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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 4h

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 7h

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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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 6h

collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do

To be honest, I wouldn’t be mentioning this if not for the fact that it’s a microcosm of how online platforms work today: Somebody makes an accusation based on evidence that’s spurious at best, big names with something to gain (viewership or the downfall of a perceived enemy) uncritically boost it, internet sleuths obsessively piece together supporting evidence by amassing context-free clips and ignoring everything that doesn’t match their intended conclusion, and all of the aforementioned parties spread performatively apoplectic videos across Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and wherever else they can sucker in uninitiated normies.

Some version of this happens every week – every day, on a smaller scale – without fail. It accomplishes nothing aside from giving the disaffected masses a brief glimmer of what feels like purpose, but is actually a bloodsucking waste of their precious time on this dying planet. And of course, it provides platforms with sweet, sweet engagement numbers. As a result, platforms will probably never intervene to disrupt this corrosive dynamic, which has broken the general public’s ability to perceive anything resembling objective reality, even as society collapses around them and people like Piker attempt to identify the real reasons why (hint: they don't involve dog collars).

The internet has been like this at least since the Depp v. Heard trial, which wannabe sleuths similarly feasted on in 2022 while getting pretty much every important detail completely wrong. At least back then they were obsessing over something of consequence. Now they’ve taught viewers to regard every trumped-up non-issue they can surface with similar gravity.

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Dungeonbuster @dungeonbuster.bsky.social · 8h

Don't Go Alone (1989) was a creepy dungeon crawling RPG by Accolade for PCs. With a modern, four-person ghostbusting party armed with weapons and the power of chemistry, descend down through a haunted house's ten levels where the evil Ancient One awaits! (a paranormal thread)

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 8h

dudes rock youtu.be/JRLfBTVRajM?...

"Two Fish Out Of Water Actors In L.A." - How Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter Became Lifelong Friends

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 9h

Don’t worry, everyone; they’re implementing state of the art age verification technology

A screen from the old game Leisure Suit Larry’s age verification quiz. Text on screen reads “Oops. You blew that one! If you miss another, you can’t possibly be 25.”

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 20h

when a dark secret from your past threatens to destroy the new idyllic life you've created for yourself

little yorkie named Rupert sitting in a big pinky beige-colored blanket, leaning up against a dark brown leather couch. there is a potted plant behind him, he's wearing a tiny terracotta sweater. he has a very William H Macy-in-Fargo expression on his face, like he's nervously smiling.

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 10h

I have no idea what digital media companies think they can add to the value proposition of "famous person on social media."

Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 10h

I think I probably have to post this with no comment. So. www.axios.com/2025/10/14/b...

Exclusive: Bustle parent company pivots to influencers

"We are the next generation influence company," BDG CEO and founder Bryan Goldberg says.

www.axios.com

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Moises Taveras @platanoranger.bsky.social · 11h

i’ve been playing Battlefield 6 and couldn’t separate its love of destruction from the carnage I see out of Gaza every day

Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 12h

While one of Battlefield 6's calling cards is environmental destruction, it's hard not to connect its toppled buildings to current events. @platanoranger.bsky.social on Battlefield 6:

I’ve Turned on Battlefield 6’s Senseless Destruction

While one of Battlefield 6's calling cards is environmental destruction, it's hard not to connect its toppled buildings to current events.

www.endlessmode.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

It’s been fun being attacked for years for saying bigotry motivates these people more than low taxes and small government

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 11h

oh good, it's not just me

Mike Mika @mikejmika.bsky.social · 11h

The older I get, the shorter console lifecycles feel.

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Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 12h

While one of Battlefield 6's calling cards is environmental destruction, it's hard not to connect its toppled buildings to current events. @platanoranger.bsky.social on Battlefield 6:

I’ve Turned on Battlefield 6’s Senseless Destruction

While one of Battlefield 6's calling cards is environmental destruction, it's hard not to connect its toppled buildings to current events.

www.endlessmode.com

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 11h

Pretty hard not to see the validity of @platanoranger.bsky.social's argument:

bsky scroll with post asking for aid showing person sitting on gazan rubble right above a post by moises taveras on battelfield 6's destruction mirroring images from gaza

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Hey, I wonder if CBS News has ever had a Jewish woman as president before?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Z...

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 11h

I wonder if Milky Way confections are still "made under the finest conditions possible...in spotless kitchens [where] you find everyone in snowy white uniforms and caps" and "fresh air and sunshine" are "in abundance," as the text on this packaging promises.

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 11h

Oh, wait, correction (I think):

You'd originally buy a five-cent 3 Musketeers package and get one in each flavor: chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

(Vanilla and strawberry were phased out during WWII.)

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 12h

all aspiring members of the christmas adventurers club

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 12h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 12h

Was there a time when I as a trans person was supposed to take American conservatism seriously? In my conscious life, the Reagan years and what's followed, it has only ever plainly been a fundamentally racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic movement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 13h

It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

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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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 12h

Ethel Cain in the Criterion Closet: youtu.be/ld19PMXUyqg?...

Ethel Cain’s Closet Picks

YouTube video by CRITERION

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13h

we are not cannon fodder for "revolutionary fantasies" any more than sylvia rivera was cannon fodder for queer liberation. we are its beating heart. every trans person is proof that humanity can know itself better, can express its joy, can live authentically and with intent. we ARE a revolution.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13h

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13h

Every word of this is worth reading. These people are not outliers in young MAGA leadership. The person you are when you think you can get away with saying anything is the real you.

Politico @politico.com · 14h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

incredible to see one of my posts on fox news

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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