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multipolarity welcomer @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 1h

I just want one Dem on the teevee for the olds to call them lobsterbacks or redcoats. See if it takes off.

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multipolarity welcomer @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 1h

I don't get why nobody calls them lobsterbacks or redcoats.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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multipolarity welcomer @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 1h

The New York Times Bestseller List is a cognitohazard.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2h

I know the whole “every accusation is a confession” thing but it’s pretty clear this is the most elitist government that’s existed in decades. It’s just 12 billionaires in a group chat sharing banned Reddit memes

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multipolarity welcomer @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 2h

your feed is apparently uniquely dogshit

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

slate.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3h

To be clear how this came about, Arpaio called me because I am an "expert on sheriffs" (?) and said enough that Kavanaugh should feel shame about his opinion.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

slate.com

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multipolarity welcomer @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 3h

the entire Internet is being ddos'd by chatbot scrapers 24/7 and nobody has even beaten sam altman to death w their bare hands

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: People with facial differences are being shut out of essential services due to the proliferation of face recognition tech—and at best forced to experience further rejection due to technological failures. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/when-f...

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

www.wired.com

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multipolarity welcomer @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 3h

woke up w that Blessid Union of Souls song about Mewtwo stuck in my head

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Helpful Gremlin @helpful-gremlin.bsky.social · Apr 5

Hello, MICHIGAN! I want this for us!

rankmivote.org

Bring Ranked Choice Voting to Michigan | Rank MI Vote

Ranked Choice Voting will enable more Michigan leaders to run for office, providing more choices by enabling more voices.

rankmivote.org

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 7h

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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[insert cleverness here] @silvergoldsea.bsky.social · 20h

I just sent an email to GQ politely asking them WTAF ARE YOU DOING PLATFORMING A RACIST POS? but with nicer words.

In case y'all don't know the self-identifying sexist and white supremacist Nick Fuentes, the SPLC has a whole page about him. www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...

GQ email below!

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 1d

Typebar magazine published a great essay by @ernie.tedium.co earlier this year about this. If you don’t own the audience relationship then you don’t own anything.

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/07/14/d...

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 1d

“We need everyone to get involved in the fight, and we need everyone to have a vested interest in continuing to resist.”

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ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

How Local Organizing, Community Defense and Security Culture Protect Us in Ways Technology Never Could

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

“Despite the app’s goal of protecting people from ICE, its viral success, and the state repression against it, ICEBlock has serious issues: Most

www.counterpunch.org

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multipolarity welcomer @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 1d

Nice

multipolarity welcomer @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 1d

Why should anybody spend their time watching, or reading, something that nobody thought was worth spending their time to create?

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multipolarity welcomer @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 1d

Friendly reminder that the term "neoliberal[ism]" was coined post-hoc by the international press to describe & obscure the economic directives of Augusto Pinochet.

Neal-o-lantern 🎃 @verdantsculpts.bsky.social · 1d

The “hidden” fascists are the worst of all. They pretty themselves up for the masses to pass as heroes. But they are by far the most dangerous. If you can’t look beyond the overt fascists like Trump and Hitler, you are putting yourself and those around you in danger.

multipolarity welcomer @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 1d

What do you think "fascism" is?

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multipolarity welcomer @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 1d

wtf

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multipolarity welcomer @ouroboredom.bsky.social · 1d

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Nick Fuentes is a psychotic fascist who openly admires Hitler, denies the Holocaust, and says that rape is "so not a big deal." But you'd never know any of that by reading this simpering GQ profile, which treats him as a kind of edgy internet curiosity rather than a deranged Nazi.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 1d

As I was saying... aaronrosspowell.leaflet.pub/3m2cdec7qrc2...

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