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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 1h

If Premee Mohammed can be a large bugge, I would like to be something too. Write in votes accepted.:)

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 8h

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

bookshop.org

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4h

“But she doesn’t tell us what to DO about it 😭😭😭!”

Do something.
Do something with other people.
Do it again.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 9h

Great piece as always from @himself.bsky.social, on authoritarianism as a competitive instance of the coordination problem.

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1h

Look, I'm not gonna claim he's the worst president ever – we've had some bad ones – but he's certainly the one who lied the most outrageously

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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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1h

Kristi Noem is complaining that ICE and Border Patrol agents have it really tough in Chicago because the restaurants won't let them use their bathrooms or serve them food.

But I thought Republicans loved free market capitalism? 😅

Don't mess with Chicago! ❤️✊🏽

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Saeed @saed-in-gaza.bsky.social · 9h

Hello, I'm Saeed from Gazan currently displaced with my family in Al-Mawasi Khan Younis. We urgently need your support to cover rent (500$) and food for the week (200$). Can we make it happen today?

Plz Donate via GoFoundMe:
gofund.me/a0a540b8

@mommunism.bsky.social
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 2h

This is why I love Chicago so much. Their “we will fuck with you” reserves are BOTTOMLESS.

NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 3h

This is amazing.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1h

In Toronto? "Toronto". 😀

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2h

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

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

Every morning DSA, Antifa, the DNC, and Jimmy Kimmel hold a conference call with President Obama. Obama gives them their official M.A.Y.H.E.M marching orders and that is why Portland, Chicago and Seattle all burned to the ground and are being rebuilt as MegaCommunist Super Woke Cities.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 1h

Australia continues to have some of the best small town names ever. Case in point: Humpty Doo. There was a poltergeist incident there. (Aussies call poltergeists “polts“.)

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

Despite having been uninhabited for centuries, Old Sarum continued to elect two members of Parliament until 1832.

In the last years, the spectacle of an Old Sarum election drew a small crowd to observe the ritual presentation of the two candidates and the hollow call for any further nominations. Stooks Smith quotes a contemporary description dating from the 1802 general election:

This election for the borough of Old Sarum was held in a temporary booth erected in a cornfield, under a tree which marked the former boundary of the old town, not a vestige of which has been standing in the memory of man, the several burgages which give the right of voting, being now without a dwelling for a human being. Mr Dean, the bailiff of the borough having read the precept for the election, and caused proclamation thereof, read the bribery act, and gone through all the legal ceremonies, the Rev. Dr Skinner rose and nominated Nicholas Vansittart, and Henry Alexander, Esq., from a thorough conviction that their public conduct would be such as would give satisfaction and do honour to their constituents. The other electors acquiescing in this nomination and no other candidates offering, the proclamation was thrice made for any gentleman disposed to do so, to come forward, the bailiff declared the above two gentlemen to be duly elected. There were five electors present at this election, (beside the bailiff of the borough who lives at Wimborne) viz, the Rev. Dr. Skinner, of the Close; the Rev. Mr. Burrough, of Abbot's Ann; William Dyke, Esq., of Syrencot; Mr. Massey and Mr. Brunsdon, both occupiers of land within the limits of the borough. The above account is thus particularly given to rectify several prevalent mistakes relative to this celebrated borough, and to show that the election is conducted in a manner every way consonant to the law of the land and the constitution of Parliament.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 3h

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin

Politics
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
By Marian Jones

Politics
Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"
“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”
By Maia McDonald

Politics
Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
By Colleen Hamilton

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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 4h

You gotta go into the sourced court docs but he was fedposting to chatgpt at the time the fire started, had a history of being really focused on fire with image genAIs, and they have video & gps data to show he was exactly where it started when it started and that it grew too fast to be from a cig

NPR @npr.org · 5h

Authorities have charged a 29-year-old man in connection to starting the Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,800 homes and buildings. (via @laist.com)

Uber driver charged in connection with starting the Palisades Fire

The Palisades Fire erupted on Jan. 7 and went on to kill 12 people and destroy more than 6,800 homes and buildings.

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Howard Dafuq @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like it would be fun to do one of those rec lists for a while, don’t know if I have enough for the whole month of October, but here goes:

Various & Sundry Horror And Horror-Adjacent Videos On YouTube That Are Worth Watching If You Are Into That

Maybe 1 / day for as long as I remember

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Afnan Taw @fofojoho.bsky.social · 1d

She is my niece 4 year old who suffers from persistent malnutrition and severe iron deficiency due to lack of food..

Kiraz today appeals to you for your support And donate to her so she can buy healthy food💔
Answer her call and don't leave her alone 💔😔
chuffed.org/project/1313...

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 3h

Miles beside the point, but has anyone ever taken a *good* picture of Kash Patel? Has LITERALLY ANY attempt to capture his visage for posterity ever not been utterly fucking ludicrous?

Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 3h

🚨A quarter of all FBI agents have been assigned to immigration enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

In the country's richest city, more than 140,000 kids don't have stable or permanent housing.

"Every Child and Family Is Known" — a small pilot program that pairs school staff with students and families in shelters — has shown real promise. I will double its funding and scope.

Mamdani education plan would focus on helping NYC homeless students

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, said Wednesday he wants to double the size of a program for homeless students at public schools in a plan shared exclu…

www.nydailynews.com

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Talking Scared Podcast @talkscaredpod.bsky.social · 1d

This week we get into the Northern Weird Project

For Part One, i'm joined by Ariell Cacciola - the genius behind the project, plus Gemma Fairclough, author of THE RETREAT and Katherine Clements, author of TURBINE 34

We talk haunting, unsure landscapes, manipulation and more.

All podcast platforms

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Masa🕊😔 @fdre16.bsky.social · 6h

I am tired as if I am in the last chapter of life,
and my soul is scattered like autumn leaves.😔💔
٠٠🕊Iam Bara’a.Ilost my daughter and now Iam living the same anxiety about Masa.Please do not leave me alone.Ineed you.Iwant to get out and save myself and my children🙏please share🥺💔🙏
gofund.me/74c01145

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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 3h

Art isn’t luxury, art is food. Art is medicine. Art is religion. Art is everything.

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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 3h

Passionate interests are the cornerstone of my life. Analysis, pattern recognition, research, making facts into fiction, storytelling. You pry that shit from my cold, dead hands if you can, motherfuckers.

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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 4h

#31DaysofHorror Day 8

THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER (2015), Osgood Perkins

A perfectly doom drenched trip if your vibe is hiding on picture day in a bathroom with blinking fluorescents, a creaky echo through empty library stacks or a lone footprint edged in muddy melt slowly filling with falling snow.

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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 3h

I will never stop thinking for pleasure. My own pleasure. Because I enjoy it, more than I enjoy almost anything else in the world.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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