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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2h

One of the nice things about streamers is you get to enjoy the wit and humor of people you’re pretty sure you couldn’t fucking stand being in the same room with for five minutes

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 3h

It's fucking weird to be living in like at least ten different apocalypses at once.

Most apocalypse stories don't stack more than five.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 7h

I remain so over the fucking moon about lettering this book.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 7h

Heyyyy! Wanna do something awesome for trans creators today?

Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down is available for preorder. It's the sequel to Galaxy the Prettiest Star by @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social and it's gonna be BEAUTIFUL.

LINK:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799756...

Galaxy 2: As The World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod: 9781799503446 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The highly anticipated sequel to the YA trans coming-out graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star brings more romance, more action, and more queer joy as Taylor faces her biggest fear: the Vane. Tayl...

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Boo-Rian Making Comics @necroknights.bsky.social · 13h

You gotta love how when white heteronormative privilege is even slightly threatened, the country loses its mind and elects a deranged would be dictator. But we’re constantly expecting marginalized groups and minorities to tie themselves to the tracks of the trolley for the supposed greater good.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 13h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 16h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 17h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Sebastián Píriz @sebastianpiriz.bsky.social · 17h

inks from Boom's VR Troopers #3

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Boo-Rian Making Comics @necroknights.bsky.social · 14h

They’re pretty sure they’ve found her remains. It’ll just never be 100% conclusive.

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Boo-Rian Making Comics @necroknights.bsky.social · 14h

Then let it die.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 23h

New comic: "Outer space?" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

Outer space? - Bad Machinery

Another flashback to 1962, and an opportunity to use my now seldom-employed robot-drawing toolset. Seldom-employed for a reason eh John you say. I will have none of this. I had drawn hundreds of robot...

badmachinery.com

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 8d

Ghostober (01/31)

A ghost girl, with half her skeleton visible through her body, writing ghostober in glowing letters with her finger

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アンディ @andymarkle.com · 1d

As someone who was subjected to conversion therapy, it doesn’t work. It won’t work. It’s torture. I was hooked up to an IV and made to vomit watching gay porn for two hours per week. I was prayed over. Bibles and the Book of Mormon were shoved in my face.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 1d

love that we had a whole national reckoning over the media's coverage of Biden's advanced age and none of the scolds who High Horsed us can be bothered to spend even a minute reflecting on the fact that Trump has basically become Mr. Burns in the "Spruce Moose" episode of THE SIMPSONS

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking love having my tax dollars go toward oppressing BIPOC and queer people and satisfying this doddering asshole's whims instead of, say, fixing our crumbling roads and bridges, building out high-speed rail, or paying for universal healthcare.

... I'm so goddamn tired.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

endlessly embarrassing that the powers that be here banned Link. just disqualifying.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

"Find a man who is of no value while he lives, you wrap him in a flag, and you make his death work for you."

THE TWILIGHT ZONE

4x04: 'HE'S ALIVE'

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Every part of this sentence describes an abomination before God. People are going to hell for this.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Boo-Rian Making Comics @necroknights.bsky.social · 1d

If you were asking yourself just how desperate Trump and the GOP would get to distract us all from the Epstein file, well-

Here you go.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 1d

Why is the Trump Administration wasting taxpayer dollars on this shit when there are still unanswered questions about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Ted Healy, the founder of the 3 Stooges? Come on, focus on what matters right now!

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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Boo-Rian Making Comics @necroknights.bsky.social · 1d

Also Frankenstein(That’s the big guy’s name too and we all know it) is happy and we do not kink shame in this house

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Boo-Rian Making Comics @necroknights.bsky.social · 1d

The original novel’s second act and the second universal film are about making the monster a bride for fucks sake, and the novel is full of gay and bisexual subtext that isn’t even remotely subtle(Because Mary Shelly got it. A LOT.)

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