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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 13h

I smell a concept for a (non)dating sim / cooking game

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 13h

And this, friends, is why Pokémon are great

Aesculus hippocastanum, the horse chestnut, is a species of flowering plant in the maple, soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is a large, deciduous, synoecious (hermaphroditic-flowered) tree. It is also called horse-chestnut, European horsechestnut, buckeye, and conker tree. It is not to be confused with the sweet chestnut or Spanish chestnut, Castanea sativa, which is a tree in another family, Fagaceae.

A photo of conkers with their spiky exteriors removed.

The Bulbapedia entry for Chespin, the spiny nut pokémon

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 13h

"The youths are getting obsessed with finding weird seeds out in nature"

HELL YEAH, KIDS

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 13h

Nah this rules, actually www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Are Labubus big and flat and shiny? No, they’re vaguely hellish-looking dolls that have become collectible because they also come in mystery boxes.

Can someone please tell gen Z that they’re doing conkers wrong? Are they? How do you do conkers, then?

You put a shoelace through the middle of them, and try to destroy everyone else’s conkers. Wow, really? That’s bizarre.

Yeah. You’ll have a much better chance of winning if you soak the conker in vinegar overnight and then bake it like a pie. Seriously?

Seriously. And if you end up collecting too many conkers, you can hurl them across the playground and all the other kids will fight each other for them. A beautiful, natural thing like a conker, and you use it as a weapon? A weapon that comes with a long set of arcane and bewildering rules?

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 16h

Sora flopping, bleeding cash on pro subscriptions, lawsuits left and right accusing the company of inventing the emotional torment nexus, age verification lobby with a stranglehold on the adult internet... pivoting to porn is masterful gambit www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 16h

OpenAI has chosen the worst, weirdest possible time to embrace the fact that people want to fuck chatbots www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19h

this is really the key insight. it's why the best attacks against them highlight that these violent, sadistic racists are not really able to coexist in society - they aren't just offensive, they're deeply off-putting: weirdos, creeps, etc. bsky.app/profile/junl...

onion person @junlper.beer · 19h

these people know how extreme they are

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19h

like, this is the type of behind the scenes chatter that ultimately produces stuff like the ASMR shackle tweets

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19h

watching the government's social media accounts spit out groyper stuff on main this whole last year, this is how i imagined the behind the scenes chats were going

Politico @politico.com · 20h

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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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

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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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 19h

“Watch my podcast on Netflix” sounds like something you say right before having a stroke

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 19h

Netflix has partnered with Spotify to bring some of the biggest video podcasts to the streaming service, including:

• The Bill Simmons Podcast
• The Zach Lowe Show
• The McShay Show
• The Rewatchables
• Serial Killers
• The Dave Chang Show

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 19h

Useful reminder that Gen X racism was never going to just "die out" as a new crop of young people grew up

Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 19h

I'm pretty sure this is just these guys, so probably nothing to get too worked up about.

‘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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Kallie Plagge @inkydojikko.bsky.social · 20h

Can confirm: Z-A is good (I keep staying up until 3 am to play and I LOVE sleeping)

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 21h

Missed the embargo because a certain video game company waited until the very last minute to send codes out to press. Was worried that Pokémon Legends: Z-A might not live up to my expectations, but am very pleased to say the game has all the heat and then some. My review:

Pokémon Legends: Z-A is a fantastic return to (mega) form

The new Pokémon Legends game is a shining example of how this series can keep evolving.

www.theverge.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 21h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 21h

Missed the embargo because a certain video game company waited until the very last minute to send codes out to press. Was worried that Pokémon Legends: Z-A might not live up to my expectations, but am very pleased to say the game has all the heat and then some. My review:

Pokémon Legends: Z-A is a fantastic return to (mega) form

The new Pokémon Legends game is a shining example of how this series can keep evolving.

www.theverge.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21h

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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The Verge @theverge.com · 23h

"If queer and trans folks are going to survive, we’ll need to once again embrace the underground, and learn when to be visible and when to shut the fuck up."

Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 23h

Hello~ i wrote something for @theverge.com about the surreal horror of online transness in a fascist surveillance state.

it’s time to change tactics and make ourselves less legible to this machinery of death — but *without* sacrificing our connection and community.

The return of the trans underground

The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it’s a dangerous liability. What comes next?

www.theverge.com

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 1d

lol whoops

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 1d

[BEDRAGGLED] The mf bread is in edits 🥖✨

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 1d

This kinda stuff used to depress me, but now

$An Invincible still of Omni-Man saying to Mark: Look what they need just to mimic a fraction of our power$

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 1d

They canceled my work on race and media.

So I built a @resistanceschool.bsky.social instead.

Now we are teaching over 600 students.

Week 2 of Race, Media and International Affairs starts today.

We move ✊🏾💪🏾

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 1d

[BELEAGUERED] let's get this mf bread, then

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