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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 7h

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 9h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 9h

… that is not where that conversation should have gone with any rational human being.

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 11h

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.

Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 9h

Well damn…

Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, I did. For sure.

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🦈 Liz, shark queen 👑 @thesharkqueen.com · 1d

New "thanks for backing" gifts for any pledge amount from $1 up-- releasing soon. Get on the list by backing today!

S.E. Ransdell's Curiouser & Curiouser: Tales from Beyond

Volume 2 of S.E. Ransdell's illustrated erotic horror and dark tales from the other side- of the veil, of sanity, and of revenge.

www.kickstarter.com

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 10h

There’s going to be a time in the near future where stories and images like this simply aren’t proliferated anymore.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 10h

My inner 12 yo thought about making a different, nautical- themed joke, but I am a mature adult now.

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 10h

I didn’t realize you had those kind of cosmic god-like powers.

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 10h

It does look like they took that kayak straight out of her dress.

RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 10h

Salma Hayek in a bright purple gown, plunging neckline..

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11h

Pretty sure I read a book about this as a schoolboy

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

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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Lackadaisy Tracy @lackadaisy.bsky.social · 14h

Hey everyone, we have some big news to share!

LACKADAISY - Last Call

A preview of Lackadaisy Season One - the Speakeasy is in its prime as Mitzi and the band regale the crowd with an original musical number, Last Call. This seemed like the ideal way to announce that Lackadaisy is now officially a ‪Glitch‬ Production!!

youtu.be

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 12h

French press all the way.

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, I will. In a heartbeat.

(Yes, this is from last year. But still.)

WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · Oct 13

I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumors

TV news footage of flooded devastation

God has a sense of humour.
Noah's Ark Theme Park Destroyed In A Flood
ON YOUR SIDE
LATEST INFORMATION
ARK ENCOUNTER DESTROYED IN FLASH FLOOD WILLIAMSTOWN ATTRACTION WAS ALMOST COMPLETE
-otomsaey
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Judith Butlerian Jihad @pghguy.bsky.social · 12h

this is what it takes. we're here now folks, there is not a "if the nazis came" it's "they're here and your mettle will be tested now"

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

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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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 13h

if nobody wrote it why should somebody read it

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 13h

I’m pretty sure this was one of the bear-centric horoscopes @stephenblackmoore.com used to put out.

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 14h

Just a reminder that if you read the edition of Margaret Wise Brown's Little Fur Family with the fur on the cover at the center of a forest in the light of a blood moon you'll summon an ancient bear deity & you better know its true name (it's not "brown one" or "bruin"), cause if you don't who boy!

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 18h

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Surprised Cat Plush. If it's anything like my cats, it's surprised (and disgusted) that dinner is 10 seconds late.
collabs.shop/2yjebq

A white cat plush with black eyes and a surprised expression on my face.

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 15h

Huh.

I mean, she *is* a queen.

FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 15h

In addition to their creepy-cute line of dolls based on classic creatures, Monster High has also been gifting us with collectible, high-fashion versions of our favorite horror movie killers. So far, their popular Skullector lineup has included familiar faces like David from The Lost Boys,…

The Xenomorph Queen Gets The Monster High Treatment With New ALIEN Skullector Doll

In addition to their creepy-cute line of dolls based on classic creatures, Monster High has also been gifting us with collectible, high-fashion versions of our favorite horror movie killers. So far, their popular Skullector lineup has included familiar faces like David from The Lost Boys, Beetlejuice, and even M3GAN, but this time, they’re bringing the...

dlvr.it

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 15h

Oscar… Wylder? 😆

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

As far as music is concerned, Jim's taste runs largely to the less fey part of the psychedelic movement, tortured singer-songwriters and the more mellow side of stoner rock. He enjoys jazz, but finds most LPs in the genre made between 1967 and 1972 "too hectic".

Jim with Kak's phenomenal 1969 debut LP and Judee Sill's second LP.

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 16h

Single serving, in other words.

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Saki 🦄🪶✦Fae NTVtuber✦【NTVN】【V-Chunky】 @nightmaresakito.bsky.social · 1d

A beautiful native woman flipping the bird in response to Monday, Oct. 13th, Columbus Day. “Fuck Christopher Columbus.” Happy Indigenous People’s Day!

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