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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 35m

Protect trans kids AND

Ethan Pants (he/him) @ethanpants.bsky.social · 5h

Psyched about my new shirt from @sweatermuppet.bsky.social ! Get yours here: www.bonfire.com/pluckii/

Me wearing black glasses, a San Diego hat, and a red tshirt that says “don’t want to see trans people? Pluck out your eyes.”

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Erica "digifox" Kovac @digifox.binaryden.net · 6h

deeply unserious technology

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 6h

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

Mostafa • @mokatia
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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
ChatGPT 5 v
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 4h

Time to dust off the Halloween art. I painted this 30 years ago(!).

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

in vought's view, the president is a living embodiment of the "will of the people" and congress has no legitimate power to limit him

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Jul 14

atari jaguar, print ad, excerpt (1994) archive.org/details/Vide...

black background, red bloody claw marks, two piercing jaguar eyes up the top.
white caps text font that slowly gets bigger:
64 exploding bits of raw power.
16.7 million brain burning colors.
and 3-d graphics real enough to make you blow chunks.
you've been warned.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 3h

Today is Primidi the 21st of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate hemp.#JacobinDay

More information on hemp

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 3h

Hi, judge expert here! Judges only do this when they’re VERY distressed!

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 14h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Nov 25

Jokes on them, I’m going to use AI to come up with 8000 businesses for dipshits

Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social · Nov 25

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.

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Jason Thibeault 🇨🇦 @lousycanuck.bsky.social · 4h

This is amazing. They bought ad space on Twitter apparently!

And over here I'm like "first off these people probably didn't exist but secondly this is how new splinter sects of Christianity have always formed so... *Gets popcorn* GO ONNNN

Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · Aug 15

HEY @beatskelton.bsky.social OUR FAVORITE WEIRDO IS BACK

some weird religious person going on at length about how Jesus is trans and married to Elijah

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 6h

Periodic reminder that you can put a little basket in your bathroom closet with condoms and fentanyl test strips and other harm reduction stuff, and you can tell your teenagers you don't track it and it can be for them or any of their friends and you can regularly replace it if it's used or expires

A photo of a small container with condoms and fentanyl test strips.

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 6h

Among other things, Sarah’s theory explains this interaction which made me want to die the other day

Rep. congressperson Virginia Foxx quote RTing Sen Mazie Hirono, who tweeted that republicans are lying. Foxx’s post reads: Congratulations on the ratio - you’ve earned it. By the way, you voted to shut down the government.

Jordan Uhl posting Virginia Foxx’s age (82) and saying “Ok what are we doing here”

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 14h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

nobel peace prize is not awarded posthumously

just a little fun fact to file away for next year for absolutely no particular reason

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 11h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Scott @smadin.net · 9h

love the look of this!

James Wragg @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social · 1d

Uhh, I guess I should start posting Entropy stuff, huh?

Entropy has permadeath - that means you'll hire from the 𝕸𝖊𝖗𝖈 𝕭𝖔𝖆𝖗𝖉 when your party gets murdered.

Mercs are generated with different:
⭐Stats & Perks
📜Bios & Personalities
👺Bodies & Clothes
🗡️Equipment

store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/...

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James Wragg @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social · 1d

Uhh, I guess I should start posting Entropy stuff, huh?

Entropy has permadeath - that means you'll hire from the 𝕸𝖊𝖗𝖈 𝕭𝖔𝖆𝖗𝖉 when your party gets murdered.

Mercs are generated with different:
⭐Stats & Perks
📜Bios & Personalities
👺Bodies & Clothes
🗡️Equipment

store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/...

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 9h

George: They Morbed Tron!
Jerry: They Morbed Tron?
George: They Morbed Tron.

(Kramer rides into the room on a lightcycle and explodes)

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 10h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Scott @smadin.net · 9h

dear Penzeys, please add a "shopping list" feature to your website so that when I notice I'm running low on something, I can log in and put it on my list, and then once enough stuff is on my list I can click an "add all to cart" button

Scott @smadin.net · 9h

Good for her.

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 1d

Neko Case ends Tennessee show early after venue refuses to remove armed security guard

Neko Case Ends Tennessee Show Early After Venue Refuses To Remove Armed Guard

Neko Case played a show Thursday night at the Caverns in the tiny Tennessee town of Pelham — or at least she started to, before walking off stage after her first few songs. The reason for her departur...

www.stereogum.com

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