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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 12m

Okay, Norway, you asked for it.

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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key unifying figure in the opposition, advocating for free elections and...

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 46m

And you can tell they know they've got a winner here, because they do give you the option to downgrade to "Standard." Which seems to mean you go on paying €60 for the same stuff you had before.

Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 48m

So anyhow, Adobe's automatically changing everyone's Creative Cloud plan to "Pro" and increasing our monthly payments from €60 to €80 to try and recoup all that spending on AI bullshit nobody wants. That should win them friends.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 1d

JB from the top rope ✊

Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 1d

I would not ever want Dolly Parton annoyed at me. I want to live my life so that Dolly Parton is never annoyed at me.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, that's what I needed to do. Thanks for the tip, Andrej!

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 2d

That's the thing I miss most about New York, the Sharia law nudists.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 2d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 2d

Going to write your name in for President

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

It's black letter, can't get more explicit, printed in US code you ignoramus. 31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2)

*JOHNSON: SOME LEGAL ANAYLYSTS DON'T BELIEVE IN SHUTDOWN BACKPAY

(2)Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to perform work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such work, at the employee’s standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates, and subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 3d

Where's the rest of Nebraska? Also, I'd take a bigger bite out of central PA and upstate NY. I've lived in Ithaca and Iowa City and, once you leave the College Town areas, they're about equally midwestern.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 3d

That they will credit to Trump. No.

Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 3d

How we see Nutmeg How he sees himself

Small puzzled cockapoo on the left; poster for THE MEG on the right.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3d

like!!! we KNOW that it is a small number of weirdos with outsized influence who want to ban books, but it's always nice to get a confirmation

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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andrea cleary @andreacleary.bsky.social · 4d

A few online orders or in-store book purchases would be a nice way to support Books Upstairs after this horrible attack. Who does this? To an independent book shop?

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 4d

‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack

Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday

www.irishtimes.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4d

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 4d

Penelope Fitzgerald was 60.

(Also, not that it means much, but I was 38.)

William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 4d

I was well over 30 when I wrote and published my first novel, and fully agree with you!

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 4d

I'm afraid it doesn't work for me on Sonoma 14.4.1 (23E224) with either Firefox or Safari. I only get a Previous button on the practice round page, so I keep bouncing back and forth between that and the explainer page.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 4d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 8d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 4d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Feb 22

Send Dems into rural America to talk about what Trump is doing. The Republicans are too scared and won’t show their faces…in the vacuum of messaging, there is power.

Tell the folks who is hurting them. Point to the GOP. Be the foil to the shit that’s happening. Be the party of the people.

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