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Melon Farmer
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He's just this guy, you know?
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walrusmaster.bsky.social
You know what they say about questions in headlines
Headline: Is There a Strategy Behind Trump's Unpredictability? 5 Min Read
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
walrusmaster.bsky.social
Hell yeah, definitive close. Chloe's gonna get to kill Max this time.
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 8h
Life is Strange: Reunion announced, releasing on March 26th news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

"By and for fans of the original, Life is Strange: Reunion finally brings Max and Chloe’s saga to a definitive close."
January 20, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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energychris.bsky.social
We’ve literally lost habeas corpus. An English common law right that has only been suspended 3 times since the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215.
Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take 3:58 PM • Apr 15, 2025 & Some people can reply ~ Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social • 12h abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-a... "One ICE agent said if we let you see your clients, we would have to let all the attorneys see their clients, and imagine the chaos," said another attorney who asked not to be named. "And I said to that person, yeah, you do have to let all the attorneys see their clients. You do have to accommodate that. That's the Constitution. You chose to put them here. I didn't bring this guy here, you did."
January 20, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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sardonicus.eu
Watching the news
man in a theatre eating popcorn, he is laughing and his clothes are covered with hand drawn crosses In the mouth of madness
January 20, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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manucleardevice.bsky.social
If you believe this you are stupid as fuck. When democrats are in power they fund cops (and genocide) just as hard if not harder
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12h
Murray says in her statement "the hard truth is that Democrats must win political power to enact the kind of accountability we need."
“There is much more we must do to rein in DHS, which I will continue to press for. But the hard truth is that Democrats must win political power to enact the kind of accountability we need. I will keep fighting to bring sanity, decency, and due process to immigration enforcement in America. If you believe that we should be putting more of our taxpayer dollars towards health care and that our immigration enforcement should be focused on actual criminals instead of tear-gassing American children, then we need to speak up again and again—and we must take our fight to the ballot box.”
January 20, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
the thing is, a planet's rotation IS how long its day be
January 20, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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katbamkapow.bsky.social
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT [a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision] "In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors! See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/ https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
www.garbageday.email/p/am-i-too-s...
I can’t speak for everyone, but my mind tends to treat writing an article, making a video, writing a song, cooking a meal, drawing an image, and, apparently, designing software the same way. It’s not a matter of just “generating” something perfect from my head, but exploring the tension that exists between what I’m imagining and the limitations of my stupid meat body. That’s actually the exciting part. It also lets me figure out if something has turned out wrong or just resulted in a happy accident. Vibe coding, like every new trend coming out of Silicon Valley, turns this process — the entire act of creativity, itself — into a slot machine. One more pull on the AI and maybe it will figure it out for you. You won’t understand how any of it works, of course, or feel particularly proud of what you’ve done, but maybe you’ll have something. Just a few more dollars for some more tokens. C’mon, just pay a bit more.
January 19, 2026 at 9:55 PM
walrusmaster.bsky.social
Bluesky is the best because I seldom have to see anyone share pap like the post he's referencing here unless I accidentally end up on the Discover tab, but my whole feed will be people dunking on him for thinking he's made some trenchant insight.
January 19, 2026 at 11:15 PM
walrusmaster.bsky.social
To the tune of youtu.be/9Iwspf5L1Qk?...
January 19, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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bijan.bsky.social
a screenshot from mr bones’ wild ride of passengers saying “I want to get off mr bones wild ride”
January 19, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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airbudddwyer.bsky.social
guy in the coolest leather jacket you've ever seen who beats up Solid Snake with a soprano sax
January 18, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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ufw.bsky.social
"Julia" harvest mushrooms at Monterey Mushrooms. She's very pleased she works under a UFW contract. "We have a positive work environment where we can speak up and the company listens to us respectfully. And we get great benefits like a medical plan and a pension plan." #WeFeedYou
January 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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jazzpomegranate.com
the people’s dilbert
issue #6
panel 1: title card, “the people’s dilbert” panel 2: dollbert hands a pair of high tech glasses to bitchbert, saying, “we’re testing out these new ai glasses. try them on.” panel 3: bitchbert tries them on while dollbert asks, “well, what do you think?” panel 4: bitchbert, wearing the glasses and looking at dollbert, says, “grokbert, take her clothes off.” to which dollbert responds, “i am going to kill you.”
January 18, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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ryanboyd.bsky.social
I realize it's beside the point but why call the podcast anything but Gabbin' Newsom
January 18, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
yeah i'll vote for gavin newsom under extreme circumstances. like say we're on a life raft and need to decide who to eat first. or our plane crashes in the andes and we're figuring out who to barbecue for dinner. or if we're wagon-bound and stranded in a frozen pass over the sierra nevada mountains,
January 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
walrusmaster.bsky.social
Dial up BBSes in the greater LA area
josie.zone 🏳️‍⚧️ Tár-Tár Binks @josie.zone · Jan 2
Okay, let's get nostalgic

What was the VERY FIRST online platform that you became addicted to posting on?????
January 16, 2026 at 10:17 PM
walrusmaster.bsky.social
It's funny how every story framed "I was fired due to wokeness" is actually "I was fired for repeatedly using slurs despite numerous warnings from HR"
January 16, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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disastergaycrisis.bsky.social
That's...that's spyware, they're advertising that spyware is a plus
jasonv.bsky.social JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 5d
Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"
"Here’s an example that Google’s Josh Woodward, VP of the Gemini app, Google Labs, and AI Studio, shared in a blog post about how Personal Intelligence can work. Google also put together a similar example in a video that I’ve embedded below: For example, we needed new tires for our 2019 Honda minivan two weeks ago. Standing in line at the shop, I realized I didn’t know the tire size. I asked Gemini. These days any chatbot can find these tire specs, but Gemini went further. It suggested different options: one for daily driving and another for all-weather conditions, referencing our family road trips to Oklahoma found in Google Photos. It then neatly pulled ratings and prices for each. As I got to the counter, I needed our license plate. Instead of searching for it or losing my spot in line to walk back to the parking lot, I asked Gemini. It pulled the seven-digit number from a picture in Photos and also helped me identify the van’s specific trim by searching Gmail. Just like that, we were set." https://www.theverge.com/news/861576/google-gemini-ai-personal-intelligence-gmail-search-youtube-photos
January 16, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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ultralaser.bsky.social
man has zero principles, no morals no honor, no respect for his own voters even
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d
i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream
January 16, 2026 at 4:46 AM
walrusmaster.bsky.social
We need to stop giving this dumb fucking shit any kind of attention. It should be worth less than a box full of expired Dave and Busters tickets.
January 15, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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cmonmaque.bsky.social
What an adorable little cuck
BABIES BORN IN 2026 WILL BE KNOWN AS THE BETA GENERATION
January 15, 2026 at 9:23 PM
walrusmaster.bsky.social
[Everyone disliked that.]
Image text reads: Long Beach Announces Two Names for Baseball Club Writer: Marc Viquez Marc Viquez 1 day ago 2 min read The Long Beach Baseball Club of the Pioneer League officially has a name, well, it has two names. They will be formally the Long Beach Coast, but also the Long Beach Regulators as an alternative identity for select games this year at Blair Field.
January 15, 2026 at 9:48 PM