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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 9h

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 10h

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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Joe Creason parkrun @joecreasonparkrun.bsky.social · 3h

Just 2 more days until our 300th free weekly 5K. We hope to see you and yours for what looks to be the nicest Saturday morning we’ll have in 2025. 52 and sunny? You’d be a fool to sleep in! Grab a friend and your favorite morning beverage and we’ll see you at the bottom of the hill at 8:45 😎🌳🚶‍♀️

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 13h

👍 Blue Jays

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Tariff Abdur-Rahim @luxuryjeff.bsky.social · 20h

Got some shitty photos at the Magdalena Bay show last night. Worth a 2 hr drive on a school night 💿

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Tariff Abdur-Rahim @luxuryjeff.bsky.social · 20h

You cain’t stop
Runnin awehhhhhh
From what is Reeeeeal
And wat is faaaaaaake

This album is like my whole personality now

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · May 31

How embarrassing to work for the organized kidnapping ring known as "ICE." Rolling out of bed every day to be a brainless goon. You are lower than a worm to me

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Tariff Abdur-Rahim @luxuryjeff.bsky.social · 1d

This is all like when Beavis and Butthead had to sell candy at school but they just kept passing each other the same dollar. Except it’s the entire economy

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

So, imagine a 2028 that ends with a normal election and a Democratic president.

Does that president punish CBS? Does he kick it out of the Brady room's front row? Does his FCC go after its licenses? Does his FTC probe the Skydance deal?

No, probably not. No fear of reprisal if power shifts back.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News current president Tom Cibroski praised Weiss on the call, saying "Bari's energy and passion is infectious and you will feel it, big time." He also added that the Free Press and CBS News "are going to learn a lot from each other...that's what this is all about."

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Tariff Abdur-Rahim @luxuryjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Fast, reliable public transit is the great equalizer. When it is faster than all other modes of transportation, people from all classes will use it. When it's slow and unreliable, only people who have no other choice will use it.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Jul 14

"Train is the new private jet." Dua Lipa continues to promote taking the train over flying, boarding a Eurostar to London at Gare du Nord. This is climate-conscious messaging done right. Posted by lejeuneengage on IG.

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Tariff Abdur-Rahim @luxuryjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Still waiting on that Hell's Itch debut! My first new album when I got into them was Omnium, but this cemented my obsession.

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Aaron Vowels @guinness74.bsky.social · 2d

This. I’m planning to be there! I mean, I did 100 and 200, so might as well continue the trend. If you want to join me, the run/jog/walk starts at 9, down near the creek on the Trevilian side.

Supposed to be cool and sunny. Don’t miss one of the three days of fall we’re supposed to have this year.

Joe Creason parkrun @joecreasonparkrun.bsky.social · 23d

In a little less than a month (Oct 11) we'll be hosting our 300th free weekly 5K! We've been providing Louisville a free, regular, hassle-free way to get together and get a little exercise since April 2018. We'd love to have a huge crowd that morning so tell all friends and make plans to join us!

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Tariff Abdur-Rahim @luxuryjeff.bsky.social · 4d

This Saturday! Even if you’ve missed the first 299, you can start your new favorite weekend tradition at parkrun this week. Hope to see you there 🌳🫶

Joe Creason parkrun @joecreasonparkrun.bsky.social · 23d

In a little less than a month (Oct 11) we'll be hosting our 300th free weekly 5K! We've been providing Louisville a free, regular, hassle-free way to get together and get a little exercise since April 2018. We'd love to have a huge crowd that morning so tell all friends and make plans to join us!

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 2d

I listened to the Geese record yesterday on a drive, and this review nails it.

I explained to a group chat that all of it—from the cover art to the instrumentation to the lyrics to the alternately nerve-wracked/dissociated vocals—captures the derangement of life in the U.S. right now.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 8d

Plus @harrisfootball.com on the wild and singular new Geese album Getting Killed www.welcometohellworld.com/im-getting-k...

In “Taxes,” he admits, “I should burn in hell,” but immediately contrasts his sinfulness with his current circumstances, which belong to all of us: “But I don’t deserve this. Nobody deserves this.” And the title track diagnoses: “I’m getting killed by a pretty good life.” None of this comes across as doomerism. It’s more like gallows humor. Somehow the combination of wild loose motley song structures and un-bitter irony captures Our Current Moment of helpless stupidity better than any music I’ve heard during Trump 2. Getting Killed is a manic mess, and so is the world.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2d

That's right Zelda Williams

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Tariff Abdur-Rahim @luxuryjeff.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck yes. Great work!

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Sean Willis @allhopeissean.bsky.social · 3d

Almost exactly 32 years ago today, Louisville lost a massive warehouse building in the heart of our downtown live on MTV.

While the lot would eventually become a nice green space, this seems like a lost opportunity for a ton of new housing if the building was reutilized instead.

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Tariff Abdur-Rahim @luxuryjeff.bsky.social · 3d

I would maybe try running for a local office or state legislature. If anybody gives this person a dollar they’re a fucking mark and could easily be had by the wallet inspector

Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 3d

Democrat Amy McGrath, who has lost two high-profile races for Congress, announced another bid for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s open seat Monday. From @sylviaruthg.lpm.org #kysen

Amy McGrath announces another bid for US Senate in Kentucky

Democrat Amy McGrath, who has lost two high-profile races for Congress, announced a bid for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s open seat Monday.

www.lpm.org

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Chacha @chachaboyd.bsky.social · 3d

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 everyday it gets dumber

Lexington Herald-Leader @kentucky.com · 3d

“This is a different race, it’s a different year, it’s a midterm,” McGrath said, comparing 2026 to her 2020 run for U.S. Senate.

‘Battle-tested’ Amy McGrath launches second Kentucky U.S. Senate bid

“This is a different race, it’s a different year, it’s a midterm,” McGrath said, comparing 2026 to her 2020 run for U.S. Senate.

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Tariff Abdur-Rahim @luxuryjeff.bsky.social · 3d

Completely fucking enamored. I can’t stop listening! I loved their first album and was a bit meh on their 2nd more acclaimed one (I need to re-listen) but “Getting Killed” is 🧑‍🍳💋🎶

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content