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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 3d

disgorgement (n.) – a legal remedy requiring a party who profits from unlawful or wrongful acts to give up any profits they made as a result of such conduct.

Disgorgement, folks. It needs to be on the table.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 7h

A story in three parts

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 23h

Remember we're still in a pandemic, so wear your masks on Saturday

#nokings

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 13h

1338) Voidbot. Should you venture backward or forward far enough through time and space, you will find the place/moment where dimensions fold in on themselves, spiraling into infinity, an all-consuming eternity, where there is only V O I D B O T. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

A series of indistinct, nested glowing trails, all spiralling inwards towards a black, central void. Each trail describes a logarithmic 'golden spiral' rotated 45 degrees with respect to each of its neighbours so that the whole frame is filled with an irising swirl of light and dark. The edge of each trail is picked out with random(ish) black dots, making them appear fragmented and hazy, as if they are perhaps great bands of stellar matter, the remains of galaxies drawn into some cosmic gravitational maw. And in that maw there is a little smiling face, tilted at a slight angle, which looks like it's faintly glowing.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 5h

You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 5h

Somehow it's only "demonizing half of the country" when Democrats mildly criticize Trump supporters. This just doesn't count

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

imagine laying off a politics reporter based in portland oregon in the year 2025

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 5h

Republicans should know better than to reveal themselves as racist in private when the standard GOP policy is to reveal themselves as racist in public.

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Fionnuisce @fionnuisce.bsky.social · 5h

Why do they seem to be taking all their names from a list of Excel functions?

Introducing: Peacock Indirect

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💍Izzy💜⁷~back on the CR shit~🍉 @mowsyling.bsky.social · 5h

No porn intended...

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 3d

I get paid 7 figures a year to come up with this shit. Some stuff I have cooking up for you to look forward to: Amazon Prime changing to Amazon Plus. Paramount Plus changing to Paramount Now. HBO Max changing to just HBO. I fucking hate all of you and I will never stop.

Headline about Apple TV+ changing to Apple TV.

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Moose Jolly Holcomb @reverendmoose.bsky.social · 4h

Him as a "kid".

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, Nazi kids.

An official-looking setting with a man in a suit and tie, speaking animatedly at a table with a microphone. U.S. flags are visible in the background. The text says: “JD Vance on Young Republicans' leaked group chat that joked about gas chambers, slavery and more: ‘That's what kids do’”.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 5h

I think they’re significantly overplaying their hand. These goons exist in a RW media bubble where most of us don’t live.

Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 6h

Bondi on Fox:
"People protesting immigration enforcement raids were members of what she described as “organized crime” syndicates.

“They are no different than [notoriously violent El Salvadorean gang] MS-13,” she said.

can you imagine? The AG of the US equates peaceful protest w/ organized crime.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 8h

Opinion | Liberals say they are tolerant. So why are they so intolerant of Hitler?

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 7h

This is Johnson saying the GOP Nazis had VIP tickets to Trump's inauguration. As proof there's no reason to be concerned about Nazis in the GOP.

What a time to be alive. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 7h

A lot of them are performing outrage at gutter racists to publicly distance themselves even though they know they have the same sentiments.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 19h

White people have a kind of intra-white respectability politics about the level of racism that's considered permissible in polite company and I think a lot of polite racists are mad the gutter racists are tarnishing their good name.

I don't care for any kinda racist but I love myself, so. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 6h

Good morning to everyone, but especially women who don’t like the vehicle

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · 9h

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · 9h

This Editor's Note is pure gold

From the Wired article "Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck" - interviews with seven Cybertruck owners.

One of them is Russ Taylor from CA. Excerpt from his interview:

QUESTION: How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod?

Taylor: "People occasionally just flip [me] off or whatever, but nobody's come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. Personally, it's kind of dumb. It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is."

[Editor’s note: Taylor was arrested and convicted of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]

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🏳️‍⚧️ "Critical Kate” Willært @katewillaert.bsky.social · 6h

The desperation to make fetch happen because they’re so heavily invested feels like if five years ago they’d tried to require everyone buy VR headsets by retiring monitor support.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 9h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Guilherme Nunes - Commissions Open!! @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 6h

scottish terriers dancing forró

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Saint Badman 🥀🤞🏿❤️‍🔥 @infamousbrave.blacksky.app · 16h

If I go on my conspiracy about how they stopped letting us code after MySpace because they want us dumb y’all going say my third open 👁️

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 18h

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 22h

Sam Altman suggests ChatGPT is cannibalizing your fanfic and erotica to make its own clanker porn, rolling out this December.

ChatGPT just got filthy after new update lets it talk dirty to you

'You won't get it unless you ask for it.'

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1234_5 🕯☽ ⛤ 🔮🖤 @bunnylove403.bsky.social · 1d

I was speaking to a lady who arrived last night to the shelter and she told me she had been calling DV shelters for a year! I told her that I have been calling for 8 months! You need to understand that USA has a shelter crisis. Homelessness has increased 18% since 2023.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 22h

This is why I will be openly, defiantly, loudly, proudly, and gleefully trans until the day I die.

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 1d

The semi-stealth vibes are especially notable given the unhinged frenzy on X about data where the biggest-looking spike shows... a difference of about ~80 prep-school students checking "non-binary?"

Yes, Matt. It's all over, you won. Go back to sleep, transgenders are gone... don't worry about them

Matt Walsh post on X declaring that conservatives have "won" now that "Transgenderism is effectively over" due to data gathered by Unherd, which seems to show a drop in students checking a gender box other than male or female

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