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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 18h

There isn’t any reason the big tent conversation needs to be conflated with the “who gets to lead things/run for senate conversation.” Plenty of space for people who wanna cover up Nazi tats, just maybe not a Senate seat. No Senate for people with Nazi tats isn’t some rule the left made up yesterday

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 20h

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

Fighter jets against the backdrop of a sky with the Idaho state flag and a quote that should say “everyone is an ally until they aren’t” but the spacing makes it look like it says “everyone is anally until they aren’t”

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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 23h

I had to scan a bunch of hard-copy photos with my phone today and Genius Scan, which I have on the 1-week free trial, was actually pretty good. In particular, colour fidelity was better than the other apps I‘ve tested recently. PDF export easy, but JPG export a bit fiddly in bulk.

Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone have recs for Android document scanning apps?

I was using the full version of Adobe Scan but cancelled my Adobe subscription earlier this year in protest (AI in everything + big price hike). CamScanner used to be great but it's $$$ now that it's on a subscription model.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d

did everyone know that Thong Song uses an Eleanor Rigby sample except for me

Sample Breakdown: Sisqó - Thong Song

YouTube video by Tracklib

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

Read her book!! On Repentance and Repair. Crucial, helpful, incredibly readable. I quoted it extensively and Burn It Down & interviewed @theradr.bsky.social
because people need to understand that repentance is not a one-off/soundbite, it’s a *process* with the community and centering those harmed 👊🏻

Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I absolutely believe in the ability of people to grow and redeem themselves for their earlier misadventures and even plain awful shit they did, but you need to *do the work*. There is no redemption without repentance, to paraphrase my good friend Rabbi @theradr.bsky.social.(also read her book)

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Jack Metzler (cleaned up) @scotusplaces.bsky.social · 1d

Here it is:
bsky.app/profile/almo...

Almost Too Online @almost2online.bsky.social · 1d

Graham Planter, who is trying to win the Democratic nomination for Susan Collins's Senate seat, has a skull tattoo like the German "death's head" tattoo worn by actual Nazis. That's what they are talking about.

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Jack Metzler (cleaned up) @scotusplaces.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to start an account for people who are almost too online but not enough to know what people are talking about. Every post will be a one sentence explanation, like: x person, candidate for whatever, has a tattoo which says whatever, which is racist.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

I have never liked a politician so much that I would get on the internet to negotiate how much Nazi tattoo is a acceptable amount of Nazi tattoo.

It's none! None Nazi tattoo!

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

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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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 1d

Stay safe today whether you're working or just existing. Workplaces should have policies and have to obey heat work laws - but make sure you look after you and you coworkers

www.australianunions.org.au/factsheet/yo...

A two-part table showing recommended rest periods for workers based on ambient temperature in Celsius. The first part is for 'parts of the country that are normally cooler' where workers are not acclimatised due to variable climate. The rest times are: 30 to 32 degrees Celsius, 10 minutes rest every hour; 32 to 35 degrees Celsius, 15 minutes rest every hour; 35 to 38 degrees Celsius, 30 minutes rest every hour; Over 38 degrees Celsius, rest in a ventilated area until less than 38 degrees Celsius or go home. The second part is for 'hotter parts of the country'. The rest times are: Above 36 degrees Celsius, 10 minutes rest every hour; Above 38 degrees Celsius, 15 minutes rest every hour; Above 40 degrees Celsius, 30 minutes rest every hour; Over 42 degrees Celsius, 45 minutes break every hour and no more than 2 hours at this temperature

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

one thing about racism is the way people will ignore the most likely explanation for something like having a Nazi tattoo for 20 years.

the most simple and obvious explanation was that he knew what it was and kept it. his excusers need to stop the embarrassing mental gymnastics.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Jewish Insider just sent out an email with an article with more Platner info. And yeah, this guy is DONE done.

But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the “death’s head” symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II.

“He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 1d

whomst amongst us

2 panel comic

Panel 1: Smug Orange Man says “Let he who has NOT had a Nazi phase cast the first stone”

Panel 2: Orange man shits his pants as he is simultaneously pelted with a shitload of stones

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 1d

aaaaaaaand it turns out the answer to "how TF did some guys with a ladder steal the French crown jewels" is "cuts to arts funding mean the Louvre is massively understaffed"

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

This still-in-progress-at-time-of-my-reposting thread is the perfect low stakes drama so far

Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 3d

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

In the past I've happily paid a chunk of money for a licence on a program with good features. I really hate everything being subscription nowadays.

Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone have recs for Android document scanning apps?

I was using the full version of Adobe Scan but cancelled my Adobe subscription earlier this year in protest (AI in everything + big price hike). CamScanner used to be great but it's $$$ now that it's on a subscription model.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 3d

So this is apparently a very low tech theft, but a good reminder thats how most of the world works. An amusing story from PDX … 1/

www.bbc.com/news/live/c6...

Hunt continues for thieves after priceless jewels stolen in heist at Louvre museum in Paris - live updates

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati says the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

www.bbc.com

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Kristen Hauntley CarDEATHzo @khandozo.bsky.social · 6d

Hey, is anyone wildly uninformed about maladies and ailments, because I'm looking for a nonexpert to solve my life-threatening problems. Can you help me out here? NO ONE WHO HAS SPENT YEARS STUDYING THE TOPIC IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT PLEASE. Thanks.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 7d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

“let’s speculate on Ea-Nasir’s vibes” is the best Extremely Online parlor game I can imagine

SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 5d

Is your Ea-Nasir a John Rhys Davies or a Kronk or a third undefined type?

My husband says Nanni is Paul Schaferish, kinda weedy and nasal.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 5d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 5d

Radio National is counting down the #Top100Books of the 21st Century this weekend, and I'm a sucker for a countdown of any kind, so I'm tuning in.

This is what I voted for:

My Votes:

Oryx and Crake (2003) - Margaret Atwood
The Song of Achilles (2011) - Madeline Miller
The Fifth Season (2015) - N.K. Jemisin
Ancillary Justice (2013) - Ann Leckie
Our Share of Night (2019) - Mariana Enriquez
The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008) - Patrick Ness
The Three-Body Problem (2008) - Liu Cixin
Never Let Me Go (2005) - Kazuo Ishiguro
Atonement (2001) - Ian McEwan
The Nickel Boys (2019) - Colson Whitehead

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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 5d

Fred the Swede.

Not a sitcom, fight me.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

"I want people to know that what's happening in Portland - the creativity, the irreverence, the refusal to be intimidated - that's replicable," she says. "Every city has artists. Every community has weirdos. We just need to find each other and start creating the alternative story. The revolution doesn't have to look like a protest.
Make it weird. When they tell you to cover up, shut up, and comply, the most radical thing you can do is be visible, speak truth, and take up space. With joy. Tap into your creativity. Art isn't a luxury in times like these - it's survival."

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 7d

“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

www.technologyreview.com

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