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Oh, military gentlemen, they bluster, roar and pray. Nine sailors on the Nancy, boys, made fifty run away. The powder in their hair that day was powder sent their way By poor and ragged sailor men, who swore that they would stay.

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Marna Nightingale — ICE gets the skates. @marnanightingale.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes, if you have an older dog, you'll be halfway through morning walk on a warm fall day and they will decide they want to flop down on a random bit of sidewalk or grass and bliss out for awhile.

If you possibly can, you should sit down on the grass and pet them for awhile.

Bogart lying on the grass in dappled sunlight watching and smelling the world go by.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 5h

THEY DOUBTED ME WHEN I CALLED THE YANKEES BUMS

MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 5h

Canadian enthusiasm knows no bounds.

Two very bland “Go Jays” posts. (But both dudes are great people)

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 5h

THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS ARE GOING TO THE AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

BULLPEN ARE ABSOLUTE DAWGS

NATHAN LUKES DREAM GAME

VLADDY IS THE 500 MILLION DOLLAR MAN

AHHH 🐦💙⚾

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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 5h

wow.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Friends and Families for Safe Streets @ffsafestreets.bsky.social · 5h

Well, well, well. 👀

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

Probably just a coincidence, but I had tickets cancelled for an international flight on Friday, after I checked in. Airline said the ticket had been flagged for potential fraud and cancelled. My hosts who bought the ticket purchased it again the next day, and I was able to travel w/o a problem.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 7h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 5h

Here’s the significance: if Trump designates “antifa” a foreign terror group, they can prosecute anyone they decide fits under that label with an insane amount of latitude.

“Domestic terrorism” is generally just a sentencing enhancement — rather than a crime itself.

(It’s also unhinged bullshit)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?

TRUMP: You mean anti-terror?

Q: Antifa

TRUMP: Antifa?

Q: A foreign terror organization

TRUMP: Would you like to see it done? I'd be glad to do it. Does everybody agree? It sounds good to me

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t know hot climates, but I do live in one of the coldest/snowiest large cities in the world.

Winter can be a challenge. But also, it’s just a fact of living here.

You learn to dress for the cold. The city is good at plowing.

Walkability in the winter is totally normal and unremarkable here.

Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 17h

Is climate really a barrier to making cities walkable? Only if you listen too much to elites ... humantransit.org/2025/10/nobo...

"Nobody Walks Here. It's too Hot or Cold or Wet or Dry." — Human Transit

Almost everywhere I travel as a consultant, someone asks me whether it’s realistic to expect people to walk given the extremes of their climate. They don’t just ask me this in Edmonton and Singapore. ...

humantransit.org

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 1d

My wish for ALL of you, but especially my fellow nerodivergents. (including the socially castigated,) undiagnosed, queers (esp. nonpassing as cishet,) disabled, jobless, mentally ill, crippled, and chronically ill - to EVERYONE reading this but ESPECIALLY to y'all;

May you catch a fucking break.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

www.propublica.org

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6h

it really feels like you should need to be smarter than these guys to do the amount of damage they do

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 7h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 17h

As expected, all the various speed camera items on the agenda are joined together to create an omnibus item. A speeding omnibus, kind of like that bus in that famous movie, The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 16h

It is okay to feel extremely uncomfortable watching our prime minister compliment a mass murderer of children.

One day what Trump, Musk and Rubio have done to millions of people will be held as a moral evil even though our leaders are silent now.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

People once again need to internalize that "generative AI" is a small subset of machine learning, that machine learning is a critical tool that you cannot run a site without past a certain volume Bluesky has long since exceeded, and that it is FAR more reliable than user reporting.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Uncharacteristically sloppy reporting of a very important issue, this from the FT. It quotes "Fair Civil Justice" without mentioning it is a front for the US Chamber of Commerce and it quotes CMS without mentioning it is Fair Civil Justice's lawyers. on.ft.com/48gOSZv

Drop in class action cases sparks warnings over litigation funder curbs

Investors behind collective lawsuits say limits to their share of damages hamper public access to justice

on.ft.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

4000 people have signed up to sue poultry producers.

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

www.bbc.com

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mac_b52 @mac-b5.stickimporters.com · 1d

If you didn't know about German Brass Techno, you might also not know about German Brass Hip Hop.
This is Moop Mama in one of their unannounced guerilla concerts.

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Queer Momentum @momentumcanada.net · 5d

A strong majority of Canadians (72%) want exactly what queer and feminist advocates are asking for: for the federal government to maintain or expand support for addressing discrimination and advancing equality for women & queer people.

Read the report and take action: www.momentumcanada.net/budget

Black text on a white background reads:

"A strong majority of Canadians (72%) want what queer and feminist advocates are asking for:

For the federal government to maintain or expand it's support for addressing discrimination and advancing equality for women and queer people.

Data is based on a survey conducted online by Abacus Data with n=1,504 individuals in Canada from September 26 to October 1, 2025"

White and yellow text on a navy blue background reads:

"Read more and add your voice: MomentumCanada.net/Budget"

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David J. Doorey (aka The Law of Work) @thelawofwork.bsky.social · 8d

Private conservative club for the wealthy claims it can’t find any Canadian “servers”.

This means:

- the wages are crap and below comparable server jobs;

- the servers are treated like crap by the “members”;

- the club is lying.

Which is it?

www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Exclusive Tory club hires foreign workers under program Pierre Poilievre vows to kill

Toronto's Albany Club, a bastion of the conservative establishment, used the temporary foreign worker program to hire staff.

www.thestar.com

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

im fiscally conservative but socially liberal. that means i think its good that there is rampant despair but i think people should legally be allowed to do drugs, gamble out of desperation, and kill themselves about it

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

The reason we're rounding up grandmothers and shoving them onto concrete floors for months at a time with no habeas corpus is in part because soft human trafficking is an incredibly lucrative business for some people in this administration.

How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting

A former associate of Trump’s border czar allegedly proposed a $1 million scheme last year that put FBI agents on Homan's trail.

www.msnbc.com

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 9d

Instead of taxing the rich to feed his Military Industrial Complex, Carney has decided to literally take food out of the mouths of babes.

APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 9d

Yukon-based First Nations education advocacy organization says it ended the rural nutrition program after its Jordan’s Principle funding was cut.

Jordan’s Principle cuts end Yukon food program for Indigenous kids

An advocacy organization in Yukon says it was forced to axe its rural nutrition program after its Jordan’s Principle funding was cut.

www.aptnnews.ca

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October DEATHules @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 2d

Neil Gaiman was accused of being a rapist, and the defense his lawyers chose was to get the case bounced to another jurisdiction where judgements against him would be smaller and harder to get. They *could* have chosen to defend on the merits but decided not to for some reason.

For some reason.

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