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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 8h

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

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Gilead’s Missing Apple 🇺🇦 🦅🇺🇦 @fortmaligator.bsky.social · 8h

1860 vs 2025

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 7h

The inflatable costume thing with the protesters is really good because it renders the body armor/CoD weaponry aesthetic of the ICE Nazis even more ridiculous than it already was. Suiting up like Rambo to face down a dancing frog. No coming back from that

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 16h

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 14h

The DDT Ironman heavymetalweight is your best bet for just-in-time title belts

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 15h

Milk does not go in eyes. Water is what you use to wash out chemical irritants. Just water. Ignore all other advice to the contrary unless you have a fucking medical degree of some sort in which case go off king/queen

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mcc @dryad.technology · 15h

- At some point in the future, you may want to attend a protest where real opsec is necessary. You should own a dumbwatch, so you can know the time without having a phone. Casios are like $30 and come in cute colors.

- Always wear sunscreen; and you will never regret bringing a water bottle.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 3d

I keep telling people who want prognostications that we're at a moment of extremely high variance. The future could plausibly go in a wider variety of directions--from full-on authoritarianism to backlash promoting a Third Reconstruction--than at any time in recent history.

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Super Mecha Dad @ TFCon Chicago @supermecha.dad · 2d

Me: I better watch what I say, I don't want my discord getting subpoenaed.

My 75 year old mom, currently going through chemo: posting threats on Facebook

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 16h

incredible photo

Ashley Murray @ashleymurray.bsky.social · 17h

Person in an inflatable chicken suit making their way across the bridge. Protesters in Portland, Oregon, have popularized wearing inflatable animal costumes at rallies against the Trump administration

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 16h

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 23h

I'm thinking Wyeth right there.

Painting of "Christina's World" by Wyeth

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

www.nytimes.com

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Penny Merman @idesofmerch.bsky.social · 8d

A series of images I found on my computer labeled "Wrestling solutions."

A roof shaped ring, utilizing an incline. Probably deadly.

A full sized ring inside of a double sized ring. Why not? What do you have to lose?

A ring with vertical ring ropes, attached to an unsecured light fixture. An OSHA violation for sure.

A ring with 9 turnbuckles, instead of the customary 3. This one is fine, no one would have a problem with this one except a whiner.

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 23h

I need some One Battle After Another cal memes

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 3d

This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 3d

Fingers crossed you can get @buttplug.engineer to speak on the many many waves of bullshit hype about sex tech

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 3d

Okay @alexglow.bsky.social this time you should definitely go to the cool zone

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 4d

between g-fuel and protein powder it turns out the young male right-wing movement might just be lead poisoning

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 4d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 7d

Yall missed reporting on the Aggie with the .337 BAC

Flyndersticks @threadbare.bsky.social · 7d

Curtis Lemay was about bombs, not making interceptions.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 8d

“We refuse to pay the troops and also we’re doing indiscriminate firings of people for no reason”

I’ve never seen an administration so faithfully committed to self-immolation in my entire life

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