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Trudging Spineripper @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 1h

Are you telling me that no elected officials in the entirety of Congress, nor any of their staff, know anything about how it works?

Trudging Spineripper @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 1h

This is just restating the same argument again. It's not regular people's role to know the exact specific procedures to block fascism. It's the role of professional politicians and their staff and advisors and specialist lawyers. That's the entire point of them.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Trudging Spineripper @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 9h

"ME: Hmm, perhaps I'll vote for a party that isn't openly shit

SOME RANDO IMMEDIATELY:

Homer Simpson The Simpsons GIF

Alt: Simpsons GIF: Kang & Kodos saying "Go ahead, throw your vote away!" and laughing

media.tenor.com

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 10h

There is a genuine mental block amongst the elites in capitalist societies. Everything is collapsing and the hegemon is autocannibalising, but if that were true then they'd have to do something about it, and so they are doubling down on "everything is fine and normal."

Max Bernhard @mxbernhard.bsky.social · 12h

Seems like the worst time to start sharing your citizens' biometric data with the US government

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

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Trudging Spineripper @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 9h

If you don't want to bribe me, Charles, there's plenty of others who do 🧐

Screenshot from the linked story that reads "But Prince Andrew seems to have cultivated his own independent sources of funding since leaving public life, including business connections with China, the Gulf States and a recently curtailed project with a Dutch start-up company. He has proved financially resilient, despite what must be significant costs in paying for his own security."

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Trudging Spineripper @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 10h

I think we've already answered this one repeatedly tbqh

Promo image for "Jimmy Carr's Am I The Asshole"

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Trudging Spineripper @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 10h

Ah crap I had $10 on freezes over

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19h

One of the many things I wish I had been wrong about is saying that back in the nineties, our leaders looked at climate change and said: We can’t do shit about this without measures we find unacceptable, so future generations will just have to deal with it via machine guns, fences and attack dogs.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsk... • 2d
"I don't think we can mitigate for climate change."
- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 14h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11h

All this stuff, all of it, isn't about meeting someone. It isn't even about fucking someone. It's about *Being able to tell your mates you fucked someone*, by any means necessary.

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 11h

It’s just PUA misogynistic bullshit by another name right?

If you’re presenting yourself fraudulently to someone, that’s already *really* bad, but I’d also wager than basically anyone who does this isn’t actually emotionally prepared to have a relationship, and has an immature view of what one is.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Trudging Spineripper @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 12h

William Sitwell is going to damn well make those clouds listen

homer simpson is holding a glass in front of a framed picture

Alt: Gif: abe simpson shouting at a cloud

media.tenor.com

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 18h

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 19h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Leah Miller @leahmiller.bsky.social · 14h

Sometimes tiktok has it

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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gugalanna daddy issues @ninazu.bsky.social · 20h

The good ol’ £200-a-year hope-I-don’t-die tax

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 1d

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Up ewig ungedeelt! @upewigungedeelt.bsky.social · 1d

Wasserfarben.

Alles #Ostsee | #Balticsea | #MareBalticum.
In Farbe und bunt!

Bild der Ostsee bei Dazendorf bei Sonnenuntergang, mit sanftem Wellengang, der auf ein kiesiges Ufer trifft. Der Himmel ist klar mit einigen Wolken, und die Sonne steht tief, färbt das Wasser in goldenen Tönen. Ein einsamer Vogel fliegt am Horizont.

Das Foto zeigt die Steilküste bei Dazendorf in weichem Abendlicht. Rechts zieht sich eine flache Kliffkante entlang, deren erdige, ockerfarbene Struktur warm von der tief stehenden Sonne beleuchtet wird. Der Strand darunter besteht aus dunklem Kies und Schaumresten, die sich in weißen Linien am Ufer ablagern. Die Ostsee ist bewegt – Wellen rollen kraftvoll heran, brechen mit weißen Gischtkronen und erzeugen eine lebendige Wasseroberfläche. Über dem Meer hängt ein Himmel in Pastellfarben: zarte Rosatöne, leicht golden und violett schimmernd, durchzogen von einzelnen großen Wolken, deren Unterseiten dunkelgrau leuchten. In der Ferne ist die Linie des Horizonts klar zu erkennen, mit kleinen Punkten, die an Windräder erinnern. Das Bild vermittelt eine Mischung aus Energie und Ruhe – die herbstlich kühle Luft ist fast spürbar.

Das Foto zeigt eine ruhige Abendstimmung an der Ostsee bei Dazendorf. Im Vordergrund liegt ein Kiesstrand mit glatten, rundgeschliffenen Steinen in Braun-, Grau- und Blautönen. Rechts ragt ein markanter, dunkler Fels pyramidenförmig aus dem flachen Wasser. Kleine Wellen laufen sanft gegen den Strand und schäumen leicht um den Stein. Das Meer ist ruhig, die Oberfläche schimmert in hellem Blau und Grau. Der Himmel darüber ist weit und von feinen Wolkenschichten durchzogen, die das weiche Licht der untergehenden Sonne reflektieren – blasse Gold-, Rosa- und Grautöne mischen sich zu einer stillen, melancholischen Abendstimmung. Am linken Bildrand zeichnet sich in der Ferne die dunkle Silhouette einer Küste ab.

Sonne, rund, weiß, unmittelbar über dem Horizont stehend, der Himmel um sie herum orangefarben, nach oben in ein gelbliches Graublau auslaufend. Darunter, ca die Hälfte des Fotos, Ostsee mit Wellengang.

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Trudging Spineripper @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 23h

At this rate we'll be lucky if people in 100 years aren't digging up our bones to put us on trial for what we did

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Trudging Spineripper @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 23h

"She couldn't be trusted not to leak or brief," an anonymous source leaked or briefed 🧐

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Just a weird little guy 🇵🇸 @weirdguy.bsky.social · 1d

I have to go now, my planet needs me.

Note: Silver Skele died on the way back to his home planet.

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Trudging Spineripper @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 1d

I think a lot of people think as long as they don't say slurs they're not being racist 🙄

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Trudging Spineripper @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone loves Coca-Cola bottle duck 😒

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Obligatory Hallow’Iain Joke Here Pls @iainhepburn.me · 1d

No. Just no. Have you learned nothing from the fiery debacle?

Irn Bru’s new spiced ginger and cinnamon Christmas flavour.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 1d

A common canard about the civil war is that it was about states rights, or that the union didn't care about slavery and...like all good lies, there is an element of truth there

But only an element - it ignores the fact that the war directly exposed the union troops DIRECTLY too slavery

Teufelaffe @teufelaffe.bsky.social · 1d

"I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on" is metal af

Post by user @jamellebouie.net that reads, "from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

Nothing made slavery's toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper Sout, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers "learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter." The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the "goodlooking" daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, "every private in the ranks" cursed "that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women," according to one member of the regiment. When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, "By G-d I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on."

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

next person who asks him about Winds of Winter gets a bit of the old ultraviolence

george rr martin looking like a droog from clockwork orange

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