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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 6h

Please someone cast him in Harry Potter

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 7h

I use a hooded bathrobe for that

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 13h

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.

You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 14h

"The reality right now is that if you refuse to engage with the science- the science that shows that COVID is a virus that disables human beings, and that this virus is asymptomatic 44% of the time- then you are spreading a disabling virus, and you are harming people. "

Beyond all reason

Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

www.thegauntlet.news

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"I think the Democratic base feels like there is a disconnect. We hear you, when you did your 25-hour speech, I was like go Cory, I love this, that is amazing.

And then there's a photo shoot with you with Benjamin Netanyahu, and I was just like, what in the actual fuck? It was heartbreaking."

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 1d

I'm confused why you think I was talking about MAGAs given I was specifically talking about hypocrisy from people who are concerned about this administration going after vaccine access?

😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 1d

I've long since given up even getting doctors to mask. It's clear that everyone would rather parrot MAGA narratives from 2020 than fight for improved ventilation systems.

But our health care peril is a direct consequence to mainstream of that status quo, and I'm tired of it not being acknowledged

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 1d

It's wild to me that people specifically downplay the risks because it's more likely to be asymptomatic/flu like than leave you bedridden, but are freaking out about the idea RFK might take ex, the polio vaccine because like... that ALSO describes polio without a vaccination.

Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is an infectious disease that is caused and transmitted by a virus called the poliovirus. One of the severe symptoms of polio is paralysis and the disease is therefore also known as "infantile paralysis". The name poliomyelitis is derived from Greek and translates to gray (polios) marrow (myelon), which refers to the tissue in the center of the spinal cord, which when affected causes paralysis. Paralyzed limbs such as arms or legs waste away over time which is the cause of deformed child legs most commonly being associated with the disease polio.

The symptoms vary widely between patients. Most infections do not lead to any symptoms, but others suffer terribly and for some it leads to death. Between 1 in 50 and 1 in 500 infections result in paralysis, among people who have not been vaccinated.2

The majority of infections (72%) do not lead to any symptoms. About a quarter of cases (24%) result in "abortive" poliomyelitis which leads to nonspecific symptoms for a few days, such as a fever or a cold, and 1-5% of cases lead to "non-paralytic aseptic meningitis", in which the patient suffers from stiff limbs for up to 10 days. 3

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 1d

when fox news joins forces with outlets like ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN to tell secretary breakfast gin that no they will *not* get his approval on their reporting, you know we’re through the looking glass www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/p...

Fox signed a joint statement along with
ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and NBC
News that said Hegseth's rules would
"restrict journalists' ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues."
"The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections,"
the outlets said.
To underscore: This is Hegseth's own former employer saying he's undermining freedom of the press.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

Miss Major is an incalculable loss for the trans community and a reminder that our movement is always led by Black trans women. Always.

May we all prove to be worthy students of her example.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 2d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 2d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 3d

That being said as much as I was hoping that was like webtoon fast pass, but from what I can tell it's more expensive to unlock chapters and there will be no more free chapters after the two 😔

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Garlic Bread and Roses 🏴 @aceanarchist.bsky.social · 3d

Here is an excellent guide by @crimethinc.com about wearing goggles and masks to demonstrations. crimethinc.com/2020/09/02/a...

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Gas Masks and Goggles

Everything you need to know to choose the right gas mask or goggles to protect your eyes and lungs from chemical agents and projectiles.

crimethinc.com

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 3d

Two people got stabbed in my town today and my mom, who is the type of person who takes bear spray for the mall parking garage, said that it was disturbing how she was completely unfased even though that Never Happens Here because it seems trivial threat in comparison to ICE

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Rinzy 🔞 ➡️ ??? @rinzy.art · 3d

longbubu

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 3d

I said this on tumblr but the actual biggest tragedy of the labubu fad is the amount of waste the blind bags create and the fact that people are still selling the discards at almost full prices so they aren't really affordable to be modified into customs either.

We are deprived of longbubus.

Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 4d

I'm a bit torn here bc the Labubu guy actually IS an indie toy designer, I saw his stuff at like WonderFes a decade ago. So he's not like say, Funko shit- So Labubus is one of the better fads because one of us made it big

But also he's probably plenty rich by now (I hope so he deserves to be)

KP @hagofbolding.bsky.social · Sep 8

What if instead of buying a labubu you bought something from a small artist instead

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 3d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 5d

New from me on @autonomynews.co: The popular abortion pill resource Plan C relaunched this week with a new design that better displays the many, many options for medication abortion in all 50 states

Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 5d

The online abortion pill guide @plancpills.bsky.social has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost. The redesign comes as state officials have threatened investigations and potential lawsuits against the organization.

An Autonomy News exclusive:

Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks

The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.

www.autonomynews.co

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 5d

If this reminds you of an extremely famous book you might have read in high school… yes.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 4d

This is incredibly powerful and resonant language, to the point of creating genuine emotional religious response in me (a Jewish person).

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

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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ΛTLΛS @atlasbun.bsky.social · 5d

Call your senator if you see them on this list and tell them no to KOSA.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 5d

#SaveSpeech
Democrats that need to be reprimanded for cosponsoring KOSA:

J. Hickenlooper- CO
A. Klobuchar- MN
B. Lujan- NM
B. Schatz- HI
M. Hirono- HI
G. Peters- MI
J. Fetterman- PA
R. Blumenthal- CT
C. Schumer- NY
M. Hassan- NH
M. Kelly- AZ
P. Welch- VT

[more names + links continued below]

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😈Kat😈 @bittersnurr.bsky.social · 4d

4Kids: "Tristan" is clearly a more commonly heard name than "Honda". Kids will be confused

Children:

Second panel of the Tumblr warrior cats meme about housecats knowing real words for human things consisting of a simple mspaint cat saying "You mean the fucking car"

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4d

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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