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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 5h

Amen Thompson’s developing jumper is second though.

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 5h

All of those life dreams can still happen. It’s just that the background to your dreams will be a bit stormier than you pictured.

For real, maybe these changes and challenges will eventually bring out the best in us and more importantly, you.

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Samaa❤❤ @samaa0181.bsky.social · 7h

This is Gaza, where 90% of its buildings and homes have been completely destroyed. There's no place for a million people after their homes were destroyed. My little girls and I have nowhere to sleep. Please support my family to rebuild my future.
@mommunism.bsky.social gofund.me/db56c7ce3

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 6h

This is a “might as well start smoking” headline. Especially considering “by 2050” is a fairly optimistic projection.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050

The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement.

www.bbc.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h

Pay people you like on the internet folks, it’s going to be rough out there

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 12h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 12h

My favorite way to make myself depressed is Soviet time capsule messages

www.russiabeyond.com/history/3266...

Soviet time capsules: messages from the past with lessons to teach us in 2017
"We're a little jealous of all you who are celebrating the centenary of our Soviet motherland"
Arkhangelsk
"You are talking with representatives of other galaxies about scientific and cultural collaborations"
Novosibirsk
"You have eliminated harmful bacteria and viruses, ageing and sickness"
Tiraspol
"We address you, those who don't know what war is"
Okulovka

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 16h

Why are there more flooding storms? Why does my cat ignore me?

For starters, the Northern mid-latitudes just set yet another new record for the 3-year running average for Total Column Precipitable Water.

And yes, this one is exponential.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18h

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 22h

⚡️Drop Site Daily | October 14, 2025

Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement

www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-...

Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement

Drop Site Daily: October 14, 2025

www.dropsitenews.com

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 21h

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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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 19h

All Kamala Harris had to do to beat Trump was stop being complicit in genocide.

She chose genocide instead.

Stop blaming leftists for refusing to accept that this is in any way okay, and start blaming the actual fucks in power.

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 20h

To all the people in the crowd booing this brave girl for speaking truth to power - I hope you get exactly what you deserve =)

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 19h

Money and propaganda are most of the story. Oil companies have spent large sums making sure people are blamed as either “too dumb” or “in denial” about climate.
But the truth is most don’t know because they were never told.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 19h

Climate is almost completely blacked out in US News. There are always exceptions.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 1d

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

And thanks to the rotten mainstream news most people have no idea what we’ve unleashed.

Because if they knew there would be 500 million in the streets right now.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to even comprehend this.
Coral reefs are lost.
We knew it was coming but still…
Coral reefs are lost.

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 2d

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

Someone at CBS snuck a real story in under the wire.

RIP CBS News as well.

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Environmental Coffeehouse~ Sandy @envirocoffeehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Don't Bring Your Phone to No Kings. The Game Is Changing.
#biometrics #nokings #burnerphone

Get a burner phone stay safe. Don't bring your cell phone to a protest in the US!

YouTube video by Environmental Coffeehouse

youtube.com

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

$$$$

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1d

If you need to make yourself throw up because you accidentally ingested something toxic this should do the trick.

Axios @axios.com · 1d

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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