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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 1h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

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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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h

So last night I migrated @gregpak.net from Bluesky to Blacksky's myatproto.social server for non-Black users! A few thoughts on the process for anyone thinking about this...

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h

whew. that took a while! but it looks like i'm done! all blobbed up in blobtown!

screenshot of a notice that says "You are good to go! You have all 4131 of the expected 3669 blobs. You're done!!"

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 4h

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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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 4h

These are certainly some sentences!

Diggs not getting too high or too low about season
By KYLE HIGHTOWER
Associated Press
Mike Vrabel didn't shy away from calling the New England Patriots' matchup with defending AFC East champion Buffalo a chance to gauge where they were at this point in the season.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

Little Timmy can watch all the beer and sports betting commercials they can throw at him but we don't allow him to hear songs performed in Spanish. We are raising him to be broke and racist

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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 4h

to be fair, he’s one of the few Democrats who has bothered to hire someone able to do this effectively—oh, wait, I have no interest in being fair to that asshole

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 4h

Gavin Newsom isn’t trolling Trump, he is not actually the one posting, the person you love is the anonymous underpaid staffer who runs his social media

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 5h

We almost lost the Middle-English Poem Beowulf to fire!

Buried in the private Cotton library, the only copy of Beowulf was never truly studied.

Then in 1731, a fire destroyed Ashburnham House & most of the library. In a desperate attempt to save the codex a heroic librarian flung the smoking ⬇️

A badly burned manuscript page of the poem Beowulf.

Ashburnham House, the building where the private Cotton Library was kept containing the only copy of Beowulf. It burned in 1731. Most of the books went up in flames, but a few were saved.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 4h

YAY

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Angela Mi Young Hur @angelahur.bsky.social · 5h

That's what I'm reading now bc of your rec! Pairs well with peppermint & licorice tea, green-shaded lamp, twangy-honeyed folk music and my cushioned glider as I explore this book's world and all its secrets and shadows...

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 6h

the shrivelled holy relic hand of margaret clitherow

a shrivelled mummified hand in a case made of brass and glass

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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 6h

y'all, this book is the one if you love magic, revolution, and words—imagine Miyazaki & Russell Hoban & the Bread and Puppet Theater all hanging out together

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 6h

1) bookshop.org is offering free shipping today
2) The Naming Song is just out in paperback
3) bookshop.org sells many other excellent books, some with trains, some without
4) I was driving alongside a train for a minute yesterday and it was awesome
5) Thank you

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The Naming Song

Check out The Naming Song - A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro. “The Naming Song understands the fundamental magic of langu...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 7h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Toya 🚀🔭 @astrotoya.bsky.social · 7h

This is a very very dumb request but I’m starving.

I have $-2 in my cashapp and I can’t afford to get anything at the store.

Can anyone help me with just a few dollars to get something today? Please?

Toya 🚀🔭 @astrotoya.bsky.social · 13h

I also have these pay links too:

My v e n m o is : @astrotoya
My c a s h a p p : $astrotoya
or PayPal.me/toyamck

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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NowBaxter (she/her) @nowbaxter.bsky.social · 7h

Tip #1 for #antiAmazon days- get your audiobooks at Libro.FM! Huge selection AND yiu can choose to support your favorite brick/mortar indy store - mine’s @portersqbooks.bsky.social apps.apple.com/app/id105777...

‎Libro.fm Audiobooks

‎Libro.fm makes it possible for you to get audiobooks through your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. There are more than 600,000 audiobooks on Libro.fm, ...

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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 6h

gotta make the days feel longer somehow

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 7h

They’re just gonna do a little lite slavery.

In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. "It's a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages," said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 7h

I like to publish my posts in the middle of the night for maximum reach. But this is what I’ve been up to and how I think the pieces connect.

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 16h

What a wild year to be trying to think about networks and what they do to our brains. Thank you for coming along with me.

www.wrecka.ge/a-year-into-...

A year into the wreckage and salvage

It’s coming up on been a year, somehow, since I started this website/micro-studio/space to think in. What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things...

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 15h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 7h

Well I say letting the wealthy continue to vacuum up all the wealth in the world is killing society and the planet we inhabit.

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.

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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 1d

A quest to eliminate $5 million has tripled, thanks to the generosity and passion of THE TOXIC AVENGER fans across the country.

Together, you didn’t just meet that goal, you crushed it, helping wipe out over $15 million dollars in medical debt for 10,000+ people!

‘The Toxic Avenger’ & Undue Medical Debt Cleared $15 Million in Real-Life Medical Debt Together!

Before Macon Blair’s The Toxic Avenger released in theaters back in August, the Cineverse marketing team came up with a wonderful idea. They took the remainder of their marketing budget for the film a...

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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 7h

Why would I want to give money to Columbia when they just pass it on to the Trump administration? Would be happy to give back my degree, though.

Top of an envelope from Columbia Gift Planning which I have copyedited to more accurately read “Grift Planning”

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 2d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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