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pay your respects to the vultures @cathoderituals.bsky.social · 15h

Folks should learn more about Group Policy Editor, Task Scheduler, Services, and Registry. Even if it's situational, like how do I disable x, you can do a lot. Automatic updates set to notify, not install, in the GPE. Task Scheduler lets you switch off a lot of shit that silently kicks off. Etc.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 19h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 18h

GOP: haha kids will be kids, ah you can't hold this 40 year old lawyer accountable for loving Hitler, that's just being edgy! Gas chambers, it's just jokes people!

GOP: WHAT? YOU QUOTED CHARLIE KIRK IN A WAY THAT MADE HIM LOOK BAD AFTER HE DIED ... DEPORTATION!

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

ABOLISH ICE and EXPAND THE SUPREME COURT should be mainstream Democratic promises and talking points.

But timidity and civility will rule the day and screw the rest of us and this country in the end.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 17h

My discussion of everything right now

Silent in Flames @silentinflames.bsky.social · 22h

It's a method. It's not new. Fascists have been using it for over 100 years.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17h

The difference between this behavior and satire is that the point of satire is to make fun of the ignorant belief.

The point of this behavior is to repeat the ignorant belief and then make fun of people who don't like the ignorant belief, for "falling" for the shtick.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17h

"I say ignorant things as satire" is the kind of poster I never understand.

"Oooh I made people mad with my ignorance but I'm only ~~pretending~~ so I got you!"

congrats. you successfully emulated the least creative people in the universe. clap clap.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 2d

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

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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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d

As I read this, I keep thinking over and over again about the two major groups I see in politics and policy spaces: folks who take opinion polls as gospel and folks who see them as indicators of what people believe at the moment that can be *shaped* into something else.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d

It’s almost like billionaires and strong vibrant institutions of civil society can’t coexist

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3d

You know how when you scribble a bunch of crayons of different colors together it ends up being a gross babyshit color?

Yeah, that’s what AI “art” does, because it’s mashing together millions of different sources to fill in the Mad Libs blank.

jenkem.patrol @astroex.bsky.social · 3d

yeah, and what's up with that brown color anyway?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

What I learned from Miss Major was persistence and also keeping a sense of humor. I was lucky to see her work in various organizing meetings over the years. She was a model of how to be a good elder. Truly grateful for everything she did to make the world better. Time for the rest of us to continue.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 3d

I might not find some political activism that compelling but I try to keep in mind Kwame Ture's point:

"You don't criticize somebody who's doing something when you doing nothing."

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

let’s share this and see how powerful bluesky can be for music, shall we?

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

if you know a single soul in…

• the Kansas City metro area
• the St. Louis metro area
• the Indianapolis metro area
• the Nashville metro area

@ekkoastral.bsky.social is playing a few impromptu shows on our way back to DC

tomorrow thru friday

our last shows of the year!!!!

linktr.ee/ekkoastral

ekko astral on stage lookin epic photo credit alec pugliese

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Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 3d

If you live in one of these cities and can go see this band, you should go see them. Ekko Astral is fucking awesome!

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

let’s share this and see how powerful bluesky can be for music, shall we?

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

if you know a single soul in…

• the Kansas City metro area
• the St. Louis metro area
• the Indianapolis metro area
• the Nashville metro area

@ekkoastral.bsky.social is playing a few impromptu shows on our way back to DC

tomorrow thru friday

our last shows of the year!!!!

linktr.ee/ekkoastral

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emily hawley @soupmuse.bsky.social · 3d

if the federal government truly cared about public safety in Portland, they would help us shut down the CEI hub which threatens to cause the biggest industrial disaster in US history.

submit your comments by Friday.

actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-a-safer-portland-stop-the-cei-hub-time-bomb

Demand a Safer Portland! Stop the CEI Hub Time Bomb!

Tell City Hall to Choose Public Health and Safety Over Corporate Profits at the CEI Hub Portland faces a historic choice—one that will determine our city’s safety and environmental legacy for generat...

actionnetwork.org

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PopMob PDX @popmobpdx.bsky.social · 4d

After the No King's March next Saturday, the Defense Fund PDX is throwing a street fair to raise money for the Portland bail fund.

Defense fund PDX street fair October 18th 2-7 pm on Clinton St & 25th. Music, vendors, raffle
Family Friendly
All proceeds to the Bail Fund

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 6d

Very serious person Andy Ngo has now been reduced to pleading with his audience to please please PLEASE take the dancing antifa muppets seriously

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

they are not "trying" to exert influence, they ARE influencing elections already.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 5d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 4d

A mistake to see the Republican majorities in Congress as “abdicating.” They want the same things, the same substantive political agenda, as the executive and their acquiescence to the president’s leadership is a form of _action_, not passivity

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Per WSJ, the Trump regime and Bannon are bragging they’re “ruling Congress with an iron fist” and that it is “largely ceremonial” like the Russian Duma.

Shameful. Not what the founders intended. 🇺🇸 @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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