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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 4h

Wondrous.

Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 4h

Oh god bless, today sucked shit but this popped up on my suggestion feed and made things better youtu.be/-Otvhv4bmGw?...

Buddy Guy and Big Mama Thornton • “Ball And Chain” • 1970 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]

YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66

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Maximum Scary @maximummary.bsky.social · 4h

People really don’t understand that the free ai tools they’ve been playing with (or using as disability accommodation) are all going to disappear when the ai financial bubble inevitably bursts. Too many planning a future where they will always be available.

perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 6h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Daniel McDowell @danielmcdowell.bsky.social · 6h

Party like it's 1984! & 1985, 1987, 1989, & 1995!

(If you don't get the joke: these are previous years when the US used the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund to bailout Argentina)

Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 6h

Anyway we're bailing out Argentina

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Maximum Scary @maximummary.bsky.social · 6h

The craziest part is that Drake didn’t sue Lamar, he sued Lamar’s label, Universal. Which is also his label. Drake sued his own record label for totally ridiculous, ego driven reasons! Madness.

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Maximum Scary @maximummary.bsky.social · 9h

The charter schools to fascism pipeline

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13h

Top Trump Education Officials Are Dismantling Public Schools: ‘We’re Going to Have a Lot of Empty School Buildings’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/top-tru...

Top Trump Education Officials Are Dismantling Public Schools: ‘We’re Going to Have a Lot of Empty School Buildings’

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

the latest effort to try to find the switch to turn off liberalism (also these people hate the idea of a free society)

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 15h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10h

Fascinating moment in the power of DC Think. Democrats are clearly *not* looking for an off ramp right now. They’re actually saying this. Which is a measure of how badly it’s going for the GOP. It’s the GOP that is actually looking for the offeamp.

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Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social · 10h

Watching Psycho (1960) from my sickbed. It’s my favorite film ever and I think the scariest part is how Marion turns on the shower while standing directly under the spray. No warm up, no temp check. Just raw.

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Maximum Scary @maximummary.bsky.social · 9h

When the normie left gets involved, boycotts have real bite. On the right, it’s either religious zealots who never bought the stuff in the first place, or rich people who wouldn’t ever inconvenience themselves.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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The Nana Yaga @nanicoolj.blacksky.app · 10h

Someone said Kristi Noem trying to get in your house to use the bathroom was like Remmick in Sinners tryna get in the juke joint and I don't think that's true. Remmick is WAY more charismatic and likeable.

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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 🔥🧊 @chrisdafer.bsky.social · 10h

To be fair, we thought they said "the best and the brightest" but obviously they said "no breasts and the whitest."

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10h

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 14h

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 11h

I know I’ve lost the battle but nothing sets my teeth on edge quite like the word “closure.” It does not exist.

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Maximum Scary @maximummary.bsky.social · 10h

Looking forward to this. He so good on screen and a fascinating character off of it.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 14h

What Hegseth doesn't realize is that it is industrial warfare, not woke or facial hair, that rang the death knell of the warrior ethos.

His entire agenda is the policy equivalent of a cavalry charge into machine guns.

The Army’s Race to Catch Up in a World of Deadly Drones

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Call me Trick-or-Tracy. 👻🎃 @peakingsassy.bsky.social · 1d

The girlfriend of TWO of the founders of antifa!

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

I knew something was up with seasonings

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Maximum Scary @maximummary.bsky.social · 1d

Way to alarm the neighbors! [complementary]

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 1d

The Army Emergency Relief web page is crashing right now as the entire military grapples with the reality that they're probably not getting paid next week.

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Maximum Scary @maximummary.bsky.social · 1d

There used to be an overnight train between DC and Boston that was held over in NYC for a few hours. You could board and just wait on the train, but that seems to be gone.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 1d

I'm already pre-gaming being annoyed a couple years from now after the AI bubble pops at techbros posting things like "we basically had human level intelligence and normies rejected it because they were squicked out"

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 2d

every recipe can be a one bowl recipe if you're not a coward

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Try to imagine if federal agents under a Democratic administration had fired pepper balls at conservative clergy protesting--- let's just say --- abortion.

They've litigated and won Supreme Court cases over much less.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

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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