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prisonculture.bsky.social
He is mentioning this event. I recommend watching it just for the conversation with Samina: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj89...
THE MAYOR IS LISTENING
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Something to think on today for progressive/leftist causes: The legacy media is never going to like you, so what do you need to do to make them irrelevant?
Given those polls, however, the crucial choice may end up being where, if at all, voters decide to rank Mr. Cuomo or Mr. Mamdani. We do not believe that Mr. Mamdani deserves a spot on New Yorkers' ballots. His experience is too thin, and his agenda reads like a turbocharged version of Mr. de Blasio's dismaying mayoralty. As for Mr. Cuomo, we have serious objections to his ethics and conduct, even if he would be better for New York's future than Mr. Mamdani.
January 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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rningscissors.bsky.social
have i ever said how much i love Waffle House?
Johnny ***** 10 months ago I been driving trucks for almost 30 years. I drive at night, I work on holidays. That's the way it's always been and I like it. On christmas eve I pulled in around midnight. Waffle house has always been a staple for me and I have witnessed many things over the years in their establishment but the food is always consistent and i leave feeling taken care of. This night I was enjoying my usual ham and cheese omelet and this man walked in and yelled something at the cook, I guess they knew each other or had had an engagement earlier in the night because he immediately responded and said "get the f*ck out of here Larry!" Larry threw something at the cook. Looked like a rock. The cook abandoned his hash browns, jumped the counter and drop kicked the man into my table. Food went everywhere. The man went down so fast. Someone must have called the cops and they came and got the guy pretty quick. The cook got me an entirely new meal and said it was on the house. and said "Ain't nobody f*ck around in my house, especially on Christmas... unless you wanna get parumpma-pump-pummed." I don't usually review things. Just needed to tell the story.
December 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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flyingwalruss.bsky.social
Well we all know who DIDN’T leave that sticker
Henry Francis, from Mad Men, in his car with Betty, saying “Hate’s a strong word, Betty.” Henry Francis, from Mad Men, in his car with Betty, saying “I hate nazis” Henry Francis, from Mad Men, in his car with Betty, saying “I have an ex-wife. She bothers me.”
December 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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bicycleidiot.bsky.social
RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.
September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Springsteen ass headline
The Keys to the City of New York Are Made in New Jersey
December 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
eladn.bsky.social Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 10d
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
akivamcohen.bsky.social AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 10d
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.

Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
empiregardens.bsky.social
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiittt…
December 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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russellbrandom.bsky.social
An absolutely unhinged font choice from the FBI FOIA office here
December 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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johnxuandou.bsky.social
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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rianjohnson.bsky.social
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 3d
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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worstcaseeng.bsky.social
Ed's on fuckin fire with this one
"the free market is a fucking con. When you or I run out of money, our things are taken from us... Because the financial system is not about an exchange of value but about whether or not you can enter into the currently agreed-upon con"
December 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
empiregardens.bsky.social
when they say i’ve got that dog in me, this is what they mean
December 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This is the clear pattern when immigration enforcement use a weapon: they claim they were attacked, and then the claims fall apart donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
December 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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numb.comfortab.ly
"Prompt Thieves in the Al Art Community"
downwithdan.bsky.social Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 4d
AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce
mzsibyl_® › •: Al Threads 3d Tired of the Prompt Thieves in the Al art community. Seriously, the moment a great prompt is public, someone immediately copies it, shares it, and pretends it's their own genius work. It's not about gatekeeping, it's about giving credit where it's due. Stop stealing and start creating! #PromptStealer 1/2 OscarAl @Artedeingenio X.com Never do this: Passing off someone else's work as your own. This Grok Imagine effect with the day-to-night transition was created by me — and I'm pretty sure that person knows it. To make things worse, their copy has more impressions than my original post. Not cool subscribe @Artedeingenio I don't know what you think, but this seems a bit unfel to me. My original post with the Saori Kido Athena prompt has 4,000 impressions, while @dvorahfr's post with an image created with my prompt has 30,000. As for not quoting me as the author, I'm not saying anything, because she has apologised. I would like to understand that it was an unintentional mistake, although I think I'm well enough known around here to use a prompt of mine without knowing it's mine. If I wasn't so well known, would there have been a rectification? I am afraid that many small accounts are stolen on a daily basis and nothing happens. But for a copy to be more widely distributed than the original is a very bad symptom. Without focusing on anyone, I think that some big accounts hardly create original content and just post other people's content, often without quoting the author, and that's very uncool. Respect and honesty above all else. Let's play fair.
December 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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illumi.meme
[sisyphus watching raiders of the lost ark] buddy just push???
December 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
sean feucht accidentally left the chatgpt prompts at the end of his post lmao
Sean Feucht @seanfeucht Subscribe ••° Across the earth today, believers gather to worship Jesus —in tents, in basements, under trees, and in secret places. Many risk their freedom. Some risk their lives. All declare that Jesus is worthy. Lord, we pray for the persecuted Church. Strengthen the weary. Protect the vulnerable. Comfort those who mourn. Give courage to those who stand firm in the face of threats and violence. Let their worship rise like incense before Your throne. Let their faith shame the darkness. Let their endurance preach a sermon the world cannot ignore. "Remember those in prison, as if you were together with them." (Hebrews 13:3) "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." (John 1:5) We stand with our brothers and sisters. We pray. We remember. We do not look away. Jesus, be glorified among the nations. (From Mozambique earlier this year) If you want it shorter, more prophetic, or
December 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
December 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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violanorth.bsky.social
12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
thereal3ccentric.bsky.social 3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 9d
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
regular US policing.
longtimehistory.bsky.social LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 7d
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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elbarto.bsky.social
Tonight the president bombed Nigeria on Christmas in defense of "innocent Christians," but the US will never take action against the genocidal Israeli state when they beat, arrest and kill Christians in Palestine because the US has, historically, not considered Palestinians to be fully human.
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8d
With Christmas approaching, celebrations in Haifa were met with chaos after Israeli police stormed the Wadi al-Nisnas neighbourhood, arresting and beating Christians in the area.
December 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
empiregardens.bsky.social
you know for a show that loves to pat itself on its back with regards to rhetoric and linguistics and use of language, I’m amazed at how often Sorkin and the rest of The West Wing writers let Toby get away with saying, “I could care less”…
December 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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cameroncorduroy.bsky.social
it's unironically this bit except the teacher got fired for giving Calvin a zero
December 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
empiregardens.bsky.social
this video is miraculous
machete.gay olive consumer @machete.gay · 7d
There are a lot of ways to come to the idea, but it's inevitable in almost every area of life if you think enough about anything.

Adam Savage's version of it is maybe my favorite.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE7d...
Adam Savage's Epiphany on the Science of Measurement!
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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craymor.bsky.social
Worth repeating: “Mary was a homeless, pregnant migrant. Joseph crossed borders by night. Jesus had no papers. Would you recognize them if you met them today? They are here. Behave accordingly.”
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM