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Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 12h

overjoyed and honored to have had the opportunity to edit this issue of GARLAND from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, read and gaze upon all the great work 🦷🏳️‍⚧️🐀

deertransition, baby ghost @deerea.rs · 4d

extremely excited and humbled to announce that my poem "Short Message Service Protocol" was published earlier today in issue 4 of GARLAND from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social !!! This whole collection is truly incredible and I am so honored to be a part of it!

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GARLAND — fifth wheel press

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d

The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.

2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.

www.nytimes.com

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Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 7d

u got this brother 😤🙏

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Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 8d

the national design studio is giving business student canva pres

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Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 8d

opacity 40% on matte-light gold gradient

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 9d

I’m becoming more and more concerned that people at high levels of public discussion cannot identify the difference between a genuinely viral conversation vs a bunch of bots making noise.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 9d

“Bots or likely bots authored 44.5% of X posts mentioning Cracker Barrel in the 24 hours after the new logo gained attention on Aug. 20, according to research for ⁦‪@WSJ‬⁩ by PeakMetrics. That number rose to 49% among posts calling for a boycott.”

Bot Networks Are Helping Drag Consumer Brands Into the Culture Wars

AI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say.

www.wsj.com

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Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 9d

there are brain damaged gen xers who want to day of the rope for this

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 9d

This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 11d

zuckerberg trying for John Wick this Halloween but ending up more ghislaine maxwell

Zuckerberg in a black suit and a wig that's a thick, black bob

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Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 12d

seems kinda small

Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 13d

years of lead paint vibes for sure

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Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 13d

its extremely fucked that we've reached Mass Shooter Slop level of the dematerialization and aestheticization of politics trajectory

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13d

It feels like this is becoming a more common mass shooter profile: Someone who's interested in politics but not as a vehicle to express clear values or a coherent viewpoint. He just wants to mock anyone who takes it seriously.

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Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 15d

in the year 2025, megabillionaires are pulling the same blockade attempt that racist broadcasters did at tv stations in the south, but instead of protesting the televising of speeches by Medgar Evars or MLK, its the guy from The Man Show

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16d

UPDATE: Sinclair is NOT going to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel, even though ABC is resuming production.

Sinclair has demanded that Kimmel personally donate to Turning Point USA, a right-wing political organization.

David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair, donated 250K to Turning Point USA last year.

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 15d

Hey guys got raptured in the first group(!) and Im in heaven right now and I wanted to just prep you that everyone is naked here. Like everyone. God included. There's not even robes. I asked and they said there's no robes.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17d

In Those Years
Adrienne Rich

In those years, people will say, we lost track
of the meaning of we, of you
we found ourselves
reduced to I
and the whole thing became
silly, ironic, terrible:
we were trying to live a personal life
and yes, that was the only life
we could bear witness to

But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged
into our personal weather
They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove
along the shore, through the rags of fog
where we stood, saying I

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Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 18d

paper mills are one of those old school american pollutors where even before germ theory people were like, this is bad because it makes everything smell like ass forever

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Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 18d

gender neutral toilet

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Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 18d

wait did i get tricked into buying cuphead

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Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 19d

good luck erika men wld literally leave my old church growing up when they learned my mom wrote the bible study guides

Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 20d

Charlie Kirk's widow Erika Kirk announced as the new Turning Point USA CEO.

September 17, 2025
Erika Kirk Announcement
In Ecclesiastes, King Solomon wrote that mankind is to be tested by God. Today we are facing such a test, yet we also know that God has prepared us with everything we need to overcome this ordeal.
It was the honor of our lives to serve as board members at Charlie's side. Charlie prepared all of us for a moment like this one. He worked tirelessly to ensure Turning Point USA was built to survive even the greatest tests. And now, it is our great pride to announce Erika Kirk as the new CEO and Chair of the Board for Turning Point USA.
All of us at Turning Point USA have a special role in carrying Charlie Kirk's mantle and completing his vision of bringing us all closer to our Lord and fostering a prosperous country for generations to come. As Charlie always said, "We have a country to save." We will not surrender or kneel before evil. We will carry on. The attempt to destroy Charlie's work will become our chance to make it more powerful and enduring than ever before.

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Connor Frew @moongarbage.bsky.social · 19d

hey man i dont want to see arthur's bare shoulders

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 21d

Counterpoint: its much easier for them to repress speech at the level of Late Night TV than it is random social accounts and they are consistently attacking high visibility low power targets which makes new enemies for very little actual social gain or narrative control

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 23d

America lorded over by a dying billionaire pedophile who seems to be spending his time shuffling around having strokes and a perpetually embarrassed Campbell's Soup kid with unresolved daddy issues that he is going to make the entire Earth's problem just in time for the semiquincentennial

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 25d

When you write a piece noting that a guy promoted racism and violence, his followers immediately prove you right

Rape threats and racist nonsense in my inbox

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 26d

If the shooter had proven to be a trans anti-fascist, the only way they couldve actually increased pressure would've been with complicity from "liberal" institutions (which we are already seeing) because they are already at 100%, turned to 11 all the time, literally constantly

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 26d

We could never disrespect that man as much as his own people already did. At least we considered him an enemy worth taking out. He's nothing to them

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 26d

A fitting end to a short life that still went much too long.

He Dead

open.spotify.com

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