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Elizabeth Harper @cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 21m

every time i hear someone honking excitedly i log on to see if it happened

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 40m

Perfect

Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 45m

A few servos and an MPC server and I think we can

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 2h

They should “golden gate Claude” it so it won’t stop aggressively coming on to you regardless of topic. Make the users regret asking for this

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 2h

They should make it so it starts getting all hot and bothered during random conversations about work

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 2h

Finally a way to have horny conversations for free online

The Verge @theverge.com · 7h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3h

recurring gripe of mine: stop talking about these people like they’re fucking supervillains, Palmer Luckey is grifter bullshit artist who is going to steal a lot of public money in exchange for buggy vaporware, he’s not Lex Luthor. they get off when breathlessl hyperventilating about them like this.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War.

Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January.

This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey.

Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

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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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

relatedly, the reason this is illegal is because it would make the military beholden to the highest bidder, which we absolutely do not want, even if you like the idea of draining billionaires for it. it will not take them long at all to start giving the orders if they’re paying.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

it’s illegal, but, also, this didn’t happen, and if someone *did* tell him this, they were lying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 5h

It's worth saying that nearly every white guy over 50 I know is on statins, and is at least aware of their blood sugar. Please, please, please get your heart looked at and your blood pressure controlled (and cancer screenings done). Not everything is avoidable but a lot is. bsky.app/profile/carn...

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 5h

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health

Neo-soul singer D'Angelo joins growing list of Gen X Black male performers who are dying relatively young.

capitalbnews.org

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 5h

ok but to his credit riding a bicycle naked in october in portland is a demonstration of ability to tolerate physical pain that people _should_ find threatening

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 8h

Mike Johnson decries 'naked bicyclers' in Portland as 'most threatening thing I've seen'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) insisted that federal agents' abuse of force had not risen to the level of congressional investigations after a judge barred the Department of Homeland Security from using specific tactics against faith leaders and journalists.During a press conference on Tuesday, o...

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

Of all the pieces Mike Johnson hasn't seen, the Politico Young Republican Nazis piece he will have not seen the hardest.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 5h

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 6h

someone should leak JD Vances twitter group chats to politico

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stop motion skeleton @jonchristian.net · 7h

chat message: "If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr"

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8h

One of the things that our political class refuses to admit even though it's obviously true is that Twitter is very obviously radicalizing many American elites into full-bore white supremacy

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 8h

It actually seems like Twitter made Vance into a Nazi.

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 10h

hire 100,000 people secretly, without anyone else finding out that its happening

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 10h

this is pretty reassuring wrt the overall progress of the whole "consolidated authoritarianism" thing.

Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 23h

Who will be left covering the U.S. Department of Defense after tomorrow at 5 p.m.? Almost no one.

Here's where things stand: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 10h

I think if Platner is capable of beating Collins, he can beat Mills. This idea that "oh our bold progressive ideas can't survive the tribulations of a senate primary" is kind of lame, imho.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10h

It's really simple

Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow

Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Chuck Schumer gets his preferred candidate, Janet Mills, in crowded Maine Senate race

Schumer had been aggressively recruiting Mills to challenge Republican Susan Collins.

www.politico.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 11h

it is a demonstration of organizational capacity

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 11h

its saying "we can do this so we could also do other things all at once, all at the same time". That's the point of it.

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 11h

I am entirely fed up with internet people getting all grumpy about normal people getting involved in their political movement. A million normies in the street on the same day all saying they're really mad at the party in power with proper permitting and a planned march is an implicit threat 1/

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11h

For anyone who dismissively says the #NoKings marches are just rallies, not protests: that's cool, 'cause RALLIES ARE GREAT! :-)

Mass rallies like this are KEY if you want to eventually build to a general strike, for example.

This is organizing, step by step. See you on 10/18!

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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 11h

thats exactly it, "I figure out how to do something that I currently know nothing about" is a really powerful skill and might even be worth the psychological damage involved in obtaining it :P

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