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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 4m

“that person is nice to ME” is Enabler 101

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 15m

"Everybody's a jealous hater of my friend's success. And the only evidence I'm going to provide is a made up anecdote."

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 4m

Cops told Jake’s mom there was nothing they could do about the 20+ cameras in the surrounding area where Jake was left beaten. WE went and asked around ourselves. Cops solve what they want to solve and the brutal murder of a disabled gay man wasn’t on their agenda. Meanwhile:

Cops Used 83K
Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on
Her Abuser's Tip
On top of all that: It turns out the cop was
*also* an abuser
JESSICA VALENTI AND KYLIE CHEUNG
OCT 07, 2025

https://jessica.substack.com/p/texas-abortion-surveillance-plate-reader

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3m

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are now some of history's biggest murderers.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 20m

I am shocked to learn that the gentiles atop American power decrying supposed antisemitism don't actually give a shit about Judaism

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 21m

“The unauthorized party also gained access to a small number of government-ID images (e.g., driver’s license, passport) from users who had appealed an age determination. If your ID may have been accessed, that will be specified in the email you receive.”

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Discord warns users after data stolen in third-party breach

The stolen data includes names, emails, limited billing information, and some government-ID images.

www.malwarebytes.com

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👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 35m

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 26m

AND the ambition and yearning to be something... greater. [gestures to Super Grover]

Kay Profundo @unicornosis.bsky.social · 29m

Grover is the perfect encapsulation of the put-upon Everyman (Everymuppet). He's got a series of frustrating jobs where he has to deal with an annoying guy, and sometimes can't stand to look at the monster in the mirror (not to mention the monster at the end of the book)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25m

i just think if you fire a jewish employee on yom kippur you deserve some sort of hex

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25m

when Sora was released, the entire app was people making Spongebob and Pikachu videos

Now there are guardrails preventing that, so the entire app is people complaining they cant make Spongebob and Pikachu videos

seems like an app with real staying power

www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

www.404media.co

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UltraViolet @ultraviolet.bsky.social · 41m

When we say privacy is crucial for reproductive freedom, this is why. The risks are more grave and real than ever.

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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S(cary)W(rath) 👻 @toasterposey.art · 41m

Could you let the police know that when we stand up and speak out, they shouldn’t arrest or assault us? Thanks bud.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 57m

this was really hard to read. my son is almost exactly the same age as the kid in here that Trump and Musk deliberately starved to death apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 1h

I don't know that I'll ever get tired of Trevor Bauer getting his ass kicked nonstop at every level of organized ball in Japan

Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 1h

Gaijin Baseball's comment on the bottom captures perfectly how I feel

GE Galijin Baseball外国人野球 @GalinBaseball・5h
Trevor Bauer just gave up 5 runs to Nippon Express' corporate ball team in a scrimmage...

cp Gaijin Basebal/外国人野球 @Gaijin Baseball ・ 5h
Like, I know I should stop talking about him, but he just keeps giving us stuff to talk about.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1h

I'm going to break my own rule; ugliness is an arbitrary construct and not an indicator of character.

Stephen Miller looks exactly like he should. Like hatred is eating him from the inside out until all that's left is a shief of skim milk flesh stretched taut over brittle bird bones.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 59m

Ken Paxton announcing undercover operations reminds me of when J.Edgar Hoover announced 25% of all communist party members were undercover operatives—the objective is the same, just to sow distrust within the movement and scare people out of participating.

Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Undercover Operations to Infiltrate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence

In response to the political assassination of national hero Charlie Kirk and the disturbing rise of leftist violence across the country, Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched undercover investigati...

www.texasattorneygeneral.gov

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h

MTG for one takes the socialism part of National Socialism more seriously than her comrades www.yahoo.com/news/article...

MTG Turns Against Republicans in Shocking Flip on Government Shutdown

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks Democrats have a point on the Obamacare fight at the center of the government shutdown.

www.yahoo.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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S(cary)W(rath) 👻 @toasterposey.art · 9h

Thank you, pint of Haagen-Dazs, and later, Xanax.

strawbaby jam @strawbbfields4ever.bsky.social · 14h

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

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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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do until it was necessary.
It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11

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Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 10h

Her sister definitely texts like a parent who says CALL ME NOW about something not urgent.

www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

www.wsmv.com

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S(cary)W(rath) 👻 @toasterposey.art · 12h

Dem leadership hated that AOC was popular and tried to crush her and all they got was another young star who was browner and even further left.

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