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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies

@hipstersasquatch.bsky.social

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I was into eating pine cones BEFORE it was popular... Frenemies with the Babadork. Nonbinary. I use any animate pronouns. Crazy for bad movies and forgotten cultural ephemera. May be found prowling used book and periodical sales.

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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social · 2d

Since Trump's administration really seems to be trying to push the idea that antifa is an org, not simply being anti-fascist, I have a suggestion:

Switch out your black bloc's uniform for GOLD. Have members all dress in matching metallic gold outfits, same type they otherwise would be, just gold.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 1h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 4h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 54m

help I've been buried in a catvalanche

portrait of the author completely concealed by 3 cats trying to occupy 1 lap simultaneously

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 56m

Sometimes you’re browsing your feed when suddenly you see someones collection of perfectly preserved seasonal specialty J. Wellington Wimpy style hamburgers for no reason and y’know what? Good. Everything is malaise so let folks find their happiness wherever they gotta. It ain’t hurtin’ nobody lol ❤️

Dinosaur Dracula 🦖🧛 @dinosaurdracula.bsky.social · 2h

Halloween! Nightmare King! Ghost! Ghost Pepper! Wednesday! And now the Jack-O-Lantern Whopper. I'm the only person in the world with a complete collection of Burger King's Halloween Whoppers, dating as far back as 2015. Can't believe I'm single.

Every Burger King Halloween Whopper, from 2015 to now. (Why though?)

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NPR @npr.org · 53m

The federal government is currently shut down. This is how it's affecting services across the country.

The federal government is still shut down. Here's what that means across the country

The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 1h

"I use it, it's just a tool like Photoshop," is the refrain from people I know that has me biting virtually clean through my tongue.

No. It's emptying you.

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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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social · 23m

She's just not very good at what she does

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 54m

"communist clergy" ok there big word guy, next let's find out what they *mean*

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 3h

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

she doesn't even go here!

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 5h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social · 28m

I want to hear about the feds who are assigned to infiltrate trans groups, specifically, which of their eggs crack.

Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social · 32m

Well that's going to be interesting.
I do hope they don't cry too hard when clocked and mocked.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 1d

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

"Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people," said Attorney General Paxton. "The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America.
There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."
The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Alvarado, Texas. On September 10, 2025, a leftist assassin connected to the radical transgender movement murdered Charlie Kirk because of Kirk's bold support for truth, love of country, and unshakable faith. Two weeks later, another deranged leftist opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas.
President Donald Trump has officially designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and instructed his administration to "utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa." Building on President Trump's bold actions, Attorney General Paxton has instructed his office to initiate sweeping investigations into radical leftist organizations engaged in or providing support to those performing political violence.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 51m

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 57m

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games

If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

www.msnbc.com

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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 1d

41 years ago, IMO, the greatest SNL digital short, Men's Synchronized Swimming premiered. The short came from the powerhouse SNL season and still is just as brilliant today.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 3h

The Dallas area Palestinian Youth Movement reported yesterday that Ya'Kub Ira, an activist and martial arts instructor, was abducted by ICE despite Ira's legal status under DACA.

"This is the second unexpected arrest of someone with proximity to the Palestine movement in the past two weeks."

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 17h

It is the one thing about America that is unambiguously good and it’s a treasonous sin to act like it’s a bad thing

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 17h

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 1h

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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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 49m

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 · 1h

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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social · 44m

Thank you, but that is still all from after the fire is well-established.
I'm looking for early video, which might provide clues as to where or how it started.
I realize that it's very unlikely anyone has video of that, because it's unlikely someone outside the house would notice that early.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 1d

Studio Ghibli fell in love with this film and gave its director a movie deal. Master animators like Yuri Norstein call it a favorite.

Its name is Father and Daughter, and we've explored its story:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social · 13h

They sent me home with one of those.
Didn't tell me it was just to hold it in place and catch any dribbles from that first day or so, so I wouldn't rub my nose, I thought it was like important or something, so I left it for a week 😠