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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 11h

He looks like a rejected Monty Python character.

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 11h

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 11h

Go Birds

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 12h

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 12h

Just an overwhelming stench of BO and 'manly' body spray

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 12h

"Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.”'

Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 13h

the least surprising news of our time 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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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 14h

They're still mad about Reconstruction, for crying out loud.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 15h

I'm generalizing, but why do conservatives remember political irritations for so much longer than liberals?

It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.

Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine caring about Kaepernick in the year of our lord 2025

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 17h

Tom’s incredibly valuable reporting and professionalism unpacked complicated Issues and stories for years. His reporting matters and it’s a damn shame he’s turning in his press pass. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 1d

MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE

Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Oct 14

After Being Spotted Eating Sugarcane, Baby Elephant Tries To Hide Behind A Light Pole

Image: a pathetic attempt at hiding. Hella cute though.

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 1d

Call me when Paul Westerberg is out stumping for Tim Walz.

...no, seriously. CALL ME. I wanna see that shit. www.stereogum.com/2326265/the-...

The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson Joins Tim Kaine And Amy Klobuchar For Virginia Gubernatorial Canvass

The Democratic nominee for Virginia’s upcoming gubernatorial election is Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA case officer who more recently represented the state in Congress. Canvasses for the election j...

www.stereogum.com

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 1d

My parents let me read Stephen King's The Stand and IT when I was 10 years old and I turned out mostly fine.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 1d

Nature is healing. That's what happens when you reintroduce wolves to a region, it has a real domino effect on the rest of the area.

Fat Kid Deals @fatkiddeals.com · 1d

This Dominos is in an old Pizza Hut building 😭😭

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, I warned her not to change her number.

One of these days, I'm gonna make her mine.

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 1d

My first long-term girlfriend’s number is still stuck in my head!

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 1d

[screams helplessly into the abyss]

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Angie @angiespar.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Day

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus? The director of The Goonies and Home Alone?

Jim Downey on Conan O’Brien’s podcast asking “Jeffrey Epstein? The New York Financier?”

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

South Dakota revealed new helmets today, that they'll debut November 1st against North Dakota. "Sungmanitu" is Lakota for Coyote.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 1d

Nice to see Homicide in the top 3, where it belongs.

Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 1d

Thrilled to share Consequence's ranking of the 30 best TV procedurals — across ALL genres, including cops, doctors, lawyers, and those on the other side of the law. (Including, depending on your personal theology, the literal Devil.)
consequence.net/list/best-pr...

The 30 Best TV Procedurals of All Time

A definitive ranking of the best TV procedurals, from cop shows to medical mysteries like House, Dexter, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and NCIS.

consequence.net

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 1d

Portland's gonna Portland. bikeportland.org/2025/10/13/p...

Presence as power marks massive pedaling protest against Trump

Thousands of Portlanders showed they are unafraid by making themselves as vulnerable as possible.

bikeportland.org

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 1d

NPR/Alaska Public Media: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

AP: apnews.com/article/alas...

CNN: www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/w...

Fox Weather: www.foxweather.com/weather-news...

ABC: abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

CBS: www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-...

The Weather Channel: weather.com/news/weather...

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my god

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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