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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 13h

Pritzker is everything Newsom wants you to believe Newsom is, including both actually brave and seemingly in possession of an actually beating human heart.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 13h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social · 12h

I suspect that's right, but the (unintentional) easier breakdown of components might be "dick" and "traumatized," which I don't think is what she's going for.

Sigh. Portmanteau-ing is hard.

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Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social · 12h

I remain convinced that in a better world posts like this would be about 80% of social media

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 12h

This is Boksil. She is reaching levels of cozy previously unheard of. 12/10 a trailblazer (IG: with_bokdanji)

a small cream colored dog stares up at us. this is Boksil, swaddled in a grey robe, and tucked underneath a thick blanket on a bed. her little paws poke out of the robe's sleeves, and her toe beans are in full view. her tiny pink tongue mlems from her grinning mouth.

a higher angle of Boksil. a small yellow pillow rests beside her for scale, and her eyes are closed peacefully as she rests swaddled under a white blanket, looking very cozy.

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t know who it’s going to be, but it will NEVER be this sellout cornball bitch.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 13h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social · 14h

ooooooffff....that there is a preposterous list

Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 14h

lmao a list of the top 20 blues artists of all time where the top 5 are all white guys... hellorayo.co.uk/planet-rock/...

The Top 20 Greatest Blues Artists of All Time

Here at Planet Rock, our resident blues expert Bernard Doherty brings you the...

hellorayo.co.uk

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Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social · 16h

fwiw, I wholeheartedly agree. Those taking the "It's not yet fascism here" line are, in a narrow and technical sense, correct, but the point isn't "OK, we're good then" but "OK, but what will keep it that way? In what ways do we reverse the trend toward an (as yet) unfinished project"?

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Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social · 17h

Legacy media has done a lot to earn this level of mistrust, an am not especially hopeful of them earning trust back; at the same time, I think too few people are sufficiently mistrustful of people whose entire ethos is instinctive, unwavering, and unvarying mistrust of legacy media.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21h

Gallup has been surveying Americans' trust in legacy media since 1972. This year, a mere 28 percent of the public have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust in legacy media, its lowest level in more than five decades of tracking.

news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...

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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 17h

It's The Matrix week in my class, one big takeaway: only 2 of 18 had seen the film before, but everyone else knew it through memes & vague references to "living in the matrix". Memification of the film's central moments kinda trivialized them, they were watching through the lens of memes.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19h

Do you even hear yourselves?

NPR @npr.org · 20h

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

25% of the political and social culture of the modern American Right is being upset at the Super Bowl halftime show.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Bad Bunny rolling into the Super Bowl with a demonic sexual performance in Spanish.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering when Chris Rufo insisted that Disney was a thoroughly corrupt institution because it had a small number of employees arrested on CSAM and sex trafficking charges and I replied, well, let's use that standard for Republicans, and he blocked me before I could finish the thread.

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 2d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d

How much of right wing politics would flat out just disappear if men didn't have weird sexual neuroses?

Article from the FP by Tyler Cowen. It's called "My favourite actress is not human" and the by line reads "Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI."

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 5d

I should also note that like pretty much all of the self-proclaimed "rationalist" types, Cowen does not do debates with people who criticize him strongly. He's a coward who cannot support his ideas in argumentation--while also pretending to care about open debate.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 5d

We continue to live in hell.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 5d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

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Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social · 5d

The only thing a book should smell of is 1940s-1960s era paper. They should invest money into making new books smell like books from this era.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 5d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 6d

JD Vance presents as being exactly as Catholic as Joel Osteen.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

before and after hegseth's directive

Sean Connery is a red strapped outfit. He's very hairy.

William Shatner as Captain Kirk. He's in a black strapped outfit and has a smooth chest.

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MLB Daily News @fantasymlbnews.bsky.social · 6d

SPs so far today:

Kittredge 1 IP (opener)
Bello 2.1 IP
Mize 3 IP
Cease 3.2 IP
Bibee 4.2 IP

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 6d

Posting this three hours before the start of Yom Kippur is quite a choice

FBI Director Kash Patel & @
@FBIDirectorKash
X.com
James Comey wrote "love letters" to the ADL and embedded FBI agents with them - a group that ran disgraceful ops spying on Americans.
That era is OVER. This FBI won't partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.
FBI
Patel cuts ties Comey's FBI
made with ADL as organization faces backlash for TPUSA
criticism
That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey's policies and any partnership with the ADL, Patel said
By Rachel Wolf • Fox News
3:32 PM • 10/1/25 • 758K Views

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 6d

So at the same time the Trump regime claims it's fighting antisemitism (which was always a lie) it's now saying it will deny citizenship (or visas?) to "globalists" which is mostly used in their crowd as a barely coded euphemism for "Jews"

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 6d

DHS appears to suggest that it will deny citizenship to "globalists"

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
"Communist?"
DENIED.
"Terrorist?"
DENIED.
"Globalist?"
DENIED.

Above a meme of a bearded smiling guy, in this case wearing a USCIS hat

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Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social · 6d

"Stupid babies need the most attention"

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 6d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 8d

In Nineteen Eighty Four all art for the "proles" is created without human intervention at all because they just feed a set number of scenarios and words into fiction machines and songwriting machines, which then create them and disperse them widely to keep the proles happy and FOR FUCK'S SAKE ORWELL

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

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Jen Wunder @jenwunder.bsky.social · 6d

Rufo et al were always going to blow the opportunity they were given — even with a ridiculously high budget for a college ten times the size and a clear pathway thanks to the governor and Board of Governors — but they failed spectacularly and in record time. So, they’ve got that going for them.

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 6d

Since the takeover, NCF has dropped nearly 60 spots among national liberal arts colleges in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, from 76th in 2022 to 135th this year, while spending more than 10 times per student than the other 11 members of the State University System.

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida

Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

www.insidehighered.com

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