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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 1d

In this house, we believe:
- love is love
- science is real
- books are magic portals
- pants are always optional
- squirrels are little demons
- the forest accepts you as you are, and for who you will become

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

Writing update! A novella of mine has been accepted by a fantastically odd Stockholm publisher. Li'l Factory publish books in a single run of 500 numbered copies (500 and no more) and they are so very very pretty. My book "Spellcheckers" will be coming next year. More info to come. lilfac.com/books

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Trick Charles 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting plan to have an authoritarian regime: don’t pay the military and DHS employees meant to help consolidate the president’s power. 🤷‍♂️

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

It's not a reasonable position, and if it gains popular support it'll be a complete fucking disaster. And yet.

AND YET.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

This is what I mean when I say, when it comes to political positions, most ppl just run on vibes. 100% feelings-before-facts. Japan is screaming towards a population crash at 1,000 MPH, it's not reversible at this point. But you have political parties agitating to return to hermit kingdom status.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 2d

Japan’s far right is on the rise, alarming foreign workers. Nowhere is that anxiety more apparent than in the city of Toyota, where immigrants power the economy while facing political backlash.

Japan Needs Foreign Workers. Its Far Right Is Turning Against Them

In the city of Toyota, immigrants help power the economy while facing political backlash.

bloom.bg

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Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 1d

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Gleafer @gleafer.bsky.social · 1d

@depraveddame.bsky.social
*ahem*
This goes with that❤️

archiveofourown.org/works/72128821

A very distraught professor being asked from behind Does it Haunt you?

He answers Fuck Yes

From DepravedDames fanfic Tabula Rasa

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Ill, Mooned By MetLife @reginasrand.bsky.social · 14h

Yes on 50, fellow Californians!

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Anyways I’m gonna go canvass for Prop 50, make sure to vote YES if you live in California

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

This is a really good article, and as an inveterate shitposter, I keep asking where the adults are.

I don’t *want* to be protesting! I don’t *want* to be arrested for standing up to oppression!! I want a boring government that works and takes care of everyone and I can go be stupid online!!!

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1d

DEI is bad but nepotism is good

David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 1d

Meritocracy www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Our volunteers have been 3D printing whistles for ICE watch. Make your own today at 7016 N Clark St in Rogers Park from 12-3pm!

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Thailand. Traditional, LOOK AT MY TITS *and* a sword. Very nice for such a simple look (comparatively). Also I know I said I wasn't going to comment on the contestant's looks, but my gods that's a breathtakingly beautiful man right there

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Sri Lanka. This is a rare case where I think the outfit would be better without the giant gold snakes around his head. Maybe add a cape, but I think the rest of the outfit (what little of it there is) is so great that he doesn't need the snakes.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

See, I told you Mr South Africa won the boobiest outfit of the year. Every year South Africa send a look that appears to have nothing to do with South Africa but everything to do with putting a beefy hunk in tiny pants and a cloak down the runway and they continue the trend here. I'm not complaining

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Philippines is the only one this year that even comes close to Mr Laos in terms of the giant amazing outfit. It's a very different approach to that kind of look but it's spectacular.

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Macau is another one that I think isn't being served best by the photo, although the huge musical instrument (sorry, I don't know what it actually is) covering most of him up isn't helping. I feel like this is a look that's saying a lot I don't have the context for as well

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

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GUINNESS @guinnessisacat.bsky.social · 1d

EMBRACE YOUR FEROCITY THIS #CATURDAY

Guinness lying in his box with a toy mouse on the floor beside him

Guinness lying in his box, shoving a toy mouse into his mouth.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of reasons this kind of undercover work doesn’t happen in the U.S., but no good ones it shouldn’t

Adrian Polglase @adrianpolglase.com · 11d

We've been undercover in the UK's biggest police force revealing evidence of racism, misogyny and officers revelling in the use of force at Met Police's Charing Cross station. Here's my article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police

Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 1d

10 of these 11 rules would prevent me from doing my work.

Completely unreasonable!

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Hertfordshire County Council rules for library use, 1930

RULES FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
BAN ON LIARS AND DIRTY FACES
Strict rules, which have been approved by the Hertfordshire County Council, are to be imposed by the Hyde Institute Library, Barnet Vale.

LIBRARY USERS iN FUTURE MUST NOT:
Enter the library if their faces are offensively dirty.
Fall asleep on the tables.
Eat their lunches whilst reading papers, books, &c
Smoke in the building.
Leave their business cards behind.
Make themselves a nuisance.
Kick or damage the furniture.
Bring dogs within the portals.
Tell lies to the librarian.
Enter when they are in an inebriated con- dition.
If they have small-pox.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2d

We can have democracy or we can have billionaires.
We cannot have both.

NYT: Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 1d

They gonna be giving away data centers like they gave away pay phones, just watch

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 1d

ATTATUDE - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKLETTON SCREAMIN MAYBE THEY WOULDENT HAVE TO SCREAM IF TALKING WORKED MAYBE IF JUST DOIN YOUR THING WORKED NO ONE WOULD HAVE TO TALK SO MUCH , MAYBE THERE REACTIONS ARENT INAPPROPRITE MAYBE THERE REACTIONS ARE NORMAL FOR A SITUATION WHERE AN ETERNAL SPIRIT HAS BEEN DOWNLOADED INTO A HOMINID APE BODY THAT IS CURSED TO USE TOOL'S!!!! ON A BEAUTIFUL FOREST RAINBOW PLANET BUT THE ONLY PART YOUR ALLOWED TO GO IN IS THE CONCRETE PLACE WITH SHITTY BUILDINGS THATS YOUR HOME AND WORK!!! AT NIGHT YOU CANT SEE THE STARS BECUASE EVERY ONE LEAVES THE LIGHTS ON TELL ME THIS IS NOT DONE ON PURPOSE,,,,, DA TEXT "I DONT HAVE ATTITUTE PROBLEM I HAVE ANXIETY AND A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE OF FROG FACTS AND ATHLETES FOOT " FROGS DONT HAVE RIBS THATS WHY THEY SHIT SO BIG I BET IT FEELS INSANE TO TAKE A SHIT THATS 1/3 OF YOUR BODY WEIGHT IMAGINE CRAPPEN OUT 50 OR 100 POUND'S AT A TIME I WISH I COULD DO IT I WISH I WAS A FROG CREEEK CREEEEEEK REEEEEEEK - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while a group of 10-15 tourists vanish without a trace in the Paris Catacombs and then afterward the Eiffel Tower is a few feet taller

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BitterOldPunk @bitteroldpunk.bsky.social · 1d

“There are lobsters in the pond! Little lobsters!”

- my nephew, upon seeing crayfish

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