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Ashley Lake

@ashleylatke.bsky.social

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · Mar 13

Hey, porno creator, sick of going to Vegas or Miami to shoot content as red states get more insane?

We have a big gorgeous production house in happy healthy Massachusetts that we would love to rent you (w property release) at a fraction of cost - yes you can stay here too

[email protected]

Collage of winter film photos, 6 of them from top left: trees with snow on them, Vanniall crouched in snow, a view of a snowy scene through a window, another view from a deck, a picture of Ashley holding their camera in front of a house, a snow covered deck, bright windows with a snowy scene outside, a foggy scene through a window, night time snow illuminated by flash. All are disposable camera pictures.

A picture of a large house viewable through early fall foliage. It has an orange metal roof, natural wood siding, wrap around deck and huge a frame style windows on one side.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19h

Pretending to the world that you are the president of peace while waging war at home is diabolical.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7h

Thinking of all the people who insisted that this admin was serious about "ending antisemitism on college campuses."

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Indiana’s student ID voting ban — a major procedural win for young voters and pro-voting advocates who say the GOP-backed law was designed to suppress student voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal Court Deals Major Blow to Indiana GOP’s Student ID Ban

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone have any chance appealing sex worker instagram account suspensions lately?

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 23h

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16h

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

Keep it up, folks!

Together - hope is here!

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Exclusive: Greens Plan To 'Overtake Tories And Replace Labour' As Support Surges

The party has also seen its membership break through 100,000 for the first time.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 3h

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

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 20h

stylish, practical, brave, good: www.404media.co/the-surreal-...

The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog

Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.

www.404media.co

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 17h

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 1d

Seems Signal and other obfuscation methods are considered key to the modern GOP. They really are at war, since they know what they’re doing and would be plainly discussing is wrong.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

If you read only one democracy story today, make it this one. While legacy media largely skipped the Texas redistricting hearing, Democracy Docket's Jen Rice was there for all 10 days. Her coverage stands out and sheds insight into how the GOP operates -- not only in TX -- but nationally.

In a Federal Courtroom in Texas, Republicans Were Desperate to Keep Details of their Gerrymander Under Wraps

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

www.democracydocket.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Was worried that this was going to be *yet another* of the "people should all go back to Twitter" nonsense pieces, but @ianbetteridge.com's law of headlines rarely fails. The answer here is a clear "no" with good reasons:

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that that is the reason why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

Those who stayed behind have lost something, too: the ability to not have their worldview shaped by some of the maddest people on the internet. One of the Tories’ big conference announcements was the promise of an Ice-style border force that would deport [citation needed] 150,000 people a year. That mass deportations of most existing migrants is not actually popular in the UK – that such a policy places yet more distance between the Tories and the mainstream centre which deserted them last year – seems not to have occurred.

It’s hard not to connect this to the fact that much of the political class remains on a platform now dominated by the political extremes. They might do well to remember: Twitter is not the real world.

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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 1d

postmodern finance theory

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

4chan has ghosted Ofcom, and is ignoring the UK regulators' pleas to comply with the Online Safety Act. Ofcom says it will fine them £100 a day until they answer their email.

🙄

Ofcom fines 4chan £20K for Online Safety Act failings

: Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork

www.theregister.com

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely most important lesson of politics - winning an election is step 0. You cannot just elect “hope” and go home. To change a country, you need to get to work.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.

...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents?

Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 2d

I remember when Obama appointed Homan to run ICE deportations in 2013, and when gave Homan an award for extraordinary accomplishment in 2015.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
3 hr. ago
Previous-Camera1641

I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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