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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h

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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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 10h

The Cube Is Not With Us

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBT4...

May The Cube Be With You

YouTube video by Thomas Dolby - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 11h

"Despite stealing everything to make talentless slop, we intend to replace human creativity with it, so we don't have to pay anything for it."

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 11h

There's not enough horn section in modern music.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 17h

Every book is *someone's* favorite. And that is a glorious thing.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 19h

And, if violence IS necessary,

Don't talk about your intent to use it on social media. Or ANYWHERE online.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19h

(2) Just because violence may be necessary at some stage in this conflict does not mean that all violence is productive or useful.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 20h

So verification on bluesky, the blue check

ANY SEX WORKERS BEEN OFFERED THIS

I ask because early on on twitter when the blue check was a big whoop, I was offered verification and turned it down. (I was also asked to twitter HQ to participate in a bunch of shit and turned that down too for reasons)

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 19h

They're replacing him with a homeopathy vending machine and yelling at people to do more push ups.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 20h

With alt text:

Romeo Galang, MD, MPH in • 2nd
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My Job Will End. The Mission Won't. - On October 10, 2025, I was effectively laid off from CDC as part of the Reduction in Force. I am on admin leave until early December, when my position is scheduled for termination - though there is still a chance for that decision to be reversed. It's a strange and heavy place to stand: not yet gone, not yet safe — still committed, still hopeful for our nation's future.
I'm reminded that leadership doesn't end when your name is on a list. It continues in what you choose to protect: the mission, the knowledge, the people, and the conviction that public health is not a budget line item. It's a responsibility — to act, to prevent harm, and to serve the greater good.
Whether this chapter closes or changes course, my focus remains the same: to uphold the principles that guided my work at CDC - readiness in emergencies, leadership through uncertainty, and turning data into action when lives depend on it.
The responsibility to serve when the public needs us most cannot be reduced, reorganized, or replaced. We adapt and endure. Because this work — our work — has never been about titles or positions. It's about people.
To my colleagues, both inside and out: hold fast. The story isn't over yet.

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 19h

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 20h

For all the talk of what Weiss is going to do at CBS, I think this is the most likely outcome.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 20h

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 21h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 20h

Any chance they just let you go home?

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 20h

The NY state apple harvest season is in full gear. Workers are out in the apple orchards on a daily basis climbing up and down ladders to fill these huge 900 lb bins so we can enjoy this sweet fruit. #WeFeedYou

A bin partly filled with apples and two more bins empty and one more at the end partially filled

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 1d

Both versions are good, really.

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZqP...

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 1d

This shameful Israeli propaganda will be repeated ad nauseam.

Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 1d

This is why those banking on the Israeli "opposition" convince very few...

Yair Lapid, head of Israel's opposition:

"Those who demonstrated against Israel in London, Rome, Paris... were deceived by propaganda... The truth is, there was no genocide, no intentional starvation."

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 1d

Whiter Shade Of Pale covered by Annie Lennox

OR

All The Young Dudes covered by David Bowie.

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 1d

Columbus day over on Xitter.

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Brett Chapman
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Columbus enslaved 550 Native Americans in 1495—forcing them on his ship bound for a slave market in Spain, ordering his crew to pitch the 200 who died at sea overboard. He also came up with idea of colonization, immediately causing 50000 suicides to avoid enslavement—horrible man
Mr Ox Mix
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And what's your point? It was a tough neighborhood back then get over it.
No doubt you've heard of gigantic Aztec sacrifices where 1,000s were slaughtered in a day. Slavery was endemic to the New World right? Did Columbus bring that to them?
Columbus came up with the idea of colonization??? Romans , Greeks and everybody else in the Old World.
Incas, Aztec, Toltecs and Mayans in the New.
He was a man of his times and thats all.
and your a dumb shit.

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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 2d

Where are the people who say it's always inappropriate to protest at a synagogue?

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 2d

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

United States Congressman calls for the deportation of all Muslims from the US.

All Jewish groups should join together to denounce this.

Tweet from Congressman Randy Fine: "Muslims calling for the destruction of Israel — after the peace deal.

It was never about Gaza.

Why did the UK allow these demons in?

We must ban Sharia in the United States and deport them ALL before this becomes us.

Religion of peace."

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland has a population of 5m and we've a waiting list approaching 15 years. Why? Because their mandatory, archaic and traumatic psychiatric and psychological assessments are a deliberate bottleneck to ensure as few people as possible can access healthcare a nurse can do!

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 2d

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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FREE @ LAST @rightmind215.bsky.social · 3d

This is the BARE MINIMUM.

I’m celebrating too, but I want to be clear about where many people stand regarding trans rights:

FULL RIGHTS, full stop. No compromise with bigots.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 2d

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 3d

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 2d

If he drank, I'd say he sounded drunk.

But really, he sounds like he's either not slept for 3 days, or he's having some dementia related brain wandering.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Sinboo [Spooky He/ Spooky His] @sinboy.bsky.social · 2d

Suspending habeas corpus and the constitution to own the libs.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 5d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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