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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 47m

occasionally you're forced to remember that these people are huge dipshits in addition to being evil and i dunno about you but it motivates me to outlive them all

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 4h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 2h

great time to remember the only good taylor swift stan

2019 tweets from @LegitTayUpdates about how updates from the account stopped on account of going to prison for refusing to join the IDF

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 7h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 7h

prosecuting ICE and the cabinet? ✅

prosecuting tech CEOs enabling this too? ✅✅✅

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 7h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 8h

It's kind of incredible, and fitting I suppose, that the guy who got to shoot Osama Bin Laden is somehow also a huge loser. That's like if Hitler got assassinated by Elmer Fudd

The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 8h

Aftermath’s Top Prime Day Deals: leave your house and go to the store and buy yourself something nice, sweetie.

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 8h

I have a very limited reserve of The Only Good Website stickers back on the shop! Two sizes available!
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A stack of bumper stickers that read "The Only Good Website Is One You Made Yourself" in a sort of fun, Web 1.0-inspired look

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 11h

Keep an eye out for that new user in your gaming discord, server nickname blahaj-trantifa67, who will soon be asking for access to the private channels "where you dolls are planning real actions"

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 1d

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

"Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people," said Attorney General Paxton. "The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America.
There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."
The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Alvarado, Texas. On September 10, 2025, a leftist assassin connected to the radical transgender movement murdered Charlie Kirk because of Kirk's bold support for truth, love of country, and unshakable faith. Two weeks later, another deranged leftist opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas.
President Donald Trump has officially designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and instructed his administration to "utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa." Building on President Trump's bold actions, Attorney General Paxton has instructed his office to initiate sweeping investigations into radical leftist organizations engaged in or providing support to those performing political violence.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 13h

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 22h

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 20h

Hiring politicians to work in your newsroom because they have good sources is an enormous category error, part nine jillion of n

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 20h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20h

Minimum demands from here on:
- Abolish ICE immediately
- Prosecute and jail all ICE leaders nationwide, and any ICE goon who can be proven to have violated the Constitution
- Prosecute and jail all Trump administration officials responsible, inc. Cabinet level
- Abolish Dept of Homeland Security

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 23h

CM Plugs

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 1d

it owns to not be in media now. i can post whatever i want about the worst ghouls in the profession and at least if one of them decides to wield their wealth and power against me i won’t *also* have to act surprised and betrayed when my boss’s boss takes the ghoul’s side

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 2d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

i thought i knew all the eric adams lore. i did not know all the eric adams lore.

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 1d

didn’t miss it you are a trash candidate hope the grift collapses in on you for good this time

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

If I hear a single fucking person talking about how we need to line up behind this shitheads inevitable candidacy I'm going to lost it

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d

Terroir
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Terroir
They had been bombed so frequently by now that even
the children had come to know the category of missile
by the sound they made as they fell or the size of the
hole they left behind. The sensibility of a sommelier.

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 1d

very funny to imagine a person going to see Keanu in Waiting for Godot not because of Bill and Ted or John Wick or The Matrix or Point Break or any number of other films but because he was Johnny in Cyberpunk 2077

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 1d

lmao funny tidbit from the Verge story: bari weiss let her squarespace subscription (amateur) expire (amateur!), so her stupid "woe-is-me" buillshit resignation letter to the New York Times has bit rotted off the face of the internet outside of archives

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Nov 10

👆 sent to bed without supper

👇 not allowed on the Nintendo

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 1d

hmm what an interesting proposal, but methinks we should have AI in it good sir *tips fedora*

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