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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 1d

running for president in '28, my entire campaign is just two posters, one picturing prominent members of the current administration beneath the banner headline "PRISON", and another of all the leading techbros beneath the banner headline 'WE WILL TAKE ALL THEIR MONEY'

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 3h

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 34 people
Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL
September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View
September 15, 2025 3
“in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View
September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View
October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View
October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View
October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View
October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View
October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2h

We’ve updated our story with an additional comment provided by the United States Justice Department.

At 4:10 p.m., she texted me: "By the way-everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know."
I responded: "I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You don't get to say that in retrospect."
Halligan was unpersuaded: "Yes I do. Off record."
"I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked," I said. "But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?
To my surprise, she kept going: "It's obvious the whole convo is off record. There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never told me about a story."
I didn't respond. It was time to publish my story. I'll text it to her.
Postscript: Read the full exchange between Lindsey Halligan and Lawfare's Anna Bower here.

Highlighted text: “Hours after Lawfare published this article, Justice Department spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre provided the following additional comment:

“Thank you for including my statement in your story. I just realized I spelled Lindsey's name wrong in the initial response, would you mind correcting?

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 4h

nothing makes me write a meeting summary faster or more comprehensively than the thought that I’m competing against the AI note taker

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:

1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 4h

i do love this time of year so much, where it’s warm enough that the flowers are still around and thriving but the weather has changed enough to get pretty skies

A orange and pink zinnia unfurling its petals

passion flowers climbing an archway, with a background of mountains under a partly cloudy sky

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h

What I’ve taken in over the last couple years is that when people have an irrationally outsized emotional response to doing a task,90% of the time it is because they can’t do it — not that they won’t do it. They can’t. And most people will die trying to prove why that’s someone else’s fault.

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 5h

I know the TM hosts/alumni are more comedians than actors but honestly there are a few that do both enough that if I saw them on another one of the lists of “just signed up to be in that series” I’d need a couple days to mourn

Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 6h

AAAAAAUUUUGHHHHH every time I think well that’s every random british actor whose participation in that fucking book series could hurt me, surely there are no more. And there’s always more

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Laura 🍁🍄🦇🎃 @tricksyliesmith.bsky.social · 6h

so all that about playing Beelzebub as enby actually meant fuck all then, yay, okay, QQ great

BREAKING: Anna Maxwell Martin has been cast as Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions.

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N. 🐝 @followsthebees.bsky.social · 1d

My emissions inspector was going on and on about how excited he was that I was the last car of the day cause "it's so hard missing the ones you live, ya know?" And he just wants to go home and sit down and watch a movie with his boyfriend and dog. Dean Winchester is that you?

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10h

one of the bulwarks against these people succeeding is how stupid they all are

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

New in PN: Lindsey Halligan's humiliation continues apace

"After discovering — too late! — that you have to tell reporters beforehand if you want conversations to be off the record, Halligan now finds herself attempting to prosecute 2 high profile cases on the 'rocket docket.' It’s not going well."

Lindsey Halligan's humiliation continues apace

She's bad at media, and even worse at law.

www.publicnotice.co

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Jane🔪Slain🔪Lane @nyjanelane.bsky.social · 20h

PROVE SHE DIDN'T

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

In her conversation for Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians, Monae recalls jetting back to the 1970s to see Bowie perform 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.'

Janelle Monae Says She Time-Traveled to the 1970s to See David Bowie: 'I Was Backstage'

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ceej @ceej.online · 19h

it can take a bit to get used to the sounds of an old house settling. squeaky floorboards, “footsteps” on the stairs. creaks and groans from other rooms. the feeling of someone sitting on the edge of your bed in the middle of the night. a breath on the nape of your neck. you know, the house settling

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you!! 😊 It’s a gift for my brother who loves orange and whose house is decorated in blues and greens. I have been told by other family members that it looks great and if he doesn’t want it they’ll take it (but he’s also seen it and said it’s cool). So I know it’ll go to a home that loves it!

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 23h

Mainstream media doesn't show this shit, but we also have this going on daily in Southern CA with locals.

People are out there. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 23h

Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 23h

it was something Ed had never done before, and it cut through Izzy’s stories and reset them to common ground where they could acknowledge what happened. It wouldn’t be enough for people used to talking about their feelings, but it was the step these two characters could take together in that moment.

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 23h

this exactly—Ed spent an episode practicing his apology, “you were just doing your job” was him working out what mattered to Izzy!! For Izzy’s part, he was trying to tell himself so many complicated stories about sharks and hiding what Ed did. so Ed’s short, direct statement of his regret was brave,

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Blackbeard's Lesbian Earring @bbslezearring.bsky.social · 1d

So many people hate Ed's apology here, but I will stand by it as incredibly sincere and a huge gesture, and that Izzy recognizes it as such.

Our Flag Means Death Frames @ofmdframes.bsky.social · 1d

oh look it’s scowly face

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godslayer @bitdizzy.bsky.social · 1d

Abuse never has to be coherent, and insisting on its coherence gives it more legitimacy than recognizing it for what it is. When people psychologize about the motivations and internal world of abusers, they are indulging their need for certainty, not revealing truths about the nature of abusers.

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 1d

The East Wing was where Eleanor Roosevelt welcomed all visitors to the White House.

That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.

This photo, taken on April 1, 1941, shows First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt sitting in front of a fireplace, accompanied by her staffers Malvina Thompson and Edith Helm at the White House in Washington, D.C.

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 1d

modern day gimli is engaged in a bitter and vitriolic stan war on twitter on behalf of his favorite pop singer

Farewell, and may you find what you seek!' cried Éomer. 'Return with what speed you may, and let our swords hereafter shine together!'
'I will come, said Aragorn.
'And I will come, too, said Gimli. 'The matter of the Lady Galadriel lies still between us. I have yet to teach you gentle speech.'
'We shall see, said Éomer. 'So many strange things have chanced that to learn the praise of a fair lady under the loving strokes of a Dwarf's axe will seem no great wonder. Farewell!'

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 1d

I like how Legolas is literally in love already

There was great wonder, and many dark and doubtful glances, among his men, when Éomer gave orders that the spare horses were to be lent to the strangers; but only Eothain dared to speak openly.
'It may be well enough for this lord of the race of Gondor, as he claims,' he said, 'but who has heard of a horse of the Mark being given to a Dwarf?'
'No one, said Gimli. 'And do not trouble: no one will ever hear of it. I would sooner walk than sit on the back of any beast so great, free or begrudged.
'But you must ride now, or you will hinder us, said Aragorn.
'Come, you shall sit behind me, friend Gimli,' said Legolas. 'Then all will be well, and you need neither borrow a horse nor be troubled by one!

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 1d

Like there’s a “war” season, Jadzia/Worf, the thing that everyone’s still mad about with Jadzia (I know who Ezri is), but other than that I don’t know what happens to a lot of characters!

I’m glad I’m only halfway through, I’m already worried about how sad I’ll be when I’ve watched it all 😂

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