of things that care about creatures with power/toughness below a certain amount since all modular creatures have p/t 0.

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President Ark @presidentark.bsky.social · 5d

RATADRABIK: use a lot of legendaries with powerful etb/ltb effects that you copy over and over by sacrificing them. add in all the W/B "i love it when things die" type legendaries. you can make some ridiculously gigantic numbers with trigger + token creation multiplication

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President Ark @presidentark.bsky.social · 5d

the short answer is: ratadrabik aristocrats/copying, modular ragost, samwise sagas. more detail to follow.

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President Ark @presidentark.bsky.social · 5d

It went well

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 5d

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5d

all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle:

“Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 6d

Some assorted reminders as we enter the weekend:
1. Posting illegal content is a violation of §3.B of the Bluesky terms of service.
2. Violations of the TOS may be reported through the app. See TOS §6.A
3. The Hatch Act (5 USC §7321 et seq) is a law.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 6d

Seriously. Do not interact with the govt accounts. Just don’t.

Sister Violet The Glutton Nun @exiledviolet.bsky.social · 6d

So they're trying to farm a highlights reel of "libs/lefties are violent and evil terrorists" episode.

They're trying to piss people off so they can farm screenshots of anything that can even loosely be interpreted as a threat.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 6d

As Bluesky becomes the "New Twitter" (positive) and the "New Twitter" (derogatory), just keep in mind that one day in the future this administration is going to so something terrible related to this place and the Bluesky Leadership Team is ABSOLUTELY going to fully cooperate and fuck people over

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Azrai @theazrai.com · 5d

So we've been trained to sabotage our own movements from within and it worked on all of us I'm afraid! ESPECIALLY if you're marginalized. But here's how to stop it. Save these. These go in your phone now. REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE.

Infographic on spotting self-sabotage in communities. Three signs: 1) Dilutes the Purpose – off-topic nitpicking; 2) Replaces Curiosity with Caution – fear or futility messaging; 3) Drains Morale – leaves people discouraged. Passing comments add clarity, use curiosity not fear, and leave participants stronger.

Infographic on countering sabotage. C Concrete facts- verify; O Orient to purpose; M Mind morale; P Protect the point; A Acknowledge don’t accuse; S Steer to solutions. Each step pairs with research showing how clarity, purpose, empathy, and small actions restore cooperation.

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President Ark @presidentark.bsky.social · 6d

I don't really like mono-w but would you accept suggestions for WR, WG, and WB

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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 6d

based nancy

two panels of a Nancy comic by Ernie Bushmiller. Nancy sees a NOTICE board and then blacks out the T with a pencil so the board reads NO ICE. Nancy smiles.

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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 6d

When elected officials are all "I don't know..." "I'm not familiar..." and "I haven't seen..." the headline should read:

[OFFICIAL] IGNORANT OF [IMPORTANT THING IT IS THEIR JOB TO KNOW]

Stop letting them claim ignorance to dodge questions!

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 6d

New blog entry: The Pivot: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

The pivot - Charlie's Diary

www.antipope.org

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President Ark @presidentark.bsky.social · 7d

I've been watching Columbo recently and I have never lusted for someone to get sent to the Columbo dimension more than in the ep about the advertisement guru who freely admitted to using subliminal messages to get people to buy things against their better judgment

President Ark @presidentark.bsky.social · 7d

and what do people doit ads? Avoid them. they go to the bathroom during ad breaks. they throw away junk mail. they install ad blockers. WE ARE DESTROYING OUR CULTURE TO BENEFIT SOMETHING THAT NOBODY FUCKING WANTS

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