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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 1h

Organizers of the Emergency World Naked Bike Ride plan to hold the protest despite a steady rain forecast, saying:

“It's going to be very very wet. Our numbers will be lower but a slight bit of discomfort for us is nothing.
Emergency World
Naked Bike Ride. Oct 12th. 2:30pm.”

Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 2d

World Naked Bike Ride organizers and other local groups are getting on bikes in the buff to protest the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. The demonstration is planned for Sunday Oct 12 at 2:30 pm; now we know the starting spot is Oregon Convention Center Plaza.

Portland's Emergency World Naked Bike Ride Organizers Confirm Time and Location

Suzette Smith

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 1h

Yup. I learned the “shrunken earth” hypothesis of mountain formation in 4th grade earth science class, which would have been 1988/89.

Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, I can appreciate that the new Pope seems decent on issues like AI and opposition to ICE. But I also know he still would spit on my pagan faggot ass if he had a chance

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2h

Nothing more obnoxious to me that the Pope news cycles. Pope says poverty is bad and everyone goes "omg woke pope!!!" and then the Pope says "There are only two gender and gender ideology is as bad as nuclear weapons" and everyone goes "Was really rooting for this guy." He's the Catholic Pope!

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2h

going back in time ten years to let everyone know the Silicon Valley libertarians will be lining the streets to greet federal troops as liberators

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2h

it's also just straight-up hilarious to think of someone who travels with 20 former special operators and spends millions on security every year having a normal, reason-based opinion on crime and public safety

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3h

quite a take from someone who called COVID restrictions "fascism" and "a violation of constitutional rights," and argued that SEC penalties for announcing a fake leveraged buyout of Tesla trampled on his first amendment free speech protections

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 3h

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

‘The only solution’: Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 2h

Novice rigger rope suspension

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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All Hallows' D.Ve @sunlightwarden.bsky.social · 2h

Hanlan's Bat'leth: I'm attributing it to malice AND incompetence.

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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 4h

This is who @fetterman.senate.gov HAS ALWAYS BEEN

www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/john-fetterman-black-jogger-2013-shotgun-20220425.html

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 2h

hey do I have any mutuals in Minneapolis who might want to hang out Monday or possibly Tuesday? I’ve had some last minute car fixes to make and I’m here a few days longer than expected and I figured if anyone’s around we could grab coffee

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 2h

Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., the last living witness of his cousin Emmett Till's abduction, will be the convocation speaker at the conclusion of Tougaloo College’s Founders’ Week on Sunday, Oct. 12.

Emmett Till Center to Honor His Legacy With Events Across State

The Emmett Till Interpretative Center will continue its “Remembering Emmett” series with events across Mississippi in October and November.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 7h

Best part of this is the subtle aside about how it took them so long to know to be mad about this because it’s not a movie for children

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 5h

This app is not going to be sustainable if its trans user base don’t think it has their backs

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

i think it is fair to request a statement from @jay.bsky.team on TRANS PEOPLE and where we fit in on @bsky.app.

i think as a transgender journalist, it's acceptable and makes sense for me to ask this

and so, the question, am i not a person as a trans girl and do i not deserve to feel safe here?

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 5h

ICE or the National Guard (or whoever flies helicopters with dudes in camo pants dangling their legs out the side in the open doors) keep flying over the bird sanctuary and I'm trying to have three fucking hours where I'm not thinking about them, so this is just too fucking much.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 2d

Gavin Newsom continues to be a disappointment to trans Californians. TWIBS brought to you by @alyssaur.bsky.social

TWIBS: Governor Newsom May Be a Threat to Trans Americans — Assigned

Gavin Newsom has spent a lot of time declaring himself the greatest hero of the queer community to ever live, but his words and actions rarely seem to align these days.

www.assignedmedia.org

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 13h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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kerrence @notkerrence.bsky.social · 6h

genuinely didn’t miss the “every moment is a millisecond and a century at the same time” feeling and certainly didn’t want it to be dialed to 11 for the second round.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 19h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

One of the real dangers of becoming super rich is that you'll write or say some of the dumbest shit imaginable and there's no one around who will tell you how stupid it is before you publish it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5h

The person who spent time in jail for smashing in the door of the OR State Capitol Building on 12/21/20 is currently a GOP precinct captain in Linn County. In terms of internal OR GOP politics, he's considered kind of a moderate. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13d

A complicating factor here is that the person who seems to have done the alleged assaulting was on the side of the **relative** moderates. But to call him a moderate in general would be inaccurate, because, um, I'm 99% sure this is him. www.salemreporter.com/2021/12/17/a...

Albany man takes plea deal, sentenced to 30 days in jail for role in violent Oregon Capitol protest - Salem Reporter

Demonstrators break the glass on a door to the Oregon State Capitol during a special legislative session in December 2020. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) An Albany man accused of attacking journalis...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h

The woman on the left in this picture was a TPUSA affiliate back in the late 2010s. She has created viral content that involves her being assaulted by leftists at least 3 separate times. The Proud Boy associate on the right thinks Portland is run by literal Communists.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8d

Update: Just opened up Twitter and this was the first thing in my "for you" feed. Two of those "local journalists" covering the protests at the ICE facility who somehow were able to get a picture of themselves on the roof of that facility. Surely ICE had nothing to do with this, yes?

Katie Daviscourt
@KatieDaviscourt • 47m
On top of the roof at Portland ICE with @hunnybadgermom!

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h

It's notable that one of the people who was invited to the White House for their "antifa round table" was Nick Sortor, a guy who has literally worked for "InfoWars." The feds are approaching the media aspects of this situation like an unabashed authoritarian state would. bsky.app/profile/opb....

OPB @opb.org · 1d

Right-wing media influencers are now being welcomed into the federal government to promote its messages. This kind of media access shows a deepening alliance between the Trump administration and an online world willing to misrepresent facts if it means furthering political goals.

Right-wing influencers shape nation and Trump’s understanding of Portland protests

Social media personalities, conservative media outlets and the Trump administration itself are blending online content to serve the administration’s policies.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 5h

I wish, too, that there was some acknowledgement here that the reason decent people hated Kirk and weren’t sorry that he’d been killed is that this was his entire MO as a professional agitator. His whole deal was making enemies lists and siccing his viewership of red-faced morons on them

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 6h

I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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