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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 5h

every once in a while I feel like I get a glimpse of what social networking would be if the platform incentives were just to give us a glimpse of normal people enjoying themselves...

What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Gam Silroy ❌️👑 @gamsilroy.bsky.social · 7h

Emma and Scott are the better couple

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Kelly @dancingvalentine.bsky.social · 9h

In light of D’Angelo’s passing, today feels like the right time to revisit his genius. My BFF’s @faithp.bsky.social book honoring Voodoo is a heartfelt tribute to his artistry.
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/dangelos-...

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 7h

If you leave one magazine job and go write a book, apparently for a major publisher, and you deliver your manuscript and take another magazine job less than a year later, when did the exile part happen, exactly?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 8h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 9h

So Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe are all gonna ban ChatGPT from receiving payments now, right?

Right??

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 7h

The Casting Director of ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES said "Get me the best actors early-90s Broadway theatre has to offer!"

RATED Q presents ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES, this Thursday at 9:45pm

Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Christine Baranski in ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES

David Hyde Pierce in ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

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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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 10h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 16h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Alaska House District 20 Democrats @alaskahd20dems.bsky.social · 10h

Circled is a teargas canister thrown by Donald Trump’s thugs flying towards a family as they flee with their baby from ICE’s violent escalation in Chicago.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 17h

RIP Drew Struzan

Star Trek TOS art, featuring floating heads of Kirk, Spock, and Bones.

Poster for Blade Runner, featuring floating heads of the characters.

Poster for Back to the Future Part II, with Doc and Marty both lifting shades to look at their watches with the Delorean nearby.

Poster for ET, with ET in the woods reaching for a floating UFO, with the lights of a city grid in the background.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12h

If you said something this mean about Kirk last month you would have lost your job but now it’s okay I guess

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

It's against Facebook's terms of service to reveal the identity of America's secret police.

Facebook Removes ICE-Tracking Group Under Pressure From Trump Regime

It's against Facebook's terms of service to reveal the identity of secret police.

gizmodo.com

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · Nov 15

(Having a sip of beer and DMing my chivalrous virtues chat) Courage is so goated dude (Having another sip and texting my squire) my Garb looked like shit today btw...

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 16h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 15h

The NY young republican who said that rape is "epic" looks like a fuckin ventriloquist dummy

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Samantha is the spectre haunting bluesky 👻 @bolshevikmilf.bsky.social · 21h

one of the things that made liberals the angriest last year was pointing out when they argued that the US president has no control over what israel does and this biden couldn't influence the genocide that that position put them further right on the subject than fucking reagan.

US Department of Wishing on Fash what they wish for others @ironydept.bsky.social · 1d

One of the greatest tragedies of the Democratic party (among many) is the GOP has consistently been less willing than Dems to take shit from intransigent Israeli leaders. Not for the right reasons necessarily, but still. Biden should be deeply ashamed of the genocide he actively enabled.

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 14h

“So that’s it, huh? We’re some kind of Hitler Youth?”

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 14h

*clears throat*

RHETORIC: (FAILED) Diabetic children are the oppressive bourgeois class because they rely on insulin and exploit the labor of hard working capitalists for their bourgeois hormone injections.

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 14h

I swear to god the secret service would have to tackle me to the ground

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 14h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 14h

As to the "don't want another Fetterman" concerns about Platner: A few former Fetterman people are consultants for the campaign.. and they are aggressively FORMER Fetterman people, to judge by my conversations.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 16h

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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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 15h

these people know how extreme they are

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 14h

like once a week I think about that guy who said he had to constantly remind conservative kids not to do slurs in groupchats. Not because it was bad to do slurs but because it might impede them professionally

Politico @politico.com · 16h

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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