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TunafishTiger 🐟 🐯 @tunafi.sh · 5h

The Portland frog can’t be stopped

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 6h

Photograph of someone painting a pinup girl on the nose of a WWII bomber

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8h

So, as part of Taylor Swift's album rollout, there was a scavenger hunt involving videos that looked *really* AI-generated. So #SwiftiesAgainstAI became a thing and now the videos are impossible to find. Fandom outrage can be good!
www.wired.com/story/taylor...

Fans Call on Taylor Swift to ‘Do Better’ After Accusations of Using AI for Promo Videos

A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign.

www.wired.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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TunafishTiger 🐟 🐯 @tunafi.sh · 11h

Online spaces are sacred.

TunafishTiger 🐟 🐯 @tunafi.sh · 11h

People who did not survive Infrastructure Week: my biological family.

TunafishTiger 🐟 🐯 @tunafi.sh · 11h

I’ve met all the closest and most important people in my life online, with the exception of immediate family, so there’s that.

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 13h

I mean.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

TunafishTiger 🐟 🐯 @tunafi.sh · 13h

Congratulations to everyone who has officially survived the first hour of infrastructure week.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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TunafishTiger 🐟 🐯 @tunafi.sh · 14h

I thought it was how they all are sucking their own dicks nine to five every day.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 18h

“Deportations like Sergio’s — to fixtures of the community — are making people think, ‘This could be me next, or my favorite place next, or somebody who I talk to every day’"

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20h

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

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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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 16h

Let’s talk about Banned Books Week. 📚

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Jeremy R. Jenkins @jeremyj.bsky.social · 16h

The U.S. went from "your personal IRS and Social Security data is tightly protected" to "we gave a kid named 'Big Balls' access to view and download all your data because screw you" in the span of less than six months.

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