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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 6h

It’s a ghostussy.

Photo of a cardboard cat scratcher house featuring a parabola-shaped white cartoon ghost who is lifting up the hem of his ghost skirt, I guess? To create the place where the cat can climb in. It looks like the ghost is flashing the viewer. Sold by chewy.

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Scott @smadin.net · 6h

I don't recognize any "purple revolution" that isn't about Prince

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Scott @smadin.net · 6h

I dunno, man. Am I supposed to be bothered that Katie Porter didn't want to waste time giving lip service to the (sometimes outright evil, sometimes merely ignorant and incoherent) policy preferences of trump-voting Californians? Because I'm not! I don't see why she should even pretend to care!

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 7h

The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa.

Claude Rains in Casablanca, smirking impishly.

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Scott @smadin.net · 6h

It's not reasonable or fair of me, and of course the officiating in the semis wasn't somehow Phoenix's fault, but nonetheless I'm taking a little mean enjoyment from Las Vegas shutting the Mercury out (so far) in the finals.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8h

FWIW, not all female bosses on the Hill have bad reputations. Plenty of them inspire loyalty because they treat their staff well. Every Warren campaign staffer I know loves her. Patty Murray has a deep alumni team that admires her. AOC treats her staff well. Same with Tina Smith

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 10h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 7h

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Hallows and Horror Scenes 👻🎃 @unreasonable-man.bsky.social · 8h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity in The Matrix, the "Dodge this." scene.

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Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 13h

Turns out the real solution to the male loneliness epidemic is waiting for Godot

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 10h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 9h

A federal judge grants the New York Times' request for a list of security clearances held by billionaire Elon Musk. storage.courtlistener.com/rec...

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 9h

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.

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Scott @smadin.net · 9h

¿Por que no los tres?

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 15h

Too good of a pose not to mess with contest or otherwise.

A drawing in digital graphite based on the pose photo in the quoted post. A thin and lithe human in a deep crouch, up on their toes, legs splayed out and their long arms crossed in front of their body. The long fingers of each hand in in curving black claws. Their hair is short and smoothed down close to their head. Their expression is intent and aggressive, looking out from heavily shadowed eyes. From the sides of their head are sprouting two forms somewhat like horns, but also like bent pieces of jagged metal. And several more such forms are rising from their back. Partly to look cool and partly because they were fun to draw. This whole dangerous-seeming figure is perched on top of the head of a sculpture, or possibly a church gargoyle depicting a fierce, horned animal or monster of some kind.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 10h

My all-time favourite one though is the town of Bay D'Espoir, which, being a Quebecoise, I have pronounced in the francophone way. But no. It is pronounced "Bay Despair", and if you understand french this is especially funny because Bay D'Espoir directly translates to "Bay of Hope"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Joey Mannarino in a dark brown tailored jacket. The low armhole is causing his jacket to lift.

Someone in an inflatable frog costume. The high armhole allows them to raise their arm without disturbing the rest of the garment

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 11h

Coming around to the theory that they're Truman Showing him

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

Good lord.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 10h

I know the labeling of their enemies as “Antifa” is a cynical move to justify punishment under some abstract collective, but it’s also very funny that they are positioning themselves as anti-antifa, or, you know, as fascists.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 19h

Rather than seeing this for what it is -- the invasion of a mostly Black, Southern city -- a lot of people are arguing about whether "crime" is going "down." This is why the entire conversation about the "effectiveness" is pointless.
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