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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 41m

Popes hate this one weird trick!

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 7h

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Frankensorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social · 12h

Reminder that the best defence against authoritarianism is ALWAYS absurdism. It doesn’t matter how natty your jackboots are, nobody looks scary when oppressing Creatures.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 12h

Really hammer your reps about how catastrophic this is and how bad these laws are for peoples online safety

404 Media @404media.co · 14h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 9h

Guillermo Del Toro is 61.
Here he is on the Weinsteins:

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 9h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14h

adding this to the short list of videos I need to re-watch on the regular
youtu.be/CDs2d3dJtYk?...

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED

YouTube video by TED

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9h

No shade to any of the Vertigo relaunch writers, but this is what the lineup looks like with me no longer in it, lol.

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 5d

AN UNCOMMON BETROTHAL is a 1920s erotic romance between a disabled gentleman classicist and his new butler who's fat, sexy, and covered in tattoos.

You ever wish Jeeves and Wooster could be broodier and bitchier and spitroast another man between them?

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An Uncommon Betrothal – Novel – eBook

M/M erotic romance, rated E, 100k. A disabled gentleman in the 1920s finds himself secretly affianced, in a manner of speaking, to his very attractive new butler.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972), US playwright, poet and novelist. Lover of US painter Romaine Brooks among others, she began publishing love poems to women under her own name as early as 1900 #WomensArt

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Sam Kurd but SPOOPY (he/him) @samkurd.bsky.social · 9h

It's so well-researched! So many citations!

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Sam Kurd but SPOOPY (he/him) @samkurd.bsky.social · 9h

Book recommendation: a fascinating and infuriating look at how the Judge Dredd strip predicted and reflected the rise of militarised policing.

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I am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future

Check out I am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future - <b>The Eisner award-winning examination of the ways in which the comic strip Judge Dredd, published in 2000 AD, has predicted the changin...

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Reverse Clowngirl @axialagegamer.swifties.social · 13h

IDF gooners are so fucking creepy. And smarmy.

One Amahira, MA @oneamahira.bsky.social · 14h

With alt text:

A few days before the taping, Colbert's producers held a prep call with the candidates and their aides. The sample questions covered basic political topics, such as the meaning of democratic socialism. Right before the candidates went onstage, the producers appeared in the greenroom and said that they wanted to go over a few more questions. Earlier that day, a group of prominent Jewish figures, including Elisha Wiesel, the son of Elie Wiesel, had sent a letter to Colbert demanding that he grill Mamdani on his views of Israel. According to people who were in the room, one of the producers suggested a "thumbs-up or thumbs-down" segment: "Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: Hamas. Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state."

Mamdani's face dropped. "I just couldn't believe what was happening," he told me. "That a genocide could be distilled into a late-night game." His aides were incensed. "You have the first Muslim candidate for mayor in the history of New York," Zara Rahim, a senior adviser to Mamdani, told one of the producers. "You don't want to ask him a question about that?" (CBS did not respond to a request for comment.) In the end, the game didn't happen, but Colbert did ask Mamdani whether he believed that Israel had the right to exist. "Yes, like all nations, I believe it has a right to exist," he said. "And a responsibility also to uphold international law."

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Sam Kurd but SPOOPY (he/him) @samkurd.bsky.social · 13h

a man is holding a large silver balloon in front of a mirror .

Alt: Gif: a black man holding a MASSIVE spoon

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Sam Kurd but SPOOPY (he/him) @samkurd.bsky.social · 13h

Give me your spoons.

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Sam Kurd but SPOOPY (he/him) @samkurd.bsky.social · 13h

Dragging my sorry carcass out the house for the evening despite running and fumes. It's not for anything strenuous, and it'll be good to see people, but I'm so tired.

Yesterday was super stressful, today has been super low key but I've not properly recovered.

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𝕵𝖔𝖘𝖎𝖊 @evil.pet · 13h

like follow and subscribe, live laugh love woodcut ass dystopia

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Multnomah County Library @multcolib.bsky.social · 13h

"Comedy horror" fans should check out Meddling Kids by @punkahoy.bsky.social. #AskALibrarian

Meddling Kids — Multnomah County Library

Meddling Kids — Cantero, Edgar, 1981- — With raucous humor and brilliantly orchestrated mayhem, Meddling Kids subverts teen detective archetypes like the Hardy Boys, the Famous Five, and Scooby-Doo, a...

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 3d

Couple moved in next door. Old bloke lived there before had a beautiful garden. He spent every day in it. New guy ripped out everything & put fake grass in. So I've planted trees next to the boundary that will fill his lawn with dead leaves in the autumn. This one's for you Alf

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Jellybox @jellybox.bsky.social · 16h

THANK YOU KC FOR TRUSTING US WITH THE HOUND!!!

Everyone go check out the vid if you haven’t yet!!

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Sam Kurd but SPOOPY (he/him) @samkurd.bsky.social · 13h

Cube is GREAT! The sequels are... not so great 😁

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Julia Marchese @juliacmarchese.bsky.social · 14h

Have you seen 1997's CUBE?
A terrific film with a killer premise done perfectly, I love this intimacy of this film. Should I watch the sequels?

Tell me YOUR thoughts on Cube!

listen to @horrormoviepodcast.bsky.social talk about the film:
www.buzzsprout.com/104713/episo...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14h

"I said I was Jewish. They ripped me by the ear and forced me to bend down and stare at the flag of the state of Israel."

5 Days in Israel’s Desert Prison: Jewish Flotilla Activist David Adler on Harrowing Detention Ordeal

Israeli forces have abducted over 500 peace activists over the past week who were sailing to Gaza in an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged territory. Organizers of the Global Sumud Flo...

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 16h

Israel is now saying the ceasefire will take effect "within 24 hours" as opposed to 10am today as initially planned. So yeah, just announced a delay for no reason and started shooting people trying to go home who thought there was a ceasefire in effect. www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Israeli tanks fired directly at civilians on Al-Rashid Street while the latter were trying to return to northern Gaza, shortly after the ceasefire agreement had supposedly taken effect.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 17h

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

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Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done! The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and ill...

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 18h

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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