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Brian @sedateinfect.bsky.social · 2h

Good.

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 3h

Ian Watkins was stabbed to death in prison today, police say. The disgraced ex-frontman of Welsh rock band Lostprophets was serving a 29-year sentence at HMP Wakefield for child sex offenses, and his victims included at least one baby.

Lostprophets Singer Ian Watkins Murdered In Prison

Ian Watkins, the former singer of the Welsh scene metal band Lostprophets, was murdered in prison after being attacked with a knife. He was serving a 29-year jail term for several horrific sexual offe...

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Brian @sedateinfect.bsky.social · 21h

People from Jersey are the dumbest motherfuckers ever. Taylor is based in the state capital of Trenton, NJ. Yet these Neanderthals instead of calling it what it is, make up their own term. It’s fucking Pork Roll.

Brian @sedateinfect.bsky.social · 21h

Please show me on the box where it fucking says HAM?

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Ruby, evil witch and spooky crone @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 1d

this frog is doing more to fight fascism than the entire democratic party

Ruby, evil witch and spooky crone @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 1d

a still from video of the pdx ice protests, showing a frog with a shimmering cape, and an albino raccoon in the background, talking to a blue axolotl

there's other people in the picture, but they're not wearing animal costumes

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𝕂𝕏ℕ𝔾 ♠️ @kxngspade.bsky.social · Dec 24

Never forget Scrappy Doo worked directly with Reagan to distribute crack cocaine into the inner cities of America.

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Brian @sedateinfect.bsky.social · 1d

Good job doing that at halftime, so everyone in Philly got to see it.

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Brian @sedateinfect.bsky.social · 1d

LMAO Phillies.

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Brian @sedateinfect.bsky.social · 1d

The broadcast has yet to even acknowledge it

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andré @838carlisle.bsky.social · 1d

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Gregg Rosenthal @greggrosenthal.bsky.social · 1d

Sirianni in full troll mode with 4 straight tush pushes

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Brian @sedateinfect.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing will ever beat me tripping face coming back from a Gwar show at the Troc, getting on the 20 at the Terminal and the driver strung up Xmas lights and had the interior lights off. Best bus ride ever.

👻👻👻boonoteat👻👻👻 @donoteat.bsky.social · 1d

spooky

Brian @sedateinfect.bsky.social · 1d

Best conference in the world. 😂

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

We have an ongoing CONCACAF situation in Nicaragua.

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no coast. @ledtotheflood.bsky.social · 1d

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Brian @sedateinfect.bsky.social · 1d

a man wearing a green shirt and a black jacket says go birds

ALT: a man wearing a green shirt and a black jacket says go birds

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Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social · 1d

🇺🇸 The United States advance to the quarterfinals of the U-20 World Cup!

The USYNT beat Italy 3-0 to progress.

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · 2d

Art by • Blas Gallego

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Brian @sedateinfect.bsky.social · 2d

I can fix them.

John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 2d

I don’t need much in life, just food, shelter, $30 million and three years to prove I’m a great manager of Manchester United

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 3d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Brian @sedateinfect.bsky.social · 2d

I’m from Philadelphia, just pick any of a myriad of words and we’ll spot you.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 3d

Wait... I thought this was supposed to happen the other way around...?

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3d

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 3d

I love when Andy Ngo does one of his David Attenborough-style posts about Antifa and highlights some kid who took a bong rip and waddled into the protest dressed like a giant muppet.

My favorite flavor of his commentary by far.

Andy Ngo wants to draw your attention to Barney the dinosaur

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3d

honestly it's insane that we still let people bring up the bible as a source in debates. okay well I don't believe in that and this is the real world

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 7d

People need to stop saying, "That's un-American" when the government does something horrible. We have a long and well-documented history of doing horrible stuff

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