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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 12h

experiencing a swell of patriotism over our officials repeatedly losing secret government documents at second hand stores

RNZ: Confidential Wellington council documents found by man in mayoral desk bought from dump

Newsroom: Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

Nothing happened for a year. Then in August 2025 a shopper browsing through a pile of op shop goods made a most surprising discovery. The trove of secret documents from the Portsmouth meetings had been accidentally donated to a Hutt Valley Salvation Army store.

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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 15h

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Catra @catra.top · 10h

fun fact, I can be sponsored on the github

github.com/sponsors/Dia...

Sponsor @DianaNites on GitHub Sponsors

Hello, I'm Diana. I write and maintain open-source software. Almost all my work is related to the Rust programming language.

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the artist formerly known as 'a slug' @paizuri.moe · Jul 17

Important whtwnd.com/paizuri.moe/...

Why Vaporeon Rules | the artist formerly known as 'a slug'

Hey guys, did you know that in terms of male human and female Pokémon breeding, Vaporeon is the most compatible Pokémon for humans? Not only are they in the field egg group, which is mostly comprised ...

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Bryce @girl.creditcard · 2d

drinking a white monster because i cant have her white monster

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 11h

I highly recommend watching documentaries that are about time periods from when you were a kid because man, they are eye opening. Just all these things that you suddenly are like "Oh THAT'S what was going on... oh THAT's why that happened..." just over and over again.

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Ana @nekomimi.pet · 13h

FIXED: dev.nekomimi.pet/s/ana.pds.nk...
you can try it here. you can also go to the base of that domain and mess with it too if you want but beware of bugs. it will also go down at some point because its running off my laptop

/s/handle.domain/site-name

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 15h

there's a creatine/creat(2) joke out there somewhere but I haven't figured out the details yet

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Catra @catra.top · 2d

“average Rust crate has 100 dependencies" factoid actualy just statistical error. average crate has 0 dependencies. John Rust, who published fibonacci-numbers and depends on itself 372 times, is an outlier adn should not have been counted”

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fibonacci-numbers crate with self-recursive dependencies

I have created a crate called [fibonacci-numbers](https://crates.io/crates/fibonacci-numbers). There are 187 different major versions of the...

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 21h

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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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21h

Gonna say it, not enough games about defeating Klansmen, Confederates or neo-Confederates.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 21h

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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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 19h

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

4 frame comic where Miller slowly blinks. Text reads. A few hours ago, speaking on cnn about Trump's plan to send the national guard into us cities, Miller said : under title 10 of the us code, the president has plenary authority, has... He then fully stopped talking and just blinked at the camera, as if he realized that he said the quiet part out loud. "Plenary authority" means "complete power over a particular area with no limitayions". It is equivalent to ruling by decree, which us how Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler governed. Having "plenary authority" over the military would mean that Trump can just use the national guard as he pleases, no matter what the courts say. It's a power grab.

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RetroAchievements @retroachievements.org · 19h

Our founder, Scott, would like to discuss the recent situation that happened on RetroAchievements as well as the measures we will be taking going forward to ensure a healthy, welcoming community for all enjoyers of retro games and achievements.

retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

Clarifying RetroAchievements’ Goals

TL;DR RetroAchievements supports openness and celebrating retro gaming, but we will not provide a platform for games that contain illegal, hateful, or otherwise abhorrent content. Achievement sets for...

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · Aug 13

every time a trans woman tells me her tits are bigger because she swapped to injections it brings contentment to my heart in the same way that an artisan steps back from their work to appreciate their craft.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20h

Frantic, Last-Second Study Finds Old-Fashioned Donut Better For You Than Bavarian Cream https://theonion.com/frantic-last-second-study-finds-old-fashioned-donut-be-1819811037/

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 20h

also even if you don't care about any of that other stuff, it was in robocop!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20h

That's Jack Posobiec of pizzagate fame sitting at this table with the president, attorney general, FBI director, and DHS secretary.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

you don't get to count on votes from people you are letting get exterminated. if you let a fox kill the chickens, should you still expect eggs in the morning?

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hatch @imhatch.bsky.social · 20h

account named "for.shame.wtf": some of you simply cannot be trusted with knowing who i have labeled a "jesse singal follower," a tag i created for uhhhhhhhhhhhhbhhhnfnnhf

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🎃trash🎃 @dollarpbr.gay · 20h

buddy, respectfully, what were u expecting to happen when u made a bot to track following/unfollowing and gave it the handle “for shame”

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Ernest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.bsky.social · 20h

"hi folks, i'm 'for shame wtf' and i made a labeler that shames people"

*people use the labeler the way it was intended to be used*

"oh no this is baaaad"

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Halloweean Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 20h

Never seen a labeler get poster’s madness before. What a time to be alive.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21h

This is a real tweet by the Florida AG.

**Alt text:**
A social media post by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier states that, as of October 1st, all Florida airports are closed to any weather modification activities. The post urges people to report violations of the new law at reportfloridaskies.com. Below the message are two airport notices. The first shows Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB) closed to geoengineering and weather modification aircraft except with 48-hour prior permission. The second shows Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) closed to aircraft equipped with weather modification or geoengineering equipment except with 24-hour prior permission.

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