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Alexander M. Krijgsman @vagabonderro.bsky.social · Feb 24

I have a bit in my profile that's an oblique reference to a favourite quote of mine by a favourite author that I don't believe I've ever shared on Bluesky, so here it is in full:

"If the truth were simple, I wouldn't write books. I'd rent billboards."

From the incomparable Matthew Stover.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 48m

That’s one way to put it…

But the C.I.A.’s history of covert action in Latin America and the Caribbean is mixed at best.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 27m

a big aspect of rightwing politics is being an adult who intentionally bullys children

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 2h

A group of far right assholes have showed up to protest at David Douglas high school after students allegedly pushed back at a formation of a turning point chapter. School is out & they are outnumbered by predominantly Black & Brown students roasting the fuck out of them.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18m

Every single one of these Nazi motherfuckers is gonna have their jobs back in 2 months, that's the America-In-2025 Guarantee

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 8m

Mozilla has launched a new Firefox browser with a free, built-in VPN, which some say may be in reaction to the spread of age-verification measures in conservative states.

Mozilla Launches Free VPN in Firefox to Win Back Users - Kotaku

Mozilla is testing a free VPN in Firefox, a simpler version of its paid Mozilla VPN service.

kotaku.com

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Alexander M. Krijgsman @vagabonderro.bsky.social · 1h

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Alexander M. Krijgsman @vagabonderro.bsky.social · 1h

Shana Hampton!

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ToughestGirlInTown @thetgit.bsky.social · 2h

Today.

Telephone poll with an embroidered piece of white material stapled to it. The embroidery says: “In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whome we love”-Frank O'Hara

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Free Speech Coalition @fsc.bsky.social · 2h

AB 1043 does not apply to websites, meaning the technology is not currently available to adult sites who wish to block minors. While there is inherent privacy risk in all AV solutions, device-based solutions are more privacy preserving than the platform-based verification mandated in other states.

Free Speech Coalition @fsc.bsky.social · 1d

California just became the latest state to require device-level age verification. Under AB 1043, users must verify their age when setting up a phone or downloading apps, forcing Apple & Google to build age-check systems into devices.
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California Governor Adopts Device-Level Age Verification Law AVN

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) 1043 on Monday, implementing an age verification regime that requires users' ages to be verified at the device operating…

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michael swaim 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @michaelswaim.bsky.social · 1h

Fun Fact: On his deathbed a bitter Will Eisner briefly threatened to take sequential art away, but Jeff Smith heroically smothered him with a Fone Bone plushie before he could complete the incantation.

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Some More News @somemorenews.bsky.social · 5h

Hi. The American job market, especially for young people, has changed drastically since the 1980s. Does that mean it’s all Reagan’s fault, or just mostly Reagan’s fault? youtu.be/grQssQUbFtg

Why Can’t Gen Z Find A Job? - SOME MORE NEWS

YouTube video by Some More News

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 4h

Wow! I haven't been to Revolución in probably 20 years but this is awesome

Monica de la Cruz @monicadlc.bsky.social · 4h

Newly renovated Av. Revolución in centro Tijuana has reopened as a beautiful pedestrian promenade with benches, trees and decorative paving through several continuous blocks closed to car traffic. Pics from Frontera on IG.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4h

As I wrote in January: yes, SF has problems. Theft and carjacking rates are very high. Thanks to high prices and a lack of public housing, many ppl are homeless

Still, presenting SF like a post-apocalyptic wasteland might not have been the best idea

The Shadowy Millions Behind San Francisco’s “Moderate” Politics

The city is the epicenter of an anti-progressive movement—financed by the ultrawealthy—that aims to blur political lines and centralize power for the long term. For some, their ambitions don’t stop th...

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4h

All the "lifelong Democrats" who wrote San Francisco Doom Loop articles over the last 3 years, about how it's the trashiest worst most dangerous city, will be so very happy to hear Trump's announcement just now that his goons are going to Make SF Safe Again

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The Onion @theonion.com · 4h

Hotshot Peasant Has Window

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 4h

I was groggy as hell & couldn't even stand while I took a shower but I somehow made it to work. When I got there I realized that I brought my personal laptop instead of my work laptop. But I did get to go pick up a big beautiful raven that I'm gonna test, dropped it off in our lab, & then came home

A picture of a large trash bag being held in the air and over it I have written dead bird Do not eat.

A picture of the bag with a dead bird in it inside a tall Styrofoam cooler and the bird is larger than the cooler So it's sticking out

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4h

anyone else rock hard right now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 4h

Endlessly fascinating how as soon as they want to build an international coalition of genocidal fascists, the messaging turns into "I've always had the utmost respect for how you conniving [slurs] subjugate those [other slurs]"

Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 7h

Tommy Robinson has just arrived in the genocidal ethnostate of Israel after an official invite. He's very pleased. And he's received a very warm welcome.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 4h

finally all caught up on book orders from my webstore :) if there’s a kid in your life who could use a lesson on worker power and labor history, take a peep! www.kim-kelly.com

HOME

Portfolio, merch store, and contact information for journalist and author Kim Kelly.

www.kim-kelly.com

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 4h

As a literal international expert on CSAM (and terrorism connected to it), generative AI significantly worsening the massive volume of CSAM and related reporters flooding every channel and these chatbots create a permission structure that normalizes real-world pedophilia.

Jeff Thomas @buildbackwetter.bsky.social · 12h

A categorically new version of pornography centered on narrative while avoiding exploitation of sex workers and millions of liberal millennials inexplicably pretending like they're not going to use it

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 3h

Extra stupid because this kind of stuff happens every time there's a government shutdown and also there are videos of these things being posted all over social media lol

Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 3h

Wild combination today:

Bergum's press office calls @ashleyharrell.bsky.social's @sfgate.com story about squatters and illegal BASE jumpers in Yosemite "FALSE" and then Bergum himself says says they're addressing those exact issues with "appropriate law enforcement action." 🤔

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3h

Donald Trump has just declared that before he took office, Lincoln and Andrew Jackson were treated worst of all Presidents. However, he has now taken first place

This is a real thing he said

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3h

"Mr President, are we in for a sustained trade war with China"

Trump: "Well, we're in one now"

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4h

Trump: "We -- meaning Israel, but I knew everything they were doing, pretty much, I knew most of the things they were doing -- They've killed probably 70,000 of these people--Hamas--and I said it's time now"

I don't have anything funny to say about that, sorry

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4h

Trump: prosecuting me for crimes was "the worst weaponization of a political opponent in the history of the world, let alone this country"

Mr President, people have been assassinated

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4h

Trump: When these boats are struck by missiles, killing the people inside in defiance of national law, you can see the fentanyl floating on the surface of the water

Just floating there, killing every single fish in the world

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