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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14h

Kiss my ass! Substance free? I have arguably the most detailed analysis of the AI bubble out there. Maybe you just don’t like to live in reality?

Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 1d

are there AI critics or sceptics out there worth reading? (Not Ed Zitron types who just do a whole THIS IS VERY BAD shouty, largely substance-free schtick)

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13h

Mark Carney shows contempt for all Canadians by excluding the press from foreign trips. He needs to apologize and make amends for this, and be shown he’s a democratic head of government not the chief executive of Canada Inc.

Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 15h

Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 15h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 16h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12h

a lot of these blowhard pundits from the op-edigarchy who think they are the thought leaders of the party will never make a fraction of the impact of a Facebook group of white women in their 60s throwing fundraising teas to move the needle on abortion access at the grassroots level

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12h

my Aunt Kathleen, who passed away last February, was a lifelong Crafts Person and a Catholic fundraiser party hostess practically from the cradle. for the last decade she precision-targeted that energy toward pro-choice women Democrats in small-town NC. she was worth 100 dirtbag online leftbros

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

I understand that there are right ways and wrong ways to have the age conversation about Dem leadership and I don’t know how I feel about specific solutions like age and term limits. I do know THIS PART HERE is a problem bigger than any one individual 78-year-old and it’s making us all furious

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11h

I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 10h

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

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ghoill.bsky.social @ghoill.bsky.social · 14h

Whenever I eat mixed candies I always go for my least favourite flavours first.

Because god forbid my tasty candy eating be interrupted by the slightly less tasty candies.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

If your first thought as a reporter when racing to the scene where an invading fed paramilitary of murderous freaks are blanketing yet another neighborhood in chemical weapons after kidnapping people is to count how many objects are thrown at them, just quit. Just quit

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17h

Democrats need to put the same extended media consuming outrage into the Young Republican Nazi chats as Republicans mustered for Biden going for ice cream.

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 21h

This is why they hate antifascists so much - because they stopped Hitler the first time. And we'll do it again, to all those who didn't get the message. 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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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 1d

Resisting arrest has long been used as a “cover charge” by police (in Chicago and elsewhere) after they use force against someone, as I reported back in 2018: www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-poli...

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ghoill.bsky.social @ghoill.bsky.social · 23h

Ultimately the question is whether or not the majority of people believe the narratives major media are peddling.

If we believe that they do, then protesting is pointless and all is lost.

If however, most are sceptical then there's hope that escalation will backfire on conservatives.

ghoill.bsky.social @ghoill.bsky.social · 23h

If you're just being violent as an immediate response to aggression it's easy to be painted as rioters and isolated.

If however you are a victim, and can be seen as such, it can rally people to your defence and very suddenly oppressive behaviour has a cost they might not be willing to pay.

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ghoill.bsky.social @ghoill.bsky.social · 23h

The reality is that their violence has a goal behind it, it's a tool. It's important to recognize violence in that context and the notion that protests, especially peaceful ones, aren't really about protecting people.

They're to build pretext for self-defence, to demonstrate a lack of alternatives.

Ricci Sergienko, Esq. @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 23h

The pigs are going to attack you and attempt to crush your protest regardless. Thinking the media or anyone in power cares about optics is a joke at this point. They want to kill you! It’s actually much easier to do so if you are pacified and think that you have to play by the rules!

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 23h

The line of thinking centers the blame on protesters as the instigators of violence and “fighting with the cops,”when it reality, the agitators are the cops and feds themselves.

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ghoill.bsky.social @ghoill.bsky.social · 1d

There's a part of me that isn't quite sure why I do this. I'm not important, I don't have anything particularly unique or noteworthy to contribute, all I do is collate the words and contributions of people far better than me.

As if having a bunch of posts I didn't write for barely anyone matters.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

“Things are always happening that have the potential to change you.” 🔥

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 100th Birthday Margaret Thatcher.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 1d

All of the Israelis held by Hamas are called “hostages,” including the IDF soliders.

All the Palestinians released, though, are “prisoners,” including the many victims of Israel’s widespread arbitrary detention - meaning they are legally innocent, detained without charge or conviction.

Disgusting.

CBC headline reads: All living Israeli hostages freed, nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners released

Trump in Egypt for world leaders' meeting following an address to Israel's parliament

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 2d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 2d

Almost like they need to be abolished to live in a free society!

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

I am so weary of that class of extremely online leftists who think being a Serious Person™️ who only posts and does nothing else is superior to being a Fun Person™️ who physically shows up

Aaron Putnam @aaronputnam.bsky.social · 2d

I deleted a post of me in a frog suit with my 7-yr old daughter because a big account reposted, admonishing us for not being serious enough protestors (or something). I shouldn’t have included my daughter in the image, which was why I deleted it. But I was stunned by the condescension.

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 2d

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Vivienne M @vivziepop.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously a lot of people don’t like the show or don’t think it’s good. That’s fine. But if there’s one thing I know for SURE by now, a LOT of people LOVE the show and think it’s good. Don’t let the internet tell you you are alone in liking it, you are absolutely not. 🥰💕 enjoy what you enjoy.

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