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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 57m

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Jenét Morrow @jenetallday.bsky.social · 3h

Once again, if your library has Hoopla, check to see if their plan includes TV shows and movies. If so, you'll have access to Acorn TV, MHz Choice, AMC and BritBox shows and more.

Jenét Morrow @jenetallday.bsky.social · Feb 6

On a budget? A reminder to check to see if you have access to Kanopy and Hoopla through your library. Hoopla has ebooks, music, movies and TV shows. A lot of AMC and Acorn TV shows on that platform. And Kanopy has a kids section with unlimited "borrows". #library

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2h

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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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 8h

This should scare the fuck out of everyone because this guy is funding fucking everything

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 9h

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 8h

I would never make it past the primaries so 🤷‍♀️

Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 8h

Onion - toasted & buttered, egg that is almost but not quite cooked hard so there's just the tiniest bit of runny yolk, crispy bacon, slice of tomato, slice of cheddar.

Or plain - toasted, buttered, then a thick layer of plain cream cheese, then topped with (homemade) blackberry jam.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 9h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 11h

omg

Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 12h

Dairy helps make strong bones - important for us women as we age.

Also:

Nutrition Science’s Most Preposterous Result: Could Ice Cream Possibly Be Good for You?

Studies show a mysterious health benefit to ice cream. Scientists don’t want to talk about it.

web.archive.org

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Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 12h

Didn't know today is World Mental Health Day. Coincidentally, had to take a mental health day off of work today (usually feel bad about it but it's affecting my physical health too, so.)

At the top, large black text on a white background reads WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY 2025. The bottom 2/3 of the image have a bluish royal purple colored background. There is a little image of the Earth with a smile smiley face on it wrapped closely in a green ribbon with purple tax that matches the background that reads "world mental health day 10 OCT"

Below there in small white text :

World Mental Health Day takes place every year on 10 October. It’s a reminder of the importance of good mental health and the need to prioritise and invest in good mental health.

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 13h

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The House GOP leadership have made the following change to the house floor schedule:

Members are advised that votes are no longer expected in the house on Tuesday October 14, 2025.

Pending senate action on FY26 funding, members will receive 48 hours’ notice prior to any potential votes in the house. Further information regarding the floor schedule will be provided as soon as it becomes available.

This is a change from the house GOP’s leadership’s previously announced schedule.

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 13h

men will literally end democracy rather than admit their god emperor is a pedophile

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13h

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14h

Remember how people lost their minds when I said go to a protest but don't rsvp to one

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 14h

Not as pithy as “a fine is a price” but as important to carve into people’s heads.

a man is standing in a pool of water and saying welcome to the party , pal .

Alt: The scene in DIE HARD when Bruce Willis yells out the shattered window through which he recently tossed a corpse “welcome to the party, pal!” to the police below, expressing his combined frustration that he has been toiling in this crisis alone, relief that others have arrived, and annoyance that it took them so long to acknowledge the nature of the problem and join in.

media.tenor.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 14h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 14h

I hope this makes the wrong people sad.

A "window" on the Marvel booth of Wolverine and Deadpool leaning close to each other. The top half is just in silhouette. I've seen less suggestive romance novel covers.

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Cybel Martin ASC @cybeldp.bsky.social · 13h

PSA - Mango Languages is free with a library card. I learned a lot via Duolingo but Mango cleans up my grammar and improves my comprehension of each language. It sticks. Currently studying Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and strengthening my French. Easy way to feel better about oneself.

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Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 15h

I miss hearing the xfiles opening theme when I started up my computer and the closing theme when I shut it down.

Lisa Screaminger @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 15h

Was 98 the Windows edition where you could apply desktop themes to not just wallpaper and color palette but desktop icons as well? there was a CLUE-ish mystery house one and something with robots maybe? I've been chasing that high ever since

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 16h

i feel like legally microsoft should be required to provide an operating system that's graphically identical to windows 98 but has modern security updates that make it safe to use

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 16h

i feel like legally microsoft should be required to provide an operating system that's graphically identical to windows 98 but has modern security updates that make it safe to use

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 16h

shaking and crying and throwing up as i'm forced to upgrade to windows 11

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Barb @spicedrum.bsky.social · 15h

I want to move to the alternate universe where they didn't cheat and steal Florida from Gore.

Maybe we would have gotten to fascism even faster in that timeline, who knows, but the climate would be in better shape.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

To be candid, I want the bubble to burst. Because it will eventually and inevitably, but the longer the current charade goes on the more our planet and communities are decimated— and the more dependent we become on the few powerful people left who control those resources.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

The more we use this technology, the more we necessarily turn over not only our data and our privacy but the basic things we need to survive. Meanwhile, reality is totally reshaped by LLMs as increasingly authoritarian media is pumped out as training data. Nothing could be more useful to them.

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