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Cactrot @cactrot.bsky.social · 18m

The previous one was so old and cost so much in upkeep, you could do whatever you want with the new one and it would still be an improvement.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23m

Collecting donations for the New York Immigrant Coalition at the NYCC! Come get some free photos and donate to help immigrants in NYC! Artist Alley L25 @thenyic.bsky.social

photo of part of Greg Pak's NYCC artist alleyvtable showing a donation for the New York Immigrant Coalition and some stacks of photo prints including a photo of Ras Baraka and a photo of a protest sign reading "Cruelty is not strength bitches"

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 23m

Super impressed with the third party support for the Switch these days.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 33m

Democrats should demand the firing of Stephen Miller as a condition for reopening the government.

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Cactrot @cactrot.bsky.social · 26m

be prepared, the lows get low.

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Cactrot @cactrot.bsky.social · 27m

I'm a strictly Studio-to-monitor, artisanal pornography connoisseur.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 31m

He said this in January lol

A world in which human wages crash from AI -- logically, necessarily -- is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero. Consumer cornucopia. Everything you need and want for pennies.

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Cactrot @cactrot.bsky.social · 31m

Pai was cringe, but Carr is a cancer.

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 43m

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... he might not be the most dangerous of the trump cabinet shitheads but man i think i still hate this craven little weasel the most

ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all

ISPs complained about Biden-era rule, said listing every fee was too hard.

arstechnica.com

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 1h

they're gonna be so mad we have a better frog

escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 12h

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 12h

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Cactrot @cactrot.bsky.social · 2h

A mortal Kombat/Simpsons meme from the something awful meme thread

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3846107&pagenumber=1346&perpage=40&userid=0#post548859506

Sub zero (super Nintendo Chalmers) asks Sektor (Skinner) why there is Smoke coming from his oven, the ninja Smoke can be seen crumpled up inside the oven.

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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 5h

'Gaming is the new oil:' How the EA buyout 'diverges from the traditional playbook'

Analysts explain how the high-risk leveraged buyout will impact Electronic Arts and the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 12h

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 23h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 1d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 17h

For those of you not in Seattle, Choe is one of the dumbest, most bargain-basement fake reporters on the scene. A wet, sad idiot with truly nasty feet

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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merritt @merrittk.com · 18h

that isn't a "saying" it's an official saudi tourism slogan lmao

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Cactrot @cactrot.bsky.social · 18h

Puyallup

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Cactrot @cactrot.bsky.social · 18h

We're going to get "Following because I like" and "Following but do not like" buttons.

And then we'll get the "Retweeted, but not endorsed" button, because every action on social media must be identifiable as some kind of signal 🙄

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 23h

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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Cactrot @cactrot.bsky.social · 18h

Kristi doesn't know who he is either

Cactrot @cactrot.bsky.social · 18h

One of the few things I liked about RDR2 were the random encounters where you'd gun down the klan. Now I haven't bought an Assassin's Creed game since Black Flag, but this cancelled one sounds like it coulda brought me back in.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 20h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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rubber cat @rubbercat.net · 18h

can the mods get thicker skin jfc www.tumblr.com/internetslug...

Post by @internetslug · 3 images

💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · I quoted this post from the head of bluesky trust and safety with this and got permanently banned

www.tumblr.com

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Cactrot @cactrot.bsky.social · 19h

Gorilla Channel

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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