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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 3d

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

“[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 5d

Sploot seems like a reasonable response. I relate.

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 5d

Please register to vote if you haven’t already, and VOTE on November 4th. Especially if you are in California.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

zohranfornyc.com/register

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 5d

I did a playlist for Queen Demon, which will be out Tuesday October 7 in hardcover, ebook and audiobook (narrated by Eric Mok). Published by Tor Books, edited by Lee Harris, cover art by Cynthia Sheppard, design by Christine Foltzer and Greg Collins.

marthawells.dreamwidth.org/670115.html

Cover of Queen Demon. Kai is dressed in a teal gold-trimmed coat over a long dark purple shirt, wearing a dark veil scattered with gold coins in his long dark hair. He's in motion, running or leaping toward the lower left corner of the cover.

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 7d

Real ad. Worth watching. Always a pleasure watching Samuel L Jackson take a bite or two out of That Guy’s ridiculous remarks.

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Uncensored version with Samuel L. Jackson - A taste of fossil freedom

YouTube video by Vattenfall

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 8d

We all know KBSpangler is a superhero.

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 8d

Long Beach City College doing its best to support students who are living in their cars

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM61FqLw/

Long Beach City College features the Safe Parking Program that allows enrolled students experiencing homelessness to park their vehicles overnight in a secure on-campus location. While the program is ...

TikTok video by austyn jeffs

www.tiktok.com

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 8d

A good commentary, and it’s chilling how close that debate is to current events

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMjKGGby/

On history, West Germany, Chumbawamba, Hess, and the fight over memory. Yes, this is about a song from the “Tubthumping” band. #historytok #coldwar #wwiihistory #frg #learnontiktok

TikTok video by Call Me Steve

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 8d

OMG, What Stalks The Deep, by @tkingfisher.com is out, and if caves didn’t give you the shudders before, they will now. Well done, Ursula, well done. I now have a phobia I didn’t know I had. Absolutely recommend, couldn’t put it down.

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 8d

Astonishingly enough, petting this particular cat belly is usually very safe. It’s the topside scritchies which, if not done absolutely correctly, lead to blood (yours) being shed

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 8d

Petable cat belly. Exceptionally soft.

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 11d

Pushing some Jo art!

joqatana @joqatana.bsky.social · 11d

Please please share the art 🩷

JustJo @jopics.bsky.social · 11d

Posting old art while pushing myself to stop avoiding making new #art.

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 14d

FAFO department. This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so infuriating.

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White House is begging hundreds of office managers fired by Elon Musk’s DOGE to come back to work - NewsBreak

Looks like Elon Musk was too good at firing government employees — now we don’t have enough. The White House is suddenly asking hundreds of federal employe

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 15d

Postcard writing! Twice a week in Beautiful Long Beach Monday and Wednesday, 6-7:30 pm, actually INSIDE Sports Basement, go in the front door. Best to be on time, lots of people writing last time and I only got to do 10 postcards before they ran out.

Mondays and Wednesdays6-7:30,2100 N Bellflower Blvd 90815

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 15d

If you weren't watching this, it was bananas. Screaming bananas. Screaming bananas in clown suits.

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 15d

Somewhere in Hell Qaddafi smiles knowing his will never again be seen as the most demented speech in UN General Assembly history.

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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 15d

If you are Border Czar Homans, and you did NOT take the $50,000 in a paper bag, wouldn't you been screaming at the top of your lungs that you want the FBI tape of the transaction released publicly in order to clear your name?
Yet he isn't doing that. Hmmmm......

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 15d

Likely what happened to all those missing people from the former Alligator Auschwitz. And more people are being disappeared daily.

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

www.rollingstone.com

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 16d

I know this is a radical position that will probably enrage people

But hear me out:

What if this thing we call autism is just the way some peoples’ brains work

Not an illness. Not a brain injury. Not a defect.

Some. Peoples’. Brains. Are. Different.

And they don’t need to be fixed

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 16d

Don’t be in a hurry to celebrate the return of Jimmy Kimmel. Or to resubscribe to Disney. Sinclair needs all their subsidiaries boycotted too

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 16d

They shouldn’t have folded in the first place. Now they are experiencing the FAF, and it’s going to hurt their bottom line for a long time.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16d

GREAT NEWS: Disney says 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' will return to ABC on Tuesday!

How does that make you feel? 😁

Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 16d

Well, hell. Another kidnapping by ICE

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ICE Raid at Home Depot in Signal Hill Caught on Camera - NewsBreak

Signal Hill — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at a Home Depot in Signal Hill was caught on camera Monday morning, sparking outrage among

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 16d

HaHaHaHa TWO MILLION VIEWS FOR KIMMEL.
26 thousand for tribute for a footnote.

Steven Rosenthal @stevenrosenthal.net · 17d

26,000 YouTube views for Sinclair’s Charlie Kirk tribute special.

Just for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on any average Wednesday will get between two and four MILLION YouTube views.

Right wing culture is fringe stuff. It is not American culture by any stretch.

Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 17d

Everything about this headline is hilarious. And the YouTube views are a reflection of how wildly the right has overblown the number of people paying attention.

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Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 16d

Sooooo infuriating. The next person who calls me ‘girl’ or girlie’, or ‘young lady’ (my personal most hated, I didn’t get to almost 70 to be patronized) is going to be in for a big surprise.

Cora @lawombat.bsky.social · 16d

I loved this so much as a kid; I am afraid to rewatch it as I suspect it’s underlying attitudes do not hold up well.