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🌈✨MAX✨🌈 @solarcat.bsky.social · 2h

A new friend has arrived!

A large, poseable Dragonair plush, sitting on my sofa being adorable 💕

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

My wife is collecting signatures for a sweet ballot measure in Michigan that would tax income over $1,000,000 to reduce class sizes while recruiting and retaining great teachers.

But they're way behind.

So she was tasked with bringing in someone who could help gather signatures.

Could it be you?

Invest in MI Kids

Putting kids first. Building a stronger Michigan for everyone.

investinmikids.org

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social · 2d

Exodus 8:2
"If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country."

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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🌈✨MAX✨🌈 @solarcat.bsky.social · 1d

Ty!

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🌈✨MAX✨🌈 @solarcat.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, link?

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 1d

In this absurdist moment, hop indeed

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

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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katie dzwierzynski @kdzwierzynski.bsky.social · 2d

are we sure that’s not rebecca romaine

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 4d

Nicole Kidman stuns for Vogue.

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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 1d

Theory: you can put Brendan Fraser in any Tom Cruise role and it would improve the film; you cannot put Tom Cruise in any Brendan Fraser role without it making the film worse

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

This is a really good article, and as an inveterate shitposter, I keep asking where the adults are.

I don’t *want* to be protesting! I don’t *want* to be arrested for standing up to oppression!! I want a boring government that works and takes care of everyone and I can go be stupid online!!!

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Dec 17

Right, it's #TWANG* day, so we're going to twang a load of stuff with our mini-catapult. Pay attention it's science.

First, a tennis ball. By way of calibration, if you will.

But we know what you're all asking... What would happen if we filled that tennis ball with concrete?

*Not a thing.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 1d

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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🌈✨MAX✨🌈 @solarcat.bsky.social · 2d

Women are very reasonably wary of engaging with an unknown man who is already expressing emotional problems and extreme loneliness, because that’s how you end up with an obsessive and terrifying stalker.

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🌈✨MAX✨🌈 @solarcat.bsky.social · 2d

Women have learned not to reach out to that lonely guy.

This is because, far too often, that lonely guy takes a friendly listening ear or shoulder to cry on as an expression of romantic or sexual interest, and then takes it Extremely Badly when the woman in question won’t fuck him.

AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 2d

And why can't dudes write each other?

are lonelier but you only care about women

Discussion

Whenever a man posts that he's lonely, struggling, or just looking for friends, he is usually completely ignored. No upvotes, no replies, no dms or anything. He could pour his heart out, talk about self-harm, depression, or just wanting someone to talk to, and people will scroll past like it's invisible.

But the moment a girl posts the same thing. suddenly there are dozens of comments, DMs, and people trying to comfort her.

I'm not saying women shouldn't get support. Everyone deserves it. But it's messed up how a friendship or basic empathy online seems to depend on gender.Men are statistically lonelier, more isolated, and more likely to take their own lives. Yet when they reach out, no one cares.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

trib.al

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🌈✨MAX✨🌈 @solarcat.bsky.social · 3d

I’m in this post and I don’t like it 😂

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🌈✨MAX✨🌈 @solarcat.bsky.social · 3d

lol. lmao. 😂

✨🥀Persephone Evil🥀✨ @bipolarpisces35.blacksky.app · 3d

God damn, some of yall been following each other online for a decade?!!

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 3d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 3d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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🌈✨MAX✨🌈 @solarcat.bsky.social · 3d

Right? Wish I would have known I could just decide what I wanted the answers to be and then make up some “reasoning” that says I’m right. That would have been so much easier!!

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