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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 3h

‘but’

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The Czars, Angel eyes

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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 4h

Man alive, The Thing was fabulous, and I’m late to the party with Bigelow, just working my way through. Can’t wait!

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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 4h

Yep, see attached, but I loved the ambiguity.

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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 4h

True, but either way …

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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 4h

I though it was inevitable?

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Luke Griffin @lukegriffin.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve made plenty mistakes in my life but I really fucked up not seeing the Kinks when they were playing in the neighborhood my then girlfriend lived in during her summer abroad in ‘90. That neighborhood? MUSWELL HILL!!!

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 5h

Never in my life did I think I would see this from a mayor to police: “We would like the Aurora Police Department to play a historic role in defending the United States of America, and our city against fascism. We have a unique opportunity to do something different….”

Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 5h

I haven't seen people here mention this letter from the mayor of Illinois' 2nd-largest city (Aurora, 40+% Latino)

to the Aurora Police

following egregious attacks by immigration in Aurora and related protests

So here it is!

Hello Chief and APD Leadership,

I just wanted to jot a quick thank you note for those who participated in this meeting with the Latino community about ICE in our neighborhoods.

Sadly, this problem is not going away anytime soon. Historically, the police have been on the wrong side of history during the civil rights movement and the labor movement - defending capital. The pivotal points in American history are when police realized that their solidarity should be with labor; not capital.

Labor vs. police: Learning from working-class history Workers World

In this current struggle, I believe that we are 2-3 years away from a moment where we see the shift in solidarity.

I would like to see Aurora lead, and show something different. It will create discomfort during the transformation. I noticed during the march towards Blue Kangaroo, when the police escort disappeared, that activists I didn't know used their vehicles to block the intersections and protect the marchers.

All living things have the capacity to evolve and grow. Government is about to go through a huge evolutionary period and shed that which is not necessary, and re-focus on what is important.

As government continues to disintegrate from the top down, we have an opportunity to re-invent the ways we find food, water, shelter and protection.

We would like the Aurora Police Department to play a historic role in defending the United States of America, and our city against fascism. We have a unique opportunity to do something different, leave our mark in the history books, and make a difference. I'm excited about the opportunity and look forward to discussing it further.

Respectfully, John Laesch Mayor, City of Aurora laesch@aurora.il.us

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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 5h

happy #Caturday to one and all

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 5h

Theme from 'Shaft' - The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

YouTube video by UkuleleOrchestra

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Shannon (she/her) @ravenlenore.bsky.social · 23h

Don’t violate your policies? Well I’m at least one former Spotify listener who believes morals should be above profits. Spotify is no longer allowed in my home or devices.

www.stereogum.com/2327132/spot...

Spotify Says ICE Recruitment Ads Don’t Violate Company Policy

In the past few months, a number of artists have moved to take their music down from Spotify. The list includes Massive Attack, Sylvan Esso, and King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, among many others. ...

www.stereogum.com

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Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social · 7h

The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'

Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'

www.mirror.co.uk

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 5h

Gonna be honest here and say as a journalist working in Westminster this makes me want to cry

My grandparents had to deal with this crap and now we are, it’s so wrong

How are we here where politicians feel so emboldened to say things that are so obviously racist?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7h

We're gonna need a complete teardown of the media, same as with the ballroom. And I say this as someone who has been part of that machine for many years. It's moldy all the way through. We have some wonderful independent pubs doing real work but everyone else needs to be tossed in the fucking bin

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 9h

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

Financial Times headline says “critics accuse” Trump of extrajudicial killings

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

“.. perhaps the most cruel and unlawful offense the Trump administration has perpetrated yet — freezing funding already enacted into law to feed hungry Americans while he shovels tens of billions of dollars .. to Argentina and into his ballroom.”

@politico.com #SNAP
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 9h

I was able to follow this! 😅
Which means you should have no problem. 😂👍
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How Larry Ellison got so rich | ft. @GenericArtDad

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 9h

Timothy Mellon of the famous Pittsburgh Mellon family is the one who provided $130 million to pay US military personnel.

His views on social safety nets are that Democrats “buy” votes by providing government funds to pay for food for infants.

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 9h

NYT - Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the US government to help pay troops during the shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us...

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump.

www.nytimes.com

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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 10h

LOL keep saying this shit lads, it’s amazing

This summer, Anthropic, a leading AI firm, released a study indicating that its model Claude appeared willing to blackmail a fictional executive over an extramarital affair in order to prevent being shut down - a behaviour, it said, that was consistent across models from major developers, including those from OpenAl, Google, Meta and XAI.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 10h

Year, they’re not racist, sure.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11h

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"

Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study of MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically longer than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.

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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 10h

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read

Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night

www.theguardian.com

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 11h

One thing that often strikes me about Europe is that Germany combines one of the world's strongest labor movements with rigid orthodoxy in economic policy. Meanwhile, France combines a well-run and generous welfare state with one of the largest concentrations of inherited wealth. on.ft.com/476XqkC

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I’ve come to feel that French anger is partly justified. France today is an underfunded social democracy crossed with an oligarchy. More than any other western European country, it’s dominated by powerful billionaires paying relatively low taxes. Most voters agree that France should cut its deficit. The argument is about who should pay. The majority says: the super-rich first.

Oligarchs are people who possess both wealth and power, and use one to acquire the other. They have grown abundant in France this century, thanks largely to the rise of French luxury companies. The EU’s seven most valuable companies include LVMH (run by France’s richest man, Bernard Arnault), Hermès and L’Oréal. LVMH now exports more than all of French agriculture.

The biggest beneficiaries are France’s 500 richest families. Between 1996 and 2024, their wealth ballooned from 6 per cent of French GDP to 42 per cent, writes economist Gabriel Zucman in his forthcoming book, whose title translates as “The Billionaires Don’t Pay Tax on Revenues and We’re Going to Put a Stop to That”. France now leads the EU in numbers of billionaires, according to the EU Tax Observatory, with 147. The majority aren’t meritocrats: 60 of the country’s 100 richest families are heirs, reports the Fondation Jean-Jaurès think-tank.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h

Once again Elon Musk has stoked far right violence in Ireland or England.

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

A picture of a riot at Citywest, outside of Dublin, with the titles:

‘Absolute violence and worse is the only thing that should happen’: How social media drove the Citywest riots
Far-right agitators, retweeted by prominent international figures including billionaire Elon Musk, used social media networks to foment anger

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5d

So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago.

The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...

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