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Darcy said to me in the car today,
“History is not going to look kindly on Joe Biden, is it?”

“Absolutely not,” I said 😬

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve given up on existential hope so my main worry lately is I’m super concerned that our post-apocalypse isn’t even going to have an aesthetic. As it is we are already firmly in our cyberpunk era & look how shitty it all looks because nobody anticipated how boring our capitalist overlords would be.

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graeme @g--0.bsky.social · 5h

Canadians have not a lot of time to come to terms with the fact that neither of the major parties are interested in defending sovereignty in any sense

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 11h

Many versions of this classic but this one’s my fave ⭐️

Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind on Top Of The Pops 10/12/1987

YouTube video by PetShopBoys Parlophone

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 12h

@brianbeutler.bsky.social is an essential read. It's easy (at least in liberal circles) to just criticize Trump or alternatively, just blast Dem leadership. But Brian does something unique---he always offers realistic suggestions for what Dems could be doing. www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...

How To Reverse The Tide

It's the gap between what's needed and what we have that keeps us up at night.

www.offmessage.net

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

I wonder if all the people braying about the "war on Christianity" might raise some objections if it were a *Democratic* administration who had its armed thugs shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and waiting outside Catholic Churches to disappear parishioners?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11h

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

2025 Winner Outstanding Novel - Adult: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 12h

Hearing Trump brag of “achieving peace in the Middle East” is so nauseating when we know Israel will merely continue their occupation of Palestine, building hotels and casinos for Trump in Gaza, and we’ll all look the other way until another inevitable terrorist attack at some point 😡

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 12h

Thanksgiving with Darcy’s family next and an in-law is saying Canada *must* rapidly increase our population.
“Trudeau was doing exactly that with immigration,” I say, “but you all hated him for it. And no one under 30 can afford to have kids.”
Silence around the table. I’ve ruined another holiday 🫤

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 12h

Absolutely. No matter what anyone says (or votes) Canada is utterly in thrall to a half dozen corporations. And this week, Melanie Joly is insisting we need them to grow *bigger* 😡

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 12h

Can’t think of anything more fun than LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS 🪴

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 13h

Book publishing, which gets held up as a backward business still operating somewhere in the early twentieth century, has weathered the digital revolution better than the music or film industries, largely by resisting the urge to pivot beyond an item that has served us well for centuries.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

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

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 12h

Christians shocked and horrified when they see a Christian do Christian things

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The "Preist" shot with pepper balls at an ICE facility is a professional communist Antifa agitator who professionally gets pepper-sprayed in the face while wearing clerical shirts for photo ops. He's done this several times already.
Ice sprays directly in the face the lea Presbyterian in Chicago. This photo I in history.
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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 13h

“The Jays will try to turn their fortunes around tonight…fans still seem to be optimistic,” says the radio news.

They lost ONE game, people! Chill the hell out or you won’t survive this week 😬

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 13h

I know Canadians want to cling to hope — I get it, I really do — but the hero worship of Mark Carney is approaching delusional. Grateful to Michael here for the grim factchecking 👇🏼

Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 15h

You want to talk about some of Carney's terrible policies? Okay, let's take a look at some of those terrible policies together. This will require a bit of a thread because there are too many details to fit adequately in single posts and I'll include supporting links to support the premise. 🧵 1/

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 14h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 13h

"The Nazis have stopped doing genocide so they're 100% good now" is going to be a very common argument for a while.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 14h

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said

Eurovision organisers push back Israel decision

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union sa...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · 15h

For #IndigenousPeoplesDay, enjoy this thread of past articles wherein I put a Native lens to pop culture.

Always grateful for @io9dotcom.bsky.social letting me talk about Tusken Raiders in #StarWars and how they evolved in The Book of Boba Fett:

gizmodo.com/how-the-book...

How The Book of Boba Fett Evolved Star Wars' View of the Tuskens

The latest Disney+ Star Wars series went to great lengths to infuse its Tusken tribe with influences from real-world Indigenous cultures.

gizmodo.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15h

Very jarring how the media treats some lives as inherently and others not.

I am happy for hostages and their families to be reunited, but it’s shocking how little media attention is given to “how do Gazans grapple with the utter destruction of their homes, vast loss of lives, and ongoing famine.”

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 14h

I'm seeing friends go back in the closet and my heart hurts for them. They shouldn't need to do this. This is so awful. Queer and trans people are always made to choose between safety and freedom. We deserve both, but many of us get neither. I ache for my people.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20h

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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