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brock (toby the tiger music) @broxel.bsky.social · 16h

39. Is the writing part of the self a separate self that can lead the non-writing part of the self into a higher.. more resilient echelon of selfhood?

40. Even if that is possible, is anyone who even asks such questions too neurotic to ever participate in that type of transformation?

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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 1d

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brock (toby the tiger music) @broxel.bsky.social · 2d

your singing has been my favorite part so far but I'm only at Jordan so we'll see where we finally land vis-a-vis my resentment level

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 4d

“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 8d

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one

I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things

It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

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brock (toby the tiger music) @broxel.bsky.social · 12d

tfw it fully dawns on you that Quietest Friend by Pedro the Lion is a song for his inner child and you just weep uncontrollably while you listen

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16d

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene

RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*

A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”

Person watching on tv: well if they say so

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 20d

a post from Alex Blechman

God: In my book I invented the GOLDEN CALF as a cautionary tale

Evangelicals: At long last, we have created the GOLDEN CALF from the classic novel THE BIBLE

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 20d

IF IT AINT MY COMPUTER IT SHOULDNT HAVE A COMPUTER IN IT - dashare.zone ADMIN

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ANY COMPUTER IN A DEVICE WHICH IS NOT A COMPUTER WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU!!! THE COMPUTERS SERVE THE INVESTORS THEY DO NOT SERVE YOU!!! ANY APPLIANCE WHICH HAS A DIGITAL SCREEN FOR NO REASON WILL BE USED TO SELL YOU PRODUCTS OR SHOW YOU ADS - ANY APPLIANCE WHICH NEEDS TO CONNECT TO WIFI WILL COLLECT INFORMATION AND RECORD WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN YOUR HOUSE AND SEND IT BACK TO THE MANUFACTRER - THIS CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHT'S AND MUST BE DENIED ENTRY TO YOUR HOUSE AT ALL TIMES!!! NO DEVICE MAY CONNECT TO MY WI FI UNLESS IT IS MY HOLY COMPUTER OR PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I PLEDGE TO DENY THE INVESTOR'S MY DATA AND MY ATTENTION AND ACCESS TO MY LIVING ROOM - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 21d

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker
bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Though the man’s killing had been filmed, a fact checker is obliged to seek comment from any party alleged to have committed a crime. I called the soldier’s lawyer. He picked up from a café, where I could hear trance music blasting in the background. The lawyer told me that while, yes, his client did shoot the man picking olives, and yes, the man did die, the Israeli military court found his client not guilty of murder because the man picking olives was a terrorist who was throwing stones. Even though the video did not show the Palestinian man throwing stones, the court said that he was, so he was. QED, his client did not murder anyone, and it would be slanderous for us to say so.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 24d

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today I was in a school library with a trained librarian. The school includes unhoused children and the kids of university professors. Watching how the librarian made all the kids feel welcome. Seeing the stiff, tense, worried body language soften. As they saw, maybe there is a space for me here. 💜

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brock (toby the tiger music) @broxel.bsky.social · Aug 22

kiss me out in the bearded barley or gtfo

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phoneswithchords @phoneswithchords.bsky.social · Aug 17

Fur Trader appreciation post.
Send Andrew some love. ❤️

furtrader.bandcamp.com/album/the-te...

The Tender Life, by Fur Trader

11 track album

furtrader.bandcamp.com

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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · Aug 16

“Wow this Big Joel guy really deserves a million subs on YouTube!”
“I knoooow, he’s so good”
“What if, I don’t know, we did like an ‘ironic’ sub to Big Joel campaign online, to get people excited?”
“That would be sooo funny and cool wow”

Just a convo you guys could be having idk

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · Aug 12

NO - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELTAN RISING ABOVE DA HATER'S... AND THERE SAYIN "I WILL NEVER BE IN TROUBLE, FAMILY, BOSS, GUY DRIVIG BEHIND ME, CREDDIT CARD, GUY ONLINE, GRANDBOSS, MANAGER, PAST DUE BILL, FREE TRIEL PERIOD ENDED, NEIGHBOR, JURY DUTY - NO ONE MAY PUT ME IN TROUBLE " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN ,RETWEET IF U WILL ALSO NEVER BE IN TROUBLE -ADMIN

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Aug 11

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

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brock (toby the tiger music) @broxel.bsky.social · Aug 5

they are so good

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Aug 4

The dead have a right to remain dead. An animated skin put over a computer model and given the same name as the dead son of grieving parents is a cursed golem and a full delusion. By interviewing the computer model, Acosta has asked us to accept this as true or real. Gun control deserves better.

Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · Aug 4

At 4p ET/1p PT, I’ll have a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting. But his parents have created an AI version of their son for a powerful message on gun violence. Plus TX Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social - see you soon on Substack and later on YouTube.

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brock (toby the tiger music) @broxel.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · Jul 26

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · Jul 26

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · Jul 26

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Jul 27

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Jul 24

“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” @lilashroff.bsky.social reports on how the chatbot was easily prompted to offer instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship: https://theatln.tc/Up7Ycoli

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brock (toby the tiger music) @broxel.bsky.social · Jul 26

genuinely so rad

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 25

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

www.theguardian.com

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · Jul 25

I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.

a scholar with high standing in his field, should be "counterbalanced" by a columnist notorious for his incendiary, click-mongering, and manifestly ideological takes. And this is before we address the perversity of treating the legal designation of genocide as something to debate in the Opinion section.
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