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Noah @smellycandle42.bsky.social · 1h

Nobody seems willing to admit it but I really don't think you can separate the increasing coverage of gambling on video game websites from the mainstreaming of gacha and loot boxes.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 12h

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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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2h

There are lots of people concerned about Ed Markey's age who wanted him to get primaried. Yet the universal reaction this morning to Seth Moulton running seems to be, "Yeah, I'll stick with Markey."

That's how much Moulton sucks.

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Geoffrey Card @rangutang.bsky.social · 11h

I’d fund a game studio to make all my worst ideas, starting with OVERSTOAT — where you play as five weasels in a trenchcoat.

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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fearjunkie.bsky.social @fearjunkie.bsky.social · 11h

I'm buying the rights to Jingle Bell Rock and making sure it can NEVER be played on the radio or covered again.

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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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 12h

this is, without hyperbole or satire, exactly where we are at now

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20h

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 11h

Off topic, but: I appreciate your pluralization.

Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 12h

Tommy played piano
Like a kid out in the rain
Then he lost his leg in Dallas
He was dancing with a train
They were all in love with dyin'
They were drinking from a fountain
That was pouring like an avalanche
Coming
down
the
mountain
🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵

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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 12h

So many follies. Just a ton of weird fake ruins, with weird fake hieroglyphics that, if somehow decoded, say things like “your name here” or “this space intentionally left blank” or “you might already be a winner”

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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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 12h

I never finished it- felt like it was just about watching the kid die horribly as many ways as possible.

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 21h

Ohhhh ok so there is a coordinated effort to paint a literal Nazi as “liked by the left”

This Nazi had to go into hiding because his comment “your body my choice” led to such harsh and IMMEDIATE pushback from left women that he got doxxed

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 22h

Love spending my life seeing how many of these stupid crashes we can cram in. IT’S THE BEST.

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 22h

Love that we all know this is going to happen and have known it since this shit was introduced yet all we can do is wait for the dumbest and most easily avoidable economy crash of all time.

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 23h

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with papers .

Alt: george costanza of Seinfeld fame saying “was that wrong?” “should I not have done that?”

media.tenor.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

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...

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 23h

Can you imagine? Frogs.

Meme with pictures of frogs.

Exclusive! FROGS More Popular Than Church?

PEOPLE
WANT
FROGS
NOT JESUS!

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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 23h

Mine tries to turn off the podcasts I fall asleep to when I hit the end of an episode.

(She doesn’t like Magnus Archive’s end credits music I think?)

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The Princess Formerly Known As Prince @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll give it one more shot, what the hey.

The Princess Formerly Known As Prince @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 1d

Any of y’all kind souls wanna treat a humble Canadian to some turkey?

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Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · 1d

Please help with birthday and moving funds if able!

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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 1d

I can see it- They bounce off each other really well!

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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 1d

I just randomly read pieces of this at my roommate sometimes. She’s surprisingly chill about this most of the time.

Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 1d

I was obsessed with the new-ish translation of Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley because it actually captured the spirit and feel and fucking fun of the original poem better than a lot of stricter texts. It’s not trying to be the ultimate translation, just good as hell.

Beowulf: A New Translation

Beowulf: A New Translation [Headley, Maria Dahvana] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Beowulf: A New Translation

www.amazon.com

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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 1d

Compuserve was pre-web internet! Like AOL was (that’s what we used).

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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 1d

It WOULD

He’s probably not THAT big, but he’s like six months old and the same size as my six year old cat. (Length and heightwise. Weight, he’s like… at most half hers)

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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 1d

I have taken to holding the alarmingly large kitten like a baby when I catch him eating Precious’s dinner. Then I whisper “baby jail” at him while I carry him in to time out in my roommate’s room.

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Garlax, The Weasel King @garlaxweaselking.bsky.social · 1d

Even just hearing it read out loud by someone that isn’t another bored kid helps a lot.

(Plus reading along with annotation.)

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