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wolfcount @wolfcount.bsky.social · 1h

Tissue insufficient for diagnosis

🏰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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The Long Digimon Story: Quiet Stranger @fuckmelikea.dog · 12h

happy otherkin day of visibility

Bulbapedia @bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net · 17h

16 years ago today, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky was first released for the Nintendo DS in North America!

The fifth entry in the series, it is a sister game to Explorers of Time and Darkness.

https://bulbapedia.b...

Box artwork of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

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wolfcount @wolfcount.bsky.social · 5h

please help my friend iris stay housed

ICHOR+ 🪞 @ichor.plus · Aug 15

i'm going to offer my ko-fi as an alternative method of payment for the forseeable future. if a direct line is preferable, this is the way. anything and everything is appreciated. ko-fi.com/ichorplus

Support iris

ko-fi.com

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 1d

model the behavior of someone who hasn't even heard of the *concept* of being against trans rights. take trans existence as a given. treat anyone who concedes to anti-trans talking points like an amoral freak, and don't give them an ounce of your public attention. say what is right with authority

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · 1d

The debate.

A small dog tells a woman, "Experiencing the world is beautiful and vivid for me. I smell shit piss and vomit and I love it. You are controlled by ceaseless disgust. You're stunted. Haha."

The woman replies, "Yes. But I can read novels."

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Slideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 1d

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 2d

"we are going to do a military coup, and also block our opponents attempt to make sure the military we are counting on loyalty from to do so get paid."

These are not the smartest fascists ever beaten by a frog.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 2d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Spooky RECCANTI @reccanti.bsky.social · 2d

“This tweet could have been a deep breath”

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wolfcount @wolfcount.bsky.social · 2d

Fucking FINALLY, Jesus Christ

The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 2d

MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government.

MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.

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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 2d

MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government.

MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.

trib.al

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Also: when the war criminals are actually prosecuted

Boycotting doesn’t end when the genocide ends it ends when the occupation ends

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 3d

At my institution, a professor is being blocked from leaving the US after death threats for teaching on anti-fascism.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

any product that depends on the long term stability of its maker is inherently defective

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

They brick you because they can.

Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15

Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years.

arstechnica.com

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wolfcount @wolfcount.bsky.social · 3d

you are literally out of range of my melee attacks

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 3d

From the great novelist Sherwood Anderson, a letter to his son.

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Slideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 3d

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ハツノニʰᵃᵗˢᵘⁿᵒⁿⁱ @82rephap.bsky.social · 3d

悪シマシマ

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 3d

We must keep on going no matter what – struggling, reflecting, defending hope despite the pain, falling, standing up again, modifying the path, resuming the struggle, and ultimately winning our complete liberation, justice, and the right of return and reparations for our people!

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 3d

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

Read more: loom.ly/TsJOHwo

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done! The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and ill...

loom.ly

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 4d

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 4d

Critics say the president's aims to "kill the vermin" and "water our crops with their blood" may stretch the bounds of his authority.

Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 4d

As troops invade Chicago, Trump threatens to jail the mayor and governor - @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As troops invade Chicago, Trump threatens to jail the mayor and governor

"What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?"

www.motherjones.com

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 4d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 4d

This is obviously cynical and insincere, and using right wing rhetoric like this, or the presence of women and minorities among the right, to delegitimize any efforts at race or gender equality is in fact doing the right wing's job for them.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

A useful illustration of the limits of liberal identity politics.

It's astounding to see self-described progressives lose their minds over the successes of a Jewish female entrepreneur and intellect in @bariweiss, and a wildly successful Black man in @VanJones68. I guess equity, diversity, and inclusion don't mean as much as they've told us.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4d

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 4d

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

bit.ly

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