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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 6h

wired is covering this like cnn covers mass casualty events

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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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 20h

🚨 WE HAVE A GOOD DOG 🚨

A tortoise shell doggie sitting in front of a multicolored bright pattern on a sidewalk that says GOOD DOG with an arrow pointing at this obviously good dog.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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damien 🥖🐈‍⬛🧣 @damien.zone · 20h

it says something that an external contributor does a better job communicating about the ins and outs of atproto than the bluesky team themselves 🙃

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ann hedonia 👻 @lyctor.space · 21h

Oh joy, as an amputee I am so excited for the mod team’s incompetence to label me as explicit content

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

It's an automated system, so unfortunately this is an error that gets made surprisingly often with prosthetics.

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ann hedonia 👻 @lyctor.space · 21h

Hambaga

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ann hedonia 👻 @lyctor.space · 22h

I will forever love Focus for writing their biggest hit as a parody of indulgent prog and then going as hard as they possibly could in performing it. impeccable dedication to the bit

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ann hedonia 👻 @lyctor.space · 1d

started watching the Mr & Mrs Smith series; god damn are Glover and Erskine good together

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ann hedonia 👻 @lyctor.space · 1d

Ate a waffle at lunch, lads
[user was banned for threatening bsky staff]

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 2d

In case you had any doubts Skin Deep is a good game, here's an excerpt from its patch notes.

Fixed: mech glass wound bug
Piloting a mech and stepping on glass shards would sometimes result in getting glass stuck in Nina's feet. This was not intended, as Nina's feet are fictionally safe inside the mech. Using the mech to stomp on glass no longer applies glass wounds to Nina. Nina is now safe.

Fixed: pod departure logic
Under certain circumstances, the player was able to deposit all of the cats into the cat pod and then force the pod to leave before Nina could enter it. This resulted in what felt like a soft-lock where the pirate boarding ship never appeared.

Fixed: swordfish consumed by trash chute
If the player had a swordfish impaled in their body and then stood near a trash chute, the trash chute sometimes
"ate" the swordfish. This was not intended. It sort of made sense and was an interesting systemic behavior, but the interaction was a little too confusing. In this update, the trash chute now ignores impaled swordfishes.

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ann hedonia 👻 @lyctor.space · 1d

Oh and revengeance! It’s platinum time

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ann hedonia 👻 @lyctor.space · 1d

VANQUISH

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ann hedonia 👻 @lyctor.space · 1d

Yotei is breaking sales records so they gotta retarget fast

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ann hedonia 👻 @lyctor.space · 1d

I don’t think any browsers will autoplay the midi on the Halloween page anymore but it’s still good

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ann hedonia 👻 @lyctor.space · 1d

Apropos of nothing in particular, please enjoy the only good website I ever made:

isitfallyet.info

Is it fall yet?

isitfallyet.info

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ann hedonia 👻 @lyctor.space · 1d

I love atproto and its compostable moderation

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 2d

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 1d

need this to boost planetary morale

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Open to ‘Bill & Ted 4’ After Reuniting on Broadway

Takeaways from Variety's Business of Broadway Breakfast.

variety.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

I think it probably varies from person to person how much money it takes to drive you completely insane but everybody’s got a number and it’s never as high as you’d like to believe

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 1d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

Suspending Erin Biba, a Jewish woman for this skeet is nasty work. Between this and intentionally misreading Link’s use of a meme as a threat, bsky mods are more than willing to ban based on the Spirit Of The Law for *some* posters but never Jesse Singal.

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"All the Jews have to die or convert to trigger the rapture. Then our dead bodies surround Jerusalem and they climb over us to reach Jesus, who will bring them to heaven. It's why they're all Zionists obsessed with Israel.
Cause they need Jews to go there so we can die"

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 2d

So Hulk Hogan, why are you a great candidate for the Administrative Assistant position?

Hulk Hogan:

An app icon of a printer/scanner combo and the app name "brother iPrint&Scan"

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 2d

Greta Thunberg annoys the right because she's a reminder that it's possible to stay true to your moral principles even when it's inconvenient, and they fucking hate that

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arabiafats🇵🇸 @arabiafats.bsky.social · 2d

hi real arab here. these are indeed our three genders

Drew Mackie @drewgmackie.bsky.social · 2d

Video games can teach you so much about other cultures.

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ann hedonia 👻 @lyctor.space · 2d

Demi and Tom are two of the funniest people alive and subscribing to bst.png was one of the best decisions I made this year

tom @tomwalker.bsky.social · Mar 25

Demi tries to remember the short story “for sale: baby shoes, never worn.” on BigSoftTitty.png

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