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@smq.codes

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Programmer, progressive, aspiring antifascist. (he/him/any) Cishet white dude of a certiain age but I try not to be an ass about it Using "lame" disparagingly is ableist.

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Shawn Mostly Quotes @smq.codes · Nov 13

Hello to all my wonderful, hurting, desperate Gazan followers! I see you. I won't block or mute you. I SURE AS HELL won't report you. But as much as I want to I can't solve a humanitarian crisis with my household income. Most days all I can do is relay your appeals. I'm sorry.

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 6h

Goose meme with text of “Who were the Antifascists fighting in Weimar Germany?”

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Shawn Mostly Quotes @smq.codes · 5h

TAMPONS FOR THE TAMPON THRONE

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 11h

We are changing our antifa secret handshake to slap-slap-fistbump-fistbump. Then you snap your fingers once, eat everyone's pets, and make everyone within 50' instantly become trans. Pass it along.

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Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 10h

Ways you can ensure that you piss me off and get blocked: send an email like you're my passive-aggressive middle-manager.

"When you have a moment, I’d appreciate it if you could review my last email..."

Motherfucker YOU COLD-EMAILED ME, YOU DON'T GET TO TRY TO PRESSURE ME TO RESPOND.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 10h

If something feels off, feels sus, feels 'like fed shit'

you don't have to be fucking columbo

trust your gut

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Shawn Mostly Quotes @smq.codes · 10h

1541 spotted!

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razorgirl @razorgirl.diy · 11h

I decided I wanted to do this. I barely know what I'm doing, but we've got shitty SMPTE bars being broadcast over my hackrf

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 10h

HEY! YOU!

THE COMICS READER WHO'S TIRED OF TINY BREAKABLE WAIFS!!!

CHARLIE'S MOM'S GOT IT GOING ON!!!

sidequested.com

A giant woman with dark skin, white hair, and firey eyes looks enraged as she points a battleaxe at the reader.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12h

Wish we had a press corp that would actually ask something like “where are you getting this information from?”

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Ale @alepresser.com · 13h

𝗛𝗲𝘆!
Side Quested is up and the poor Weaver is WAIT, WHO THE HECK IS THAT!?!?

🔗 tapas.io/episode/3635...

🔷 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿?
🔹 Start here: tapas.io/series/SideQuested
🔹 Or here: sidequested.com/page/1/
🔷 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: patreon.com/alepresser
🔹 #webcomics

Read Side Quested :: Chapter 3: 40 | Tapas Community

Read Side Quested and more premium Comedy Community series now on Tapas!

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Shawn Mostly Quotes @smq.codes · 1d

You'd have to ask Amelia, but I presume it's because Josh is charming as hell.

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

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Shawn Mostly Quotes @smq.codes · 1d

Just wait until they find out her ghost is banging a cyborg

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CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

www.cnn.com

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Reinstate Link as a gesture of good will

Apologize

Hire a comms person

Hire a team of consultants

Tag in the multiple orgs who backed you

This is not hard

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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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it.
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Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding
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Shawn Mostly Quotes @smq.codes · 1d

And when normal people can't be expected to understand the distinction between ML and genAI when everything out there is just called "AI".

Any bets on what tomorrow's rake will be?

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 2d

A bully believes that kindness is weakness. A fool believes that bullying is strength. A true warrior knows that a bully is weak, and that compassion and kindness are strengths they could never comprehend.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

the article in the QT is solid & if you’re cis & don’t get exactly how grim headlines like “supreme court poised to overturn conversion therapy ban,” please know that the international council for the rehabilitation of torture victims (ICRT) considers conversion therapy torture.

because it is.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 1d

Family dining al fresco. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired, white and tabby cat lying in a field looking brightly towards the camera. She has two kittens appearing to nurse on her and a third kitten that looks very much like her that is also looking towards the camera.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

“Bluesky claims to want decentralization and composable moderation, but they still enjoy abusing the power of arbitrary banishment.” - Link

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

plus.flux.community

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Shawn Mostly Quotes @smq.codes · 1d

Oh no! Here have 14 seconds of a cat washing her face

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Shawn Mostly Quotes @smq.codes · 1d

Definitely, especially image & video loading.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

"surely I, a layperson without a legal degree, cannot parse the august mind of John Roberts": not actually true! try it sometime, your "wow this is some bullshit" instinct is just as correct as any actual lawyer's

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 1d

But also, yes, you'd be surprised how accessible the bullshit this Court writes is! You mostly don't need to know technical legal precedents and doctrines (although that does help), just to be able to read a paragraph and say "wait that made no fucking sense, dafuq did I just read??"

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Actually, I think the far-right is accurately identifying an existential issue.

So many of the most vehement far-right were either heavily bullied or did the bullying.

Teaching empathy to the next generation is fundamentally at odds with conservative political philosophy.

That's why they hate it.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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