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Lestan Xero

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Man with a fork in a world of soup As seen thru a scanner darkly Vibrating at this freq. since 1978 Esteemed Co-host of the L0wl1f3 Podcast: https://youtube.com/@l0wl1f3pod

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Lestan Xero @h0w3rd.bsky.social · Jul 25

s5e14 L0WL1F3 "Southland Tales"

This ep, Xero, Grue, Shadowlink, and CoinOps discuss Richard Kelly's star-studded 2006 hyper-ambitious film: "Southland Tales". It's insane, divisive, granularly interesting, and utterly batshit.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2h

cybertruck owners treat being a cybertruck owner as just as hard as being transgender in the united states it’s so awesome

WIRED @wired.com · 6h

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck

“We were the targets.” WIRED spoke to seven Tesla Cybertruck owners about their most controversial purchase and why they're proud to drive it.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20h

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 7d

Buzzfeed.

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

She chose to keep supporting Israel’s genocide instead.

I feel like a crazy person having to explain how this is bad and that no good person would ever commit genocide (???)

Picture of smiling Kamala in front of a huge sign that says Kamala in case her afternoon xanny makes her a little loopy and the text says ahhh Kamala Harris how this country has failed you

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 7d

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone else remember that old SNL sketch in which Jon Lovitz is playing Michael Dukakis and Dana Carvey is playing George H.W. Bush and they're debating and in mid-debate Dukakis turns to the camera and says, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy"?

Yeah, *that*

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7d

White people are producing mass shooters at an incredible clip, and this is what they’re trying to do about it.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7d

A White Christian nationalist pastor argued recently on a right-wing podcast that the Bible--specifically Deuteronomy 21, about how a father must bring his rebellious son to the town square to be stoned--justifies state violence against Black boys and young men.

www.theroot.com/why-this-whi...

Article from "The Root" by Asheea Smith. Published October 8, 2025

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 7d

Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 11d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Lestan Xero @h0w3rd.bsky.social · 11d

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Brian's Ghostly Visage @priorplanning.life · 15d

"...where the television, where it exists, is always saying the same things the whole time; it’s always driving along. It’s not creating a wide front of distraction it’s creating a one-pointed, er…drumming in of a single idea, all the time."

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The Mike Wallace-Aldous Huxley Interview: A Chillingly Prediction of Today's World - Factkeepers.com

Nearly a century ago author Aldous Huxley foresaw a world of populations willing to live under dictatorships that utilized propaganda and mind altering drugs to keep people "happy." Sound familiar?

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Reese Waters @troubledh2o.bsky.social · 15d

Sometimes you have to call a lie, a lie! 😖

Miller is lying! 🤬

#StephenMiller #Dems #Repubs #ACA

#ReeseWaters

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 15d

Hunter S Thompson's death to be reviewed by Colorado investigators 20 years later

Investigators will review the writer's 2005 death, which was ruled a suicide, at the family's request though there in no new evidence of foul play.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13d

I know rightwingers are pissed that he’s playing the super bowl but the fact that he speaks Spanish seems like a weird reason?

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 13d

Mentally ill? What makes you think that?

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13d

The real tragedy of the Nevermind baby is that even if he’d managed to grab that dollar it’s very unlikely he’d have been able to purchase anything with it

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Lestan Xero @h0w3rd.bsky.social · 16d

This can't be good

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 16d

Trump and Hegseth to address top US generals in unusual military gathering

The short-notice meeting has prompted speculation - which the Trump administration has tried to dampen.

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 16d

Trump and Hegseth to address top US generals in unusual military gathering

The short-notice meeting has prompted speculation - which the Trump administration has tried to dampen.

www.bbc.com

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NPR @npr.org · 17d

The participation of big name funnymen, including Dave Chappelle, Aziz Ansari and Kevin Hart, provoked criticism from fellow comedians and human rights groups.

Marc Maron, Human Rights Watch and others slam Saudi comedy festival

The participation of big name funnymen, including Dave Chappelle, Aziz Ansari and Kevin Hart, provoked criticism from fellow comedians and human rights groups.

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Lestan Xero @h0w3rd.bsky.social · 17d

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Lestan Xero @h0w3rd.bsky.social · 18d

Lord help us they are deputizing the worst of the worst. Watch as this 'leet sauce gestapo drops first his gun, then his glasses:
youtu.be/cJcBevjXYvE?...

ICE Violence Is OUT OF CONTROL

YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

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Brian's Ghostly Visage @priorplanning.life · 18d

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Babe, wake up. New bsky auto-mod just dropped.

A new bsjy auto-mod labelling users as Antifa terrorists.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18d

As the US Marshals Service prepared for Donald Trump’s expected pardon of January 6 defendants, officials went to unusual lengths to facilitate the defendants’ travel home from the DC jail, newly obtained records show.