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IYKYK @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 5h

Have you ever seen someone who is already a total dick realize they are losing an argument about something they were wrong about going in, but mistakenly thought everyone would back them on?

They start to become incoherent and belligerent, flailing about madly for something to turn the tide.

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Kitkat 🔞 @collarplz.bsky.social · Jul 3

The Struggle 💤

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Tait, the Imaginary @taittheterrific.bsky.social · 5h

Yep yep! Thank you for explaining, it is too late for me to go back and find the exact guy rn

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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 5h

I will always try to assume ignorance on a first outing (unless they are already labeled) but if they are told and are either indifferent or outright hostile then yeah best to report the image (so they get labeled) block and move on

If it's ttrpg related be sure to send it dice functionals way

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it

but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it

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Tait, the Imaginary @taittheterrific.bsky.social · 5h

I heard a YouTuber call Shadow double Vagita Micky Mouse along the same line of thought and I thought you’d appreciate that hilarity.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

More here: open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 6h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 15h

…🤔

Yuri on Ice implies Yaoi on Ice but if you mix it with Super Mario then Yurigi on Ice implies Wayurigi on Ice which implies Luigi on Waluigi yuri which also implies Luigi on Waluigi yaoi ergo Yuri yaoi and Yuri yuri informs Yurigi yuri and Yurigi yaoi and Wayurigi yuri with Wayurigi yaoi ergo—

a red curtain is behind a person in a green dress

Alt: Kermit the frog being dragged off stage by a cane.

media.tenor.com

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IYKYK @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 5h

I love stories. Human beings evolved to love and learn from stories. All you writers and showrunners and actors and creative support out there, keep on doing what you're doing, you are appreciated!

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smirkingcat @smirkingcat.bsky.social · 11h

#catober2025 day 10 is Berserker cat
猫強化月間10日はバーサーカーキャット

Watercolour illustration of a black cat wearing a skull on their head and fur cape. They are holding an axe and look like they are mid battle cry.

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 6h

I cannot stop the mass firings overnight. But I can wear a mask to protect myself and those around me

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

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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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 16h

«ahem»
Rosie the Ribbiter

Thank you for you attention to this matter.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl]

there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Tait, the Imaginary @taittheterrific.bsky.social · 7h

It would be more accurate to say we don’t argue that the sexy fan edits of biggest dick Leon should be the actual character of the actual game, lol

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Tait, the Imaginary @taittheterrific.bsky.social · 7h

Like, it’s the difference between Bayonetta and Samus, one likes being sexy and the other has no time for that.

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Tait, the Imaginary @taittheterrific.bsky.social · 7h

This further leans into my theory that the horny gamers don’t understand narrative and story at ALL, because if Atsu was written to be a horny/sexy character this would be fine, but they want to staple busty tits onto ANY woman instead of the characters that actually would want them.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 11h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 7h

This wildly illegal action is also a betrayal that will, almost certainly, kill someone you love.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 18h

One of the things I'm loving about the frog protestors is how it's showing that rebellion isnt all "Follow me into HELL!"

It's also just finding clever options to protect oneself against oppressors

They are shooting pepper balls? Air suit. Tear gas? Traffic cone+water. Rubber bullets? Trash lids

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 8h

arguably one of the worst things about car dependent suburban sprawl is that it's a core reason (along with brick & mortar favored zoning laws and racism and classism and-) that the US doesn't have a street food culture like elsewhere in the world. i want more local street food delicacies damn it.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9h

ICE facilities should be abolished.

Until then, they should be forced to have glass walls.

If more people could see what’s being done to detainees, they would join the resistance.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 14h

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 8h

a tremendous resource now broken on purpose - no fixing it per se

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Qsy @qsy.bsky.social · 12h

My favorite of the set, failwife occultist for the Sunfall Cycle and the raven shopkeep who barfs gold coins :3
#art

A tall olive-skinned woman with short white hair standing with a derby cane and pulling a gilded skull from her wide sleeves. She is wearing several layers of elaborate robes, with rich reds and teals and gold accents. She is also wearing a sacrificial dagger and a chatelaine on a gold chain across her hips.

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Qsy @qsy.bsky.social · 12h

Tree hugger for the Sunfall Cycle on yootoob. She's wearing a deer to prom uwu
#art

Picture of a wood elf wearing green fabric and deer hide clothes with the fur and the spots still on, all laced with vines. Her long brown hair has braids above her forehead holding a crown of birch bark, while the rest of it is dotted with leaves. She is carrying a long stag handled dagger at her waist and wielding a bow with obsidian tipped arrows.

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