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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 7d

A lot of """"creatives"""" have seemingly accepted generative AI as part of art and filmmaking and I'm hear to say you're all big stinky phonies and I hate you

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 9h

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors," Thunberg said to Aftonbladet.

Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Mar 9

Home to one of the most bonkers lines in not just Star Trek but really any television show ever

Crusher saying that she fell asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter in her grandmothers journal

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14h

HEY

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15h

important note from libcrusher:

Reactivating temporarily to send a warning.
Since I got doxxed, it appears the same doxxing ring has targeted several other users. I learned that they were banned this week, only for Elon to, apparently, personally unban them. I feel obliged to warn everyone about my experience.

It wasn't just my personal information that got published. Someone, somewhere, got my passwords too. For my banking accounts, brokerage accounts, venmo, etc.
Most of which had different and unique passwords. All these attempts started the day i got doxxed, and have sporadically continued since.

If you know anyone who's been doxxed by this group, you need to have them change all their passwords on every website immediately. Ensure 2FA and any other security measures are in place everywhere.
And, wherever possible, document and report it. Frankly, if you're a lefty of any note, do it now too

If anyone was also a victim of this or knows someone who was, there are ways to reach me. I wish I could go into more details right now. But until that time comes, protect yourself.

I will be deactivating in 20 minutes.
Hopefully, that's enough time for the warning to get out.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 13h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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lucas, ho chi minh thot @antioccident.bsky.social · 10h

That account feels real weird so I just blocked it

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · Mar 23

can’t sleep, thinking about that ridiculous basilisk and what kind of warped mind it takes to believe you have the power to build god but not the power to make god not-evil

like

my dude

simply build a nicer god wtf is wrong with you

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Cloud Curio @cloudcurio.bsky.social · 13h

Hello! Amber, here! This is a post from the Cloud Curio Instagram regarding the retail store front. In short, it is closing at the end of the year. A hard decision, but the right one for me. Thank you to any and all who came in!

Hello everyone! Amber, here!

This is a post to give an update on the retail store front. I reopened the physical store early this year in the hopes that, with some help, I would be able to manage being operational again. Over the last few months it has become apparent that it is not feasible for me to do so. I have thought long and hard about this and the decision I have come to is to close the physical retail portion of Cloud Curio. I do not have the bandwidth to maintain it in a healthy way.

That being said, the store will still be operational through the end of the year at a limited capacity. I will be doing my best to update the Instagram, the website calendar, and the google business calendar to reflect the hours I will be open. I will also have a few events to help generate some final sales of inventory.

Thank you all to who have supported the store, for your excitement, your enthusiasm, your joy. It has meant so much to me that I have been able to make a small impact in any way.

Cloud Curio is not going away. The retail portion was never the true focus of Cloud Curio. So this decision is bittersweet in that I loved having the space to bring light to indie games and cute, goofy merch, but I can now give my attention to the publishing side which was always mine and Kenny's original vision.

Thank you,
Amber

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Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe @quakefultales.bsky.social · 13h

Hey narrative folks my team is looking for a narrative designer to come work with me in Iceland! If you have solid storytelling fundamentals, some technical experience, and live ops or adjacent experience, we are looking for someone like you!

careers.ccpgames.com/en/postings/...

Narrative Designer

Job Opening: Narrative Designer at CCP Games in Reykjavík.

careers.ccpgames.com

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phylan @phylan.website · 13h

when you brought a middling-at-best riesling and you take money from the genocide lobby

Corey Booker and those two podcast ladies who toasted his ass

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immortan jojo siwa @sal.gay · 13h

Losing NBC Out is a pretty big blow to lgbtq+ journalism not to mention the queer and trans workers there doing necessary work. Fuck man

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 14h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 14h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

we have spent the last decade witnessing a national epidemic of “it should be illegal to not hang out with me just because I’m a mean asshole” behavior

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 20h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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lucas, ho chi minh thot @antioccident.bsky.social · 11h

yeah it wouldn't play for me either

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 13h

hi! geneva conventions expert here! this likely meets the international humanitarian law standard for torture! hope this helps!

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Pat Flickner 🐉 @patflickner.bsky.social · 13h

Stop saying she was tortured. You are the only one saying it. She was mistreated and abused. That does not meet the legal definition. Just stop spreading lies

Did Israeli authorities mistreat Greta Thunberg after flotilla arrest? Here's what we know

Israeli authorities arrested Thunberg and more than 400 other activists who were part of the Global Sumud Flotilla in early October 2025.

www.snopes.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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lucas, ho chi minh thot @antioccident.bsky.social · 11h

🥹🥹🥹 welcome home

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merritt @merrittk.com · 12h

i finally started using duck duck go because i found myself reading the AI summaries despite not actually wanting to and holy shit this rules. i'm sure they're awful in some other way but i'm off google search now

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 12h

Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe.

Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

There are so many obvious constitutional violations in this story. It is enraging.
There is no war, there is no foreign invasion, there is nothing that justify it. This is a choice to create a military presence that will brutalize residents of cities that do not support the President.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 12h

"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

chicago.suntimes.com

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah

Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen

Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah

Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

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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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14h

may be more relevant as a vibe shift than as policy shift—because decrim requires changes to state laws, and also because there will be no meaningful decrim in NYC with the NYPD we have. I would be asking a lot more re: how he'd get the NYPD to abide *any* policy change he wants to make

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 15h

In the past, Zohran Mamdani has supported full decriminalization of sex work (which is undoubtedly the leftist position). But he's been harshly criticized by social conservatives for that position, and now his campaign suggests he may be open to the Nordic model. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...

“Criminalizing clients, friends, family and allies of sex workers makes it extraordinarily difficult for them to meaningfully participate in public life, including paying rent, earning a living or even walking down the street,” he wrote in a questionnaire when running for re-election in 2022.

He also said in the survey that he opposed the “Nordic model,” legislation that would prohibit arresting prostitutes themselves while allowing clients to be detained and charged.

Asked if Mr. Mamdani still opposes that approach, Dora Pekec, his campaign spokeswoman, said the campaign was still weighing the advice of policy experts and advocates.

Mr. Mamdani cosponsors several bills to decriminalize prostitution, none of which have advanced out of committee. One would have repealed “statutes that criminalize sex work between consenting adults, but keep laws relating to minors or trafficking.”

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