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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 11h

I will make it legal for you to serve everywhere

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 11h

Wait where's the sauce on this, I knew he dated a scientologist in the 00s but seemed adamant he was Catholic

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 1d

This here’s a man of the people.

Former Cubs pitcher Lee Smith on why he always walked so slowly out of the bullpen when he was called - he heard the grounds crew got time and a half of the game stretched past 4:30 pm.

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Chellybreeze @chellybreeze.bsky.social · 11h

Christianity must have sounded insane to sun/nature worshippers.

Being told god is a long dead jew from somewhere they've never been.

When their god is a fiery ball in the sky that they see, feel, & get direct benefits/punishments from.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 13h

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 13h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 14h

Behold: the smallest urinal

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 14h

“Now is our moment in time to fight for the change that we want to see, and fight for the future that we know we deserve," Pearson tells Rolling Stone.

More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

For the uninitiated: The pope being this direct and explicit to U.S. bishops about how to respond to a domestic policy happening in real time is…unusual.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 18h

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

www.reuters.com

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Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · 18h

What I really wish universities and art schools would start thinking about is how their name could be like an Organic stamp of skill and quality-assurance; that any student associated with their name could say to an employer "I am properly trained and have real skills, and can do my job reliably"

Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand teachers who waste their students' time explaining how to use GenAI. There are youtube tutorials for that shit.
When I was studying translation, there was already software around to do most of the work, but we were still taught the damn craft, not the tech

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 22h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 1d

Can't believe I have to prep my phone tomorrow to go through US customs and security in case they search my phone without a warrant

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1d

leaving for Egypt and Jordan tomorrow! So excited

a camel wearing a red and white checkered scarf around its neck

ALT: a camel wearing a red and white checkered scarf around its neck

media.tenor.com

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 1d

the demand for short form video devours all

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

So much of the angry discourse moments that riled up everyone on the site have been a direct result of tech-focused folks trying to explain tech to non-tech people. It’s a consistent lack of understanding of the
depth of knowledge that normies have. They’ve gotta pass the torch to an expert.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

A great way to turn the temp down here as @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @aaron.bsky.team want would be to stop communicating site policies and practices with individual users or on their timelines and hire a comms person who is a professional communicator to do all the front facing interaction.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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🔫Scott Martian Invaders🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 1d

Me to every man who appears on Love Is Blind

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 1d

im sorry am i supposed to know what an omega girl is

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

A modern example of the extent of sacrifice needed for nonviolent protest to have an impact:

Palestinians nonviolently protested near the Gaza wall in great numbers in 2018-2019. The IDF unjustifiably killed hundreds and maimed thousands of them anyway.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2...

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · Apr 15

at the VERY LEAST Bluesky's automod Hive or whoever we're using now should have a database of famous art pieces that can be excluded from being labeled adult content. Like what are we doing here. We going to got the papal route and hack off Michelangelo's David's dong and put a fig leaf over it?

Gustav Klimt @klimtgustav.bsky.social · Apr 2

Judith and the Head of Holofernes #artbots #klimt
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28485

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 1d

It's kind of cool how Japan swapped Shinzo Abe for gender swapped Super Abe

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.

Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 1d

this looks like a middle school social studies project

map for Trump projects in the proposed Gaza peace plan

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