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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 8d

Never in Social Security’s 90-year history has a commissioner held a second job.

But it always takes less time and effort to destroy something than to build and maintain it.

The Trump administration is allowing Social Security to rot through sabotage and neglect.

Social Security Administrator Frank Bisignano is named to the newly created position of IRS CEO

Frank Bisignano has been named CEO of the IRS, adding to his role as Social Security Administration Commissioner.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8d

As you see the Ellisons’ use the husk of Paramount/CBS to hand out fiefdoms to conservatives, remember: This summer Paramount bribed Trump $16m at the cost of 60 Minutes’ integrity. FCC approval of the Ellisons’ takeover bid followed within a few days. Brendan Carr made this statement at the time.

Brendan Carr, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission:
President Trump is fundamentally reshaping the media landscape. And the way he's doing that is,
when he ran for election, he ran directly at these legacy broadcast media outlets, ABC, NBC, CBS.
For years, government officials just allowed those entities with execs sitting in Hollywood in New York to dictate the political narrative. And he has fundamentally changed the game. And you see that really having consequences that are just rushing all through media.

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isaac @sevier.io · 8d

The public power movement knows this firsthand too. Our message resonates with millions of people who can't afford their electric bill and know it's the corporations who are to blame. We are organizing a huge choir and we are going to win.

Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 8d

Last big program I helped run, we targeted AND MOVED a much higher proportion of former Trump voters than much larger, mainstream programs. The same goes for flipping folks in other countries. It's not about left vs mod, it's about whether you're ready to run on values, build a choir, & persuade. /1

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 8d

Whether you're a casual news reader or a breaking news reporter at the NYTimes, I implore you--please, please, please--do not believe or report DHS/ICE/CBP's side of events uncritically. End the state's monopoly on legitimate storytelling. They are not the objective arbiter of what really happened.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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p0usr.bsky.social @p0usr.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like way too many people heard and registered the warnings but were more offended by how the warnings made them feel than the actual fucking things at stake

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 8d

Correction: weeks old not months old but the point stands it’s an old skeet that suddenly is a violation of community standards (and it’s not, btw, she was just accurately describing what Christian Zionists believe)

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 7d

Handwriting on the back of this says “The Watchover”. Photo from my collection, no date.

Black-and-white photo of a short haired white kitten with tabby spots, sitting up on a wooden porch next to a baseball.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 8d

THREE WINS TODAY, Oct 6, 2025

HI
Wed, Sept 17 - the state Supreme Court has ruled that police interrogations must be recorded with audio and visual

Des Moines IA
Tue, Sept 30 - 5 district high schools held a walkout to protest the ICE abduction of Dr. Ian Roberts, their former superintendent
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Mythee / Lore Leclerc @mythee.bsky.social · 7d

Since the other person replying appears to be dunking on you for being genuine, I'd just like to say, as an artist, I appreciate you voicing your sympathetic reflections about your experience. I know the other person means well, but I wouldn't want you to feel like you can't express yourself online.

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Ma Carrozzino 🏴 @macarrozzino.bsky.social · 7d

Also, as an artist that really struggled to get to the point where I am (I believe that all artists have also struggled in one way or another) - AI should empower me to make me more efficient and earn more money. Not empower companies to hire less artist, make them work more and pay them less.

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Dukk Dukkering @dukkering.bsky.social · 8d

Someone wrote somewhere that "AI was supposed to free me from work so I could spend more time on art, not free me from art so I could spend more time on work", and I feel like that fully encompasses how backwards the use of AI has been.

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Michael Rader @theoryof.games · 8d

Another day ends with me no closer to figuring out wtf is wrong with people

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Colby Pup @colbypupgb.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe it's me being a cynical asshole, but I'm gonna guess at least 80% of the people who send the slop to Zelda specifically don't give a shit if it's wrong, they just think it's funny to torment her.

People don't give a shit anymore.

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Sean Weeks @weekswriter.bsky.social · 7d

I think the people who didn't give a shit probably gave so little of a shit that they didn't put forth the effort to troll others.

Convenience has suddenly made every terrible impulse affordable.

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Rhonda @rjdeal.bsky.social · 8d

I can't imagine the agony of seeing my dead father being grotesquely reanimated by AI. It's horrible and cruel and I'm amazed (in the worst way) that people don't understand how wrong this is, both to make and to perpetuate.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 7d

Zelda has been sounding the alarm on the dangers of AI for YEARS, long before the technology got to where it is now, because she's:

1) brilliant (go watch Lisa Frankenstein).
2) ridiculously smart.
3) experienced first-hand how fucking WEIRD people are about her Dad.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 8d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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sora/cae ※ @kingdomheartsiv.bsky.social · 7d

#kingdomhearts

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loiskaj.bsky.social @loiskaj.bsky.social · 7d

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 7d

Watching it this time I learned that Kadaj’s voice actor played the Shocker combatman “Uu” in the Kamen Rider stage show musical for Decade

LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 7d

Watching Advent Children for about the 200th time.

Yes the complete version of course.

I only watched the original version 20 times.

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𝖘𝖕𝖔𝖔𝖐𝖞 𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖆𝖒 🎃 @teradiamart.bsky.social · 24d

I don't think motivating people to move to other platforms to avoid the stupid censorship rules is a good solution. Quite the opposite. There is NO SAFE space for artists nowadays, if we don't fight back this will only get worse and worse

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john patneaude 🟡 @jpatneaude.bsky.social · 9d

just gonna put this here

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audo ; @yozoragetspegged.bsky.social · 8d

i think about many kh fans when i see this screenshot:

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Cabletownart @cabletown.bsky.social · 8d

KINGDOM HEARTS MOBILE: TRANSLATED IS LIVE!

Aid is so cool and this is so cool and I whipped this up for it because I love it GO PLAY

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