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The Onion

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ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs

CHICAGO—His heart racing with terror as he found himself completely surrounded, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent conducting a raid on a Chicago elementary school reportedly fell into panic...

theonion.com

November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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Mason/みそかつ🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️STOP GENOCIDE

@misokatsuhaumai.bsky.social

my drawing of Milo from Pokémon Sword and Shield. bust up full color. him smiling happily and widely to the pov.

November 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM

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Abigail Thorn

@theabigailthorn.bsky.social

Getting a lot of these sorts of comments lately, must be hard to navigate the world when you’re allergic to fun

Commenter says “why the weird dress? This is a serious subject, present yourself appropriately”

November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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messymaddydraws storyboard artist

@messymaddydraws.bsky.social

Remember folks, your neighbors are more reliable than the government ever has been or will be.

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · Oct 30

In addition to L.A. food banks, pantries, community fridges, and other food donation programs, we see free Cambodian chicken rice porridge, kids goodie bags, and a program that allows you to buy a meal for someone at a growing chain.

The full story: lataco.com/free-food-la...

By Hadley Tomicki

October 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM

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Jesse Lu

@aphoenixinflames.bsky.social

Remember kids.

October 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM

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Abigail Thorn

@theabigailthorn.bsky.social

I went to a Halloween charity fundraiser tonight for @transsolidarity.bsky.social,
saw some amazing drag acts and won the costume contest

All the amazing drag acts (only some of whose names I heard) on stage - Count Addiction is there, so is Oedipussy Rex and Loose Willis and Smashlin Munroe and a couple of others whose names I couldn’t hear I’m sorry!

October 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM

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Digitale Gesellschaft

@digitale-gesellschaft.ch

NGO im Dilemma der sozialen Medien

Es diskutieren @sophiegram.bsky.social, @demokratie-ch.bsky.social, und @aleiacono.bsky.social, digital/organizing, mit @rahelestermann.bsky.social und @kire.ch.

23.10. 19h, Lichtspiel Kinemathek, Bern

www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/event/netzpo...

October 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM

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Stop Killing Games

@stopkillinggames.bsky.social

This is being a little late to the news, but this is due to pressure from #StopKillingGames early on while the European Citizens' Initiative was launching in 2024, due to fears from Ubisoft that we would succeed

October 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM

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CCC

@ccc.de

OpenChaos am 30. Oktober, 20 Uhr, Köln: Überwachungssoftware von #Palantir – Die deutsche Polizei verwendet sie in Bayern, Hessen und NRW bereits, der Innenminister plant die Nutzung bundesweit koeln.ccc.de/updates/2025...

c4 | OpenChaos am 30. Oktober: Palantir, Dark Enlightenment und die deutsche Polizei

Das Pentagon findet es gut, die Migrationsbehörde ICE findet es gut, Banken und Wirtschaft finden es gut, Sauron findet es sehr gut und da überrascht es nicht, dass die deutschen Sicherheitsbehörden…

koeln.ccc.de

October 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM

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Philippa East (Author)

@philippaeast.bsky.social

Folks, we need you (again ❤️‍🩹)
Please do respond to this consultation on the plans for CYP gender services, if you possibly can. 🙏🙏🙏

The brilliant @tacc.org.uk have written a really helpful guide to help you respond (see posts below).

Deadline is soon — 2nd November.
Thank you ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

TACC @tacc.org.uk · Oct 17

🚨We need your help. The NHS CYP gender service is consulting on the draft specification. This is, sadly, horrifically being driven by people who aren't trans or experts in the field of gender incongruence and based upon the much-discredited Cass Review 1/

www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...

NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service Specification - NHS England - Citizen Space

This site contains surveys and consultations that are run by NHS England.

www.engage.england.nhs.uk

October 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM

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Hourly Cosmos

@hourlycosmos.bsky.social

NASA's Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with "Rose" of Galaxies - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/9Acdiq

NASA image release April 20, 2011

To see a video of this image go here: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5637796622

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., pointed Hubble's eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813. This image is a composite of Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 data taken on December 17, 2010, with three separate filters that allow a broad range of wavelengths covering the ultraviolet, blue, and red portions of the spectrum.

