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Robb @dirigibles.bsky.social · 2d

Reminds me of the iPhone 4 where if you held it on the edge you'd lose cell reception, and Steve Jobs basically told people that they're holding it wrong.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’

Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE.

A rogue fascist agency.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 4d

He's the same age as Alexander Skarsgard and Colin Farrell

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Wendy M. A. Darling @wendymadarling.bsky.social · 6d

Big IF: but if we ever get out of this, anyone who works for ICE should never be accepted in decent society again. Ever. For the rest of their lives. Don’t service their car, don’t sell them anything, don’t fix their computer, don’t give them a haircut. Nothing. Ever.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7d

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

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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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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 8d

Chuck Schumer, in an hour from now: The president plans to flood the streets with military personnel to oppress innocent people, but what he should be flooding the streets with is tax credits for the middle class!

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Robb @dirigibles.bsky.social · 8d

I made a focaccia pizza for dinner last night. It was so good!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9d

starting to think that an increasingly senile trump is being shown a different reality by his aides by making ai videos of shit and telling him it’s real news

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 9d

Look I try not to doomsay or spread panic but this shit is truly and deeply Very Bad for every single trans person in America and unless everyone makes it their mission in life over the next few days to make sure that their reps know that shutting down the government is the correct option here.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 9d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 9d

Yes.

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 9d

Just going to say this again for the record. Elon Musk is worth about $450 billion dollars and the average house in America is worth about $450 thousand dollars, meaning that he could buy one MILLION Americans a house.

Isn’t that too much money for one person to have?

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Robb @dirigibles.bsky.social · 9d

On its birthday, share one image from your favorite TNG episode.

Kelsey Grammar, as Captain Bateson of the USS Bozeman, in the USS Enterprise's viewscreen, from the TNG episode "Cause and Effect."

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Chaos Cherub @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 10d

This is the person gearing up to be in charge of US TikTok, if you want to know why I got that shit off of every device in my home.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Robb @dirigibles.bsky.social · 10d

I've seen both FISTER and FELL8ED.

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Robb @dirigibles.bsky.social · 10d

I kinda want to try it.

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Robb @dirigibles.bsky.social · 11d

I think I got my domain in 2004. So mine is 21.

Robb @dirigibles.bsky.social · 11d

If there's a three-way in one of the apartments, would that be an extra-vag-Anza?

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Robb @dirigibles.bsky.social · 12d

This is the actual name of an apartment complex on Anza Ave in Torrance.

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 12d

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

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Eliot @eliotetc.bsky.social · 13d

When this is all over anyone who ever worked for ICE needs to show up on maps for the rest of their lives the way sex offenders currently do

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Coach Mustard (aka velospence) @velospence.bsky.social · 13d

tapped sign courtesy of @tomflood.bsky.social

a busy driver drving a busy saying "don't make me tap the sign" with a finger tapping a sign that say s"we ask everyone out of the car to be safe that drivers can be dangerous" by Rovelo Creative

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13d

We had a UBI pilot, a free college pilot (freeze on loan payments), and a universal healthcare pilot (continuous Medicaid enrollment). Democrats could have locked this all in.

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 13d

The most telling statistic I have ever hear is that poverty decreased during the pandemic heights because we were just doing direct payments. We basically had a national UBI pilot and ditched it because Biden wanted to restore status quo ante instead of leading a 21st century New Deal transformation

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 13d

At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.

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Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 14d

Chotiner interviews Janeway

A back and forth between Isaac Chotiner and Captain Janeway made to look like a screenshot from The New Yorker.

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Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 @danwentzel.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

Now that California, Oregon, and Washington have a vaccine alliance, let's take it farther. Le'ts create a universal health care alliance.

Let's build a high-speed rail corridor from Bellingham to San Diego.

#pacifica

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Robb @dirigibles.bsky.social · 14d

But then you're stuck with a synthahol sazarac.

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