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Civil Discourse Blob. Not Creeps, or Leaps or Slides. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · Nov 8

I think this app has a bias against bad posters.

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 2h

did someone say “Abel Ferrara’s commentary on King of New York”

youtu.be/WQRzH9BAzks?...

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2h

A list of heroes. All under 30.

Osama El Khatib, 26, Watertown Roder Atwood, 21, Somerville Atalanta Carrig-Braun, 20, Boston Haley Macintyre, 24, Dorchester Madeline Weikel, 27, Watertown Jacob Pettigrew, 22, Malden Amun Prophet, 25, Allston Laith Hintzman, 19, Boston Benjamin Andre Choucroun, 20, Medford Owen Woodcock, 26, Boston Prahlad Iyengar, 25, Boston Styx Hatch, 19, Boston Gabrielle Smith, 28, Cambridge

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Night of the Living Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 3h

Y'all, I am VERY excited to introduce you to one of my new favorite Tolkien artists: Kay Woollard (1924-2008).

Woollard first read LotR in '79 when she was 55. From then until her death, she was heavily involved in Tolkien fan culture, contributing illustrations to Tolkien Society publications.

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A recursive cover of Amon Hen, Bulletin of the Tolkien Society, with a hobbit reading a copy of Amon Hen with a hobbit reading a copy of Amon Hen, and so on

A bulletin titled "A Long-Expected Party Progress Report: Preparation" depicting many hobbit chefs baking pies

Christmas card of a Hobbit couple carrying their child on their shoulders through a snowy landscape

A postcard titled "A Slumbering Pedlar" showing a sleeping Hobbit pedlar resting on his pack of goods

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3h

A woman says “Bank of England flags risk of
'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI” And a man opens a calendar to see Ed Zitron, the smiling man

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James @james.tarnation.lol · 3h

hi. don’t take your phone to a protest.

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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 18h

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 18h

have you heard the bad news that the national democratic party is controlled opposition who has willingly helped the nazis seize power?

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 21h

slamming? in the back of my dragula? it's more likely than you think

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 20h

WHAT ARE YOU DOING MAN

bluesky official posts from november 2024:

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 21h

Jesus Christ

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 22h

lol it’s this guy

Tweet from 11/2/24 showing Harry Sisson and his 4 friends in a car that reads “we’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris”

Robert J O’Neill quotes it with

“You're not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.”

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 21h

The Free Press reporter who wrote the piece about how Gazan kids aren’t actually starving that badly because some of them had preexisting conditions was hired directly from Matt Yglesias, fwiw

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 22h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Eryk ☭ (but make it Red Scare for Halloween) @peregrinecoast.press · 21h

Hey look at this mfer - all this soft yellow? That's just the natural colour of the paper we'll be printing on!! Going live next week 🫡

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Civil Discourse Blob. Not Creeps, or Leaps or Slides. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · 21h

When I'm on the forklift, I like singing Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

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PISS_SHITTER @amiyatzin.bsky.social · 22h

democrats will never learn how to win elections because any negative pushback to their neoliberal austerity measures and authoritarian policies is declared russian interference. they’re the biggest doomers on the planet, utter nihilists who snatch defeat from the jaws of victory every time.

They Say @oracy.bsky.social · Aug 23

Something's happening at BlueSky.

Since Newsom started trolling Trump, I've been confronted by an explosion of transgender and anti-Newsom provocateurs whose accounts have few followers.

These bots post the same replies in English, that is off tone. I think it's Russia is meddling in our elections

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 22h

oh my god i'm leaking pre-crime

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d

Terroir
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Terroir
They had been bombed so frequently by now that even
the children had come to know the category of missile
by the sound they made as they fell or the size of the
hole they left behind. The sensibility of a sommelier.

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Civil Discourse Blob. Not Creeps, or Leaps or Slides. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · 1d

And despite your disingenuous claim, you can draw a line from the past to the now without saying "these are all exactly the same."

Civil Discourse Blob. Not Creeps, or Leaps or Slides. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · 1d

No dumbass. Acknowledging that the tools Trump uses were put in place before Trump, puts you in a better position to know what to dismantle. Ignoring that and focusing on him solely as an anamoly is just fully disarming yourself against future threats. This take is unbelievably stupid.

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Civil Discourse Blob. Not Creeps, or Leaps or Slides. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · 1d

Love that he's again invoking "cool" as the only motivation of political criticism.

Civil Discourse Blob. Not Creeps, or Leaps or Slides. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · 1d

"There is no historical context and nothing that came before affects the now, I'm a very smart politics knower"

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

There’s this weird social cachet in pretending Trump is just a natural extension of the Reagan or Bush presidencies - a kind of “I knew what was going to happen before it was cool” thing - but neither of them, in their wildest excesses, would have contemplated even a quarter of this

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 27d

Pertinent discussion of violence and pacifism redphoenixnews.com/2011/08/11/p...

Pacifism: How to Do The Enemy’s Job For Them

“As an ex-Indian civil servant, it always makes me shout with laughter to hear, for instance, Gandhi named as an example of the success of non-violence. As long as twenty years ago it was cyn…

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Civil Discourse Blob. Not Creeps, or Leaps or Slides. Very Nice. @brandonocles.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing her ex-fbi status, I'm assuming she thinks those protestors deserved it.