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Immigrant. Permanent Foreigner. Far-Left. Be the cure for Misanthropy by treating everyone like they are friends that you had briefly forgotten. #Rifts #ShadowRun #ActionFigures #Comics #movies #comedy

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Kevin Wardrop @kevinwardrop.nitemayr.com · Jun 2

CW: Gun Violence, Homophobia.

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Jonathan Joss
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Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales
Husband of Jonathan Joss
My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a
shooting while checking the mail at the site of our
former home. That home was burned down after over
two years of threats from people in the area who
repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We
reported these threats to law enforcement multiple
times and nothing was done.
Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by
individuals who made it clear they did not accept our
relationship. Much of the harassment was openly
homophobic.
When we returned to the site to check our mail we
discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its
harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us
severe emotional distress. We began yelling and
crying in response to the pain of what we saw.
While we were doing this a man approached us. He
started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He
then raised a gun from his lap and fired.

Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not
threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were
standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan
pushed me out of the way. He saved my life.
Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our
time together than most people ever get. We were
newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the
process of looking for a trailer and planning our
future.
He was murdered by someone who could not stand
the sight of two men loving each other.
I was with him when he passed. I told him how much
he was loved.
To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends,
know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as
family.
My focus now is on protecting Jonathan's legacy and
honoring the life we built together.
If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or
how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and
being ignored by authorities then you never truly
cared about my husband.
Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will
protect what he built.
- Tristan Kern de Gonzales

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

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Heavy Metal™ Official @heavymetalofficial.bsky.social · 5h

Heavy Metal Magazine #3 Dropped Today!

Go get yours!
Take a photo of yourself holding it and tag us!

Shoutout to @collectorsparadise.bsky.social Pasadena!

#heavymetal #heavymetalmagazine #comics #comicbook

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13h

You cannot buy this kind of publicity, the ruling party thinks your upcoming televised mini concert is sexually demonic liberalism and keeps telling the media about why

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 14h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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proud rebel scum ⚛️ @proudrebelscum.bsky.social · 5h

he’s so fucking dumb and also, somehow, the president of the United States.

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 6h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 11h

Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.”

… but what is plenary authority?

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h

Because customer service chatbots are famously beloved by all. This definitely won’t devolve into dying people yelling “REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE” and jamming the 0 button

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 17h

For 911 calls of the future, AI is on the line

AI might answer your 911 calls

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

buff.ly

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ƎIkͶOM @spacemonkie42.bsky.social · 4h

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 5h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

@evanhill
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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14h

Let’s also remember that the ECHR has protected British people from abuses of power by its own government.

We must protect the ECHR, not leave it

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

When the Tories were last in office - according to international Human Rights Watch - UK was on course to make list of countries that abuse rather than protect human rights. Is it any wonder they want us to join Russia & Belarus as only European countries outside the ECHR
youtu.be/ceukUFLBrFo?...

🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

(This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 9h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6h

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 8h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 7h

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12h

Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 5h

you can’t even occupy an american city without getting laughed at anymore, because of croak

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 8h

it’s all just a grift

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11h

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Kat @phoebe11.bsky.social · 1d

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

Jack Posobiec is criticizing Weimar Republic Germany the right way.

--Ezra Klein

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

"I'm attacked every time I do my job" -- it's the victimhood olympics today at the White House

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

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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Kevin Wardrop @kevinwardrop.nitemayr.com · 5h

I think this is one of those shows that came out in between 1995-2000 and I 100% didn't see it?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDqU...

The Bots Master episode 21 better version

YouTube video by Megaphantom