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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 7m

I love when Andy Ngo does one of his David Attenborough-style posts about Antifa and highlights some kid who took a bong rip and waddled into the protest dressed like a giant muppet.

My favorite flavor of his commentary by far.

Andy Ngo wants to draw your attention to Barney the dinosaur

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Greg Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 53m

yeah, but usually it’s at home 😭

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1h

A lotta folks have been warning for YEARS that govt subsidies encouraging US farmers to invest near-exclusively in two crops (soybeans and corn) could have catastrophic consequences.

Most were thinking climate-change implications (making these crops ungrowable) but here’s a self-inflicted one!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

“.. If a deal with China isn’t reached soon, Hill said, the soybean market ‘might be a bloodbath.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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Greg Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 2h

i triviaed too much last night, and now i’m hungover and have to go to the office 😭

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 3h

yassified Justinian looking very pleased and also very unsettling

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 21h

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "I think, therefore I'm anxious" sticker. Descartes has nothing on this whale shark. This updated version of his famous phrase is much more relatable in 2025.
collabs.shop/wfhs6n

A sticker of a happy looking blue whale shark. It says "I think, therefore I am anxious".

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liv's evil second cousin twice-removed, liv @livfreeorcry.gay · 12h

i am mutuals with a concerning, and increasing, number of podcasters

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 12h

I’ve seen similar bravery from clergy around my way.

It’s crazy because after growing up in the South I would never have expected the resistance to fascism to include white clergy members. The padres and madres north of the Mason-Dixon are a different fuckin’ breed and I’m here for it.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 12h

if you dropped Lucio into CS:GO

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Greg Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 14h

i’m at the open mic night

i’m at the israel-palestine lecture

i’m at the combination open mic night-israel-palestine lecture

TUE
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Karaoke & Open Mic
Tuesday, October 7 @ 8:00 pm Open Mic
Open Mic
Normal Bar 1365 Prince Ave., Athens, GA,
United States
8-11 p.m. FREE!
booking@rudymontayremusic.com
OPEN MIC All musicians welcome. Every
Tuesday.

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• LECTURES & LIT
Tuesday, October 7 @ 7:30 pm
Normal Talk
Normal Bar 1365 Prince Ave., Athens, GA,
United States
Dr. Eli Sperling, a teaching fellow in UGA's School of International and Public Affairs, discusses topics on ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 7:30-9 p.m. FREE!
www.normaltalk.org

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 14h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 15h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Greg Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 13h

same, erik. same.

Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 18h

yes, but he still has to sound out some of the longer words

TV screen shot of skier with lower third reading “CAN ERIK READ.”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14h

I think something we have to do more of is talk about how kickass a lot of American cities are because right now some people think they’re run by Sharia Law nudists and most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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Greg Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 1d

holy shit, he tributed charlie kirk on the mound? in public?

Azure @aguyuno.bsky.social · 1d

Treinen still having a job but being fucking awful is the best possible counterpoint to "DEI hires" that Kirk hated and I think that's beautiful.

Keep sucking you loser, lmfao.

The loser Treinen with a Charlie Kirk ✝️ tattoo

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · Jun 17

I’m convinced this is how a bay leaf would talk

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian, here's the script:

[Scene is the inside of a SOUP. Some CARROTS and BITS OF BROCCOLI are floating around and a STOCK CUBE and a BAY LEAF have just been dropped in.]

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STOCK CUBE:
Alright lads - this is Bay Leaf.
My colleague from the spice rack.

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BROCCOLI:
Hi Bay Leaf

BAY LEAF:
Yuh yuh hi

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CARROTS:
You up for getting proper blended with us later, Bay Leaf?

BAY LEAF:
Nuh mate, getting scooped out before soup stage.

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CARROTS:
Oh! So… you’re not being eaten then?

BAY LEAF:
Eaten! Haha

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BAY LEAF:
Not allowed mate.

I’m afraid I’m a lil’ bit *toooo intense*...

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BAY LEAF:
Just here for the flavour hit.
Special forces, y’know.
That’s why there’s just one of me.

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BAY LEAF:
Over-deploy and you’d have this whole soup stiiinking of bay leaf…

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BAY LEAF:
You might wanna stand back actually.
This place is about to get preeetty bay leafy...

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[Silent pause]

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CARROTS:
Are you doing something

BAY LEAF:
Sure am mate.

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BAY LEAF:
Suuuuure am.

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BAY LEAF [Getting scooped out by chef’s spoon]:
You need training to perceive it.

CARROTS:
OK

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Greg Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 14h

fuck, i loved Take Me Out

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 14h

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Greg Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 14h

jerry no

Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 14h

End times.

Tropical storm Jerry has formed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Greg Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 14h

i’m at the open mic night

i’m at the israel-palestine lecture

i’m at the combination open mic night-israel-palestine lecture

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🎃 scary-pace 🔮 spell 🎃 @carapaceshell.bsky.social · 15h

offer still stands for whoever's truck this was at the H-E-B in 2012

bad photo of a white pickup truck in a parking lot at night. the truck is entirely covered with hand-painted kitty cats

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17h

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 16h

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 17h

Things I said five months ago

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · May 1

We gone watch Bluesky snatch defeat from the hands of victory

Because their moderation and comms departments don’t realize a social media platform means those things are deeply intertwined

You can’t do anything with this especially with undefined standards

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 1d

#⏰🐘🧵

A typewritten note that reads "psych appt.
anyone need drugs??"

with a doodle of an elephant

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