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-indy ✨ (it/follows) @indigo-k.com · 14h

Oh dang! I totally forgot about Zot! Online!

David Lafuente 💀 @davidlafuente.bsky.social · 16h

This story is 25 years old
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Zot! Online - Week 1

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 16h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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-indy ✨ (it/follows) @indigo-k.com · 14h

only people i know leaving are the ones who can't afford to live here anymore

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "Do wealthy people leave too, or not? Place like Portland. Are the wealthy people leaving? People that can leave, are they leaving?"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15h

Accurate

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Report: Reuben Rated Top Midsize Sandwich In Its Class

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA—Praising its standard features and overall dependability, J.D. Power and Associates released a new set of rankings Thursday, naming the Reuben the number-one midsize sandwich in i...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

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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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 15h

Just to be absolutely clear:

The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person.

And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 15h

If the Sun was replaced by a black hole of equal mass the orbits of the planets would be unaffected.

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-indy ✨ (it/follows) @indigo-k.com · 18h

Man, me too. Ernie was my most consistent friend when I was a little navy brat moving to new towns every couple years.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 1d

This here’s a man of the people.

Former Cubs pitcher Lee Smith on why he always walked so slowly out of the bullpen when he was called - he heard the grounds crew got time and a half of the game stretched past 4:30 pm.

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Boss Fight Studio @bossfightstudio.bsky.social · 18h

LIMITED EDITION IMMORTAL CHAMPIONS SPECTRAL GUARDIAN!

Join our very own Chris Oliveri as he goes live at NYCC with Walmart to officially launch this awesome glow in the dark Immortal Champions figure!

Livestream 10/9 4pm EST: tinyurl.com/3jjb76xx

Pre-order will follow stream: tinyurl.com/3v3sybf4

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 2d

What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!

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-indy ✨ (it/follows) @indigo-k.com · 19h

The Alphabet starts with an A,
then B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-and-J,
K, L M, N, O, P,
Q, R, S, and then T,
U, V, W, X,
Y, and Z is next.

and last.

-indy ✨ (it/follows) @indigo-k.com · 19h

This sounds like it would be a perfect double-feature with Flatliners or Altered States…

Joe Streckert @joestreckert.bsky.social · 21h

31 days of horror recs day 8!

John Carpenter has made a lot of classics, but even his B-tier stuff is good. Prince of Darkness isn't his best movie, but it is a helluva ride. A quantum physicist and a Catholic priest team up to fight a demonic glowing tube. Havoc ensues. It rules!

A woman approaches a glowing green tube. The cylindrical artifact emanates an eerie light, and is surrounded by candles as if it's some kind of sacred or unholy artifact.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 21h

Imagine if health care was just something everyone had, and not a zero sum competition between "good" people and "bad" people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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-indy ✨ (it/follows) @indigo-k.com · 19h

Thanks for putting this back on my radar. I saw it when it first came out, but damn if I can remember any of it now.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then this guy speaks again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 21h

I cannot express how fully and immediately I accepted this as the only possible canon for the character.

Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 21h

Columbo is actually a trickster spirit of working class justice against the wealthy that has taken human form, because he sure isn’t like any cop I’ve ever met

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Golden Age Explosions 💥 @comicexplosions.bsky.social · 21h

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"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 21h

Alright mate found another dragon have you

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-indy ✨ (it/follows) @indigo-k.com · 20h

Used to be you could do both.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20h

When manufacturing got outsourced a lot of things got cheaper and a lot of jobs went away in those industries. Was it on the balance "good" - really depends! Are you buying a washing machine or employed in a factory that used to make them?

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 20h

Watching so many people in high places go through the motions of polling and median-voter whispering can make you feel like you're in Bodysnatchers. It's worth a reminder that the typical experience of tyranny is...basically normal life. Which means we have to will ourselves to fight harder.

The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 20h

Artist isn't a real job, it's just a glorified hobby, we're blessed just to do it, drawing is its own reward, we should be grateful to have these dead-eyed tech bros scraping and stealing our work to make something real and useful

Brian Box Brown @boxbrown.bsky.social · 23h

if AI biz was started by $5 trillion stolen in armed robbery from a bank it wouldnt be allowed to continue on. but since it was made by robbing artists of $5t worth of value, its fine.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 20h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 22h

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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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“I didn’t mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious … She’s been a little under the weather and I simply asked for prayers bc I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

DON’T SCARE US LIKE THIS, FREIDA www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

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