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Anagram Doe @anagramdoe.bsky.social · Oct 29

Too Many Cooks is the truest piece of 21st century art, perfectly capturing the feeling of life now in all its seamless blending of reality & fiction, weirdness in the shape of normality, inescapable repetition, and looming existential terror gradually overtaking everything

Andy Baio @andy.baio.net · Oct 29

10 years ago today… youtu.be/QrGrOK8oZG8

Too Many Cooks | Adult Swim

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Jul 7

block quickly
block often

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13h

Welcome to Bluesky: Weird Al is on here but you sometimes don’t immediately get told that. That’s most of the important information.

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Anagram Doe @anagramdoe.bsky.social · 13h

the entire administration runs off of "who's going to stop us?"

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

literally generations. part of all our lives’ work for the rest of our days.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Sep 5

It will take decades to unfuckup this country.

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 13h

One thing about GenAI for me is it will never be as fascinating or interesting or strange as real life.

“How about Elmo and Marilyn Monroe on the moon” fuck you, motherfucker. How about the pope vs the cubbies.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 19h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 14h

So only OANN will be reporting about what a courageous swole masculine warfighter Pete Hegseth is.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 14h

This isn’t creeping authoritarianism, it’s racehorse-quick. Anyone being silent or accommodating right now can refer to history books for a preview of how they’ll be remembered.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14h

Living in the Second Redemption sucks.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14h

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17h

Reminder: the House recess isn't because of the budget, the House adjourned before the shutdown because the GOP doesn't want to hold a vote to release government files on a pedophile because everyone knows those files implicate Trump. Republicans are doing this to protect their pedophile President.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 17h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16h

Jesus

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
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Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

Federal Judge blocks shutdown layoffs.

DOJ lawyer refuses to defend cuts, merely argues jurisdiction.

Judge: “This hatchet is falling on the heads of employees all across the nation, and you're not even prepared to address whether that's legal?”
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

UPDATE: A federal Judge has imposed a temporary block on RIFs during the shutdown, saying the Trump administration has:

taken advantage of the lapse in government spending, in government functioning, to to assume that that all bets are off, that the laws don’t apply to them anymore and that they can impose the structures that they like on a government situation that they don’t like. And I believe that the plaintiffs will demonstrate ultimately that what’s being done here is both illegal and is in excess of authority.

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Anagram Doe @anagramdoe.bsky.social · 17h

I guess Nazi elves hung it there in the dark of night

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 17h

Black 17-year-olds are adults, white female 15-year-olds are adults and white male 30-year-olds are children. The republican mind has no problems with age as a complicated social construct

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 18h

All of this to avoid giving drugs to the “wrong” people.

This is just going to reinforce bias over and over, meaning white men will be adjudged worthy and the rest of us will have to hear all about the “objective” machine.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 17h

we're going to have to prosecute this stuff

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 17h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 19h

That would really be the end of majoritarian democracy in the United States.

It would represent the effective death of the republic. Horrifying to think they would leave people no political recourse to address their concerns or be heard.

Truly frightening place we’re headed in America.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h

If the Supreme Court strikes down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which has been interpreted to require the creation of majority-minority districts, Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South. Here's how.

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.

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Anagram Doe @anagramdoe.bsky.social · 17h

They know there are more of us than them so their only way forward is to lock in permanent minority rule over us

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 18h

I have said it many times, but the conservative movement has always been an anti-majoritarian movement, existing solely to insulate power and wealth from democracy.

Anagram Doe @anagramdoe.bsky.social · 17h

She would be a representative if you did your fucking job, Mike

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Anagram Doe @anagramdoe.bsky.social · 18h

"Don't focus on the stupid things kids say!! Unless those kids are protesting against war, which is intolerable and must be immediately punished with violence"

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18h

“Kids”

Giunta was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP's 15,000-member political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old.
"Im going to create some of the greatest physiological torture methods known to man.
We only want true believers," he continued.

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