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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 2h

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

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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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 12h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 9h

www.tcj.com/author/leona...

Leonard Pierce, Author at The Comics Journal

www.tcj.com

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 7h

This is so funny, man.

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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 9h

shot / chaser

headline: Washington Post columnist proudly boasts ‘we’re now a conservative opinion page’

headline: The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 9h

So many incredible artists submitted work for this!!! Adding a few more of our faves to this thread now.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 12h

We did it, folks! We ran a Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day Art Contest: And here are the results.

(I'll thread some of our favorite entries, but to know who won the grand prize and the two jewelry prizes from @nora.zone you're gonna have to click through.)

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Trans News Site Remembers Charlie Kirk With a Vengeance — Assigned

Our community remembers Charlie Kirk as the vicious, hateful, divisive, violence monger he was.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11h

When she takes over CBS News, will Bari Weiss do what she has always done? Or will she do a totally different thing she has no expertise or interest in?
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/b...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

Adding alt-text to a screenshot of text has never been easier.

And all of that alt-text is searchable on Bluesky, meaning that a lot more people will find your post.

If you post a screenshot without alt-text, imagine you're just posting a black box for a bunch of people who want to see inside.

Mykael Wyvern — 🔮🧙🏻‍♂️🐉 @wyvern.bsky.social · 22h

I can sorta see people intimidated about alt texting a photo or piece of art, but when it's literally a screenshot of text..... Comeon now

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Den Howler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 22h

I wonder if the same people that get mad about that don't have the narrative voice in their heads. Like, when i read I'm saying the words in my head and maybe doing voices but every once in a while this place will blow up with "whaaaat you have a voice? That's weird."

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Den Howler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 22h

It's good for the soil.

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Den Howler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 22h

Unintentionally funny isn't usually a good sign 😬

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m @fragilewife.bsky.social · 23h

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 5d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Den Howler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 1d

Unexpected Rene Auberjonois in My Best Friend is a Vampire along with David Warner as a sort of misguided Van Helsing character. I really liked this movie as a kid but can't really recommend anyone watch it today if you aren't of millennial age.

Rene in a red turtleneck and grey overcoat looking smug or relieved. Robert Sean Leonard and Cheryl Pollak awkwardly embracing each other in mid field. And Evan Mirand as the best friend wearing a pink jacket and teal shirt in the background.

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 2d

good afternoon

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Den Howler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 1d

Hey I have an idea about how to get more Republicans on board for prison reform.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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‎Synapsid (Scary) @synapsid.bsky.social · 1d

every new bit of information that comes out after one of his movies bombs not doing much to disprove my theory that Leto has the most blackmailable dirt on every studio exec and producer working today

Moxie @ blfc @dracocat.bsky.social · 1d

Its wild too because apparently Tron Ares was a different story/film initially but Leto wanted to explore his character so much he convinced the director to change it to focus on him.

“The first iteration of [Tron: Ares] was a different movie, but it had a character named Ares that [Leto] was cast as while we were in pre-production,” Wigutow says, “He really got his teeth into this character and really wanted to hold onto it, and ultimately came to me and said, ‘Let's just build a movie around this character. I want to understand this character, his origins, and I want to take him to a very different place.’ So that's really the provenance and the origin of this specific film is Jared's dogged persistence on getting it done, but also telling the story of this character specifically.”

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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Den Howler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think even fish would eat that.

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Den Howler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton's acting in this movie is so over the top and histrionic. I understand it's part of her character arc to be that way but it's just not convincing. Not her best performance.

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Den Howler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 1d

Pikachu is a combination of ピカピカ pikapika (onomatopoeia for sparkle) and チューチュー chūchū (the sound of squeaking).

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

flared bases loaded

Baseball Highlights 野球のハイライト @baseballhighlights.bsky.social · 1d

….is that

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 2d

If someone sees trump break not just norms but straight up laws and get away with it and their reaction is “a-HA! Reverse green lantern theory” you’re dealing with a dangerously delusional imbecile

Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t mean to sound nasty but if you’re still claiming the democrats did all they could to prevent what is happening right now then you have diarrhoea brains

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Den Howler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 2d

One of the best episodes. Also he plays a judge in the Matlock pilot that presides over the case where he framed someone for murder.

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Den Howler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 2d

Tyra's favorite in a pot nine days old.

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