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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 9h

You ever see a character design and immediately know there are going to be 1000 cosplays of it at cons next year?

Picture very much related

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pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 9h

Of all Trump's dumb ideas, invading Portland right before Halloween may be one of the dumbest.

pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 1d

MTG isn't going to be president someday, is she?

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

2 years of genocide. I mourn the dead, and I mourn the living. None of us will ever be the same, none of us should ever be the same.

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pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 1d

In Antifa, I hold the rank of 4th level Rogue 3rd level Fighter Commander. Dozens of Serpent Blood cells are awaiting my signal to activate.

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pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 1d

UBI isn't just a cool concept, it's a necessity that needs to be implemented a lot sooner than people think. #UBI

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pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed, I find it interesting to challenge people why they DON'T like doing good deeds.

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pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 1d

I'll eat a little sweet cream butter now and then. Maybe I'll melt it on a tortilla, but a spoonful of pure butter is pretty good. Sometimes I'll eat a bite of softened butter and sugar before I get too far into the cookie making process.

I will straight up eat a tablespoon of natural sour cream

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

I also think part of the problem is we're taught the telegenic shit but not how it's in service to larger political or economic gains. Like we don't really talk about how the Montgomery Bus Boycott was specifically about forcing the bus company to choose btwn integration or bankruptcy

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Bethany Erickson @shoomer5.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, the way we teach this stuff makes it seem like we can win by memes & PR stunts. I only recently learned the peace activists burning draft records weren't just making a symbolic statement. The draft board didn't have copies - every file destroyed was a man who'd never be called up to war.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 2d

Benny Johnson posted a AI video depicting himself as a costumed, pro-ICE Batman punching an Asian woman

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pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 1d

Ruin this platform for the fascist. Do it every day.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

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.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

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. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Leen McBeans 🦇 @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 16d

One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-

Cartoon drawing of a teenage mutant ninja turtle with a brown afro, like Bob Ross, and a yellow eye band. Labeled “Bob”, an honorary unofficial fifth TMNT. Bob looks like a shy friendly outcast ninja turtle, to be honest. Made for an 8yo boy who made a cute comment ☺️

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 1d

I seriously do wonder just how Donald John Trump knows, or thinks he knows, about what is going on. I am not excusing him, he's a mob boss and evil, but I do think Miller and the other factions in the imperial court are manipulating to some extent (how much?) what he sees and knows.

Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 1d

Sundowning demented elderly man continues to confuse five-year-old B-roll on Fox News for the nightly news

Sundowning demented elderly man continues to confuse five-year-old B-roll on Fox News for the nightly news - Lawyers, Guns & Money

And now this, as Neil Postman once said: On Sunday, NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor nailed an exclusive phone interview with President Trump. A good deal of news came out of that, and a story that followed highlighted Trump’s vague and ominous threat to investigate former FBI director Christopher Wray amid false claims that FBI agents were part of […]

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor.

Who could have predicted?

Oh, right.

Discord users suffer the first high-profile age-verification hack – and it's unlikely to be the last

Critics of age verification laws warned this was inevitable

www.tomsguide.com

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

This is also a classic example of disability scapegoating in environmentalism; our need to stay alive is singled out as a problem that needs to be solved by making us disappear.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 1d

This is a 30 year old image from the LA Riots.

Since reality fails to comply with the president's delusions, CNN has reached back into history to produce images that align with his lies, and manipulate readers into thinking it's the present day.

They've picked their side.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

We can’t out-Republican Republicans, nor should we want to.

Democrats need to say what they believe — and actually believe in something.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 3d

"Evidence suggests that compared to the boomers we studied, a larger proportion of Gen X are susceptible to hard falls than their predecessors. This demands a structural solution and a universal basic income might be the answer."

UBI is indeed the answer.

thehill.com/opinion/fina...

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 3d

Beautiful final words after some real talk brevity. Your life does matter. This is one of the reasons I think universal basic income is so important. It's the only policy that is everyone saying to everyone, "Your life matters."

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 2d

Pressure is continuing to build in South Africa to do a universal basic income grant. Will they be the first country to do it? It's possible.

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Basic income grants have been trialled in many countries but not yet implemented as policy in a single one. But where it has been tested, it has been found to have a wide-ranging positive impact. This includes a reduction in crime, improvement in health outcomes, improving chances of finding employment, bolstering social cohesion and allowing people to be part of the transition to renewable energies, which is essential to respond to the pressing climate crisis that disproportionately affects poorer nations and communities.

She says a large part of why UBIG remains off the table is because of entrenched myths around costs and the negative impacts of UBIG. “People still hold on to these ideas that it’s not affordable, that it will create dependency and laziness. But the evidence shows that this is just not the case, these really are myths.”

Howson says it circles back to political will and answering the questions of who benefits from not implementing UBIG; also, who South Africa owes money to, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and what their interests and conditions are.

Hallink adds that funding UBIG is also mistakenly cast as something that will be an additional burden on individual taxpayers. “The funding proposals for UBIG could come from better tax compliance and mining royalties especially from international companies that benefit from the mineral wealth in the country but are not directly invested in South Africa.”

Another funding path, she says, could come from cutting wasteful government expenditure. And, she points out, money spent by grant recipients is also money that returns to government coffers as part of value-added tax collection.

“We have had things like employment subsidy schemes that have run for years but unemployment has just gone up. It should be clear that it’s time to allocate money to align with our priorities and to be guided by the evidence.

“We also need to understand that a UBIG is a matter of national security; it is a matter of ensuring social stability and that is something that benefits everyone – including those who don’t believe in a universal basic income grant.” DM

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pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 1d

I was talking about it before the widespread deployment of LLMs. When most people were buying car insurance from a robot, that should have been a wake-up call. That was more than ten years ago.

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Kei with the bad joints @okeibai.bsky.social · 2d

If UBI existed and was enough to live on I'd release all my work for free. I'd work for free too, if the work was interesting and broadly beneficial. Corporations know that nobody would entertain their bad ideas if they weren't holding the ability to live over ppls heads

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