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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4h

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1h

Given his unjust banning, I am taking up Link's charge and doing Fund Me Fridays in his stead.

If you have funding needs, drop them in the thread below. I'll also be grabbing links that I've missed from previous threads and reposting them.

Today is a good day to meet some people's needs.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1h

keep 'em coming!!!!

Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 1h

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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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3h

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Euronews @euronews.com · 16h

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

l.euronews.com

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 3h

CTA is providing free rides for the No Kings Rally

¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social · 3h

Free rides on the CTA from 11 PM tonight until 11 AM tomorrow

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 3h

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🧊✈️⚠️ KANSAS CITY‼️

👉 ICE Air inbound to MCI

GlobalX A320 – Tail: N282GX

ETA – 1pm CDT 👀

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 12h

The mass-murder, by the police, of over two hundred Algerian protesters in the heart of Paris.

In 1961. Covered up for decades.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Pa...

Mickaël Correia @mickacorreia.bsky.social · 14h

Il y a soixante-quatre ans, le 17 octobre 1961, la police française massacrait des Algérien·nes qui manifestaient pacifiquement pour leur dignité.

Photo sur les quais de Seine à Paris du slogan peint "Ici on noie les Algériens".

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 8h

Trump White House officials knew about the racist and Nazi text messages of Republican staffers and tried to kill the Politico story about them a week before publication. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

This is how Andrew Cuomo thinks we should respond to authoritarianism.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h

In the richest city in America, we cannot simply accept that 500,000 kids go to bed hungry every night.

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CW @cw-rt-lft-ctr.bsky.social · 16h

A Horrific Tale of the Slave Trade, Destined to Become a Classic
In the powerful new history “The Zorg,” Siddharth Kara tells a shocking story of mass killing, human baseness and the seeds of conscience.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

A Horrific Tale of the Slave Trade, Destined to Become a Classic

www.nytimes.com

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 17h

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.

Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.

Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

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Tucker Drake @tuckerdrake.bsky.social · 15h

An image of John Connor from “Terminator 2” looking at someone out of frame and saying, “We’re not gonna make it,are we? People, I mean.”

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18h

dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

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Tucker Drake @tuckerdrake.bsky.social · 18h

We can hope.

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Katie Surma @katiesurma.bsky.social · 21h

The Ecuadorian government has arrested, detained or frozen the bank accounts of 61 Indigenous and environmental leaders, who together do work that protects large swaths of the Amazon rainforest.

insideclimatenews.org/news/1610202...

The Death Toll Is Rising from Ecuador’s Crackdown on Protesters - Inside Climate News

The unrest has been triggered, in part, by the targeting of environmental leaders whose work protects large swaths of the Amazon rainforest.

insideclimatenews.org

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 1d

We are united against kings. Trump has already indicated that he’s aiming for at least a 3rd term. But #WeThePeople don’t put up with kings. Together, we will mobilize in huge numbers to reject this corruption & abuse of power.

#NoKingsDayOct18th

"In America, the law is king".
Thomas Paine, 1776

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23h

lol Johnson backs out of debate with Jeffries. Says govt has to reopen first. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

thehill.com

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Tucker Drake @tuckerdrake.bsky.social · 21h

Alternatively, he knows that he can avoid answering the question by failing down because that’s far less damaging to his career than answering the question.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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60000
40000
20000
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Bernie Sanders
200000
Number of Donations
150000
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50000
Elizabeth Warren
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40000
20000
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Donor Age
75

Hakeem Jeffries
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30000
20000
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Nancy Pelosi
100000
Number of
Donations
75000
50000
25000
Suzan DelBene
2000
1500
1000
500
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50
75
Donor Age

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

Andrew Cuomo acts tough on TV. But when Donald Trump came after our Attorney General, Cuomo couldn't even name him. That's cowardice.

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Tucker Drake @tuckerdrake.bsky.social · 23h

@iwriteok.bsky.social why VW might have been interested in cattle ranching. www.jalopnik.com/1873432/volk...

Volkswagen Will Now Let You Gobble Its Sausage Any Time You Want - Jalopnik

Volkswagen still sells a lot of cars, but it also makes a whole lot of something else that you might not expect — sausage.

www.jalopnik.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

imagine laying off a politics reporter based in portland oregon in the year 2025

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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