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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 3m

how to complain about bluesky being down when bluesky is down

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1h

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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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1h

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days 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 end...

defector.com

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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 3h

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 4h

BREAKING: Christen Press is retiring at the end of the 2025 NWSL season.

In addition to her advocacy for equal pay, the USWNT star leaves the game a two-time World Cup Champion and Olympic bronze medalist.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...

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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 3h

NEK gonna NEK

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 6h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 4h

Say what you will about Joe Biden, but he is the king of oratorial carefully considered moral outrage

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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 4h

This is the most Joe Biden anybody not Joe Biden has ever sounded like [complimentary]

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 13h

the never trumpers have repeated this bullshit so much that some people believe it

Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 19h

The media smeared Mitt Romney as Hitler. Then Republicans thought, well we might as well run Hitler.

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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 14h

It’s been widely reported that kids have been swimming in white power memes since at least gamergate but likely before

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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 14h

If you didn’t know it’s been happening for the past two decades, it’s kinda on you tbh

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 16h

American Athens!

Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 16h

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 18h

It is, quite possibly, a funnier movie than Groundhog Day

👻Wereman 🐺🎃 @spookarties.bsky.social · Dec 1

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23h

I really just once a reporter would reply “oh are you gonna cry about it”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 23h

damn, the GOP's so racist these days that they're gonna make me wear out my one good shitpost

A slight variation on the classic Onion headline: "Why Do All These White Nationalists Keep Infiltrating My Political Movement?"

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow William Daniels (still alive) is older than John Aston (still alive)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 1d

I mostly just found spending 500 pages trying to prove whales are actually fish to be pretty funny

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 1d

the whale parts were cool, actually

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 1d

Bill Knapp’s (1948-2002): A chain of earnest, "down-home" "family-style" restaurants located around the Midwest U.S. and Florida. Famous for high quality ingredients and meals "from scratch", they tried a hip re-brand in the late 90's, which ultimately led to declining business... a 🧵!

A black and white photo of a restaurant dining room, full of booths, tables, chairs, and "homey" curtains on the windows

A Bill Knapp's menu featuring sections on soups, dinner plates, "meal in a basket", and a steak special

The front of a Bill Knapp's menu, featuring photos of various baked goods such as cake, donuts, muffin tops, and ice breads

The front of a white Bill Knapp's restaurant at dusk, with a red awning and lights in the windows

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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine not liking music because it's not in english

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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 2d

Mario and Luigi from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

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.
"
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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spooky joseph reed @josephsreed.bsky.social · 2d

We saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe

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