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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 10m

In non-tattoo news, I think Amazon’s success at automating its FCs will have profound ripple effects.

For one: score another hit against exurbs and rurals.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h

Amazon, the second largest employer in the U.S., aims to replace more than half a million jobs with robots, internal documents show.

Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 28m

This is in the Washington *Times*!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 32m

That clampdown on the Pentagon press corps has done wonders. 🤡

@jamiedupree.bsky.social
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

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timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 3h

I liked the Platner ads too but I think there's a difference between "guy who had some bad reddit posts a decade ago" and "ex-Blackwater merc who still has a Nazi tattoo." Sucks bigtime that he's the only one taking positions and talking policy I like, but them's the breaks!

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 1h

yea it we don’t knock out Collins in a state that went to Harris by 7pts there is just no path for taking the Senate in 2026 and dramatically hurts us in 2028

been disappointed in Mills too but bullying her might be the play now

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1h

and the risk he does and Collins has another six years is prohibitive. it's over.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 3h

No it’s not really normal for people in the military to have Totenkopf tattoos

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

It's fine to like brunch. It's fine to be a Democrat. It's admirable to have a master's degree. It's admirable to be a brunch-loving Democrat with a master's degree.

Lydia Tightwad 🏳️‍⚧️ ✝️ @gaywad.lol · 1h

no it isnt, brunchoid

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2h

It’s actually fine and admirable to have a college degree. It’s fine to live in a city. Achieving professional success and financial security is laudable. Being civically minded and patriotic about our tradition of democracy and constitutionalism makes you a better person and should be celebrated.

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aruss updates @aruss-updates.bsky.social · 3h

Even if you get an “oopsie” Nazi tattoo, there are literally tattoo parlors who will cover it up FOR FREE in their commitment to “de-Nazifying shit.”

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foggydrinker.bsky.social @foggydrinker.bsky.social · 1h

Fine just elect the old lady and bully her into nuking the filibuster.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 56m

but instead we have spent literally ten years saying "donald trump is smarter than he seems! donald trump's policies are bad but we should talk about him respectfully!"

CONTEMPT IS A VITAL SOCIAL TOOL, USE IT

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 57m

yes, most people are brainless idiots - BUT THEY'RE DESPERATELY AFRAID OF THAT FACT BEING REVEALED.

so if you say "donald trump has the intellect of a nine-year-old, dumbest man alive, he's a mouthbreathing imbecile" they go "ha ha yes! exactly what I was thinking too!"

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 59m

we doomed america because we wouldn't say "are you just stupid, bro?" and make it too embarrassing to support him, because then everyone knows you're stupid, too

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "Buttigieg spent billions fixing the air traffic control. They used copper wire going into glass wire. Any union electrician here or any non-union electrician would say you can't hook copper into glass. It doesn't work. They spent billions, turned on the system & it was stone cold blank"

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 47m

I suppose my stance is that there’s no way we get out of this intact if we do not take necessary risks or take unnecessary risks. The Nazi skull tattoo is an unnecessary risk.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 44m

We're going to have a big beautiful dark age, perhaps darker than ever before. And I think you'll be very happy

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 17h

I'm tired. We're all tired. This isn't hard to understand. You can't inflate prices of basic necessities like food and housing to ridiculous highs while keeping wages at poverty levels, then act surprised when luxury goods/services and large purchases become unattainable or payments unaffordable.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 40m

White refugees good, other refugees bad.

Show me you're a white nationalist regime without telling me.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else

The Trump administration’s rush to process thousands of White South Africans as refugees coincides with plans for overall admissions set as low as 7,500.

www.washingtonpost.com

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 4h

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

The average American millennial man has been a neocon, a pacifist, a liberal, a libertarian, a communist, a nazi, and I believe now most of us are back around to liberal again. This isn't a defense of platner it's just weird how normal this shit is for guys that age.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 25m

An actual general going on record (even anonymously) like this is lmao

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 32m

That clampdown on the Pentagon press corps has done wonders. 🤡

@jamiedupree.bsky.social
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28m

Ig the nice thing is that neither the euros nor the Chinese are super likely to actually put up the cash to steal all the egg heads from us, but like god

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 29m

Going all Anton Chigurh on your national competitive advantage to own the libs

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 1h

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

www.thecrimson.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: A Jan. 6 rioter who breached the Senate floor — and was subsequently pardoned by Trump — was arrested Sunday for threatening to assassinate Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 2h

No Nazis. Easiest litmus test in the world.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 6d

even the smartest folks whose takes i otherwise appreciate, who otherwise want to resist fascism themselves & encourage others to, find wearing a mask in, at least, public indoor spaces—to prevent the harms of this administration from impacting others—to be a bridge too far; it’s shameful, frankly.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2h

If you're playing spades at the barracks with three Nazis, you have four Nazis playing spades

Lyle Jeremy Rubin @lylerubin.bsky.social · 4h

Every other marine I knew had some version of the same tat. Please.

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Lyle Jeremy Rubin @lylerubin.bsky.social · 5h

This is a great example of what happens when the Democratic Party is defined by goody two-shoe losers who have lived their entire lives among fellow goody two-shoe losers.

Wait, Marines get drunk in foreign countries and get skull and bones tattoos!!!

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Keith J Carberry @keithjcarberry.contentburger.biz · Nov 7

digimon fan who's never heard of a werewolf watching horror movies: oh my god he's turning into some sort of WereGarurumon

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2h

You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.

timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 3h

I liked the Platner ads too but I think there's a difference between "guy who had some bad reddit posts a decade ago" and "ex-Blackwater merc who still has a Nazi tattoo." Sucks bigtime that he's the only one taking positions and talking policy I like, but them's the breaks!

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