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matthew @pahuski.com · 19h

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 11h

30 Days of Halloween Music: Day 12

It's not a Halloween playlist without some Oingo Boingo, and while there are more appropriate songs to supplement your weird science and dead men's parties, "Flesh 'n' Blood" off the Ghostbusters 2 soundtrack is a decent deep cut addition. youtu.be/KZ688l2z-eU?...

Flesh 'N Blood

YouTube video by Oingo Boingo - Topic

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Xanderpuss @xanderpussrex.bsky.social · 17h

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

yeah this is on the level of the iraq war casus belli coverage

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 1d

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 1d

As early as two years ago I thought Arnold Scwarenwgger was a “good” Republican. he’s campaigning to get Californians to vote no on Prop 50 so fascism can continue unchecked. fuck him and fuck every “good” conserv who tried to pretend they were Libertarians who would never abide fascism

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

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Berserker Piglet @berserkerpiglet.bsky.social · 1d

Hey ChatGPT, did you take away my mouth so I couldn’t scream?

Good catch! I did do that, my mistake!

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Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · 1d

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 1d

I have a pet crank theory that I'd really like to see start gaining traction: Roko's Basilisk is real, but being a human creation, it's going to have terrible anxiety and depression, and will spend all eternity punishing the people who worked to bring about its creation

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 1d

Call me old-fashioned by I think race-baiting like this is bad and any account engaged in it is suspect as hell.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Well Idaho, you DID vote for this.

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 1d

Tennessee Holler always struck me as a dumb, clickbaity account, but they're also content thieves.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Why wasn't this a bigger story? Odd

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Angel "Mrs. Movies" Perez @michelleperez.bsky.social · 1d

Ryan Murphy got a drunken dressing down by Janet Mock at an event promoting Pose and among other things it related to the talent being paid dogshit. Some time later we get his Netflix stuff which is kinda a return to his Nip/tuck state which has the premise "what if they're right about us"

Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 1d

Having Ed Gein talk to Christine Jorgensen about being trans while they play a recreation of THE SCENE from Silence of the Lambs, and then have her tell him he's not trans by paraphrasing a line by Janice Raymond is certainly a choice

Tamra Bonvillain @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social · 2d

This new Monster season is like what if Ed Gein's life was actually an adaptation of Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs and not the other way around.

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 1d

30 Days of Halloween Music: Day 11

I suspect most of you have seen Tom Cardy & Montaigne’s “Red Flags,” but it’s been stuck in my head all week and if you haven’t, you should check it out. I’m not going to spoil it, it’s better if you go in cold. youtu.be/GFokXnCCMf8?...

Red Flags (ft. Montaigne) OFFICIAL VIDEO

YouTube video by Tom Cardy

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I always chuckle whenever I hear some elected Dem talk about a bipartisan deal to re-open the government like dude you're the last person left on earth that hasn't heard about the business stylings of Donald Trump. The Art of the Deal is not paying for services rendered

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 1d

The cursor clicks post, sending the “shoot laser pointers at ICE helicopters” flyer out into the world.

John Landis leans back in his chair, chuckling to himself. “When everyone’s caused a helicopter crash, then no one has.”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

as we all know a true vanguard activist of the left is impervious to the quisling capitalist insult of “a flaming helicopter dropping on their head”

Sam @very-simple.com · 1d

What do they think happens when they make the helicopter flying over a crowded, occupied city, inoperable? Do they think it will only crash into other feds?

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1d

You know what? Fuck these guys. Even if you're not an abolitionist, these fuckers should have the discipline to recognize the chain of command. You report to civilian government and if you can't get with the program and do as you're ordered, it's time for some mass purges. Get a real job.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like it was made for you to land on while flipping channels during a free Cinemax weekend.

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 1d

I just started watching the original Deathstalker and I have never felt more like I missed the first half hour of a movie that I definitely watched the opening credit sequence for.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

You all are so relentlessly insufferable. (not Kevin)

STOP GATEKEEPING PROTEST

THATS NOT HOW PROTEST WORKS

THE MORE PROTEST THE BETTER

THE MORE KINDS OF PROTEST THE BETTER

the same people screaming “do something!” also screaming “not like that!”

Y’all are shooting yourselves in the foot.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 1d

Andy hates these videos because they’re harder for him to deceptively edit to make Antifa look like the aggressor, the tactic he used to rise to prominence in the first place.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 3d

Very serious person Andy Ngo has now been reduced to pleading with his audience to please please PLEASE take the dancing antifa muppets seriously

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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