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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 8h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 3h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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Young Republicans

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 3h

Nah this rules, actually www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Are Labubus big and flat and shiny? No, they’re vaguely hellish-looking dolls that have become collectible because they also come in mystery boxes.

Can someone please tell gen Z that they’re doing conkers wrong? Are they? How do you do conkers, then?

You put a shoelace through the middle of them, and try to destroy everyone else’s conkers. Wow, really? That’s bizarre.

Yeah. You’ll have a much better chance of winning if you soak the conker in vinegar overnight and then bake it like a pie. Seriously?

Seriously. And if you end up collecting too many conkers, you can hurl them across the playground and all the other kids will fight each other for them. A beautiful, natural thing like a conker, and you use it as a weapon? A weapon that comes with a long set of arcane and bewildering rules?

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Kyle Labriola @kylelabriola.bsky.social · 3h

Anyone dumping all the contents of the huge Pokemon leak onto the internet has no whimsy left in their hearts.

You're supposed to read all the information to yourself and then coyly dish it out via hints and riddles for years to dangle the carrot that you know stuff everyone else doesn't.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 5h

BREAKING: President Donald J. Trump's run on Nightwing has been cancelled by DC Comics

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 5h

A reminder, since rando bros are dropping in to announce their boycott, thinking we’re pro-AI like one of our producers.

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 6d

There’s an interview going around about AI, so before there are any questions, let me state unequivocally that BLACK PHONE 2 is 100% organic. AI was not used at any stage of the filmmaking from idea generation, research, look books, writing, onscreen images - anything. We’re old school and love it.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 7h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 10h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 6h

Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 10h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Eagle Beaver Man @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 8h

Every Republican under 30 is a Nazi. Every single one. No exceptions. No, not even that guy who you think is your friend. He’s being nice to you in person but talks about how you shouldn’t have rights in his discord chat.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump opens the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "This is the first time we've been at the new and improved Rose Garden. And people are loving it. They are loving it like they have not loved a lot of things."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: How is this rescue package America first?

TRUMP: It's really meant to help a good financial philosophy where Argentina can be successful again

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 11h

Also, kind of wild that the Israeli government is using a failure to return remains fast enough as an excuse to resume attacks when part of the reason is there are bombed buildings that fell on top of where they’re buried.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 12h

"We're saving God."

Roll that phrase around your head. Consider the theological and cosmological implications.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

He’ll commend MTG but can’t endorse Mamdani.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffies on Marjorie Taylor Greene: "It does seem to many of us that she's had a surprisingly enlightened few weeks."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm watching Triumph of the Will (1935) because I haven't seen it in a long time and people are insisting to me that you have to admit it's a good movie.

It's not a good movie. The idea that it has any value, even technically, is literally Nazi propaganda that's just endured.

Here's a real clip:

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I love old movies. If you're looking for actually good movies from 1935 to watch, might I recommend:

Ruggles of Red Gap
Traveling Saleslady
Bride of Frankenstein
If You Could Only Cook
The Whole Town's Talking

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Reuben Baron @rubigb.bsky.social · 23h

It's especially baffling the praise for its cinematography or whatever when if there's anyone who'd figured out the best cinematography, it was (mostly Jewish) German filmmakers pre-Hitler/Riefenstaal.

a black and white photo of a city with a sign that says utah studios

ALT: a black and white photo of a city with a sign that says utah studios

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jaime? (Rebanal) 🇵🇸 @firewalkwjaime.bsky.social · 1d

No joke, I genuinely could not believe it either. This made my whole night.

Cinema from the Spectrum 🇵🇸 @cinemafromthespectrum.com · 1d

!!!!!!!!!

Instagram notification:

"@chloezhao (verified) started following you." 2m ago

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jaime? (Rebanal) 🇵🇸 @firewalkwjaime.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, indeed! So I used the Cinema from the Spectrum Instagram account to write, "Chloé Zhao is one of us?" while sharing a screenshot of that headline! I tagged Zhao as a gamble; I did not think she would see it.

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Reuben Baron @rubigb.bsky.social · 1d

You saw she recently came out at neurodivergent, right?

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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