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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 7h

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

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For my 7th Reincarnation I'm a Simple Tassja?!?! @tassja.bsky.social · 8h

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 9h

unfortunately the wanton destruction of government property is allowed without congressional approval if it “makes a really good metaphor”

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 9h

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.

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PhantamSam @phantamsam.bsky.social · 11h

That level of power teaches you that your actions do not have consequences. At least for you.

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 13h

janitor who can't mop the floors cuz aws is down

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 13h

An old xcdc comic about programmers excuse for slacking off replacing code is compiling with AWS is down

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PhantamSam @phantamsam.bsky.social · 14h

Himbos with Twink energy

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PhantamSam @phantamsam.bsky.social · 14h

I too would fuck the man who is definitely not the Louvre Jewel Thief

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official nikk account @nikk.ca · 20h

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

elegant woman blasting a suitor in the face with the NO gun

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PhantamSam @phantamsam.bsky.social · 19h

That explains everything tbh

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 1d

Going to the Olive Garden to pick up chicks in my fursona weeb dumpster

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

guys. GUYS.

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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PhantamSam @phantamsam.bsky.social · 1d

Assigned Goon At Birth

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 3d

Quick reminder today:

Always observe Shut the Fuck Up Friday

Two-panel screenshot from the Simpsons - on the top panel is a bus annoyedly saying "Don't make me tap the sign."

The bottom panel is the bus driver tapping a sign that reads "Do not post anything on social media that can be interpreted as an actionable threat."

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PhantamSam @phantamsam.bsky.social · 1d

Getting around to AC: Shadows and it has been an… inconsistent experience? I am mostly enjoying the game, but I have never hated the writing on a companion character in a video game more than Gennojo. It is bafflingly bad.

Thank you @lukeplunkett.com for voicing my feelings on this.

Gennojo Fuckin' Sucks, Man - Aftermath

No, you cannot join my club, you creep

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PhantamSam @phantamsam.bsky.social · 1d

Minsc rocking F-tier fuckability and S-Tier loveability

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best take my own advice 💎 @lucinthskywdia.bsky.social · 4d

In honor of Move Day, the most important video I have ever taken:

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Getlucky12341 @getlucky12341.bsky.social · 2d

>Get Earthbound for the first time ever in 2025
>The world's gone mad
>All the adults are useless at best or trying to kill you at worst
>Everyone talks like a crazy person
>Everything's too expensive
>Your next door neighbor wants to be a dictator
>Get home and start playing Earthbound

RaisonDetriment @raisondetriment.bsky.social · 6d

Playing Earthbound for the first time ever in 2025 is fascinating, actually. You're just a kid and the world's gone mad. All the adults are useless at best or trying to kill you at worst. Everyone talks like a crazy person. Everything's too expensive. Your next door neighbor wants to be a dictator.

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PhantamSam @phantamsam.bsky.social · 1d

This is another favorite of mine

youtu.be/fZiVwCTu_8g?...

Average Silksong Early Game Experience (Animation)

YouTube video by LIGHTER_125

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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 2d

Frogs were a kind of semi-aquatic anuran once widely distributed in the old world. These now extinct amphibians once had great cultural significance, especially among the subjects of the late American empire. Multiple, opposing factions employed frog motifs to gather political and ritual power bef-

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PhantamSam @phantamsam.bsky.social · 1d

Curtis may be a racist psychopath with a history of committing hate crimes, but he’s also family.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 2d

Silwa is like that weird uncle that you don’t like but don’t hate hate who only shows up to every third family thing to absolutely roast many of the relatives you do hate before telling you to invest in something weird like cardboard when he sees you outside mid Irish goodbye

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 11d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · Jun 13

PSA for everyone going to protests

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Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · 3d

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

Euronews @euronews.com · 4d

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

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PhantamSam @phantamsam.bsky.social · 2d

I hear the following 60 seconds of this video even though it is only 15 seconds long

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