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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 2m

It's honestly brilliant.

Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 24m

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 33m

💥Viktor Orbán in trouble: a new 21 Research Center (a reliable pollster) survey shows opposition leader Péter Magyar’s TISZA party leading Orbán’s Fidesz 53–35—an 18-point gap. Even the main govt-paid pollster (Nézőpont) admits to the @nytimes.com that smear campaigns against Magyar are failing.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 8h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 14h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 9h

“Highly organized.” That means some Chicago folks saw Portland videos online and said “That’s hilarious” and bought a $30 inflatable on Amazon.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 12h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

www.bloomberg.com

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 23h

Oh, I think I've got it.

A picture of an inflatable Stay Puft Marshmallow Man costume

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

AI could never....

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

Even the special effects look good, and it was made in 2001. There were only one or two places where the CGI looked not-great, but the scenes were quick, and the CGI was tiny, so it doesn't distract. Kudos to Peter Jackson for creating a true classic.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

We discovered yesterday that the daughter's bestie (fondly referred to as Other Daughter) has never seen Lord of the Rings (?!?!?). So we watched it last night, because as a parent it's my job to see they're properly exposed to culture. That movie really holds up. Still so good.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

Love it!

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t care if it’s cringe, suck it up and put on the fucking frog suit

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

I have fucking had it with the edgelord leftists who quote post my shit with incitements to violence, like I'm sorry either you're the fucking feds or you're somehow even dumber than they are.

the frogs & the wine moms are doing 100x the work y'all are by dooming and posting nonsense.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

NYC, what’s our emblematic protest going to be? Pizza Rats? Giant pigeons?

Stephanie Willerton 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @stephwillerton.bsky.social · 1d

We’re a big, diverse country. Let a thousand culturally appropriate protests bloom.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

“Father, forgive those who do not know what they are doing.
Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they are doing.”
Whew. That’s some fire.

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

The stupidest, most incompetent people are in charge of our country right now.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

I know Diane Keaton's chronological age, but she seemed timeless to me. It's hard to grasp that she's not here anymore.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I really recommend browsing a reddit called "Is this AI?" for this purpose. people post questionable images and commenters weigh in on their validity, but are required to provide specifics as to their reasoning. once you start seeing the signs, it gets easier and easier over time

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

Oh my...

a woman with a surprised look on her face has her hand on her head

Alt: a woman with a surprised look on her face has her hand on her head

media.tenor.com

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 3d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

Right? It's free to stream. But she provides merch because...*shocker*....her fans like to get the merch.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

Y’all, look at this adorable merch that came with my daughter’s Showgirl cd.

Gold envelope necklace with a gold “letter” engraved with “Actually Romantic” .

The same necklace with the letter inside.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2d

Every year at #NYCC there’s one cosplayer that takes the cake, the cookies AND the pie. It’s only Friday but I think I found the one.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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