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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 8h

This is a real “or barbarism” situation.

Value the work you wish to reward. With dollars and clicks and attention and time. Or suffer the consequences of the world you’ve built.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8h

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 8h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Patient Zero @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 8h

The reason the mayor ordered MPD to abandon the 3rd Precinct and let it be destroyed is that the cops were wilding out so hard that they were dangerously close to running out of their rubber bullets and gas.

That was made possible by the unflinching courage of the community.

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 9h

Federal agents deployed tear gas in Albany Park Sunday as residents chased off agents who were trying to detain a neighbor. blockclubchi.co/4h6gHG2

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 11h

If you think you might be able to hook me up with a job even if just temp or data entry online labor message me and I'll share my linked in with you in dms

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 17h

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help.

My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes.

I hate having to ask this

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 10h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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spooky addy, @addyct.bsky.social · 11h

the road directly in front of my place has been closed for the last month and, my god, the silence...

cities aren't loud. cars are loud

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spooky addy, @addyct.bsky.social · 11h

our tech overlords are getting dogwalked by Chinese companies and they won't even let us buy them

Xiaomi 17 Pro Max: An iPhone... But Better!

YouTube video by Marques Brownlee

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 12h

forever exasperated that apology statements are almost never met with followup questions

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12h

good news everyone!

chatGPT is now able to “mitigate the serious health issues,” according to trustworthy source Sam Altman, which means humanity can be trusted with the Revenge Porn Madness Spigot

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 14h

This is the D'Angelo performance that I've never forgotten. This song was already a huge hit but the way he took it from contemporary R&B to church revival illustrated how connected those idioms are. A revelation for those who didn't know, and an affirmation for those who did.

D'Angelo - Lady ft. Spanky, Saadiq, Ali Shaheed & ?uestlove

YouTube video by twinbreed

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 14h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14h

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 13h

they don't make right wing freaks like this anymore, that pie would've put andy ngo into the ICU

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 20h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 18h

There are a lot of Onion/Clickhole articles that have become meme-ified to the point that they serve as short-hand responses to posts - "Worst Guy You Know Makes Great Point," "No way to stop this says only place it happens," etc, but I feel like this is an underutilized one.

Researchers No Closer To Understanding What The Fuck You’re Talking About

CAMBRIDGE, MA—Finding themselves increasingly frustrated after years of fruitless analysis, researchers working with a Harvard-coordinated international multi-university research initiative published ...

theonion.com

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18h

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

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Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 18h

No offence yall but you realize we all need the farms and measles doesnt respect state lines

Right

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17h

like there is absolutely no way to not understand this as collective punishment, right? there's no fig leaf of it being about Hamas

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18h

BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 17h

katherine dee is herself a reactionary who has written for TERF blog fairer disputations. her bio there cites her work at american conservative, unherd, and the washington examiner. interesting how the bio she chose here doesn’t reflect that bias. the work itself features no actual citations

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

Developing: per photographer Matthew Kaplan and others on scene, neighbors are currently facing dozens of Border Patrol agents on the east side. Feds have been all over the area, some kidnappings confirmed. Saw one gas canister deployed on FB live earlier.

Militarized federal agents in street at 105th and N

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17h

yesterday on twitter, some of the biggest far right doxxing users were suspended and then elon musk caught wind, and reinstated them. get everyone you can off twitter. it is firmly a pro-doxxing-if-you’re-far-right platform

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16h

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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