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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 4h

"My face ain't hidden, bitch!"

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 5h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 8h

I love the phrase Meredith Whittaker (head of Signal) used: “if you want to put your brain in a jar.”

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 1d

From AGI to Porn: The Gen AI Story. New documentary on Netflix.

JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 1d

“I may be wrong but you are the exact opposite of what I, a person on the internet, want to see.”
These types of people make me think of this guy:

Sam the Eagle at a podium with an American Eagle seal on wall behind him

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 1d

When you’ve lost Newsmax

JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 1d

What if constituents who voted for them see this chat as not a bad thing? That’s what scares me even more.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 1d

Definition challenge: what are”politically correct sirens?”

Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 1d

Follow the sound of the sirens, Donald! Follow the sound!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "You hear those sirens going off? That's good. A good sound. That means they either got the bad guy or they're gonna stop the bad guy. You didn't hear that sound bc nobody wanted to do anything. Listen to the beauty of that sound. That's the real deal sirens, not politically correct sirens"

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 1d

Expect that soon CBS will not be doing these polls under new leadership

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 1d

Peabody

JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 2d

#MA #everett

Mass50501 @mass50501.bsky.social · 2d

If you live in the Everett, MA area please consider joining members of the community as the organize to help bring Arthur home!

#Everett #Malden #Revere #Saugus

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 2d

Food: Calamari

Film: Porky’s

Song: I Saw the Sign

Dave Ross @daveamitri.bsky.social · 2d

Food: Cauliflower Cheese

Film: The Holiday

Song: Queen - I Want To Break Free

Sarah Manvel with a🪝for a 🖐️ @cairdiul.bsky.social · 2d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Food: canned tuna fish

Film: Grease. I was horrified by its sexism from my first viewing at a sleepover and I remain correct

Song: Brown Eyed Girl. The worst

JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 2d

I think Bari Weiss is being set up to fail actually. They know she can’t do that job but they also know she has a weird level of influence way above her actual skills. They bought her TFP out for what an oligarch considers pennies ($150 mil). Better to have her on side than not.

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 4d

I was just in Europe and it is so wild that with an American bank account I have to sign a paper receipt where every other nationality has full digital approvals. We are so backward.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 5d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 5d

It is also patently obvious that Trump did not write this.

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 6d

UK libel law is very different from US. UK media will have a more informed take (hopefully).

JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 8d

This is Mamdani style. Glad it is finally sinking in how effective these short form videos are.

JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 9d

Don’t usually watch the Super Bowl but she had me at “demonic sexual performances”

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 10d

Never saw the Rocky movies and I am Gen X.

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 10d

There is a certain type of American white man that likes to come on Bluesky to lecture with their Very Smart Takes rather than actually engage. Cuban is another.

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 10d

There are degrees of fascism.
Competitive authoritarianism may be a more accurate term.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 11d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah but the sailors and farmers had it bad then too! Stop standing up for oligarchs! 🤣🙄
Enough Bluesky for me today. It has been an ….. experience.

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JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 11d

What????? How is this protecting the oligarchs?

JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 11d

I also think you are a bot

JFG @jfgibson.bsky.social · 11d

No I think they were way more desperate though and comparing the conditions of 1886 to now is completely absurd.