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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 15h

A common canard about the civil war is that it was about states rights, or that the union didn't care about slavery and...like all good lies, there is an element of truth there

But only an element - it ignores the fact that the war directly exposed the union troops DIRECTLY too slavery

Teufelaffe @teufelaffe.bsky.social · 16h

"I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on" is metal af

Post by user @jamellebouie.net that reads, "from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

Nothing made slavery's toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper Sout, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers "learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter." The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the "goodlooking" daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, "every private in the ranks" cursed "that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women," according to one member of the regiment. When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, "By G-d I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on."

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Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 7h

WHAT A BITCH ASS FUCKING DAY.
TWO OUT OF THREE WORK ORDER TRUCKS SHOWED UP OVER TWO HOURS LATE.

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Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 8h

2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 9h

Ian Gibson

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 19h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 8h

Heh. Sounds like the ending fight scene in the Violence Jack: Evil Town OVA, where Jack and the villain's neon red blood outlines their figures in the dark. *DON'T* watch Evil Town unless you're ready to watch genuinely misanthropic (and pretty masturbatory) rape scenes and violence against women.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 12h

Caste supremacists are fascists and genAI is an infoweapon/toy for fascists.

RR📷 @roshn.me · 13h

I am not surprised. Majority of Indian content on the internet have caste biases. Majority of Indian GenAI users also display a caste-biased behavior.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1...

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.

India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people.

www.technologyreview.com

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Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 9h

Well, looks like I'm might have to start reading the new Savage Sword of Conan run.

Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 9h

Seeing everyone else having two day weekends while I work Saturdays like some typa jerk.

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 16h

ICE out of Portland!
#abolishICE #resist #PDX

A digital drawing of a frog standing on a bright red background. The frog is holding a sign that says “ICE out of Portland”. The frog looks mad.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

This is AI.

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Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 19h

Were you a Tokyo Mew Mew kids or an Excel Saga kid?

Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 19h

You've been drafted at gunpoint to write the A Labubu Movie script. Dwayne the Rock Johnson has an extended speaking role. What's your pitch?

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Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 19h

Wheat bread loaf, honey dijon mustard, provolone, half finely chopped Boars Head chipotle turkey breast, half roughly chopped fried chicken tenders, muenster cheese, toasted to melting, peppercorn-forward aioli, diced tomatoes, oil, vinegar, ground black pepper and oregano.

I miss Publix deli subs.

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Art Martinez-Tebbel @amtebbel.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel people wanted to be clear they’re right wing but not in the gauche American way.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

so they gave the Nobel peace prize to the lady the CIA is trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government with? lol

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 23h

good evening EXCLUSIVELY to the irish

There is also early Irish literature about female pissing contests. In the story "Aided Derbforgaill" several women compete to see who can urinate deepest into a pile of snow. The winner is Derbforgaill, wife of Lugaid Riab nDerg, but the other women attack her out of jealousy and mutilate her by gouging out her eyes and cutting off her nose, ears, and hair, resulting in her death. Her husband Lugaid also dies, from grief, and Cú Chulainn avenges the deaths by demolishing a house with the women inside, killing 150.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

Lisa wheeling in a lifeless Bart saying MOM, DAD, BART’S DEAD!

BART popping to life and saying DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT GOING TO ITCHY AND SCRATCHYLAND

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22h

UPS says it is destroying parcels sent to US customers because the Trump administration is failing to process or clear the parcels through customs. In essence, no one can figure out what the applicable tariff rules are and how they are to be applied—amidst a deluge of contradictory tweets from Trump

UPS Admits ‘Disposing’ of Parcels as Trump Chaos Creates Backlog

The president’s tariff policy has seen countless packages getting lost in customs.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 20h

She's in monster high school you prevert!

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Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 20h

"ai chorando a monster high de alien" is just so gosh-darn whimsical, like something out a 90s point-and-click adventure game.

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Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 20h

Everything bagel seasoning or Mexican street corn fixin's?

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Michigan Jamiroquai Frog @radactspacemud.bsky.social · 1d

Poop. It's pants wearing weather now.