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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h

The Pentagon has to provide The New York Times information about Elon Musk’s security clearances, a federal judge ruled Wednesday—and the billionaire’s own posting habits helped decide the case. trib.al/7voNtjk

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Disney Prime Video + @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 3h

Chucky (2025)

Turning Point USA and DailyWire+ present
CHUCKY

4 stars
"This Chucky Practices Horror the Right Way" - Ezra Klein, New York Times

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The Late Jess Matthews 🏳️‍⚧️ @jessmatthewsproductions.com · 23m

Civil War is the worst Marvel story ever written and it should not be treated with the reverence it’s shown

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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DocBray @docbray.wafflesky.com · 48m

Resist, persist, exist

Do what you can

Even if that's defiantly existing, it's all needed

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 5h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 44m

Some of the answers I'm getting basically amount to, "We are okay providing Nazi sympathizers with content because it's too easy to use, so why choose anything else?"

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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 4h

Why do seemingly well-intentioned people keep using Substack?

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 47m

Not that Trump doesn’t have agency, but he’s an 80 year old man with progressing mental and cognitive decline being fed literal propaganda by his scheming viziers.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 1h

It’s quite obvious he’s being Truman Show’d at this point.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 1h

Okay genuinely well done from Kimmel's team, this is what pulling out the real knives looks like.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18h

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 6h

Kristi Noem praised for ‘staring down’ Antifa. It was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit

Kristi Noem ‘stares down’ Antifa. It was reporters and a guy in a chicken costume

www.independent.co.uk

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1h

That's right
jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1h

I saw Antifa in Portland making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 1h

trump crossed the line to objectively fascist a long time ago but it's funny that he can have an anti-anti-fascist task force and people still treat it like an open question

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 1h

basically this. your favorite small art house studio uses AI and it helped make expedition 33, which everyone seems to be willing to give a pass. clearly its not a hard line for some people especially if it wins game of the year awards

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 2h

Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

www.citationneeded.news/issue-94/

Issue 94 – Backdoor deals

Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

www.citationneeded.news

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 3h

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

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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Michael Scally @fizzvstheworld.bsky.social · 1h

Taylor Swift dropped so many variants for Life Of A Showgirl, she's basically a Marvel comic now...
#FizzVsComics

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Michael Scally @fizzvstheworld.bsky.social · 1h

Irondequoit

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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R.E.D. From Boulder Punch @redlreview.bsky.social · 1h

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Michael Scally @fizzvstheworld.bsky.social · 1h

HOOKSHOT

a man in a yellow and black outfit is standing in the woods with the words get over here

ALT: a man in a yellow and black outfit is standing in the woods with the words get over here

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Michael Scally @fizzvstheworld.bsky.social · 1h

HOOKSHOT

a man in a yellow and black outfit is standing in the woods with the words get over here

ALT: a man in a yellow and black outfit is standing in the woods with the words get over here

media.tenor.com

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Retro Game Books @retrogamebooks.com · 4h

🚨 Free book giveaway contest 📙

Win a free copy of Video Game Maps: SNES - Vol 2. To enter, tell us which of Link's items you'd like to have in real life.

Contest ends Sunday October 12th.

Reskeets appreciated.

retrogamebooks.com/products/vid...

#retrogaming 💌

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 3h

remembering the completely incoherent paradigm of 'more women should play games but every franchise that does better with women is for Gays so we'll use it as a punching bag' that persisted for, also, like a decade

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 3h

turns out the secret was always to actually make games women might like instead of adding a girlboss to War Crime Police XVIII

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