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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 26d

all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 14h

Did y’all feed the birds too

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19h

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 19h

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

bit.ly

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

doomscroll break

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 18h

that's reptar, the king of dinosaurs

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 17h

Split 19 in half vertically and call the eastern part “the rim” and the west part the Southwest Highlands and you got yourself a deal

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

doomspiral -> annoyance/anger -> spite/vengeance -> organizing

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 1d

A society that makes lying profitable and truth expensive is in big big trouble

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1d

AI functions identically to fascism.

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

Texas GOP candidate
Shelley Luther complains that students can't make fun of transgender children
By Jay Root, Staff Writer
Updated Feb 9, 2022 6:02 a.m.

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my God this.

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.

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

give greta thunberg a gundam

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

Mars was the Roman god of war.
That’s why we say ‘martial arts,' ‘martial law,' and 'court martial.'

Marshall was the Roman god of designer fashion at discount prices.
That’s why we have Marshall’s.

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, the literal fire man could be a Phoenix? He’s risen from the ashes of the house fire? Maybe?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

also just feels important to point out that after a whole wave of trans users were suspended for pointing out JK Rowling’s transphobia, now apparently we are suspending Jewish users for pointing out Christian Zionists’ antisemitism

the pattern is, uh

not subtle

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

it is genuinely shocking how much rage @jay.bsky.team and the devs seem to have for their user base. suspending Erin Biba over an old post just because she’s been criticizing you is deeply fucked up. fix this shit.

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · Aug 2

You’re not “too intense”.

You just live in a world that rewards numbness.

You’re not “too sensitive”.

You just feel - in a culture built on suppression.

You’re not “too rigid”.

You just have boundaries that others never had to fight for.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

this will only continue to escalate, they want a civil war

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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 3d

We need more frog power.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 3d

Hm, that Nissan Rogue has a fleet plate, usually like what you’d see from rental companies. I wonder how Hertz, Enterprise, etc feel about being party to kidnapping people

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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BOO-iest👻 @mooiest.bsky.social · 4d

“I don’t need to write it down, I’ll remember that” summons the Thought Stealing Fairies. They go pop it into someone else’s head for an intrusive thought.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 5d

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 5d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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