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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 17h

>not a veteran
>wall full of challenge coins

Kash Patel wearing the corniest Christmas camo punisher skull sweatshirt with his own podcast advertised on the sleeve, wearing his own merch hat too and another behind him, in front of an American flag challenge coin holder that also contains stickers for his podcast

buster bluth in fatigues with arms full of stuffed animals. "these are my awards, mother. from army."

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 8h

I see residents of Bellevue's Newport Hills have decided to go with the talking point that their streets have a "1960s design" as the reason that they can't handle additional housing density.

To me, a "1960s design" would be building another highway through the area, demolishing hundreds of homes.

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 11h

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

It troubles me that I’m starting to feel the same way about Bluesky that I do about the UK. Like: it sounds great, and some of the people I know are great, but the leadership is making some weird choices and I’m a bit worried it may all be over in a couple of years.

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Voiceless Hand @voicelesshand.bsky.social · 1d

What in the fuck is this garbage, sanewashing headline

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 2d

I bet our brains will come out of this ordeal very cool and normal

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

i resent that during a time of rising fascism, i have to ALSO worry about whether the owners of this website are going to tank it out of peeve

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Voiceless Hand @voicelesshand.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's indicative of city councilors who have never used (are too good for) public transit. They have no idea. I'm so tired of these sorts running the cities up here.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 2d

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

average Dem: now is the time for us to come together and turn down the temperature.

average leftist: you think there's gonna be another election? that's adorable, dude. that's precious.

average Reagan-era neocon: now's your chance. he's flailing like a wounded animal. close in and show no mercy.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

At this inflection point for Trump's authoritarian project, the democratic resistance has a chance to rise to the occasion by linking together its legal prong (lawsuits), its political prong (the government shutdown fight), and its popular prong (No Kings). A moment of challenge and opportunity.

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Voiceless Hand @voicelesshand.bsky.social · 2d

This is almost hilarious.
The Eastbase Link train yard is one of the quietest places I've ever worked, second only to an actual library.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2d

CM Jack Dovey says that in 10 to 15 years, people will be showing up at the city council to complain about noise from the Sound Transit maintenance yard.

"Would anyone here want to live next to it?" Honda asks.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

as free press effectively takes over cbs news, keep in mind that democratic investments in media have been minimal -- at best -- and the party and its donors continue to light money on fire for dumb campaign bullshit that makes consultants rich but doesnt win elections or change the narrative

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

This country is a powder keg and it feels like everyone is ready to tear each other apart. This is such a dangerous moment. Please stay safe everyone.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

In the last 2 weeks MAGA aligned people have done 2 attempted mass shootings of a gay bar and pride center in Arizona and Texas, murdered 2 teenage girls for mocking Charlie Kirk, and torched a judge's home.

Meanwhile, the government mobilized the military to go after the left.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 3d

From Nicholas Stargardt's "The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945"

This was not what any of the victorious Allies had intended. The Americans had pursued the most ambitious re-education and denazification policy in 1945 and 1946, forcing Germans to visit the liberated concentration camps or, sometimes, to view film footage from Buchenwald and Dachau before receiving ration cards. Many turned their faces away, unwilling or unable to look. Others began to disparage the films and photographs as propaganda staged by the Allies. Even the word "re-education", with its connotations of sending juvenile delinquents to reformatories or "asocials" to concentration camps, sounded offensive to German ears. The AMericans found that their efforts were bearing little fruit. Between November 1945 and December 1946 they had conducted eleven polls, finding that on average 47% endorsed the proposition that national socialism had been "a good idea carried out badly"; in August 1947, 55% of those polled endorsed this view. The level of support amongst those under 30, those with high-school education, amongst protestants, and those living in West Berlin and in Hesse was even higher, reaching 60-68% - and this was at a time when openly advocating national socialism still potentially carried the death penalty

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Every DoJ attorney promoting and defending at this stuff should never again eat food that is less than 10% spit

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 7d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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Jacques O'Lantern @ass.golf · 3d

*getting severe brain damage from inhaling my own farts* if you think AI isn’t Alive, you are literally Hitler

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Voiceless Hand @voicelesshand.bsky.social · 4d

Paging @rob-sheridan.com

🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 4d

I wish more Olds who lived in/through it would make more analogue horror stuff

I love it as a concept but it's so obvious most people making it have never touched a VHS or a CRT tv in their lives and the nuance gets lost, since they're only using concepts they've seen other 15 year olds use

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Voiceless Hand @voicelesshand.bsky.social · 4d

...had to scramble to deal with them safely and compassionately. It was chaos, and it was cruel, and it was heartless. ICE is trash now, and they were trash 20 years ago.

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Voiceless Hand @voicelesshand.bsky.social · 4d

All across the east side that afternoon, kids whose parents had been snatched by ICE that morning went home to empty houses, or waited after achool for parents who would never come. ANYTHING could have happened to any of a number of those kids, and the rest of the Greeley community...

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Voiceless Hand @voicelesshand.bsky.social · 4d

...I want to point out that the 2006 ICE raids in Greeley were SO much worse than what's depicted in this episode. You see, ICE took a bunch of adults from their day jobs in the meatpacking plants. They had not a thought toward any of these immigrants' children who were then at school.

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Voiceless Hand @voicelesshand.bsky.social · 4d

This recent episode by @99pi.org is an important look into the refugee experience in America, and it was particularly interesting to me because I lived in Greeley from my late teens to mid-20s. And while it wasn't the focus of the story...

99percentinvisible.org/episode/643-...

The New Jungle - 99% Invisible

Greeley, CO is a city defined by cattle. It’s home to the U.S. headquarters of JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, and the meatpacking plant is one of the biggest employers in town. For decades, ...

99percentinvisible.org

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