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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 2h

Silverware with tines coming from nowhere. Barbie with seven fingers on the left and three on the right. Get your sloppy eldritch nightmare today at Wal-Marr.

CNN @cnn.com · 2h

Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to let users browse and make purchases through the artificial intelligence https://cnn.it/4n3r5zK

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 2h

Cool I always wanted a product that doesn't exist

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 2h

I left the right wing and the GOP over 20 years ago because of all the fucking Nazis and it's not like things have improved.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

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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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 3h

I'm always confused when something on the internet is referred to as "rare." What, are they rationing the bits on that one?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3h

Anyone familiar with the political culture of the Trumpian GOP will not be surprised by this reporting on today's Young Republicans, but all decent human beings will be appalled by it.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

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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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 3h

This is actually true. Steve Scalise never shuts up about how much he hates America and Americans.

Daniel J. Willis (That’s already a scary name.) @bayareadata.press · 4h

You know, Democrats could do this too. Anyone can claim that anybody hates America. Watch: Steve Scalise hates America.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Scalise: "Chuck Schumer is throwing a temper tantrum here at home just to appease the most radical elements of his base so that on the 18th when they have the Hate America Rally that everybody knows is coming ... "

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 5h

Chef Gruel is on the nose even for us.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 6h

You don't have to put that you're anti-MAGA in your bio on Bluesky, and if you do you will be muted by people who subscribe to lists to mute anyone with MAGA in their bio.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 7h

"In what city did you first experience ennui?"

Nihilistic Password Security Questions

What is the name of your least favorite child? In what year did you abandon your dreams? What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress? At what...

buff.ly

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 7h

I'd take Dianne Feinstein TODAY over Seth Moulton.

🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 7h

It's embarrassing enough for Republicans to still be kissing Donald Trump's ass but anyone else is just pathetic.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 8h

Bari Weiss is a bad person who happens to write badly.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

we have to be willing to just fuck with foreign governments in order to promote pro-democracy forces and harm pro-authoritarian forces in those countries

*that's* our actual interest, not whatever faff natsec heads preach about "the rules based order"

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 20h

Bari Weiss is nowhere near as clever as Maureen Dowd

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 20h

I don't know if I get it but that's a standing ovation from me

🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 20h

Time passes rudely without my permission and I wish it would stop.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 21h

Like taking the stage of a crowded theatre, announcing "My farts smell like longing and more people should be talking about that," and leaving the building.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 21h

I honestly gotta respect dropping the most batshit take I've read since I blocked Yglesias and then just *wandering off*

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 1d

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 21h

My wish for clothes to be more colorful appears to have been granted via the monkey paw.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

this marc jacobs suit looks like a spanish textbook

The cover of a Spanish textbook. The colors are purple, red, teal, black, and brown. Two people are talking to each other on the cover. The book is titled "En español!"

Zendaya in a Marc Jacobs double-breasted suit. The colors are purple, red, teal, black, and brown.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 22h

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety.

The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying:

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading."

Reingold then quotes it saying:

Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 22h

We had many clocks. No two of them displayed the same time.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 22h

Oh like a mafia protection racket

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1d

It seems to be disconnected now. There was a big thing three years ago when the owner of Larry's Shortstop retired and the new owners didn't want to maintain it; but it was supposedly "saved."

www.cjonline.com/story/news/l...

Topeka institution gets reprieve as time-and-temperature telephone line gets an extension

After news broke that Topeka's time-and-temperature phone line could end, local residents and businesses rallied to save the 81-year-old service.

www.cjonline.com

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1d

And we needed that enough that I still remember the number.

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