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skylerb97.bsky.social @skylerb97.bsky.social · 7h

It's why that Danny Devito Always Sunny "when I die just throw me in the trash" line actually sounds reasonable to me sometimes. Lol

Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 17h

Why do funerals COST SO DAMN MUCH?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?

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Slightly Smee @phllpwnslw.bsky.social · 10h

all the violence in video games but black folks fighting the klan is TOO controversial

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skylerb97.bsky.social @skylerb97.bsky.social · 2d

My cousin let my borrow his PS2 copy in like mid 2006 and eventually just let me keep it. Would spend hours doing random fights against the CPU in the practice mode once I beat the story

Uhhhh,...Hi? @themseries1.bsky.social · 2d

Happy 20th Anniversary to DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi

skylerb97.bsky.social @skylerb97.bsky.social · 2d

I've never had anybody I watched die but you'll always see the news on Twitter when somebody who was big in a certain niche dies and it mends me sad every time

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a lot of smarter people saying smarter things than I could about Bsky resenting their users.

So I’ll stick with pointing out that Bsky posted SEVERAL memes welcoming the swarm of ex Twitter users. They loved it. They celebrated it. They encouraged it.

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 3d

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

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skylerb97.bsky.social @skylerb97.bsky.social · 2d

Dorks

qdot @buttplug.engineer · 3d

we need a slur for people who say we need slurs for people

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SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky about to pull a Target.

Look, if your core is known to lean left, and you yank the wheel hard right, you know what happens? You lose your user base AND the people who mocked you as a left wing bubble aren’t gonna come on board.

Twitter exists already. Techies out here reinventing Twitter

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skylerb97.bsky.social @skylerb97.bsky.social · 2d

My mom had like 2 chocolate ones and 1 lemon ones just lying around on one of our kitchen counters and I ate both the chocolate ones Friday

Mr Jet Set @metroman80.bsky.social · 3d

Yo. So lemon still reigns supreme for me at Nothin Bundt Cakes. Those special flavors HIT sometimes…just like the biscoff. But for a consistent, not “over the top”…”doing the most” option. Yeah. Lemon me down all day erry day.

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 3d

*white people

You gotta be able to be specific in this moment, Jen Jen.

Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 3d

This entire administration is evidence for what happens when people are allowed to fail upward their entire lives

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 3d

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 3d

So let me get this today’s drama right:

* Jay followed noted transphobe Jonathan Chait
* Blacksky user Link pointed that out that’s fucked up after the past week
* Link was banned on Blueskys appview presumably by Jay
* But Link is also hidden from Blacksky b/c it still uses said appview

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Obama won in part because people were sick and tired of Bush’s approach to governance, including the attacks on civil liberties and starting illegal

And Obama promised change and then didn’t even stop the abuses of executive power

If you want to ask how we got here, we can’t memory hole that

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

keeping an eye on this

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

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The Nana Yaga @nanicoolj.blacksky.app · 8d

Progress isn't a finite destination. We have to CONSTANTLY work at it, from the individual to the society.

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skylerb97.bsky.social @skylerb97.bsky.social · 3d

I just said this on the other app yesterday. I genuinely don't think I'm that interesting

KD @kadeeja.blacksky.app · 3d

It’s still so wild to me that people want to hear what I have to say

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skylerb97.bsky.social @skylerb97.bsky.social · 3d

That was a very wild day on Twitter

Sbooks @bemorelikeharper.bsky.social · 3d

After one night with Nancy Reagan:

Malcolm Sex @diggingyouout.bsky.social · 3d

Some throats are unforgettable

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3d

Guys… a decade ago a community (🤚🏿) was intentional about the deep militarization of the American police against its own citizens

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

It matters that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both ran on progressive ideals that they ultimately turned their backs on

It matters that Biden had things rigged for him, to undercut more progressive candidates

It matters that Obama didn’t reverse the executive branch power grab that GWB started

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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨PROTECT JHORDIN🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 3d

i think they live in lala land, sorry. what grown, rational, critically thinking adult doesn't know you have to find the root of a problem to solve it?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

I don’t really understand the people who think we shouldn’t situate the current moment in context of the last 25 years in American politics, including the actions of the three Democrats who were president during that time

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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 3d

What Sydette says about media is exactly what I've seen in literary and convention spaces, physical or virtual. Any way we try to gather and share fails because people who try to address racism get run out to laughter, applause, and gaslighting, while someone points to a BIPOC as proof it's fine.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3d

At best we’ll see a similar version. Anti Blackness and the enmeshment of media and philanthropy . With no DEI standards or design autopsy of Twitter is what killed this project.

It will kill most other ones too

Marcel Proust of Eating Brains @thotchev.bsky.social · 3d

If bluesky implodes from Jay's crashout I want to once again pitch a site wide migration to gaiaonline lmao

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 3d

It’s fascinating to watch someone be a willful problem and acknowledge it in no small terms. Just say you’re a bigot and go. At least then it’d be easier to digest

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 3d

Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite.

To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.

race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 3d

so now link is suspended with no email

link pointing out that jay now follows jonathan chait and suggesting that it may be for transphobic reasons

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 3d

There is quite literally nowhere in the world or even online Black people can go to get away from this shit

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 3d

It's not the apps. It's the raw ingredients, which are all anti-black. If you do not do the work to address as much of it going in, you will not get anything that is not anti-black. Even the AT protocol is anti-black.

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scorchtheground - commissions open| 🎨🔞 @scorchtheground.blacksky.app · 3d

Imagine crashing out and burning your rep for Jesse Singal of all people. Pretty sure this has made the rounds with the investors at this point...

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 3d

A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users.

Waffles eat Bluesky | TechCrunch

A waffle-centric controversy underlines ongoing tensions between Bluesky and some of its most vocal users.

techcrunch.com

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