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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 12m

Here for the hobo topology more than for the baseball tie-in

Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 19m

Hobos still in the playoffs:

Schwarber: If you've got a bottle, he's got a guitar & a head full of Wobblies songs.

Addison Barger: Offers to help a widow lady with chores, ends up helping with so much more.

Tim Hill: Annoyed at how often he has to stop smoking to cough blood into a handkerchief

Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 17m

This is a pretty solid pick.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 56m

neko case is probably my vote here

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 3d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 22m

It seems like that's another area where they've cross-pollinated with the American Evangelical focus on treating social issues as matters of individual conscience and action, while corporate action, whether by the church or the state is considered coercive.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 7h

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 14h

Look at me enjoying something

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by UPROXX Indie Mixtape

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 14h

Reverse Ted Lasso incoming

Matt Lichtenstadter @mattsmusings1.bsky.social · 16h

I know he just got a new job but...

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Craig Duffy @pinkcowduffy.bsky.social · 14h

Bluesky moderators making @thefridacinema.org’s Frankenhooker screening extra scandalous by flagging it as “adult content” 👍🏼

The Frida Cinema @thefridacinema.org · 15h

Want a date? Looking for some action? Got any money?

For October’s entry in @plante.bsky.social’s Hallucinations series, we’re screening Frank Henenlotter’s uproarious gross-out horror FRANKENHOOKER!

Oct 29th 🧟‍♀️

🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/frank...

Frankenhooker rides the subway

#frankenhooker #frankhenenlotter #90shorror #frankenhooker1990

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 16h

Never played this game, but this was the hardest?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17h

Here’s the hardest Connections category from Wednesday, Oct. 1. What connects these four things?

Find the answer here: nyti.ms/42v1I2x

Headline: Can you figure out this Connections quandary? The four words are: Booby, Door, First and Jury.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h

Pathetic. bsky.app/profile/step...

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 23h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Exglsfor‽

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Even worse, he's probably the type of person who does not listen to music at all.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

He's going up and down the Levant, looking for a red heifer.

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 1d

This Eschaton won’t Immamentize itself.

Spooky Ha-Lewie-n Name Pollis @lewispoll.is · Jun 19

Every time I read the phrase “Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee” I feel like I have to lie down

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Jesus and Mary Chain's Jim Reid on watching Get Back:

www.stereogum.com/2256801/the-...

I assume you watched Get Back — what was that experience like for you, as someone who’s also in a band that’s had to deal with its share of tension and dysfunction?

REID: You can see that it was so much more intense for them. With a normal band, the things that you’re bickering over can’t compare to the pressure they must have been under. And you could see in that film that they were all terrified to speak in case they were misunderstood. I’ve watched it a couple of times now, and the first time I watched it, I was saying to my other half, Rachel, “They’re so inarticulate — it’s like they don’t seem to be able to make any point without waffling on unnecessarily.” And then it was only when I watched it the second time I thought, “I can see what’s actually going on here: They’re terrified in case they say something that one of the others is going to take offense at.” The stakes were so much more in the stratosphere when it comes to the Beatles. I mean, God, it must have been so stressful.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 1d

#KavanaughRaid
“federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning.”

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 1d

This is like finding asbestos tiles under your basement carpet and then using the tiles as wall decor

Tiffany W @tiffany.thetriibe.com · 1d

every time i’ve turned on CNN this week, Rahm Emanuel has been on here.

he’s on Anderson Cooper’s show now

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 1d

Tumblr poster: Why is the Fantasy Protagonist's Cool Animal Companion always a wolf, a bird of prey, or something cool? If you live in a medieval-ish society, even if you have cool powers to bond with an animal, it's probably going to be a farm animal.

What about a fantasy book where the heroine's Spirit Companion Animal is a pig. And not a cute piglet, but a huge fucking sow. As clever as a human, but absolutely as ruthless as pigs can be.

And the protagonist is like "should I quit eating pork? Does it disturb you, that milk piglet could have been yours." And the pig is like "bitch first of all the difference is that it *isn't* mine, and don't fucking pretend that - given the chance - I wouldn't eat a human child."

keuhkopussirotta: "What are we going to do with him?"
"I propose murder."
"Where would we put the body?"
"I volunteer."
"Are you suggesting we should kill him *because* you want to eat his corpse?"
"I'm sure there are plenty of other good reasons to kill him here, I just can't think of them all right now."

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Guys, I don't think this militia is very well-regulated.

Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Ah yes, Edward Bear.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Is there a woozle in the vicinity?

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

"And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward." --MT 6:5, ASV

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

sources say they wrapped up the prayer with a stirring round of "By The Rivers Of Burgerville"

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Have any of the conservative justices floated the idea that if Congress refuses to act on any of the stuff the President is doing then that counts as a tacit exercise of their approval under Article I?