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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2h

Also fuck you Texas for doing this, invading another state with armed troops; lone star Republic my ass

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 58m

I'm not advocating for that, to be clear, but it definitely isn't civil war when the governors of the occupied territories allow the police of their state to provide material assistance to the occupying forces.

And it would definitely be nice if they stopped doing that.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1h

I've said it before, I'll say it again: civil war is when the governments of the occupied territories meet force with force

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

if this isn't civil war i'm not sure what is

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 4m

Get a portable bluetooth speaker and play the music!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aldx...

Miss Gulch-extended underscoring

YouTube video by Allan Fisch

www.youtube.com

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 1h

BILLION BIRD NIGHT!!!
#birds #fall #migration

BirdCast map showing 1.24 billion birds headed south at 9:50pm EDT on October 8, 2025. Most of the migration is concentrated in the east, especially the southeast.

NEXRAD radar composite map showing birds and weather.

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 8m

Well the truth is we all should work together to keep the identity of the frog secret, and if potential misgendering helps keep them anonymous, then we should do it.

The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 11m

If you know who's inside the suit of the Portland Frog, NO, YOU DO NOT

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 3h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 13m

NO THE FUCK IT SHOULD NOT

Andy, are you okay? Have you been kidnapped? Is this a cry for help?

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 43m

They’re here to protect the armed federal agents who have been terrorizing school communities for weeks, kidnapping parents and tear gassing entire neighborhoods

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 14m

It's a whole industry dedicated to fucking people over while claiming to help them.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 45m

every experiment re basic income shows that people are *more* productive and more fulfilled. which isn't that surprising; if you have no place to live and are starving, all your effort goes to basic survival, and you're likely to sink into despair.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 9h

one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 19m

I think by "you" what they mean is "us"

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30m

If we had responded to Covid by normalizing masking, providing respirators in healthcare & adopting clean air standards…we could have beaten the virus.

We would also be seeing less measles, colds & flu.

We would all be healthier.

I believe history will see it as one of our greatest failures.

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 22m

I did that and it was marginally less torturous, but still quite awful.

Also I dripped all down my front, but I'll figure that out, same as I did for the waterpik.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

Some have said about Assassin's Creed games that "DEI kills art" but this might be a case where "anti-DEI" helped kill art.

Much more about the game and the context of the decision at the link.

Most of the story is paywalled, but you can sample reading it via a free trial.

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 24m

COWARDS

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Just got my copy of this brilliant new book by my former student @m-r-glass.bsky.social, an amazing new study of postwar suburbia on Long Island.

Check it out!

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 32m

Whenever I've been on prednisone I'm like, "Oh, yes, now I remember what it used to feel like to be normal, this is WONDERFUL!"

But after being on a low dose (5mg/day) for a long time, the side effects got bad. And the withdrawal! Holy shit, did not expect that, do not want to repeat.

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 35m

I love their happy little quacks. They are delightful to the eyes and ears!

The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 36m

I think an actual sonic screwdriver would bother my skull less.

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The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 39m

I just used an electric toothbrush for the first time and OMG THAT HIGH PITCHED SOUND

I trust I'll get used to it in a few days, otherwise I'll have a very lightly used electric toothbrush to give away.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 11h

a bksy dev following the Heritage Foundation would be an unpleasant surprise if you didn't know this place was created by and for libertarian crypto bros, and all the good things about it are an unintended consequence they have been trying to "fix" for the last year

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