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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 3h

He did not discover America as the continent was already populated. He wasn't even considered worthy of having it named after him - that honor went to Amerigo Vespucci. He wasn't even the first European in this content as the Vikings beat him here by several centuries.

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 3h

Quick reminder that Christopher Columbus was considered a vile, repulsive, evil man even in his own time. His actions as governor of Spain's New World colonies landed him in prison for his cruelty and violence.

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 8h

The suburbs pray for war.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 7h

I *really* do not care that Ian Watkins is dead.

I do really care that prisons are so horrific. As an American, I'm not trashing other countries for having bad prisons.

We have horrific prisons in my country, and that HAS to change.

A lot has to change, but this is change that is on all society.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 15h

“The very machinery designed to guard the homeland ended up treating Black dissent as a domestic threat…America has recast its gaze and fear to a new subject: the immigrant…

Black People Knew This Would Happen

Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.

theintercept.com

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 7h

lol, I guess there's nothing new about recognizing how unbelievably good mustard-spiked cheese is. Shout-out to ancient Sumer!

www.youtube.com/shorts/vudKn...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19h

Terrified he died but delighted that it’s just him talking about cocaine

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19h

Tim Curry was a 20-something stage actor living in London in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s when he auditioned for a new B-movie musical called “The Rocky Horror Show.” In a new interview, Curry discusses the cult classic, David Bowie, Studio 54, and more. http://nyer.cm/Z9RkgrI

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16h

Portland is OK

Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 16h

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 2d

🎶Whoa, Black Betty🎶

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 22h

Drug addicted Norma Talmadge prepares her syringe in THE DEVIL'S NEEDLE (1916)

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: @lackadaisyshow.bsky.social is now partnering with none other than indie cartoon powerhouse @glitchprod.com to bring you a SIX-EPISODE season one!

We are incredible pleased and excited for this development.

Watch this sneak-peek of ep one to see what's in store!

Lackadaisy Tracy @lackadaisy.bsky.social · 2d

Hey everyone, we have some big news to share!

LACKADAISY - Last Call

A preview of Lackadaisy Season One - the Speakeasy is in its prime as Mitzi and the band regale the crowd with an original musical number, Last Call. This seemed like the ideal way to announce that Lackadaisy is now officially a ‪Glitch‬ Production!!

youtu.be

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17h

THIS. If a politician is willing to abandon today's Inconvenient Vulnerable Group in the name of political expedience? They'll abandon them all. And fascists will not be appeased by any of it, anyway. They just switch targets. That's how this works.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 1d

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 18h

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 17h

No honey, we criticize you for free because you lie.

From MAHA Action, "Dr. Eric Berg just REVEALED the real reason behind the sudden wave of anti-RFK Jr. and MAHA content online.

Big Pharma is literally paying influencers $1,000 per post to attack the MAHA movement.

(Video from MAHA ACTION Weekly Media Hub)"

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17h

Anyway, reminder that it was the NYC police—yes, THE COPS THEMSELVES—who distributed over a million copies of this fear mongering propaganda pamphlet in 1975 when budget cuts threatened police salaries and pensions.

They need you afraid to maintain power.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_Ci...

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17h

lol liars, every one. Chicago cops threatened to quit if Brandon Johnson was elected mayor. Police union leader LITERALLY threatened "blood in the streets," saying between 800 to 1,000 would walk.

Guess what never happened.

And even if they'd made good on that threat... OK??? BYE????

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Jun 28

you have a right to be angry

Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

Or says "heebie-jeebies!" Another phrase that originates with a comic!

Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 1d

Yet it lives on every time somebody says (or buys) “googly eyes”!!!

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puff 🐇😈 @incupuff.bsky.social · Apr 27

please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

This. This exactly.

A lack of interest in prioritizing goonerbait characters is (correctly) interpreted as an acknowledgement of the widening of the audience for video games, and "gamers" don't want anyone else's wants or desires to matter. Only their own.

Lucky_Bun @luckybun.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't about porn or gooner brain or whatever, it's not even about looks, this is about power. They don't want to see beautiful women, they want all women in media to be nothing but objects for the pleasure of (white) men.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 3d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

Barney Google had novelty songs, multiple films, serials, and cartoons. Barney's racehorse, Spark Plug, was the reason Charles Schulz, creator of "Peanuts," was nicknamed "Sparky" as a kid (and an adult). This strip was capital-P popular.

But you'd never know it now.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

I've talked before about Al Capp's "Li'L Abner" & the kinda-shocking speed at which what had once been a decades-old juggernaut IP just... EVAPORATED from the American consciousness.

But that's not a unique story. To wit: The story of "Barney Google & Snuffy Smith." www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQi5...

The comic strip that won't die

YouTube video by Don McHoull

www.youtube.com

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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 1d

Bonhams is auctioning off original artwork by beloved artist Bob Ross to support public television stations after Trump funding cuts.

Bob Ross Paintings Auction Will Support Public TV Stations

nerdist.com

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

One day.

Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 1d

Bridge over Chicago Waters. This morning during the Chicago Marathon.

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 2d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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