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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 9h

he’s weakened… time to hit him with the Killshot

some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 10h

yes post rock for me, Signal Hill, Mogwai, American Dollar, Do Make Say Think, Sigur Rós was not my jam at all but I still dig what they were doing

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 10h

…but the skyline was somehow hornier

some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 10h

thank you for your attention to this matter!

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 10h

my dream of a walkable 8-bit city…

Rando Chrontendo @randochrontendo.famiconsumer.com · 10h

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 10h

one syllable too many

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America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 18h

With all the Xbox news there's been a lot of discussion about the inevitable death of Xbox, and in a lot of these discussions both in essay and online, there's a lot of reverence for when Xbox was good, the 360, where they were so powerful they managed to match Sony's worst performing console.

Cumulative Worldwide Hardware Unit Sales (Sell-in)

PlayStation More than 102.4 million
(As of March 31, 2012)

PlayStation 2 More than 160.0 million
(As of March 31, 2012)

PSP (PlayStation Portable) More than 76.4 million
(As of March 31, 2012)

PlayStation 3 More than 87.4 million
(As of March 31, 2017)

PlayStation 4 More than 117 million
(As of June 30, 2022)

PlayStation 5 More than 80.2 million
(As of June 30, 2025)

Sales data provided by Sony Interactive

https://sonyinteractive.com/en/our-company/business-data-sales/

Xbox Sales Statistics

Xbox 360 is Microsoft’s best-selling Xbox video game console, with 85.73 million units sold as of February.

Xbox Series Number of Units Sold Since the Launch

Xbox 360 (X360) 85.73 million

Xbox One (XOne) 57.96 million

Xbox (XB) 24.65 million

Xbox Series X/S (XS) 27.68 million

Data provided by Statista

https://www.demandsage.com/xbox-statistics/

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 22h

You have to understand that there is NO accountability for ICE even in theory. You can't sue an ICE agent. They won't be criminally prosecuted for violating your rights. They won't be fired. THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ICE IS TO RUN FROM ICE.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 22h

Here's another Kavanaugh stop in action. Agent says: "Why are you running?" Admitting that he had no cause to stop and tackle this boy.

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friday the fernteenth🔪🩸 @fern-on-here.bsky.social · 13h

i think that goku would think trans people are cool

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 13h

it’s been a while since the last EME, we needed this

some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 13h

i’m interested cause it’s not really being reflected on @bskycharts.edavis.dev that there’s any influx in traffic but people breaking from X is still the more important outcome

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 18h

Dune 2 chicks at the same time

Wallace from the movie Office Space showing Wallace from the 2 chicks at the same time scene with his eyes colored purple

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 14h

i belong in bluesky’s ender pack

Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 14h

I am the perfect example of why you shouldn't use starter packs

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merritt @merrittk.com · 14h

pokemon: heres a sort of sexual ballerina monster. heres a rabbit someone might want to fuck

digimon: this monster is a female member of the human race with her tits out. you can see the shape of her pussy under her leather pants

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 14h

the leaked texts just made them go mask off

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 14h

voters need to touch the spoon

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 14h

group chats are lead paint-level toxic to white men

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 19h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
slate.com/news-and-pol...

Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 15h

Looking forward for a reprieve from today’s discourse to watch a nice movie about a rich “genius” who ignores society’s problems to create a deranged artificial intelligence that no one with any sense really wants.

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 15h

oh gotcha. yes i agree, they’re shooting from the hip now because there’s no leverage in the shutdown fight, but if they establish a *precedent* then we just aren’t gonna have appropriations until it’s resolved

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

When this regime is over and buried, I don't want to hear about oh it's not worth the money or it's too petty to worry about. The order to bulldoze this illegal and unconstitutional monstrosity should be signed on Day 1.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 17h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 15h

determined on the first?

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 15h

Kash says he can still pay salaries at the FBI, the head of OMB plans to close an agency, Trump is levying taxes —_ahem, donations_ — to expand the White House: when does the idea that we've entered a post-constitutional period enter the mainstream conversation?

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 15h

kash for prison

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some are stakes 🗡️🧛 @somearelakes.bsky.social · 16h

he should be elected Mayor of New York in the way you do with neighborhood cats

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