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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 22h

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 12h

cc: @governor.pa.gov

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 13h

the master race, every. damn. time.

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 13h

uuuuuggghhh, nooooo

glad no one was hurt

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 16h

if pep boys said that now the pep boys could call you up and talk sexy to you you wouldn't think that pep boys was doing really well, as a company

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Mark Hill @mehill.bsky.social · 16h

Feels like we're on the precipice of the most awkward data breach imaginable.

The Verge @theverge.com · 19h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 20h

why is it never the correct obit, dammit

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 21h

‘racism sucks!’
‘HOW DARE YOU ATTACK ME!’

always showing their entire unwashed asses stepping up to claim personal harm from a broad statement

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 21h

happily it includes philly as of now

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

Growing list of airport authorities who are refusing to play the Kristi Noem video for travelers that blames Democrats for the shutdown:

Portland International Airport
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Niagara Falls International Airport

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M-AAAH!!!-tty 👻 @mattythemouse.bsky.social · 1d

Andy's right. We do want to make these events look safe and farcical... Because that's what they are.

The administration is trying to move paramilitary forces into our cities on the pretense that violence and crime is out of control, and we're out there meeting them with fucking frog costumes.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 6d

I love when Andy Ngo does one of his David Attenborough-style posts about Antifa and highlights some kid who took a bong rip and waddled into the protest dressed like a giant muppet.

My favorite flavor of his commentary by far.

Andy Ngo wants to draw your attention to Barney the dinosaur

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

I think it matters that to whatever degree we want to credit Trump with doing this as-yet-tenuous deal, forget the ten months of ongoing support for genocide, the support for bombing Tehran, etc.; Trump helped accomplish this by telling Palestinians if they didn’t sign on he’d see them all destroyed

David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely don’t think our political discourse is capable of talking about how Donald Trump—*Donald Trump*—just halted an ongoing genocide.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 2d

I have strong doubts that the 'ceasefire' will hold and lead to an actual peace deal, but it seems like, maybe, somehow, Trump kinda learned a lesson here...?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Hard to argue with any of this.

Kelly C @kacphl.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. This guy nailed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...

How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

www.youtube.com

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 2d

out here publicly yearning for sunn m’cheaux to turn you into pudding

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 3d

No mugshot. Lol

Thad Ochocinco, Active Listener @thadochocinco.bsky.social · 3d

From the people that repeatedly shoot at the Emmitt Till Memorial Marker comes Brent Jones, who was arrested for pissing in the reflecting pool and destroying the eternal flame at Martin Luther King's burial site www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 4d

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 3d

@governor.pa.gov

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of exciting data center jobs coming down the pike.

beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 3d

EXCELLENT, i worry about my moots

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 4d

should i even ask how the jobhunt is going

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 4d

that’s criminal

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 4d

‘worst cartoon’ MATTY HOW COULD YOU

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M-AAAH!!!-tty 👻 @mattythemouse.bsky.social · 4d

This is the best way to fight fascism. Fascists understand violence, and know how to respond to that… But they don’t understand mockery.

Like, they want to be like “Portland is a war zone,” sooo hard, but it’s just a bunch of people in inflatable frog suits, lol

Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 4d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 4d

i am confident if he sends any forces to philly there will be a proliferation of Gritty costumes

and it will be glorious

beanie-halloweenie @blobulouscat.bsky.social · 4d

“gonna be sharia law!” are your neighbors good with that, they’ve always seemed super concerned about that