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Aubo 🏳️‍⚧️☃️

@aubryjoi.bsky.social

Make the yuletide gay ❤️

[ #cuteart #traditionalart #sketchbook ]

A sketch page showing a mixed media (paint pen & colored pencil) drawing of two male cardinals inside a holiday wreath. Between them is a heart, and around the wreath are stars, as well as the words “make the yuletide gay.” More doodles of cardinals are around the page.

December 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM

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Sophia 🏳️‍⚧️

@handle.invalid

i am not a toy. i am not a christmas present. i am a 3,000 pound semi aquatic liability. please think hard before gifting a hippopotamus this christmas.

December 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.

We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.

Our members keep getting papers.

Hey there Onion members,

This is Ben Collins, CEO of America’s Finest News Source™.

I am writing today, as we have arrived at a precipice in American life, to thank you.

Our government is employing masked oafs to kidnap our neighbors, ziptie our children, and play Call of Duty: Burger King Edition in several American cities. The White House, otherwise occupied with taping an episode of HGTV’s “Help I Wrecked My House,” is hellbent on politically mandated starvation of the indigent. Worst of all, America’s airwaves have been taken over by dull throbbing moans only recently identified by scientists as something known as “Morgan Wallen.”

In short, it is not a good time out there, and our captured media has been too scared to call that out.

But, because of you, none of that is true at The Onion. For reasons we don’t like or understand, our work has become increasingly important.

You and your contribution over the last year have allowed The Onion to thrive in this precarious moment — to take risks and to say sentences mere moments before those thoughts become criminalized.

We need your help in the next year to bolster that fight as things get precipitously worse.

Because of your support, The Onion is now the 11th-most distributed newspaper in the United States, sandwiched between The Boston Globe and The Chicago Tribune. In the next year, our goal is to crack the top 10, and to surpass the circulation of the propaganda project of a notorious space pervert, Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post.

We’re confident we can reach this goal with your help. Unlike other publications, which all appear to have a fetish for caving to an increasingly maniacal and unpopular authoritarian government, The Onion remains unafraid to print the truth, straightforwardly and without favor.

Due to your patronage in the last year, we have:
Published 13 newspapers since the relaunch of our print edition in September of 2024. Over the summer, by popular demand, we increased the size of the paper by half.
Took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times “calling upon lawmakers in Congress to sit back and do absolutely nothing,” then sent this op-ed to every member of the House and Senate and all 54,000 of our subscribers. Thankfully, they took our advice, and now people are starving.
Drove the Onion Newsvan in front of protests and ICE detention centers, blaring headlines about ICE’s one true love: teargassing elementary schools.
Released Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile in over 40 cities across North America and later on YouTube, and let independent theatres keep the ticket sales. It’s still unclear if we can write this off.

And, a year ago this week, we successfully bid on InfoWars at a bankruptcy auction, before the judgment was overturned by a judge for — and I’m paraphrasing here — being too cool.

Yes, despite a legal bill that rivals the GDP of West Virginia, we are continuing work to acquire InfoWars and evolve it into an galactically sized depot of lies, scams, and miracle cures for all of the world’s awesome new and untracked illnesses. The Supreme Court — yes, this Supreme Court — denied Alex Jones’ appeal just last month, a last gasp at evading justice, and we’re hoping this clears a path to reinventing the dumbest site on the internet very soon.

So ahead of this holiday season, please consider subscribing to The Onion for yourself, your friends, your parents, or your infant. People love getting something great in the mail every month amidst their requisite bills and death threats.

Look, we’re an independent company, we don’t use AI to write headlines and make art, and we’re one of roughly three publications who are up for the fight. Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically.

Are you?

If so, I hope you’ll continue to be an Onion member, get the paper, and help us deliver ulcers to those who deserve it.

Thank you, and Tu Stultus Es,
Ben Collins
CEO | The Onion

November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM

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Rina Sawayama Brasil

@rinasawayamabr.bsky.social

Rina Sawayama finalizando o show beneficente Together for Palestine, agradecendo a todas as pessoas que participaram e que fizeram doações. 🇵🇸

September 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM

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𓂆Tai تاي˙⋆

@gurabti.bsky.social

إنا لله و إنا إليه راجعون...
May God have mercy on your kind soul, ammo Khaled Abu Diaa, and on your granddaughter, 'the soul of your soul' Reem. ❤️‍🩹
#Palestine #Gaza

رسمة للعم خالد أبو ضياء و هو يحتضن حفيدته ريم "روح الروح" في حديقة مليئة بالازهار، رحمة الله عليهم اجمعين

December 16, 2024 at 6:03 PM

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bakoon

@bakoon.bsky.social

September 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM

jojo the otome mage

@spaceymagey.bsky.social

i contain multitudes

September 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM

jojo the otome mage

@spaceymagey.bsky.social

Molly x chang works are feeding my “worlds collide” appetite atm too

September 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM

jojo the otome mage

@spaceymagey.bsky.social

obsessed with the new panty and stocking soundtrack i CANT WAIT for its release

September 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM

jojo the otome mage

@spaceymagey.bsky.social

filling the “waiting for iron widow’s 3rd book” sized hole in my heart with fushigi yuugi in the meantime

September 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM

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Katrina Leonoudakis 🗼🚉🥰

@katrinal10n.bsky.social

I was a translator at Funimation. After the CR merger, I got laid off, despite having recently received high feedback on my work. My manager called me two days before Christmas to tell me I was off the Winter season anime I had just started on.🥲

Tekno 😈🌐👑🇨🇦 @generaltekno.bttoons.com · Aug 28

When Crunchyroll merged with Funimation, they got rid of all the people in management who a) were actual fans of anime b) had any interest in marketing outside of the boy's market.

(source: Bloomberg News www.bloomberg.com/news/article... )

August 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM

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Prism

@prismreports.org

“While students abroad fill their calendars with workshops, club dates, & graduation rehearsals, Gaza’s students fill theirs with survival plans.”

For a third year in a row, Israel is destroying universities & slaughtering students & professors in Gaza, writes Esraa Abo Qamar in a new dispatch.