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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 23h

The worst use of quotation marks in the history of human civilisation is in.

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Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com · 10h

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 11h

Today, a thread to honor and celebrate #IndigenousPeoplesDay.
The world is so big, so there will be a second and maybe a third part.
We will begin with Zuni weaver We’wha (1849-1896).

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Aug 27

We’wha (1849-1896), a notable weaver and potter Lhamana (Zuni Two Spirit), took on both masculine and feminine tasks as a Zuni cultural ambassador and pottery and textile artist.
Also a spiritual leader, We’wha endeavored to preserve the history, traditions, and knowledge of the Zuni people.

A black and white, full body portrait of We'wha, a highly respected cultural figure in Zuni culture, known as a "lhamana" (two spirits). We'wha is standing, looking at the camera, wearing traditional Zuni attire, with patterned clothing, woven belts, a long beaded necklace, and earrings. The hair is styled with side buns adorned with ribbons.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

Four decades wrongfully incarcerated isn’t punishment enough for these sadistic fucks.

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio
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Burglary, carrying a firearm without a license, drug trafficking—break the law, you will face the consequences.

Having a single conviction vacated when you have a laundry list of criminal charges will not stop ICE’s enforcement of the federal immigration laws.

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Toshi the Fat Stoner @pandatoshi.bsky.social · 15h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day and fuck Christopher Columbus :3

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

look at this absolute robber baron

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 1d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · Jan 4

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 685: "cruel to Lightning McQueen"

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Batallon Bakunin @batallonbakunin.bsky.social · 1d

Antifascism is so often exactly this. Attacking the explicit fascists, while fighting off the repressive arm of the state at our rearguard— as the Basque comrades so effectively did today in Vitoria against Spanish falangist fascists.

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broknheadphones.bsky.social @broknheadphones.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I know this is a Mastodon poll, but I also know some of you have Fediverse accounts somewhere, so this is an excuse to dust it off and use it for a couple minutes

Humor me

meow.social/@goaty/11536...

goaty goats (she) :deifirev: :ms_tiger: :NDpride: (@[email protected])

which of the three stooges is your favorite? [ ] moe [ ] larry [ ] shemp [ ] fake shemp [ ] curly [ ] joe [ ] curly joe

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 2d

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 7d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats in Maine drafting 77 year old Janet Mills to run against Susan Collins because electrifying Graham Plattner is insufficiently pro-Israel is EVERYTHING you need to know about the fakakta state of our party.

It is just incredibly broken and corrupt.

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Joe Rosales @joeartguy.bsky.social · 1d

Watchmen’s Ozymandias is called the World’s Smartest Man, built a massive financial empire to service his plans and whims, believes no one else can see the Big Picture like he can, and dreams of ushering humanity into a new golden age.

Nothing like Thiel, I’m sure.

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Joe Rosales @joeartguy.bsky.social · 1d

btw Dr Manhattan never says this. Jon and Adrian (Ozymandias) have only one short convo in Watchmen, and these are the actual last lines:

ADRIAN: I did the right thing, didn’t I? It all worked out in the end.

JON: “In the end”? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing EVER ends.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Kinehora @kinehora.bsky.social · 1d

This is the weirdest fucking civil war

Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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broknheadphones.bsky.social @broknheadphones.bsky.social · 1d

A thousand words.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 1d

Getting banned from Epstein island after my first visit because I totally missed the subtext in the email chain and turned up with Catan and a load of D&D character sheets

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broknheadphones.bsky.social @broknheadphones.bsky.social · 1d

...which, honestly, should be the next Supes movie

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broknheadphones.bsky.social @broknheadphones.bsky.social · 1d

Lazyweb: what is the title of the Superman graphic novel where Luthor tries to get Supes exiled from Earth on grounds of being an illegal alien?

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broknheadphones.bsky.social @broknheadphones.bsky.social · 1d

Lazyweb: what is the title of the Superman graphic novel where Luthor tries to get Supes exiled from Earth on grounds of being an illegal alien?

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

From WH Auden’s Dover, 1937

Above them, expensive and lovely as a rich child's toy, The aeroplanes fly in the new European air, On the edge of that air that makes England of little importance,

And the tides warn bronzing bathers of a cooling star
With half its history done.

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