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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 16h

Today's Mad Men poem was sent to us by Mrs. Connie Druthers of Gantry, Colorado and it goes:

"Sterling Cooper Advertising,
the ads they make are mesmerizing,
but are the people happy there?
The answer's in their vacant stares"

thanks Connie!

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes you get a little tuckered out. At the show. And you need America's beefiest frat men to hold you a security circle for nappytimes.

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 17h

I cannot fathom the wisdom that led them to that decision.

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 17h

Always think about the time probably 20 years ago now at a packed show near the middle front, where a group of people decided to "fan out" so a couple of their friends could lie down and sleep on the floor of the Metro during the concert.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 23h

I have watched my talented, ethical friends lose their jobs because Nazi fuckups like Weiss siphon all the money out of the room and use it to create propaganda mills where sycophants tell the Führer and his thugs they're so special and brave and everyone loves them

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 23h

he does not want to be there

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 23h

You're very welcome! Really great work!

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 23h

This has slain me.

Mathraptor @mathraptor.bsky.social · 1d

"LET HIM SPEAK!"

9" x 12" ink and watercolor on watercolor paper.

Somewhere, in the Deep reaches of space, an assembly has gathered on a space station. During a heated discussion on the design and capabilities of mecha, Isamu Kurogane (Lance) stands tall and dares to speak the truth. "Every Gundam is worse than Voltron because his hands are lion mouths!!!" he declares without shame. His bravado has impressed the Red Comet, Char Aznable, while confusing and insulting Amuro Ray. The delaration is heard to mixed reactions by many other mecha pilots (not by Shinji Ikari, he is doing his best to ignore him).

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 23h

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 1d

Dude come over. We're drinking our vitreous humor. Like the shit from an eyeball? We don't give a fuck, slurping that nasty sauce.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

they killed the big chicken in family guy... its the end of an era man. take me back to watching peters fight the chicken man back when i was young.. never thought itd end up like this... family guy

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🍂 fall firmstival 🍂 @ind3fatigable.online · 1d

I have relatives who've dealt with this condition. The key is treating it as soon as possible. Meaning, time is of the essence.

If you can't donate, reposting is free.

Teacoa R. A. Rushton @teacoarushton.com · 5d

Hello everyone. I need your help. I suffer from diabetic retinopathy. Its a diabetic condition that affects the eyes and is the leading cause of blindness. I need your helo raising money for treatment so I can keep my vision as long as I can. Please share and donate if you can.

gofund.me/c8fa133bb

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 1d

they stripped me of my title when I quit, but fuck it, 300 a year is a lot for dues and no health plan

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Whether in its 'liberal' or 'conservative' tendencies, capital is constantly telling you exactly what it cares about, and yet so many people remain totally mystified

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 2d

There's already a new Genius Night SO SOON

Genius Night: A Night for Geniuses @geniusnight.bsky.social · 2d

Two weeks until da next Genius Night. This one is simply nutty, you will go nuts off of this. We got Josh hosting. Tom and Joe from @animesickos.bsky.social. @bosh.worstpossible.world from @worstpossible.world. @sadieposting.bsky.social. Lynda Cortez. @dono.bsky.social. Kevin with "da news quiz"...

Genius Night poster.

Monday, Oct 20, 7pm
Cafe Mustache
2313 N Milwaukee Ave

Hosted by Josh Watkins
Feat
Tom Harrison
Joe Anderson
Josh Boerman
Donovan Eyre
Lynda Cortez
Sadie Lancrete
and Kevin Johnson with da news quiz

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merritt @merrittk.com · 3d

really excited that bsky has already reached the point of social media platform development where management is openly hostile to power users. at this rate the next niche social media site will have a six month turnaround from indie darling to flaming wreckage

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scorriganworks.bsky.social @scorriganworks.bsky.social · 2d

Is this a @tommchenry.bsky.social comic or what?

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 2d

that's why it wasn't a small drag on the cigarette

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 2d

Watching social media videos of Chicagoans protecting other Chicagoans from ICE produces such a mix of emotions. Grief and terror shot through with pride. I love this city so much and I hate what's being done to it.

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 2d

*deep drag on cigarette*

guess I also gotta get around to starting an email newsletter before we all lose track of each other again

𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone needs to find ways to communicate without this kind of social media because whatever "value" is created in these places, by enabling people to hang out and disseminate information, will be destroyed by the idiots who own them. And it'll go faster every time, apparently.

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𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social · 2d

I think this site's cooked whether users want it to be or not. I see people trying to speak rationally to management but I think what's happening here is beyond rationality and fully in the realm of petty vindictiveness and reactionary bigotry, and that those forces will drive all future decisions.

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 2d

people who go on and on about their needs like that ... it's just the kind of toxic narcissism that you just know attracts the beast

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 3d

there are important lessons for us all: if piggy wanted his glasses back so bad, he should have made a better case for having them

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