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niko ☿ niko @nikonikonek000.bsky.social · 16h

my friend begged me to draw a zonked elf. for many hours they said things like "you want to develop a powerful fixation on elfs" and "you want to draw elf smoking 2000 year tolerance mmagic elf weed" and the elfs hypnotic suggestion compelled me

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Meme image showing the guy from: Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just
Made A Great Point

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 1d

Star Sword Nemesis is now available! Read about the most fashionable girl in a utopian collective of Trans-Neptunian Objects falling in love with her fencing instructor, the deadliest turncoat milf in all of space, feat. art by @mightyatom.bsky.social! loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...

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max schwartz @mightyatom.bsky.social · 1d

I had a good time with my friend!!!!! Meet a perfectly functional lesbian relationship!

Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 1d

Star Sword Nemesis is now available! Read about the most fashionable girl in a utopian collective of Trans-Neptunian Objects falling in love with her fencing instructor, the deadliest turncoat milf in all of space, feat. art by @mightyatom.bsky.social! loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...

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safety closet @safetycloset.bsky.social · 2d

shit. i had no idea, i have deliberately avoided following the case because it felt too voyeuristic. thank you for letting me know.

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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safety closet @safetycloset.bsky.social · 3d

a dude who never rose above platoon leader before getting shuffled off to a do nothing civil affairs job, followed by a brief stint as a mediocre media personality who was so drunk and belligerent he was disowned by his own mother is crazy & that more mil folks aren’t saying so alarms me

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safety closet @safetycloset.bsky.social · 3d

killing people and breaking shit was what fucked is up in the first place! it’s not an actual plan!!!

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safety closet @safetycloset.bsky.social · 3d

trust is bought in drops and lost in buckets. every bad use of force set us back with no real plan but throwing money at it sometimes. now Hegseth wants his people “off the leash” or whatever his turn of phrase was; like smoking more unarmed kids without so much as a “my bad” is the winning play.

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safety closet @safetycloset.bsky.social · 3d

it’s kind of crazy that the navy seals seem to be the default american special forces model to pattern off of, considering they mostly just end up doing a lot of war crimes, trafficking, friendly fire incidents, and book / movie deals. like it makes a sort of sense but man.

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safety closet @safetycloset.bsky.social · 3d

oh right, he wants the entire military to be navy seals, except doing even more crime - which honestly is a pretty high bar to shoot for

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safety closet @safetycloset.bsky.social · 3d

like? this shit has literally never worked, and that was when we deployed it against foreign people with little shared culture or language. do you think it gets BETTER if you try it with people who look and speak like you? maybe other folks in the same uniform who ALSO know alllll your TTPs???

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safety closet @safetycloset.bsky.social · 3d

for some reason i feel like deploying GWOT style COIN tactics against your neighbors under the leadership of a drunk, bitter junior officer who’s still mad he got shuffled off to S-9 instead of doing cool doorkicker shit isn’t going to play out the way these people want it to

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

uh....

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality.

The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

my in-laws were genuinely shocked that I, an English person, could not simply come and work in the United States at will.

lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 3d

Believe it or not, this is only the second most naive and clueless thing I've been told about the immigration system. Number one belongs to my own mother, who was so insulated by my dad that she actually asked me "can't I just bring a relative from Brazil to help me care for the house?"

lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 3d

They don't. I had a coworker go to Brazil, fall in love, and naively walk in to the consulate to try to get his GF a visa. When he got home I told him "that was the dumbest possible thing to do."

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safety closet @safetycloset.bsky.social · 3d

i must say again - it’s not a question of whether or not these individuals are ideologically in-line with Trump or not. actually doing this shit while being henpecked by incompetent yes men to accomplish ambiguous objectives with no plan and insufficient resources sucks ass and is annoying

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safety closet @safetycloset.bsky.social · 3d

to iterate on my recent post re: discontent in the ranks of law enforcement and feds - i don’t think it’s great for this administration that they can only scrounge together a company worth of disgruntled weekend warriors to pick up trash & sleep in humvees while getting heckled by crustpunks

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: Gov. Newsom says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon after a judge blocked his Portland troop deployment plan.

California governor says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon.

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safety closet @safetycloset.bsky.social · 3d

invariably the biggest fuck ups at my job turn out to be related to and/or family friends with someone in upper management. glad to see incompetent nepohires are prolific even in prehospital medicine.

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Vergil @ ✊🏽🏳️‍⚧️ @vergiliaux.art · 3d

AYO IT'S BACK.

A "Transphobia (General)" Moderation list by @asukafield.xyz. It says: "List of users who have account labels for generalized transphobia. These are users who have either repeatedly been generally transphobic or whose general transphobia was severe enough to warrant an immediate account label."

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Vergil @ ✊🏽🏳️‍⚧️ @vergiliaux.art · 3d

BSky hid @asukafield.xyz's transphobia mod list. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Blue Sky's interface for hidden moderation lists, saying the following: "This list, created by @asukafield.xyz , contains possible violations of Bluesky's community guidelines in its name or description." Offered choices are to unsubscribe or go back.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 3d

In one sense, this is the Admin recklessly undermining basic norms of liberal democracy.

In another sense, this is the sweatiest flailing around since Giuliani was giving conferences outside a landscaping shop. It's just blindly groping around for any lever of power, regardless of how dumb it is.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: Gov. Newsom says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon after a judge blocked his Portland troop deployment plan.

California governor says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon.

bit.ly

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safety closet @safetycloset.bsky.social · 3d

it’s crazy to me that, even in relatively “normal” spaces, people will turn into frothing reactionaries when you suggest “hey maybe the CWC saga is a cautionary tale in how doing actual gang stalking to an actual person might fuck them up in unimaginable ways and we perhaps shouldn’t do that”

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 3d

And this all starts right out of the academies or ROTC, are the top of the class going into arty or armor or logistics, no they’re all going to the 173rd airborne or ranger school, so you can see how the army has become so light infantry/SOF centric

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 3d

a couple of thoughts here.

1: what can you do but laugh. A good hearty Nelson Muntz laugh.

2: "not to mention all the pussy/dick he s/he will, as a martyr, be entitled to" lol what? THIS IS JD VANCE'S INTELLECTUAL RASPUTIN.

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3d

At last we are doing Sicario from the hit movie “don’t do Sicario”

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