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doublemmia @mobilesuitmia.bsky.social · 5h

When two people have a 20+ reply chain and the third guy jumps in

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gryme @gryme.bsky.social · 1d

aria #counterweight

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d

This whole series has been great, and genuinely moving, despite (or because of) being polished campaign video.

It is so rare to see those techniques—with that *surety*—used to say things like this, from positions like this, with a platform like this. No hedging, here.

Makes me want to do the work

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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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d

same!!! fully got me, tears in the hotel lobby.

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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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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 2d

the guy with the beard! that's one of my guys iirc, but artyomized

James Wragg @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social · 2d

Uhh, I guess I should start posting Entropy stuff, huh?

Entropy has permadeath - that means you'll hire from the 𝕸𝖊𝖗𝖈 𝕭𝖔𝖆𝖗𝖉 when your party gets murdered.

Mercs are generated with different:
⭐Stats & Perks
📜Bios & Personalities
👺Bodies & Clothes
🗡️Equipment

store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/...

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 1d

NEW VIDEO on spooks and indie horror games and computers distorting our understanding of the world, available right now on Nebula! nebula.tv/videos/jacob...

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Art Martinez-Tebbel @amtebbel.bsky.social · 2d

The Nobel people wanted to be clear they’re right wing but not in the gauche American way.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

so they gave the Nobel peace prize to the lady the CIA is trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government with? lol

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 2d

A big update to the @friends-table.bsky.social Perpetua soundtrack on Bandcamp, with combat themes for indoor scuffles and a boss fight with a sniper added. The big ticket item, though, is Beachminton, a new minigame theme! notquitereal.bandcamp.com/track/beachm...

Beachminton, by Jack de Quidt

from the album Perpetua: Friends At The Table Soundtrack, Season Nine

notquitereal.bandcamp.com

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 3d

“His name was Steve, and he used to be my uncle” is an all timer first line of a novel.

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 3d

Opposing it is absolutely not that funny. Totally valid position, probably right. Taking over the Silent Hill wiki to say that the games were fundamentally about a satanic circumcision conspiracy is hilarious.

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𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.social · 4d

Director Kathryn Bigelow’s cult future noir thriller ‘Strange Days’ starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, and Tom Sizemore premiered at the New York Film Festival 30 years ago this week. 💿🧠🚔 #OTD

"𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚗'𝚜 𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚗'𝚜 𝚃𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛."

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t believe that one Silent Hill Wiki Editor got a position as the Foreskin Czar in the Trump regime.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 3d

People have to get on board to pick up all the secret jokes we do to each other during recordings

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sylvia @sylvibullet.bsky.social · 3d

can you guys all get brain rotten by the same wrestling podcast as me it's funny i promise www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn01...

[ᴅᴇᴀᴅʟᴏᴄᴋ 𝖍𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙] The Boys Discuss the 3D, The LONG WAY.

YouTube video by ᴘᴀʏɴᴇxᴋɪʟʟᴇʀ ʀᴇᴠɪᴇᴡꜱ

www.youtube.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 4d

New from @dropsitenews.com: David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

@ryangrim.bsky.social and @mazmhussain.bsky.social report on leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor

🔗 Read: www.dropsitenews.com/p/david-frum...

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 4d

the only thing people want to do on Sora, it seems, is generate images of copyrighted characters. now that they can't, they're crashing the fuck out www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

www.404media.co

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 5d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 5d

oh this would rule, especially if they put servers up

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 5d

it's so good! i went back a few days after this to play some more side stories and let me tell you, they remain really cool

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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