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🌻The Killing of a Sacred Snep🪐 @fm-synth.bsky.social · 5h

Balling is the right of all sentient beings.

Optimus Prime with a basketball

From The Transformers season 2, The Master Builders

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 7h

If you take the MAGA troll farms and fake accounts all you are left with is a handful of really disturbed washed up losers. The 2024 election was stolen and there were plenty of chances to challenge it. Hopefully the last year has served as a lesson in who to actually trust.

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Xiran Jay Zhao @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social · 1d

Idc, "4 people disguised as construction workers heisted the Napoleon family jewels from the Louvre in 7 minutes by rolling up to the second-storey window on a basket lift" is an objectively hilarious event

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Doc Ravenbe @docravenbe.bsky.social · 1d

Who robbed the Louvre? Correct answers only

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

Steve Bannon: “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”

Media: "We cannot with certainty identify this mysterious brown substance."

Trump trolls ‘No Kings’ protests with obscene AI video and mulls invoking Insurrection Act: Live updates
Trump posts AI video showing him dumping brown liquid on to demonstrators after nearly 7 million took part in nationwide protests against him

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/no-kings-protest-trump-today-live-updates-b2847817.html

Trump posts a fake video of himself flying a ‘King Trump’ jet over protesters.
President Trump has posted a fake video on social media that showed him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/trump-fake-video-no-kings.html?smid=url-share

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 1d

AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 1d

In one video the president shared on social media, Trump wears a crown and flies a fighter jet with "King Trump" written on it.

Trump jabs 'No Kings' protesters with AI videos of himself wearing crown

In one video the president shared on social media, Trump wears a crown and flies a fighter jet with "King Trump" written on it.

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Doc Ravenbe @docravenbe.bsky.social · 2d

No more than was necessary... for my god to be reborn.

a video game character has a red symbol on his face

Alt: a video game character has a red symbol on his face

media.tenor.com

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 2d

What did you do for a Klondike bar?
WHAT DID YOU DO?!

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 2d

this sounds snarky, but I’m being really earnest: gotta hand it to inflatable costumes for creating an outlet for new folks with social anxiety to participate in their own way.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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Doc Ravenbe @docravenbe.bsky.social · 2d

Good.

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voiceofobrien.bsky.social @voiceofobrien.bsky.social · 2d

Loving America and opposing authoritarianism go hand in hand.
#NoKingsDayOct18th

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Doc Ravenbe @docravenbe.bsky.social · 2d

I can't even find that one anymore. The whitehouse-48 is apparently Hatsune Miku now. Possessed by her like Soundwave was.

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Doc Ravenbe @docravenbe.bsky.social · 3d

To those attending the protests tomorrow: Be safe. Be strong. Let your voice be heard.

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Doc Ravenbe @docravenbe.bsky.social · 3d

So the wonders of the subconscious mind abound:
My brainninndream in the early hours of Wednesday morning decided that it needed to solve 87 x 87 x 87 and my subconscious brain decided to work through mat out and ire my conscious mind into near awakening...

Doc Ravenbe @docravenbe.bsky.social · 3d

As someone still stuck at work overseeing a carpet cleaning.

a little boy in a plaid shirt is standing in front of a sign that says congrats

Alt: a little boy in a plaid shirt is standing in front of a sign that says congrats

media.tenor.com

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 4d

not only does Gary Larson still have the juice, it seems to have only gotten stronger

a man is buried in the same up to his neck, being devoured by ants. A family of ants are in the foreground taking a touristy photo of it.

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Doc Ravenbe @docravenbe.bsky.social · 3d

*discreetly eats the mahjong chips to win*

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 4d

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation.

"Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies.

Text and image generation
Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 4d

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad!

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 5d

Republicans do nazi stuff and then exaggerate their complaints by saying “oh you call everyone you don’t agree with a ‘nazi’ 🙄” and then we see their group chats and it’s like “hello, I love Adolf hitler”

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Doc Ravenbe @docravenbe.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly surprised at this banger of an insert song.
#kamenrider #zeztz

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u94V...

Kamen Rider Zeztz Insert Song - 『MOVE! TAKE IT!』 by TEEDA (BACK-ON)

YouTube video by MUGEN Productions

www.youtube.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 5d

This is a jaw-dropping, terrifying number. The CDC's workforce has decreased by 3,000 people since January.

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

www.wired.com

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Doc Ravenbe @docravenbe.bsky.social · 7d

and don't even get me started on Black Fable.

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