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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11h

Solidarity is the only way

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 11h

Here in NJ, we don’t do Jack!

Tomorrow is the last day to register to vote. Let’s seat @mikiesherrill.bsky.social in our Governor’s Mansion and keep as much of Trump out of Jersey as possible #TeamMikie #NJPersists

iwillvote.com?state=NJ

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Beomoose @beomoose.bsky.social · 11h

"I want you to put the word out there" meme, but Stringer Bell is wearing a New England Patriots hat

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Mike Reiss @mikereiss.bsky.social · 12h

AFC East standings

🏈Patriots: 4-2
🏈Bills: 4-2
🏈Dolphins: 1-5
🏈Jets: 0-6

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Aaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 12h

I did not expect the Patriots to be in first place after Week 6.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 16h

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Bonk Rock Fella @bonkrock.bsky.social · 15h

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 21h

Time to bring back what *should* have been a banger, but I guess it's too sophisticated for the Bluesky hogs.

A picture of Garak from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a Cardassian with a knowing smirk. The photo has been repeated four times, each tinted a different color: green, blue, red, and gray. Along the bottom of each picture is the title of John Le Carre's famous novel and movie: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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Toshi the Fat Stoner @pandatoshi.bsky.social · 22h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day and fuck Christopher Columbus :3

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Ducky needs a hug 🦆 @justducky.bsky.social · 19h

A comparative breakdown of professional wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino and all around piece of shit Christopher Columbus

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 16h

Sorry dawg but if you’re allowing fucking podcast influencers to influence policy and procurement?

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Beomoose @beomoose.bsky.social · 16h

Hack the Gibson!

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Beomoose @beomoose.bsky.social · 16h

a video game scene shows a group of monsters fighting each other

Alt: Headbangers on the march

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Make Some Noise @makesomenoiseshow.bsky.social · 23h

🔊 TONIGHT! The season 4 premiere of Make Some Noise launches on Dropout at 7pm ET / 4pm PT!

Starring host @samreich.bsky.social, and guests—The Noise Boys:
📢 @joshruben.bsky.social
📢 Zac Oyama
📢 @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

When I say that the Atlantic is the official magazine of the donor class this is what I’m talking about.

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Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

These guys are terrified of the numbers that are going to turn out on Saturday, and that's all the more reason to put down your "wine mom protest" objections and join them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Beomoose @beomoose.bsky.social · 1d

He doesn't use guns and doesn't kill people, they fucking hate him

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