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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 19h

The left: always correct—uncomfortably early for everyone else

Everyone else: “now that we agree with the left, the left needs to compromise to accommodate us”

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 1d

Thicc crocodile 🐊🌈

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 17h

Did you know there's an ICE detention site right here in NYC? In the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a federal jail in Sunset Park.

I'll be here at the vigil, sharing about how to join the Dignity Not Detention campaign, to get New York State out of the business of caging immigrants!

Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 1d

Join us for our weekly vigil outside MDC Tuesday 10/21 6pm

www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Weekly Vigil for Democracy at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center · Mobilize

Join us in standing up for our neighbors, held at the notorious prison in our own back yard. For years, the Metropolitan Detention Center has had a reputation for inhumane conditions: rancid food, lac...

www.mobilize.us

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

arguably the most successful and widespread strike in us history is also largely forgotten. The slave strike during the civil war, slaves emanncipated themselves and crossed union lines. disrupting the slaver economy and war effort. when slavers asked general butler for the return of their property

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a little history of notable general strikes: 1/x 🧵

Why is May 1 Workers' Day?

On 1 May 1886, nationwide general strike for 8-hour day, w/hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the US. In Chicago, protests against police escalated into the Haymarket riot, w/hanging of 8 organizers.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17h

Very excited to read @ckunzelman.bsky.social's new book on Assassin's Creed, despite (or because of) not touching an entry in the series in roughly seven years

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17h

If only there was someone who could fix it, Rachel Reeves. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rachel Reeves says Brexit deal caused long-term damage to economy

Rachel Reeves made the comments about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 22h

obama ramped up the use of drone strikes (10x more than bush!) and deported a record number of immigrants. he helped maintain and expand the systems trump is now using to do his crimes

Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 1d

I miss the times when the worst thing a President did was wear a tan suit

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Evacuate Bowser @leverettwater.bsky.social · 19h

Obama is the lynchpin of neoliberal failure:

- no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis
- no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture
- no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber
- refused to reform the filibuster
- drone wars expanded

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 22h

obama ramped up the use of drone strikes (10x more than bush!) and deported a record number of immigrants. he helped maintain and expand the systems trump is now using to do his crimes

Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 1d

I miss the times when the worst thing a President did was wear a tan suit

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 23h

It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.

BBC report that police are focussing on a 'ladder placed against the side of the Louvre' while investigation a recent theft from the art gallery.

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kidswritejokes.bsky.social @kidswritejokes.bsky.social · Sep 3

Knock knock
Who’s there
Interrupting chair
Interrupting chair wh-
CHAAAIIIR

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 17h

"purity tests" "circular firing squad" "the left eat their own" are such bullshit phrases.

people disagree on politics! that's how it works.

deal with it instead of whining about marginalized people correctly pointing out that certain "compromises" only strengthens fascism

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 17h

I literally see no one who isn't on the right depend political/ideological "purity"

can people just admit they call certain political standards "purity tests" when they disagree with them?

Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 1d

Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 17h

ah yes the legendary historian

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 17h

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17h

“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.

Curtis Yarvin & David Starkey - The End of the End of History
By Oakeshott (formerly Scruton)
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The second Oakeshott Lecture of 2025 - with perennially viral tech philosopher Curtis Yarvin and eminent historian David Starkey

In the second Oakeshott (formerly Scruton) Lecture, Curtis Yarvin will address the End of the End of History in the Post-Cold War Era.

A former software developer, Curtis Yarvin came to international prominence under the pen-name Mencius Moldbug as a critic of contemporary democracy. An avid promoter of technocracy and critic of ‘the Cathedral’, Yarvin has become an influential figure on the American right - a reliably controversial voice and a confidante of JD Vance and Peter Thiel.

Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 17h

Public Notice: if you're a band using AI for any of your shit, I want nothing to do with you, and I will shit talk your sorry ass for the rest of my days.

The Dread Pirate Eden @queerbuccaneer.gay · 17h

Learning that my favourite band is using AI for their promo AND for their merch.
And denying it.
Straight up lying to people who ask if it's AI.
And blocking the word AI in the their fangroup.
Hahaha, I hate it here.

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The Dread Pirate Eden @queerbuccaneer.gay · 17h

Learning that my favourite band is using AI for their promo AND for their merch.
And denying it.
Straight up lying to people who ask if it's AI.
And blocking the word AI in the their fangroup.
Hahaha, I hate it here.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 1d

One of the things I do is the "two-word commission". Basically, you give me two words and 50 bucks, and I come up with something based on those two words.

This one was commissioned with the words "goblin" and "pumpkin".

A drawing of a goblin sitting inside of a pumpkin, carved into a jack-o-lantern.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

Obama’s senior advisor David Axelrod hires a man who said South Africa’s ICJ suit accusing Israel of genocide was "meritless, counterproductive, and completely without basis in fact whatsoever."

Israeli forces have killed more than 45,206 people since Kirby said that.

Obama’s senior advisor David Axelrod hires a man who called South Africa’s ICJ suit accusing Israel of genocide "meritless, counterproductive, and completely without basis in fact whatsoever."

Israeli forces have killed more than 45,206 people since Kirby said that.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 16h

Just watched a squirrel argue with a crow.

Dunno what it's about so I'm hesitant to take sides.

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🔞🎃Senor🎃🔞 @senorincognito69.bsky.social · 17h

how do you even react to this? me and all pornographers and sex workers have to live in fear of losing our livehoods at the whim of banks, corpos & politicians for doing adult art for adults, but YouTube can just sponsor raw bestiality in their platform used by children

while trying to watch Yuji "I'm you" speech (from Jujutsu Kaisen) YouTube put in the feed a bot generated ad of a Hex Maniac look alike getting fucked by a dog

the ad and the thumbnail of the JJK vid created a shocking juxtaposition, with a detached, bloody and brutally scared Yuji looking down at the insane ad with murderous detachment

the bot generated ad in question, the generated Hex Maniac anime girl fucked by a dog while crying smiling, "An app that can't show content her with no filter" claims the advertisement, "Sibyl AI: Anime & Senpai Chat, Anime AI Fantasy Adventures" Sponsored by YouTube

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 18h

jokes on him because as a gamer, I quit and stop all the time.

FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 19h

What does one even say about this level of delusional visions of grandeur?

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Michael P-ahhhhhhh-l 👻🐓 @michael.is-post.ing · 1d

netflix put video stores out of business by having a massively bigger selection by mail, and now the streaming version of netflix has a smaller selection than a typical video store had

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing you could do at a video store in the '90s and '00s was rent movies from the '80s through the '00s as opposed to having them be unfindable because nobody bothered

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I'm so spoiled rotten I wanted to watch The Elephant Man oops

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 16h

The Romans, re-establishing the monarchy: what's the worst that could happen

The first five emperors: literally 40% immediately become eternal bywords for "the worst psycho to ever do it"

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (3/5) @acvalens.net · 16h

(4) Games journalists don’t see the adult industry as one that “matters“
(5) Some games journalists pulled the ladder up on this issue (“I did sex work, now I want nothing to do with you filthy whores”)

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (3/5) @acvalens.net · 16h

(3) (cont’d) A lot of the bigger games journalists are millennials who came into their own during the 2000s and 2010s, where puritan mindsets were widespread on the left. This has resulted in a kind of silence on sexual topics, or condemnation of gooning as reactionary

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