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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 10h

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Jesse Post @yourfriendjesse.bsky.social · 11h

A hill I often die on when lettering comics is what I call "unexpected reading order," where, because of the action on a comics page, the reading order isn't a straightforward left-right-top-bottom (prose editors struggle with this a lot). Sam Rosen does it perfectly on this Spider-Man splash.

A splash page from a Spider-Man comic by Stan Lee, John Romita, Done Heck, and lettering by Sam Rosen. The Kingpin, at right, is punching Spider-Man towards the left side of the page. The word balloons and thought balloons by Rosen follow a spiral pattern following the action back and forth across the page, and a blue highlight line indicates the reading order flow.

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 13h

In general I’m pretty down on car culture… but I’m not sure we’ve found a better way to introduce an album you love to someone you care about.

You’re together in a little cocoon, unmoving yet blasting at high speed, inside yet outside, private yet public, with a captive audience and time to listen

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 13h

It’s not the same as sending a playlist, or taking them to a gig, or cueing up a bunch of music videos on the TV. It’s a kind of performative listening, a shared intimacy.

I dunno, how do big-city parents teach their kids about music these days?

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 13h

In general I’m pretty down on car culture… but I’m not sure we’ve found a better way to introduce an album you love to someone you care about.

You’re together in a little cocoon, unmoving yet blasting at high speed, inside yet outside, private yet public, with a captive audience and time to listen

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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 20h

I bet that, if you're a skeleton, it feels nice to be delicately brushed clean by an archeologist.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h

this is accurate along multiple dimensions

they’re getting dumber and more right wing but they are now smarter and more left wing in comparison to the people they see on twitter all day (stupid nazis) which also leads them to be even more prone to dismissing criticism from the left

spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter

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Minor Local Celebrity @pferdhosen.bsky.social · 1d

It’s time to take their money
Expropriate the right
It’s time to start the class war on the Muppet Show tonight

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d

treat yo self!!!

Ouroboros can have a little ouroboros as a treat

It’s a picture of a snake eating its own tail a symbol know as the ouroboros!

#flatcircle #time

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jmcdaid @jmcdaid.bsky.social · 1d

This is just to say

i have taken back
everything
i ever sent you
in the chat

and which
you were likely
quoting
in a story

Forgive me
you're not a journalist
so it's weird
just letting you know.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

This is actually a perfect meme.

Send this to anyone, at any time, for any reason!

By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.
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Chris Gooch @chrisgooch44.bsky.social · 1d

Two bigger panels from the last two chapters

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☀Hyde Angelus☀ ➡️ GGC #134 @hydeangelus.bsky.social · 1d

Insufficient

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 1d

One piece of research that really changed my life was that our behavior is often driven by what we think our identity is. It sounds silly, but a mind shift can change your life. A month ago I was not a gym person. Now, I am a person who goes to the gym regularly.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Hannah @fiendfables.bsky.social · 1d

First page of a new sketchbook

Scanned image of a sketchbook page. The drawing is a rippling pattern made with a light reddish-orange marker and burgundy pen.

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely believe this linguistic phenomenon is linked to a widespread shift in how we process the passage of time

Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 1d

while i'm talking about time periods, i've been thinking about this video about "the twenties" (the 1920s) and how we don't call the 2020s that. also, this channel is good

no decade nickname in the big 25 😔✌️ #etymology #history #language #linguistics

TikTok video by etymologynerd

www.tiktok.com

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BOBBY JOSEPH COMICS @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social · 1d

The Comics Laureate UK Graphic Novel list for 2025-2026 will be looking for graphic novels to be promoted to libraries. If you wish to be considered for the list, then inbox me a link to your work via Dropbox. Must have a valid UK publisher/ISBN number. Cut off DATE: 3rd Nov 2025. PLEASE SHARE! Ta!

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 2d

It’s strongly informed by Catholicism and I don’t agree with all of its ideologies, but opera is a pretty Catholic art form across the board

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 2d

Disagree completely! It’s not a simple work but it deals with immensely rich themes about acceptance and choice. Choosing to engage with life instead of committing suicide, choosing to work on your marriage instead of abandoning it, choosing reality over fantasy, choosing to become a parent.

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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 4d

@elienyc.bsky.social in @thenation.com: "American democracy cannot survive the Supreme Court’s attacks on the Voting Rights Act, because American democracy did not really exist before the Voting Rights Act. White rule existed. And that is what this court wants to return us to with this case."

The Supreme Court v. Democracy

The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

www.thenation.com

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 2d

Iron Giant commission! This was a joy to make, conjuring vivid memories of many New England autumns in my young adulthood. 🍂

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 3d

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3d

"much of Trump’s effort to extend his authority across the whole of American society depends on more or less voluntary compliance from civil society and various institutions outside of government. And that, in turn, rests on the idea that Trump is the authentic tribune of the people."

Opinion | Republicans Know How Vulnerable Trump Is. The Attacks on No Kings Prove It.

www.nytimes.com

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jade 🫀 comms closed @yellghoul.bsky.social · May 18

going downriver to find the last giant 💀✨

illustration of two kids and a tiger walking through a dense forest. the forest is littered with the bones of dead giants. illustration has a border featuring various greenery, wispy monsters, a shooting star, and a water lily

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