Hubble was launched April 24, 1990, aboard Discovery's STS-31 mission. Hubble discoveries

revolutionized nearly all areas of current astronomical research from planetary science to cosmology.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

To read more about this image go here: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/hubble-rose.html

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.

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October 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM

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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈

@haitchkay.bsky.social

There's fucking yaoi art on a train by my house I'm fucking losing my mind, this rules so much

Anime styled graffiti art on a train car depicting a male demon looking seductively at another man while saying "That's a good boy", with the phrase "kiss yr homies goodnight" in the bottom left corner.
Artist seems to be "Akira BPD"

October 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM

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No More Robots

@nomorerobots.io

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

October 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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Hourly Cosmos

@hourlycosmos.bsky.social

The Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) and NGC 2023 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/rhRRAz

In the Shadow of the Horsehead - Deep 26 Hour Version

Link to full resolution image (3.8MB): goo.gl/mXsTKe
Link to large 'X3' size image: goo.gl/DnMTZA
Link to large 'X3' size greyscale version: goo.gl/fXA2fZ

I recently added a Ha filter to my collection and promptly put it to the test by soaking up a decent amount of data on the Horsehead nebula. I wanted to improve on my initial attempt on this target from 2014. One of the issues was that I'd like to show the delicate 'curtain' structure of IC 434, the bright glowing hydrogen emission that the Horsehead is silhouetted against.
This also prompted me to add more data to the LRGB channels as well in order to bring out the faint dust details better, so all together with last year's data I ended up with over 26 hours of data which I completely reprocessed and assembled into this updated version.
I'm pleased that the result has higher resolution and more depth than last years' effort. The colours are also richer and more refined and in particular the Ha curtains now stand out above and around the Horsehead.

About the image:
The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is without doubt one of the most recognized and fascinating objects in the sky. This iconic feature is formed by the sharp outline of a dark dust cloud, with a remarkable likeness to a horse's head, silhouetted against a brightly glowing patch of ionized Hydrogen (IC434) that is being energized by the hard ultraviolet radiation from nearby Sigma Orionis, a...

October 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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Jesse Lu

@aphoenixinflames.bsky.social

October 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM

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Ricky Cadden

@rcadden.bsky.social

I've been using Nova Launcher since the pro version was called Nova Prime. Sucks when companies get involved and do stupid things. Sign this petition to help pressure them into open-sourcing it! c.org/SvfWvFV2RJ

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Make Nova Launcher Open Source, Let the Community Continue Its Development!

c.org

September 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM

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DatNoFact

@datnofact.bsky.social

Microsoft Word to begin saving people's documents in the cloud *by default*

Reminder that LibreOffice is free and a good drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office software: www.libreoffice.org

www.theverge.com/news/767522/...

Microsoft Word now automatically saves new documents to the cloud

Word documents will be automatically saved to OneDrive

www.theverge.com

September 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM

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CCC

@ccc.de

Cyberweapons: The Trump administration moves ahead with a contract with #Paragon Solutions that makes the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #Staatstrojaner

Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps

Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons

www.theguardian.com

September 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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Dare Obasanjo

@carnage4life.bsky.social

The dream: AI boosts productivity so much we all get 4-day workweeks.

The reality: AI productivity gains are an excuse for companies to cut staff or ask why you need a hire at all. No one’s handing out Fridays off because your job got easier, just more pressure to justify your existence

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI will 'probably' bring 4-day work weeks: 'Every industrial revolution leads to some change in social behavior'

"I have to admit that I'm afraid to say that we are going to be busier in the future than now," Huang said in an interview on Fox Business Network.

fortune.com

August 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM

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Mother Jones

@motherjones.com

Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender

Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

www.motherjones.com

August 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM

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@andromeda-galaxy.ch

"No, we should have E-ID to protect the children"

Some swiss are really interesting with their wording lmao.
How about you stop bringing children into a debate like that?

Or is it that you can only argue about this when children are involved? yuck. /nbh /srs

August 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM

Andromeda / Mia 🏳️‍⚧️ - It/She

@andromeda-galaxy.ch

@steampowered.com is kinda ballsy to send me an email like this.

Enshittification and lack of demos is not my fucking problem you capitalist non-dino-shaped chicken nuggets.

But noted. Ill go back to pirating my games.