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ironspike.bsky.social
Part of what we lost when newsrooms shifted from dedicated beat reporters to freelancers is the ability to push back/question.

News sites uncritically reprint marketing and propaganda, lending it authority it doesn't deserve and actively contributing to misinformation.

As with Elon, so with Sam.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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daisyowl.com
maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
bolsanaro reportedly upset about going to prison because it’s taking him away from his true passion, going to the hospital
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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gregk.co.uk
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", ", and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly.
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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bransonreese.bsky.social
A while back I went back to look for Bill Maher's first Carson appearance because I figured he had to be a Leno type where people were like "no dude early on he was electric" and nope. Middling at best, already pausing to let audiences who aren't laughing know "hey so that was the punchline"
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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stevanzetti.bsky.social
Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
A screenshot of the Dallas Police incident report A screenshot of the FBI report
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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nicomaramckay.com
Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.

Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.
Screenshot of job posting: Policy Lead, Trust & Safety Fully Remote - Overlap with PST working hours Trust & Safety Remote Contract Bluesky's vision is to make social more like the web itself. We're building a social media app, but beyond that, we've created a protocol that supports a broad ecosystem of applications and clients. Imagine a network of applications - from microblogging to photos to video to long-form writing all interconnected and accessible with a shared identity. As Policy Lead for Trust & Safety, you'll shape the foundation of Bluesky's community guidelines and transform them into actionable, enforceable policy. You'll define how safety and expression coexist on Bluesky, collaborating with moderation operations, product, and engineering teams to design policy systems that scale responsibly. This role combines deep policy knowledge and
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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matttomic.bsky.social
Jesus Christ.
“I get 10 messages, DMs (direct messages) a game, (saying), ‘F— you, I’m gonna f— your family up,” one player said. “I personally hate gambling. Hate everyone talking about parlays this, parlays that. I hate getting DMs in my Instagram talking about, ‘You f—– up my parlay.’ I hate people sending me threats because I messed up their parlay,” another said. Terrible. Hate them. Every game, no matter if it’s a good game or bad game, you’ve got motherf—— sending death threats, saying racist s—. Every game. I guarantee you, if I check right now, I’ll probably have something from this game. Every game. Everywhere. DMs, Twitter. People be tripping, bro,” a player said. “I hope it doesn’t happen, but it’s going to come to a point where players are going to be targeted because people have lost so much money on them. That’s what I think. But hopefully I’m wrong.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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tullamore-jew.bsky.social
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
andylevy.net andy™ @andylevy.net · 12d
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
The Edge of Oblivion Nuzzi, 32, lives in a tiny house in the heart of Malibu where lizards crawl into her kitchen and the King James Bible and "The Divine Comedy" — two books she was reading while she was writing "American Canto" — sit on her dining room table. She drives around in a white Mustang convertible, like a Lana Del Rey song come to life.
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
Donal Trump tweet: “Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures, I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him. This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats. Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his "Island." Stay tuned!!!” Running guy from the Simpsons’ Monster IsIand gag: “WHAT HE MEANT IS THAT PEDOPHILE ISLAND IS ACTUALLY A PENINSULA”
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
electrospecter.bsky.social
I remembered to take a before photo this time.

Review: deserved it's 4 peppers listed on the menu. 10/10
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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pantspants.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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papapishu.bsky.social
Everyone excited to buy a Steam Machine.
Post by christian aka @nopoweradeinusa woman: you said you had netflix? me: this is much better [I open a folder titled “movies” on my computer and the mechanical whirring of an 11 year old SATA hard-drive overwhelms the room entirely] me: have you seen enter the void?
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Lutnick is the current Secretary of Commerce and Epstein sent this email three months before he died.
dewforpolitics.bsky.social David Earl Williams III @dewforpolitics.bsky.social · 14d
Epstein mocked Trump for “leaving his nose print on the glass” while watching young women, wrote that Trump knew about illicit activity tied to Mar-a-Lago, and visited “many times,” and noted Trump’s planned visit to his neighbor Howard Lutnick’s house.
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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kashana.blacksky.app
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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boxbrown.bsky.social
so: In addition to shitting the bed on ACA...anti-cannabis lobbyists SAM snuck language into the BUDGET BILL that will effectively prohibit all of the THCA/Hemp products everyone loves so much.
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Mar 14
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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theonion.com
Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/
Claim: Mamdani adheres to an extremist interpretation of Sharia law. False: Mamdani remains honor-bound to the ancient samurai code of Bushidō.
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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helldude.bsky.social
theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM