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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2h

like there is absolutely no way to not understand this as collective punishment, right? there's no fig leaf of it being about Hamas

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2h

BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2h

katherine dee is herself a reactionary who has written for TERF blog fairer disputations. her bio there cites her work at american conservative, unherd, and the washington examiner. interesting how the bio she chose here doesn’t reflect that bias. the work itself features no actual citations

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

It’s been fun being attacked for years for saying bigotry motivates these people more than low taxes and small government

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 1h

Cultural convergence: despite growing up on different sides of the Atlantic my wife and I both learned parodies of On Top Of Old Smokey on the playground.

Cultural diversity: the one my wife learned was about spaghetti. The one I learned was about an eagle masturbating.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

going viral here is worse than it used to be on twitter because half of the replies will just be pure pedantry

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 3h

needs "fond of cowboy movies"

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 8h

Was there ever a more epic press failure than the 2024 election

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 1d

Its actually insane that people were BEGGING both Biden and Harris to do even something as small as recognizing the humanity of people, and this evil demon of a man does it off the cuff with zero thought at all.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: "I am looking at the faces of the people. Those are people like you and I and they are people that look so fantastic. And they're walking back to a house that's demolished... I saw good people."

Fox News: "Will they be able to stay in Gaza?"

Trump: "I think so. I hope so."

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 7h

"The AI Revolution has started" declares a lady on LinkedIn. "Welcome to the AI Age. How does that make you feel?"

It makes me feel that people who have invested an awful lot of money in a very dodgy and unethical technology are starting worry that 'Fetch' simply won't happen.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 10h

Every couple of months someone posts with horror a picture of a dumpster full of books behind a school and everyone acts like they just uncovered a mass grave while librarians go "yeah, they weeded these books and nobody wanted them"

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10h

One of the posts that got me flamed back in the old place was when I said I didn’t fetishise books as objects and wasn’t bothered if their owners wanted to rip them in half to make their baggage lighter or chuck them in the recycling once they’ve read them or whatever. Some people went ballistic

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 23h

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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MF VIEWTIFUL @mfviewtiful.bsky.social · 17h

Tag: Corruption, Mind control

Fat Kid Deals @fatkiddeals.com · 1d

This Dominos is in an old Pizza Hut building 😭😭

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 13h

Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 16h

My sister the mayor got the good politics-talking genes in the family, so this Indigenous Peoples’ Day I donated to @nativerights.bsky.social Please check out the work they do at narf.org!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15h

just remembered that randy fine, israels strongest soldier in congress, posted pup play he had saved to his phone and blamed the left for it last month. why did he ever do that lol

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20h

As we all know, the right to protest is foundational to a functioning democracy. This is why my administration vigorously supports your right to do it quietly in your own home where no one can see it.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 20h

There are too many letters. We could lose j and nobody would really give a shit.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 21h

I'm just happy I won't have to subvocalise the "plus" any more.

Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 21h

(this is less an unhinged opinion and more a grumble)

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 21h

For a good example of this find any time a photo of weeded school/college library books gets posted on social media and people react like they just found Laura Palmer wrapped in plastic.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 21h

Some people are more invested in the fetishisation of the book as an object and the act of reading as a cultural signifier than either the pleasure of reading or the pursuit of knowledge.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 21h

two of them are the same only you switch which person is crying.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
3 hr. ago
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I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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