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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 12h

The expectations of genAI is that like 30% of all companies can lay off like 80% of their workforce within the next 5-10 years. That’s the market expectations for AI. And Altman is like “how about a sex robot but like just voice stuff”. We’re in incredibly dangerous waters in what I’m saying

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 16h

A few years ago we put together a Rapid Electrification Alternatives Plan built around leveraging SF's overhead line system that Muni brass did their utmost to disparage and ignore. But our case has only strengthened. Now its time for @sfmta.bsky.social to take our work to the next level

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 17h

get control of you goons and have them stop collaborating.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17h

And you, governor, should stop providing state cops to police protesters for ICE at Broadview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h

ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers.

The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 18h

One of the most messed up parts of the "nazis are sexy and funny now" GQ article about Nick Fuentes is that it doesn't cite a single source or data point. It's all just vibes. I have no idea how something like this made it past an editorial team unless it was clearly a story they wanted to tell

traced this rumor across TikTok and Tumblr. I watched fancam edits, mapped accounts, and interviewed a dozen people in their twenties and early thirties, both people who’d made posts about Fuentes and those whose fandom was more private.

TikTok is where most outsiders misread the signal. Fuentes is extremely shareable — he basically speaks in soundbites. Every other line is a joke, and many of those jokes land. When they don’t, that in itself can be funny. His thick Chicago accent, his cartoonish tone of voice—the man was made for broadcasting, for better or worse.

It’s true that he has inspired a viral “sound” several times, but on TikTok that doesn’t equate to fandom. A sound is just a short audio clip that users layer under their own videos. It might come from a movie, a podcast, or a livestream; it doesn’t matter who said it. What matters is how easily it can be reused to set a mood or deliver a punchline. Popularity here measures remixability, not admiration. Serial killers, pedophiles caught red-handed, and random bystanders could theoretically all go viral this way. Fuentes happens to clip well.

There is a dedicated and TikTok-native Fuentes fandom, but searching through the misspellings and alternate tags that users reference him with (to avoid the filter TikTok uses to suppress content about him), only a few prolific editors dominate the results. The rest is noise—ephemeral accounts spun up around attention spikes.

The interviews I conducted reflect what the feeds suggested. Several sources said their very online friends, regardless of politics, share Fuentes clips because he’s funny. The same people said no one they know actually watches his multi-hour streams. One woman described him as “weirdly unhateable,” and suggested he’s a bit of a meme—another way of saying the trend is more of a joke than a nascent political shift.

There is, however, a small female fandom orbiting Fuentes, many of whom identify as being on the left. On Tumblr, a community cal…

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 20h

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 20h

Always push back against counter-insurgency propaganda.

Your communities can, and should, defend itself. If they’re already planning to kill us, you are under no obligation to make it easy for them.

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 18h

Crime takes place on the 64th floor of the high rise and in the wood paneled rooms of the country club

Julie McGalliard @mcjulie.bsky.social · Aug 27

You know, "crime" takes place in cities at night, the buildings are tall, there's graffiti and trash everywhere, "not crime" takes place in suburbs/small towns during the day, everything is one or two stories and looks super clean, like it was just pressure-washed.

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 18h

Cannot wait to be named the commissaro of re-education when power is reclaimed

Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 18h

The men who rule us

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 18h

A cab but the bastards aren't as bastardly

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 18h

I guess there was some increased civilian oversight and a bunch of the cops walked and most were MAGAts

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 19h

the word from portland people is they've cleared a lot of them out

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 19h

the police support this

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 20h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 20h

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 20h

You know what’s antisemitic? Trump. His ally, Nick Fuentes. His other ally, Jack Posobiec. His dead ally, Charlie Kirk.

And so many other ghouls on the right. Because antisemitism is overwhelmingly a right-wing problem.

That’s the side of the aisle almost all of the hate crimes come from.

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 20h

Business Plot 2 - Elite Coup Boogaloo

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

This is the message ahead of #NoKings day, and if your local politicians aren't preaching it, well... they better start. Or maybe they'll end up like Cuomo.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 20h

let gaza live

rami-ii.bsky.social @rami-ii.bsky.social · 21h

They call it a ceasefire, but how can you cease the suffering?
The war didn’t end for us.
We’re still among the ruins after losing our home, jobs and everything we owned
Silence doesn’t mean safety, and hunger doesn’t stop with peace talks
Please don’t forget us we still need you💔
gofund.me/edd687b8

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight