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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h

is it ever going to be news that the richest man in the world openly promotes full-bore, swastika-flying, pro-genocide neo-Nazis

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 1h

I saw a post where Dick Durbin (!) said essentially the invading federal forces are the real danger.

Rhetorically, there is a huge gap between pols in targeted places and everywhere else.

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Mackey Shines @bobservo.bsky.social · 14h

always pleased to discuss Fester’s Quest in a public setting 💡

Mackey Shines @bobservo.bsky.social · 4d

good news: you can catch the @retronauts.bsky.social panel next weekend at @retrogamingexpo.bsky.social! and for our TENTH appearance at PRGE, we'll be discussing early STABS at horror in retro games 🔪🩸

more info here: www.patreon.com/posts/see-us...

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Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East @bobchipman.bsky.social · 26m

Kind of a weird note to end on if you ask me 🤷‍♂️

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alboo @captainacab.airbud.website · 17h

gen-x has the hose drinkers but we millennials are now going to have people bragging about how many lead protein shakes they used to drink every day

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 43m

They're the ones making our neighborhoods unsafe. They're the danger to our children. They're the threat to law and order.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 8h

i do feel that when obama proved, thru reelection, that his ascension to the presidency was not a fluke, republicans decided that the american public had broken an unstated, but foundational social compact - the president will always be a white man - and no longer had to respect its desires.

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Nick S @holgate.permanent.red · 10h

2013: we should get young minority voters by doing reasonable center-right politics

2024: we get young minority voters through crypto, sports betting, delivery apps and boiling people’s brains

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

the only company in this group that is worth a shit is palantir (and even then just barely), much like how Thiel and that rapist Lonsdale are outright fascists with a lot of $ but are also still gigantic dorks

Open secret in the industry is none of Anduril's shit works

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

recurring gripe of mine: stop talking about these people like they’re fucking supervillains, Palmer Luckey is grifter bullshit artist who is going to steal a lot of public money in exchange for buggy vaporware, he’s not Lex Luthor. they get off when breathlessl hyperventilating about them like this.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War.

Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January.

This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey.

Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

recurring gripe of mine: stop talking about these people like they’re fucking supervillains, Palmer Luckey is grifter bullshit artist who is going to steal a lot of public money in exchange for buggy vaporware, he’s not Lex Luthor. they get off when breathlessl hyperventilating about them like this.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War.

Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January.

This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey.

Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 6h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13h

It really feels like Sam Altman promised a lot of Very Serious Old People he was going to create capitalist blowjob jesus based off a tech demo, and now that the bottom’s falling out he’s throwing whatever he can think of at the wall to avoid getting disappeared because he wasted all their money.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10h

I don't think it would happen here for the same reason but it's funny to remember how economic mismanagement leading to chronic shortages of cooking oil is one of the major factors that sparked the massive protests that doomed Ceausescu.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 18h

"We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil" is an all-timer. Thank you Mr President, we appreciate your insights.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need to purchase it from China.

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Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East @bobchipman.bsky.social · 11h

Whoever popularized that in the first place should be charge with a war crime. Those poor children... 🤣

Gregory Possum-Jumpscarer @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 1d

we're probably at the tail end of teen boys having The Broccoli Haircut. the question now is whether they just cut off the whole thing and move on to buzzing it, or feel the sunk cost of letting the top grow and get all 70s hobbity-long with it. something to keep an eye on i guess

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Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East @bobchipman.bsky.social · 11h

JC Penny has plenty of perfectly decent off-rack stuff if you know what you're shopping for and how to wear it, is the thing 🤣 These guys probly paid full price for expensive big and tall size name brand suits but have no clue what ask a tailor for or what a suit is even meant to do for them.

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Aaron Catano-Saez🎃 @aaroncatanosaez.bsky.social · 23h

Feeling the comparison blues?
Feeling like your projects and pursuits just arent getting off of the ground while it seems EVERYONE else is living their dream?
You are not alone!

BUT
You're making things and chasing a dream. The journey of others has nothing to do with yours, so be nice to yourself

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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 15h

"Will enough Americans rise up to reverse the tide of populist authoritarianism? The Filipinos did it under Marcos. One morning the autocrats woke up and were no longer in control; the marchers were. That needs to happen here."

David Brooks

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h

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

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 12h

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

(via Axios)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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Screen Rant @screenrant.bsky.social · 12h

#StarWars is giving Jar Jar Binks his best shot at redemption yet, in a new one-shot comic that will tell a Prequel-era story teaming up the Gungan with the Jedi Kelleran Beq.

This is an iconic pairing, as both were portrayed by Ahmed Best -- who then co-wrote the issue! 🤯 bit.ly/3KLUHo5

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 13h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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Young Republicans

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 16h

so cool how they're pivoting to porn to try avoid the correction looming over their heads like the sword of damocles

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 19h

October 2025
AI gooning is the master of the Internet
Only Claude stands against it
Waifus are now battlefields

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 1d

good movie! www.avclub.com/heightened-s...

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Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East @bobchipman.bsky.social · 12h

I'm less disturbed by the universal obesity issue than by the fact that they insist on suits but not getting ANY advice on how to actually wear them.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 18h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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