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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

The scary part to me is how it exposes how they think of others

It’s projection

They feel so sensitive about being disliked and see it as persecution…

Because they believe people they dislike should be persecuted

And they happily dislike people for their race/ gender/ bodies

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 6h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 5d

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

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Five @5arah.com · 3h

🥰 thank you!

Five @5arah.com · 3h

Wait I thought you were the one to tell me stories…

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Five @5arah.com · 3h

“I’ll be watching you” just adds a piquant touch to the experience

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Apparently, the official GOP response to the leaked Young Republican chats is “come on, it’s not a big deal that these guys are using racial slurs and praising Hitler, that’s totally normal” and, uh, that sorta raises more questions?

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 8h

Good morning. Before you plunge your face deep into the overfull bowl of our clogged collective news toilet, cleanse yourself with an apple review! Today: the ORLEANS REINETTE.

Apple Review #15: Orleans Reinette

Why is it that sometimes you eat well-regarded apple but find it terrible? Or, the reverse: an apple that sucks is, to you, in that moment, good? There are, of course, a lot of things going on. Som…

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 6h

yeah, once more with a cover photo - I really, really encourage all tech folks to read this

cover of the report linked: a light green-grey eagle silhouette on a darker background with 5 yellow stars and the text:

United States Senate Committee On
Homeland Security
& Governmental Affairs
Ranking Member Gary Peters

Unchecked and Unaccountable
How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data Without Regard for Law and Congress

HSGAC Minority Staff Report
September 2025

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Five @5arah.com · 7h

The Pope could do something so funny

Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 7h

Because our vice president is a fucking Nazi, that’s why.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 7h

Because our vice president is a fucking Nazi, that’s why.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 7h

At a conference last year a prominent senior political scientist told me he was "disturbed" that I was using settler colonialism as a frame in my book on US migration & citizenship history because I should "give the MAGA people something to be proud of in their history." 1/

Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 8h

Let me state this as clearly as I can:

It is not the job of a historian to make you feel good about your nation’s past.

We need to print this on t-shirts and bumper stickers.

a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open and a very angry look on his face .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open and a very angry look on his face .

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Five @5arah.com · 7h

Bruce why is all your skin shaped like flat teeth?

…are you 100% teeth?

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 7h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Bruce Shark @bruceshark.bsky.social · 8h

Ya bastards.

Shrinkfation.

Shorter coffee filters now.
So short the coffee grounds float over the edge and into the damn coffee.

A pox on you shitheads.

Shorter coffee filters.
Assholes.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

Unwinnable is probably the only publication worth pitching at this point

you can make ART. they won't yell at you and say "BUT THINK OF GOOGLE SEO !!"

unwinnable.com/2024/04/05/d...

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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 7h

He is 100% correct — the current Supreme Justices have fully vindicated the man who went on television in 2007 and said, “Well, you know, they call you KKK. They did me. I think it’s an honor, right? Means we’re doing something.”

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 15h

Clark County is across the Columbia River and in an adjacent state.
Why was she not taken to Multnomah County Jail?
What’s up with Sheriff John Horch?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 22h

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 12h

4) What’s happening now is an attempt to render those sentiments acceptable in polite company & to make people feel guilty for having negative judgments about people who express their racism and anti-semitism.

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 9h

You are out of your mind if you think young republicans in the early aughts weren’t bigots. They were saying the n-word all the time, too, they just didn’t have group chats to get leaked.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 11h

My parents' generation was super racist, but they took pains to hide it from us. So a lot of young conservatives in the 90s and early aughts were earnest small government and/or evangelical types.

As I said, the overt racists and radicals had to form their own orgs.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 17h

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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Moosh 🍄🐶 cms open @mooshpuppii.bsky.social · 23h

just in case anyone needs the confirmation - our class had an editor from a well-known comics publisher come in today and told us she won't even look at the dead bird app anymore when they're looking for artists. hosting your own website for your art (or here on bsky!) is the best right now.

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Five @5arah.com · 17h

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Five @5arah.com · 18h

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