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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 2h

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 14h

Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 15h

I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7h

I try not to repost news from Meidas because, and this is important, they click bait and rage bait and honestly I don't think any of us need that shit.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2h

when all is said and done it looks reasonably likely that bin laden will have taken down not just the us but the entire west

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Mr Halloween @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 5h

Some advice to all the new people. You gotta follow more accounts here than on Twitter because of the smaller user base. If you don't, the experience gets stale. Also, you should pin feeds that interest you. Whether it's sports, birds or Garfield with huge titties. There's something for everyone.

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Cosmic Horror Picture Show @cosmoslionheart.bsky.social · 1d

dairy becoming the sole province of the supermarket instead of milkman work was disastrous for the cuckolding industry

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Fredo Fabrucci: The Poster's Poster™ @fredo.bsky.social · 1d

*repeatedly tapping a sign that has a picture of a horse on it, no explanation is given*

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 17h

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

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 9h

Before it is bulldozed I hope to see the ballroom used to hold The Tribunals

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 9h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 11h

It’s perversely funny that he literally talks about “small, mom-and-pop lenders” as if that’s a thing, and that thing is not called loansharking.

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 14h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 2d

My quarterly bill is due for accessing federal court documents. These docs *should* be free but aren’t—though I do share my uploads via the great @free.law project. Support @autonomynews.co with a paid membership or tip jar offering to cover these costs
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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 3h

This is an extremely Boston thing to say but I was not quite prepared for Robby Roadsteamer to go full Lenny Bruce Mode!

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 9h

Mutual aid help request

im trans, a journalist, and don't have income

please share donate or comment to boost for me

i need $600 asap (i don't have groceries either on top of being behind on my bills coming for me)

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 9h

fuck and now my therapist's office is calling me and saying i am behind 2 weeks on therapy payments

guys i super need help. please im sorry. im $300 away from paying my car insurance still (due tomorrow) and im $200 behind on therapy bills

sorry im trans and struggling love you

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 5h

I didn’t even realize there was anti-Indian stuff in there, JD Vance don’t reflexively defend people who think your wife and kids are subhuman challenge (impossible)

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 7h

"You can't judge me based on the things I say," is peak Republican

The group chat included one message in which Douglass mocked the bathing habits of people from India, and another exchange where his wife wrote of “expecting the Jew to be honest.”

The first-term GOP senator said Wednesday that his message in the chat “was not a generalization and doesn’t represent my views or character.”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Subscribe to The Onion and help us become a bigger newspaper than The Washington Post by next year. It can happen!

membership.theonion.com

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 11h

in 1971 they could only dream of forcing horror upon horror into the mind of one victim at a time. modern social media correctly assessed that the answer to "do you want to see the worst 500 things we can find today" is almost always yes. but it's fine and this has had no consequences for anyone

the protagonist of A Clockwork Orange undergoing the ludovico technique

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DegenerateHomeschooler @tonydelvecchio.bsky.social · 6d

We investigated the witness list from Illinois' homeschool bill and identified at least nine registered child sex offenders submitted testimony against it

Law Banning Child Sex Offenders From Homeschooling Stalled After Nine Child Sex Offenders Testify Against It

Illinois lawmakers proposed the state's first protections for homeschooled children; at least nine registered child sex offenders appeared as witnesses against the now-stalled bill.

www.spoonbeltandrod.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

there are currently about 12,000 registered supplement manufacturers. last year the FDA inspected only 600 of them!

when the agency does do inspections, it overwhelmingly focuses on domestic manufacturers. that's a problem because a LOT of these materials are sourced from foreign factories

$Manufacturers generally don’t even have to notify the FDA when introducing a new product. A 2023 Government Accountability Office report found the FDA’s oversight of the supplement industry so lacking that it urged Congress to expand its authority. The report noted that the FDA relies largely on voluntarily submitted complaints and inspections to identify safety issues and ensure companies are complying with manufacturing guidelines. Those inspections cover only a fraction of the industry. There are currently about 12,000 registered supplement manufacturers, according to an agency spokesperson. Last year the FDA inspected only 600 of them: 510 domestic and 90 foreign. With so little oversight, people who turn to supplements out of concern for their health are left to navigate the risks on their own. “When these products that should be straightforward contain more heavy metals than expected, that exposes the challenge for consumers these days,” says Cohen.$

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Fight @ifight4them.bsky.social · 2h

"One day very soon, Reingold is going to wake up and have to confront the fact that one of the few friends she has left in the world is an elderly colleague who is really excited about AI actresses because they will allow him to finally "see a virgin on-screen." That's tough."

Defector @defector.com · 15h

Free Press reporter discovers that being an amoral dickhead can cost you friends: defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you…

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 13h

Vance reacts to the Young Republicans chat leak

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 12h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4lS...

Unearthed Audio Captures Ronald Regan Using Racial Slur in Call With Nixon

YouTube video by Bloomberg News

www.youtube.com

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 16h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Amanda Marcotte
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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

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