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アンディ @andymarkle.com · 1d

As someone who was subjected to conversion therapy, it doesn’t work. It won’t work. It’s torture. I was hooked up to an IV and made to vomit watching gay porn for two hours per week. I was prayed over. Bibles and the Book of Mormon were shoved in my face.

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 9h

"girlfriend of the founder of antifa" comments aside, how can you destroy "from top to bottom" a non-organization whose not-members fundamentally believe in abolishing hierarchies lmao this is so funny.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 9h

how does he always look like he's cosplaying as fascist Eminem

mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 15h

>not a veteran
>wall full of challenge coins

Kash Patel wearing the corniest Christmas camo punisher skull sweatshirt with his own podcast advertised on the sleeve, wearing his own merch hat too and another behind him, in front of an American flag challenge coin holder that also contains stickers for his podcast

buster bluth in fatigues with arms full of stuffed animals. "these are my awards, mother. from army."

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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 9h

Pew Research should call their studies about guns Pew Pew Research

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 9h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but I got one of those Ringconn health tracker things and it is an enormous piece of shit

So don’t do that

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10h

The NYT has given this more coverage than when the deadliest cyclone in history killed 10,000 people in the region my family is from.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

The percentage of coverage the New York Times devotes to things that could have easily been an angry letter dashed off to the Harvard Alumni Review is disturbingly high.

No one else gives a shit, you weirdos. No one at all.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 12h

Shocked, just shocked, by this important scoop on front page of today's NYT. /s/

Based on report that came out ... nine months ago

And behavior long predating that

("Skip a class? Perish the thought!!" Says anyone who ever worked on a college newspaper, which covers a lot of people in the media.)

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Ricky B @ambivalentricky.bsky.social · 11h

UNC's GOP political appointee trustees went around the athletic department and rest of the university system to hire Belichick. Now everyone else at UNC is paying the price to the tune of $50 million + weekly humiliation.

all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 11h

unc: objectively dumber than the falcons

Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 12h

The most stunning thing about Belichick's career collapsing and his reputation for anyone under 25 being recast as "horny old dude flaming out in six weeks at North Carolina" is that the football team that made the best decision to keep itself clean throughout this saga was the Atlanta Falcons

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 12h

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 17h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 21h

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 21h

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 18h

This is the part that kills me. Rs literally did this *mere weeks ago* and it was barely a one-day story, already forgotten to the mists of time

Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 18h

Every time a GOP Senator blames the shutdown on Democrats, a reporter should ask why they don’t just eliminate the filibuster for budget bills, like they just did for block confirmations.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18h

"For instance, CNBC found that one Microsoft data center in Illinois received more than $38 million in data center sales tax exemptions but created just 20 permanent jobs."

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/t...

In race to attract data centers, states can forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to tech companies

Amazon, Meta and Google are among the beneficiaries of state tax exemptions for data centers that help power AI.

www.cnbc.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

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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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 22h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jason "Lich Language Model" Sullivan @jason0x21.bsky.social · 19h

If you don't add it yourself before sending it to them, 80% of folks are going to click, see it doesn't work, and move on.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 19h

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 1d

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jason "Lich Language Model" Sullivan @jason0x21.bsky.social · 19h

Ok but we agree that that's still putting an additional burden on the non-TikTok havers?

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Jason "Lich Language Model" Sullivan @jason0x21.bsky.social · 19h

There can be no common ground when the GOP isn't acting in good faith.

NPR @npr.org · 19h

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen tells NPR she's working with colleagues from both parties to find common ground and reopen the government. n.pr/4q5aheI

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen: Lawmakers must find 'common ground' to end the government shutdown

On the seventh day of the shutdown, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen tells NPR she's working with colleagues from both parties to find common ground and reopen the government.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19h

That's because they're fucking idiots, there is literally no other explanation

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OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20h

so theres a possibility the attorney general has seen evidence the president raped children and now the entire republican party is helping to cover it up?

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Jason "Lich Language Model" Sullivan @jason0x21.bsky.social · 21h

*breaths massive sigh of relief*

Also I am surprised her sister _didn't_ realize her phone would be leaping off the cradle after posting that. www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister clarifies her prayer request

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

www.wsmv.com

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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 21h

The great European cuisine divide

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