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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

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Iron Galaxy Studios @irongalaxystudios.com · 8h

Love loading...💗🏳️‍🌈

We roll deep for Orlando Pride.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

republicans: who needs affordable health care?

also republicans: why isn’t anyone having kids?

I’m tired, man

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 18h

DeSantis said “Most people, particularly under 50, what they really need is a catastrophic plan that’s affordable, where then they can pay whatever they’re doing out of a health savings account.”
floridapolitics.com/archives/761...

Ron DeSantis says people under 50 don’t have much use for comprehensive health insurance

'Catastrophic care' should be enough for them.

floridapolitics.com

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Orc Girl Boss 🐇 @orc.bsky.social · 19h

People who do not put their carts into a cart corral at the grocery store are not capable of self governance and should have their driver's licenses revoked.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 18h

Everyone recognizes that there’s a cost of living crisis, that rents and house prices are wildly above what is reasonable, but no one wants to acknowledge that the only way for that to change is for prices to come down and for the people at the top to make less profit.

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透明屿 @taiyangyu.bsky.social · 15h

Power girl
#PowerGirl

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SavalKas @savalkas.bsky.social · 15h

Borger

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 1d

Two things you can do to help remove RFK Jr:

1) Call your electeds and tell them he needs to go. There's already drafts of impeachment/removal work in both House and Senate. Tell electeds to support them.

2) Sign the petition that'll go to the HELP Committee in the Senate at firerfk.wordpress.com

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 1d

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

🎁link

David Mullin @rdmullin.bsky.social · 1d

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

he posted an AI video of himself flying a King Trump plane and dumping shit on the protests

that’s the bare bones factual description of what happened, no editorializing involved

publishing that is the absolute bare minimum if you want to call yourself the news

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens?

You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?

Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

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Chroma! 🌈✨ @chromapan.bsky.social · 4d

LRT: Y'all have no idea how much this means to artists - it's ok if you can't afford to support me or other artists, but boosting our work, leaving nice comments, etc goes such a long way

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Alongside KOSA, the 'Stop CSAM act of 2025' is a big priority target we need people to yell at their representatives about!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 23d

The 'Stop CSAM Act of 2025' has had its govtrack likelihood t
[to be enacted] drop from from 56% down to 46%!

Keep calling your representatives in both the house and senate and hammer how this is a surveillance/anti-encryption bill under the guise of "protecting children". Tell them to OPPOSE!

STOP CSAM Act of 2025 (S. 1829)

A bill to combat the sexual exploitation of children by supporting victims and promoting accountability and transparency by the tech industry.

www.govtrack.us

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Kris Dobbins @krisdobbinsart.bsky.social · 1d

The only reason games aren't "forever" is because they refuse to preserve them. I can buy a film from 1939 in 4K but fuck me if I wanna play Twilight Princess on my Switch.

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SCAREon - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.social · 1d

At least once a week I think about all those people who voted for this saying they "wanted to restore dignity to the White House" and I just have to ask "How are you justifying this to yourself? How are you looking at the poop guy in a crown saying 'oh good, dignity and respect.'"

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2d

A US president, furious about protests essentially clarifying everyone thinks he sucks and responding to it with AI videos of him in a crown flying a fighter jet dumping shit onto American citizens & Nancy Pelosi kneeling to him as a king? Fuck dog, not even satirical Cyberpunk scifi predicted this

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🍂 deli 🍂 @deliciest.bsky.social · 2d

Tho I agree with the general sentiment of that list of the enshitification of internet seeing that "join my Patreon" felt a bit like adding to the list of billionaires ruining everything street artists sharing the hat for a tip 😅

Beatriz Rebollo Art @beatrizrebolloart.bsky.social · 2d

People comparing creators and artist Patreons with big platforms subscriptions have me crazy.
If you didn't know we use Patreon because it's the only way to get an income and with most of us as myself we don't earn enough to cover our basic expenses per month.
A bit of consideration please.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 3d

Please contact your senators about KOSA. This bill has amassed a lot of cosponsors.

We can beat this, but we need people to call, email and send letters en mass. Please try to contact your reps as often as you are able to and encourage people you know to join you!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 6d

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#SaveSpeech

If you're like me and you are struggling to contact your senators re: KOSA via their phone lines this week, I recommend attempting to send physical letters or emails in the meantime.

Here is a script you can use to contact your reps!

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [LOCATION]
I'm messaging to demand [SENATOR] oppose S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA. This broad legislation does not protect anyone and instead will be used to block any speech that the Trump administration’s partisan FTC disagrees with. It pushes the “duty of care” onto websites and social media platforms to remove content that is “harmful to children”. It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove access to crucial information re: everything from mental health, LGBT topics, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.
Additionally, while large, corporate platforms like X can shoulder the weight of “duty of care”, smaller websites cannot, leading to greater and greater concentrations of power online into giant corporate platforms rather than small and medium sized businesses.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
IF SENATOR COSPONSORED KOSA: Additionally, I want to remark on [SENATOR]’s cosponsorship of this bill. I think it is shameful that [SENATOR] has backed a bill as transparently bad as KOSA. This will not keep kids safe, it is an excuse to censor the free and open internet. I will not be voting for nor donating to [SENATOR] in any future campaigns if they do not drop their co-sponsorship of this bill, and I will encourage everyone in my life to do the same.
Do the right thing.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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鳥茶丸🔞成人向け @torichamaru.bsky.social · 2d

ソウルキャリバー好き　タキ好き

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Riz🔞 @rizdraws.bsky.social · 2d

Ashley's sweater puppies 💦

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SavalKas @savalkas.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a flat color commission of Pharah and Mercy in missionary.
You can get an early look at the full sized version of this and the rest of my artwork on Subscribestar: subscribestar.adult/savalkas

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

utterly depressing that Nixon-level scandals are now a normal Friday night news drop, barely remarked upon, just another day in Trump’s America

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 3d

Two more career prosecutors fired for refusing to indict NY AG Letitia James because they could not find probable cause to charge her. 🎁

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Prosecutor Who Rejected Trump’s Pressure to Charge James Is Fired

www.nytimes.com

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AG(AnythingGoes artist) @ag-artist.bsky.social · 3d

Tsunade full color 3 page animated comic is finished.
audio works for hinata and velma will be finished this month as well.

for those who doesn't know, full version is only for supporters.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

now is a really excellent time to set up a monthly Wikipedia donation if you don’t have one already

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

This is horrifying, but I’m glad the Wikipedians are safe. It could have been far worse, given that the MAGA fascists have been trying to incite violence against Wikipedia editors, and trumpists are defenders of pedophiles like the gunman. gothamist.com/news/gunman-...

Gunman storms stage at Wikipedia conference in Manhattan, no injuries reported

The unidentified man was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

gothamist.com

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