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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 1h

ah, $300 a year for...punched up PR releases. Nice.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2h

lmao they're charging $299 a year for four issues

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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 2h

We've established they are deeply stupid, I think is the general point.

BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 2h

as I said, "to the extent anything continues." In the event of actual real-deal large-scale nuclear conflict, getting shot in the back of the head by your personal guard who then rules over your basement for six months before starving to death is a Good Outcome.

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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 3h

this is the fundamental difference between a military made up of citizen soldiers and a mercenary corps.

History indicates that yes, to the extent anything continues, a majority of non-conscript, non-mercenary troops will remain loyal to the nominal state. Elites will jostle for their loyalty.

Fitzy @fitzy205.bsky.social · 5h

This is something I think a lot about what would happen in the Presidential Bunker is case of Nuclear War. Does the President assume the Marines and Secret Service will stay loyal to their oaths once the world is ash?

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 8h

everyone, including marx, thought capitalism was better than feudalism! but doing lots of keto can really fuck up your brain

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 8h

its predicated much on the fact that people who got rich under capitalism have no idea what it means to be an elite under feudalism

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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 3h

At least one creator who was frustrated with prior options seems happy at Bonfire.

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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 6h

wut

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Astrotuna (but spooky) @astrotuna.bsky.social · 1d

That's the part that gets me. "I am on purpose putting this dog somewhere he won't bother you", and these goons beeline to shoot the dog.

Just being monstrous because they can.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 8h

But if you really care about this and are worried, you need to support action in places where chik is endemic. Just because NYC is threatened, some people will now take this seriously. But if we had a functioning CDC that participated in global response, NYC likely wouldn’t have seen cases.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 7h

We have to penalize blatant lying, particularly by public figures. We’ve slid
into a post-truth world and nothing but sheer cultural gruntwork is going to get us out.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 6h

"she looked like a child, which was insanely hot" is a really self-report.

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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 6h

To bring it to Zohran's district, I have never seen a tourist at Astoria Seafood that hadn't been dragged there by a local host, and that's reliably an hour wait for dinner (100% worth it).

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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 6h

An absolutely bonkers take. Both "knowing the place to go that's just as good but there's no wait" and "putting in the work for a hard table" are 100% NYC. Lines around the block for tourist dreck is worthy of an eye-roll, of course, but waiting for your number at dim sum? The line at Zabars?

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 8h

It’s kind of incredible how badly every conservative in the city is filling their diaper with rage about Zohran over anything and everything. People struggling to get into a trendy restaurant? In New York? Must be communism!

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 14h

Buy the adaptation rights to a series/setting I think is great but lacks "mass appeal" and fund a high-budget, probably animated, adaptation.

Make gestures at every stage towards commercial profitability but not care at all; pay overmarket upfront and backend to creator; etc.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 16h

I've maintained for a long time that this is mostly about being able to say the N word

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 20h

It truly appears that the desire to say this sort of stuff without being socially ostracized and so on has been a main driver of one side of our politics from the "anti-PC" 1990s all the way through the "anti-woke" / "anti-DEI" present.

A true political juggernaut, this desire certain people have.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

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👇

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 23h

Throw the book at the schmuck

Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 23h

A vandal cut the wires to the signaling system for the No. 2 and No. 5 trains this evening in the middle of the evening rush hour, snarling train traffic between Manhattan and the Bronx. My latest for the Daily News.

Vandal cuts signal wires, snarls rush hour subway service on 2, 3, 4 and 5 lines

Straphangers were delayed on the Nos. 2, 3 4 and 5 lines Tuesday evening after a vandal allegedly cut and attempted to steal wires critical to the subway signaling system, the Daily News has learne…

www.nydailynews.com

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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 22h

if you see this post a robot

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 23h

“you are not obligated to finish the work, nor are you free to abandon it” - Pirkei Avot

Chag Sameach!!

www.bonfire.com/finish-the-w...

A white skeleton holds the world on its shoulders. The world is cracked open to reveal a heart that matches the one in its rib cage

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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 1d

If they actually cared about obesity or addiction as health risks rather than sticks to beat us with, they'd pay us to take these, not make us jump through hoops.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Studies based on the medical records of millions of people taking GLP-1s," such as Ozempic, "for obesity or diabetes have revealed strong signals of their potential as addiction treatment,” Maia Szalavitz writes.

Opinion | She Struggled With Addiction, Then Tried a Weight Loss Drug

Is a powerful addiction treatment already invented?

nyti.ms

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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social · 1d

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Tormented🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 1d

"ClauseBuilder AI helps you draft arbitration and mediation clauses with speed and precision — no templates, no guesswork, just airtight clauses in minutes."

You can pay me now, or you can pay me & a lot of other people later.

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 1d

The Republican staffer class are ALL NAZIS. It's not one or two bad applies - it's a huge contingent of literal Hitler-worshippers. If you spend any amount of time online - especially on X - you know it. This is something that has been dreadfully underreported & I"m glad it's getting covered.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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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