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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 12h

I sure am happy that hockey season is back.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 16h

I don't know the answer to this, but I'll ask. It's a good question.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16h

I’ve repeatedly said we need messengers not martyrs. The below link will let you sign up for a No Kings Protest near you.✊🏽

If you’ve never been to a protest, grab a friend & attend. We have a Constitutional right to protest. Use it while we still can.❤️

Register: courage2025.org/nk2
#Courage2025

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 16h

Reposting this for the afternoon folks, and morning folks who may have missed it.

I really enjoyed this conversation.

Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 20h

I talked to the SDR show about Stand By Me, our upcoming Stand By Me Live shows, and some stuff that isn't about Stand By Me.

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

Actor Wil Wheaton on Star Trek, the Stand By Me reunion, blind ranking & more | SDR Show 857

YouTube video by The SDR Show

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 20h

I talked to the SDR show about Stand By Me, our upcoming Stand By Me Live shows, and some stuff that isn't about Stand By Me.

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

Actor Wil Wheaton on Star Trek, the Stand By Me reunion, blind ranking & more | SDR Show 857

YouTube video by The SDR Show

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 21h

"The Tahoe was unmarked. You can’t charge someone under 18 USC 111 for ramming an unmarked car unless you can prove that they knew you were a Federal law enforcement officer." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/t...

The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting - emptywheel

The criminal charges against Marimar Martinez -- the woman shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent on Saturday -- fail to mention that CBP was already looking for her for doxing an officer who would...

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 21h

Huh. As I was saying...

"Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b----,” before pulling over and shooting the woman five times."

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 22h

He's absolutely correct. This is not a both sides thing, this is a right wing domestic terrorism inspired and encouraged by the leader of the republican party and amplified by all of its members thing.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 22h

On October 23, I’ll be speaking at the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center’s 55th Anniversary Gala. The event supports their efforts to provide trauma-informed care to children and adults of all ages in the Valley.

On October 23rd, you can come hear me speak about mental health care and trauma recovery

One of the privileges I enjoy in my life is the opportunity to speak openly and honestly about my mental health struggles, challenges, and successes. I get to be the person I need in the world, and I get to pay forward the kindness and support so many people gave...

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 1d

I mean, obviously.

The correct thing to do when DHS or ICE or any of these thugs makes a claim like this one -- the only thing to do, really -- is presume they are lying.

Because they always are.

They are state-sponsored Klan members, and should be treated accordingly.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 1d

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 1d

r/simpsonsshitposting is a surprisingly solid source of breaking news, isn't it?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone needs to see AI for what it is—a project that undermines truth & agency while transferring wealth from individual creators to Silicon Valley companies & VC’s. Rooted in exploitation of humanity & the planet, it’s a tool for the radical right to claim dominion & end representative democracy.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

These are profoundly anti social tools that erode the social fabric. Their main purposes are harassment, abuse, demolishing consent and furthering an authoritarian project.

Any uses outside of that are incidental.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 2d

“OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing & releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, & toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse.”

And there is also a dark side.

👏🏽 @hypervisible.blacksky.app

h/t @bcmerchant.bsky.social

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.

This social app can put your face into fake movie scenes, memes and arrest videos

The new Sora social app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI encourages users to upload video of their face so their likeness can be put into AI-generated clips.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

If anyone works at CBS News and would like to leak to me about whats unfolding over there, my Signal is ParkerMolloy.86

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2d

One big asymmetry that Dems enable: Republicans attack Dem VOTERS as evil, enemies of the state and now, per Trump, a problem for the military to get rid of. We have one politician who called some of them deplorables and one who said they were weird and people behave as if these are the same

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 2d

If not today, perhaps tomorrow.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 3d

You're so lucky!

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 3d

Yeah it kicked my ass. Worth it.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 3d

DODGERS!

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 3d

If you can hear this image, it's probably time to schedule your colonoscopy. If you can sing the whole song, it's also time to get your shingles vaccine.

Time for Timer on a red background. Next to him, the phrase "When my get-up-and-go has got up and went, I hanker for a Hunk O' Cheese!"

He looks at you with this blank stare, daring you to tell him you tried to make sunshine on a stick in the freezer but the toothpicks never stayed up straight. He knows you won't say anything because you're embarrassed. You know he knows. He knows that you know that he knows. And yet, he just stands there, hankering for a hunk o' cheese like it isn't fucking impossible to get plastic wrap to stay taught on an ice cube tray.

You want to ask him for a wagon wheel, from his stacks of snacks, but you can't bring yourself to say the words, because now you, too, are hankering, hankering for the last hunk-o-cheese, and you both know you'll have to fight for it.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 3d

I saw that. Every single thing every federal agency says is a lie, especially DHS and ICE. We will soon learn that this woman wasn't doing anything threatening, and these cowardly thugs violently overreacted, because their dads don't love them and they never got therapy for it.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 3d

Fuck these thugs.
Fuck Trump.
Fuck everyone who voted for him.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago

A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters

www.theguardian.com

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