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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 17h

Isn't it interesting how news media (and politicians) are always changing who or what kids are? A bunch of twelve year olds killed in Gaza or assaulted? That's "young women"

A group of grown as 20/30 year old white dudes? Oh those are just boys, little kids they didn't know better, please be kind

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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God @thegodpodcast.com · 12h

When young Republicans private texts are revealed and you see what the white supremacist master race looks looks like

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Kris Werewolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 14h

bro what

The Bad
Cannot trust it to sleep, wake, or charge unattended
Worse performance than cheaper Steam Deck
Unintuitive, half-baked new Windows UI
Lots of launch bugs

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MicahDraws @ getting vGen Verified! @micahdraws.bsky.social · 11h

Today's #Pintober theme is "Bite," and who wouldn't want to bite Scott? Luckily for Markos, he's the only one that gets the privilege 😏

NSFW on Patreon! www.patreon.com/micahdraws

#gay #gayart #gayartist #gaycouple #vampire #gayvampire #oc #ocsky

Read about Scott & Markos at www.sparrowcomic.com

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Normal about Spirits and Entities @cloudofdarkness.bsky.social · 2d

New shop items have just dropped! Now including Dragon age origins romance candles, Veilguard companion Kandi, and half off pride hats! 💚 www.etsy.com/shop/ContreS...

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 23h

Question for the GMs, writers, and worldbuilders out there;

Who (or what) lives in* the oceans of your setting?

#TTRPG

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Re: Frankenstein | Re: Dracula | Re: Carmilla @redracula.bsky.social · 23h

Re: Frankenstein is an audio drama adaptation of Frankenstein from the team behind Re: Dracula and Re: Carmilla, featuring an award winning all-trans cast.

It stars @senabryer.com and @dturtleva.bsky.social, and is crowdfunding now!

Check it out at igg.me/at/refrank and spread the word!

Sena Bryer as Victor Frankenstein
Josie D. Sumner as The Monster

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Final Fantasy XIV Fun Facts @ffxivxd.bsky.social · 21h

According to fae folklore, before Titania, long ago there was a beautiful garden where lived faeriekind. Here, the sun shone all year long, flowers bloomed brightly upon the greenery that never wilted and fish teemed in a river that never dried.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

The thing is that the modern GOP (not to mention its basement-confined moron stepchild, the Mises Caucus libertarian “party”) is accurately depicted by this language and a critical mass of the party is absolutely fine with it.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 20h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22h

Currently working on a potential takedown piece of this bogus graph going around on twitter and boosted by Musk claiming that trans identities are "dropping."

There are some very easy critiques of it, but one stands out that hasn't been reported on.

Any R wizards/data science/quant followers here?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

A Bronx family lived without utilities for over 6 weeks after they were shut off without explanation.

The landlord, despite receiving severe violation notices, didn't fix the problem.

HPD couldn’t turn the utilities back on, so it issued the family a vacate order.

These Bronx Tenants Lived Six Weeks Without Water and Power. The City’s Fix? A Vacate Order

The plight of the Ramos family reveals the weaknesses in the City's system to protect tenants from unlivable conditions—and from being put out on the street.

hellgatenyc.com

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PomPoison @pompoison.bsky.social · 22h

Now when you call stripe you can ask them if this is okay and why

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1d

So Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe are all gonna ban ChatGPT from receiving payments now, right?

Right??

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

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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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 18h

"Fascists are twelve" seems to be the evergreen statement as of late

If this is how they treat someone that everyone knows when the whole world is watching, well we already have seen how bad it is to those behind closed doors

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h

Israel sent back Greta Thunberg’s luggage scrawled with “Whore Greta”, an Israeli flag, and a penis.

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Distant Satellite @distantsatellite.bsky.social · 17h

Day 3 of our cast announcement week and we are so excited to say that @senabryer.com will be playing Dr. Torvalds in The Greenvale Letters!

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 18h

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.

You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 16h

Re: every headline involving education

A 4 panel comic.

Panel 1: closeup of a new textbook on a kid's school desk. The cover reads "World Histeries - sponcored bye PragerU + OpenAI"

Panel 2: The kid opens the book. Page titles include "How slavery boosted the enconemy" and "12 reasons hitler wasn't wrong" along with an ad that reads "more with a pragerU subscription and another that says "10% off openAI" with a QR code.

Panel 3: the kid looks up at the teacher, lifts the book, and says "what the fuck is this"

Panel 4: an exhausted teacher, still passing out a stack of the books, replies "your senator picked it"

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Paizo @paizo.com · 16h

Discover the secrets of deep space and battle the Corpse Fleet in Starfinder Second Edition's first Adventure Path, Guilt of the Grave World, just in time for spooky month!

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The image is of the Starfinder Second Edition Adventure Path Guilt of the Grave World laying on top of the Starfinder Second Edition Combat Pad on a wooden table. Around the books are purple dice and purple heart meeples.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 20h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Zanelionhart🐺🐾🌈🏳️‍🌈 @zanelionhart.bsky.social · 15h

youtu.be/cK82uca5Xq0?... #dawntrail #deepdungeon #ffxiv #finalfantasyxiv #pilgrimstraverse #thoughts

Pilgrims traverse my honest thoughts

YouTube video by Zane Lionhart

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15h

1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years.

Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism."

Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing

The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.

www.erininthemorning.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15h

important note from libcrusher:

Reactivating temporarily to send a warning.
Since I got doxxed, it appears the same doxxing ring has targeted several other users. I learned that they were banned this week, only for Elon to, apparently, personally unban them. I feel obliged to warn everyone about my experience.

It wasn't just my personal information that got published. Someone, somewhere, got my passwords too. For my banking accounts, brokerage accounts, venmo, etc.
Most of which had different and unique passwords. All these attempts started the day i got doxxed, and have sporadically continued since.

If you know anyone who's been doxxed by this group, you need to have them change all their passwords on every website immediately. Ensure 2FA and any other security measures are in place everywhere.
And, wherever possible, document and report it. Frankly, if you're a lefty of any note, do it now too

If anyone was also a victim of this or knows someone who was, there are ways to reach me. I wish I could go into more details right now. But until that time comes, protect yourself.

I will be deactivating in 20 minutes.
Hopefully, that's enough time for the warning to get out.

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