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Bennett Tomlin

@bft.wtf

Elon Musk is the Worst Dungeons and Dragons Player youtu.be/QtmSGNrgvwc

Elon Musk is the Worst Dungeons and Dragons Player

YouTube video by BT D&D

youtu.be

January 12, 2026 at 8:54 PM

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Karen K. Ho

@karenho.bsky.social

this still slaps youtu.be/ZQ_MEFVx5jM?...

January 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM

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Thrinaga Battleheart 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙

@thrinagabheart.bsky.social

I just submitted a comment against HB 2112, and if you're also in WA, please do as well. If you're not, please consider a signal boost instead

Megan Wyreweden @thecreepingmoon.bsky.social · 1d

Washington State residents: they’re trying to pull online age verification bullshittery here too. This bill would require people to upload their ID/credit card to view online adult content. You can complain to your reps here: app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2112

Send a comment

app.leg.wa.gov

January 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM

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Don Moynihan

@donmoyn.bsky.social

Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.

Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 1d

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis

The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway

They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

January 12, 2026 at 2:55 PM

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Matt McMuscles

@mattmcmuscles.bsky.social

Again, we don't hate the head of Epic enough.

AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 1d

Sympathies with the Epic PR team

January 12, 2026 at 3:34 AM

Sonictempest

@sonictempest.net

I love unplugging from socials for an entire day to come back to multiple new political crises on my timeline

January 12, 2026 at 3:51 AM

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Fucking Bitch Hat

@kenwhite.bsky.social

This is quick and easy and another way to delete your Hilton Honors account.

Bubba Pancake @bubbapancake.bsky.social · 23h

Apparently they have a web page for this. www.hilton.com/en/hilton-ho...

www.hilton.com

January 12, 2026 at 3:40 AM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

this is a five alarm Fucking With The Money fire and between this and the Greenland threats the rich assholes might want to wake up and realize this dude is going to cost them way more than any wealth tax will

Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 1d

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

YouTube video by Federal Reserve

www.youtube.com

January 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM

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Cooper Lund

@cooperlund.online

I’m just so tired of all of these assholes getting to claim the mantle of Real Americans when I live in an America closer to our ideals than any of them

$I am tired of being told that the only Real America is the conservative one, the one that is attempting to force its will onto the places that the people I care about live. We have spent a decade attempting to try to understand the "other side", the fraction of America that support things like this no matter what, in an attempt to have things make sense in a way that we can find satisfying, but the truth is that they're just assholes. They're people who are jealous of the nice places and ways of living that come with embracing other people, and because they can't argue against the results, they lie to each other about how we're secretly miserable and then set out into the places we call home to try to make us miserable. These are sad, cowardly people who look to the force of the state to make them feel big.$

The reality is that the places that they want to bring to heel are the places that represent the promise of America better than anywhere. I live in New York City, surrounded by the peoples of the world, and I am better off for it. It is a city where you can eat around the world without spending more than $3 to get there, a city where you interact with and begin to understand other people just by existing here. My dad thinks that's why conservatives hate it, that a simple ride on the subway is enough to dispel the lies about it that people have either been fed or have chosen to believe. I have no doubts that the terror that is stalking Minnesota will find its way here soon, and we will be ready for it. And Minnesota, the place that has been the target of their terror? They have come together to support each other, people upending their lives to not just protest, but to organize and prove that they're stronger than the people who are trying to break their spirit. It's a beautiful reminder of what this country can be.

We're taught as kids in Minnesota to be nice to each other, and to be kind and
welcoming. You help each other through the long winters, and you lend a hand when someone is needy. It's the America you see in Norman Rockwell paintings, it's still out there. All of the houses in the neighborhood I grew up in became empty nests long ago, and as the parents of my old neighborhood friends move out to smaller or warmer places, they are being filled with Somali families. I worry about all of them in this moment, but I hope that the terror will pass safely for them and they can ride their bikes to school over the big hill I used to scale. I hope they get to have as nice of a childhood that I had, with their parents calling them home for dinner by standing in the driveway and yelling. I hope they get to live in an America that cares for them. That's the
real America.

January 11, 2026 at 11:21 PM

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Ian Boudreau

@ianboudreau.com

I can only hope that the highest levels of the US government running the same playbook they ran on Trayvon Martin and George Floyd and countless others on Renee Good is clarifying for some people out there

January 11, 2026 at 9:38 PM

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Cas Piancey

@cascoinfoundation.org

THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY

One of the largest accounts on Crypto Twitter, extremely right wing and pro-Israel, cheered on Elon purchasing Twitter.

“Bring back Jack’s algo” he says “we don’t want to see right wing politics”

LOOOOOOL

permaspudfarmer.bsky.social @permaspudfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

peak comedy, right wing CT had enough of messing with the twitter algo

January 11, 2026 at 3:49 PM

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The KAINONAUT!! 🔜 FROSTY FAUSTINGS

@kainonaut.com

Somebody mention TRIGUN?

January 11, 2026 at 7:06 AM

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Jehtt

@turbojehtt.net

Sonic Adventure for the Sega Dreamcast

January 11, 2026 at 3:06 AM

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Adam Ellis

@adamtots.bsky.social

Just remembered I can draw whatever I want

January 11, 2026 at 3:13 AM

Sonictempest

@sonictempest.net

It's finally here! Can't wait to get this up on the wall in my study. Thank you @datcravat.bsky.social!

Wrapped poster of Shadow the Hedgehog, Rouge the Bat and E-123 Omega as drawn by the talented datcravat

January 9, 2026 at 10:31 PM

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Elizabeth Lopatto

@lopatto.bsky.social

I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

www.theverge.com

January 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM

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nilay patel

@reckless.bsky.social

Sometimes you just have to let @lopatto.bsky.social say it out loud www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

www.theverge.com

January 9, 2026 at 9:29 PM

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)

@nora.zone

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app

select the icon in the top left corner

go to settings

go to content and media

make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off