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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 2h

I don't see how New York can allow a single Trump family property to remain while these Nazi mobsters are illegally starving the state of its own funds.

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h

they're getting on this website because they're running out of gas and understand that the juiciest segment of libs now exist on a platform that isn't owned by one of their oligarch allies. when faced with increasing uncertainty of their own power, all they understand is theatrics and the spectacle.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 4h

Years ago there was a Twitter leak that disclosed actual countries and email address of many ppl's IDs.

To this day you can find MAGA accounts – that were originally started by posting cat pictures – praising Hitler and, if you trace their account ID, are actually run from Pakistan.

It's all an op

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 8h

Just a reminder that this place is rotten with bad faith accounts trying openly to split apart groups, redirect discussions, and ruin any chance of creating solidarity 🥰

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

They want a gd who tells them it’s ok to hurt and kill the people they hate and if they don’t get one they’ll just make one up bsky.app/profile/diew...

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

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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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 5h

I'm so sick of hearing how our legal system is the Greatest System In The World when half my day is people crying because they don't understand why their lives are being destroyed by a landlord or cop who keeps a bad case going just by being willing to lie under oath and therefore force a trial.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 6h

It's just that no one expects even a basic standard of decency from cis men, so they escape scrutiny. This really feels like the "boys will be boys" of queer discourses sometimes.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 7h

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From https://theonion.com/trump-spends-entire-u-k-trip-trying-to-figure-out-where-he-knows-prince-andrew-from/

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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 7h

This is the most absurdly unethical piece of political advertisjng I've ever seen.

Schumer did not say this on video, nor creepily smile as he said it.

It's pure AI.

I cannot believe we're at this point already.

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Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 7h

Legendary Final Fantasy Composer Nobuo Uematsu says he’s never used generative AI, and never will.

"I think it still feels more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself."

automaton-media.com/en/news/fina...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

These people should be taxed at 120%, I feel that's generous.

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15h

Feeling dehydrated? This quenched my thirst. www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...

New York's Richest Ask 'how Dare He?' as Mamdani Closes In on City Hall
The city's 1% realize their influence is waning: It's hard to be chill and relaxed'

It was just after finishing a set of pelvic floor exercises that a Pilates instructor on the Upper East Side recently brought up one of the least popular men in the neighborhood: New York City
mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani,.

All of a sudden the class, which costs $50 a pop, became something of a political confab. In between sets, some women strategized about helping former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo,
who they see as more palatable, pull off an upset. Others gushed about a recent New York Post cover depicting Gov. Kathy Hochul, who had recently endorsed Mamdani, as a devotee of Mao Zedong.

New York's richest residents can't stop talking about Mamdani, the Democratic nominee. To many of the city's uber-wealthy, his sustained
popularity has been a shock. The 33-year-old, self. described Democratic Socialist is the overwhelming favorite to win City Hall next month, on a platform that includes free buses and free child care--programs that, the moneyed
are well aware, somebody needs to shell out for.

"I hope Mamdani is going to give out free Xanax," said Caroline Leventhal, a lifelong Upper East sider who co-founded 'Mic'd and Medicated," a podcast that dissects the lifestyle of cosmetic surgeries and private ski instructors. "It's hard to
be chill and relaxed."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13h

Once again, @govpritzker.illinois.gov's state police have attacked protesters while doing crowd control for ICE in Broadview. Pritzker positions himself as a Trump opponent, but he's doing ICE's dirty work in Broadview. It has to stop.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 12h

I just don’t understand how people that are supposed leftists still have delusions about billionaires whose brother sits on the board of a weapons manufacturer think tank

Bryn @slimewave.me · 12h

I’ll be honest, I don’t live in the Midwest so I didn’t realize until mid-2025 that JB Pritzker was one of THE Pritzkers. As in, the ‘Pritzker Architecture Prize’ Pritzkers. Anyway, once I realized THAT, many things started to swim into focus for me

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 13h

It can be hard to tell the difference, but these are Pritzker’s goons, not Trump’s.

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ripcinema @ripcinema.bsky.social · 3d

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

Akinator, the mind reading genie

Akinator can read your mind and tell you what character you are thinking of, as if by magic. Think of a real or fictional character, answer few questions, and Akinator will try to guess who it is. Wil...

en.akinator.com

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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 1d

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right

I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

This is fine dog meme

Am orangish brown dog sits on a red chair wearing a hat that matches his fur color. A circular table in front of him has a coffee cup on it. Around him, flames roar and smoke covers the ceiling. His speech bubble says "this is fine"

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 22h

i firmly believe that an ethical justice department would have arrested and successfully prosecuted mr beast for his many financial crimes years ago

Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 2d

Watch out, in the darkest of all possible worlds, people get what they ask for www.businessinsider.com/youtube-star...

YouTube star MrBeast lays groundwork to get into financial services, including crypto

Top YouTuber MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is eyeing an expansion into financial services, per a trademark filing and investor deck.

www.businessinsider.com

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 1d

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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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

the part about that “i love hitler” groupchat is that it’s not surprising that all young republicans are nazis, this is just the average rightwinger these days. they’re all extremists who love every extreme position possible and everyone needs to realize that

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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 1d

Release Ghosts of Yotei on PC you bastards. I want to play it but I'd rather use my balls as pincushions that touch the dreaded PS5 (The Bastard's Console).

The Xbox is the Fool's Console.

The PC is the Pervert's Aspect

There is no way to game that leaves your soul unstained.

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Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 1d

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

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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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 1d

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 1d

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

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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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 1d

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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 1d

this is correct and precisely how fascism works. the cops still enjoy the knowledge that while they might get gassed, they still won't be subjected to the beatings that protestors get. fascism creates a hierarchy of violence and the goal is to be the one who beats the most and gets beaten the least

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

my totally theoretical but fervent belief is that when ice gas the cops or whatever, they're fine with it, because they all understand that they are enthusiastic members of a fraternity with a clear hierarchy with trump at the top

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The Onion @theonion.com · May 14

Disgusting Restaurant Celebrates 30 Years As Small Town’s Only Option
theonion.com/disgust...

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

Kevin Mullet @KevMagnet

'Mickey' is a nickname, and nicknames are for friends, and Michael Mouse is no friend of mine.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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