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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 7h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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The Duke @thedukexx99.bsky.social · 3h

the kids are alright

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 5h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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The Duke @thedukexx99.bsky.social · 3h

I forgot it was 4chan's birthday last week. don't recall seeing the hats. Hope the plugin didn't filter them or god they didn't do it this year

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 10h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson just declared the House will remain in recess all next week. This will mark a full month off; the chamber has not been in session since September 19.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11h

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

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The Duke @thedukexx99.bsky.social · 9h

they love AI slop. Their pin is AI article art

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10h

in my humble opinion it is journalistic malpractice for a verified account to be sharing garbage AI-generated news videos because they're too stupid and lazy to verify their sources

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The Duke @thedukexx99.bsky.social · 9h

I have remind myself I'm in a bubble in various discords but being like a billionaire or other ruling class member and getting stewed all the time realtime and cyber is wild to think about.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 10h

Salesforce paid to relocate a coworker out of Texas after the abortion ban, these guys are stewing in some really rancid group chats I guess

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 1d

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12h

There must be some mistake, I read 50 Atlantic articles about how RFK Jr just wants to help Americans eat more vegetables

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 14h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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The Duke @thedukexx99.bsky.social · 10h

the slop loop is great morons having ai write their emails no one was reading only to have an ai summarize it and reply. Basically botting 'business'

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The Duke @thedukexx99.bsky.social · 10h

it can make slop for like b footage so great for people trying to pay the least but expect to make money from what they make

The Duke @thedukexx99.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you. I always think about this like damn you can't even get cheap street food really bad and low on everything

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 21h

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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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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The Duke @thedukexx99.bsky.social · 19h

Ai voice still has that weird reverb but I guess you could always blame that on poor audio in real videos

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, everything might be getting worse all the time, but at least we will be poorer forever

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 2d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States

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