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Erik C. Jones @ecfnj.bsky.social · 2h

Just. Just shut the fuck up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social · 2h

She wears short skirts, she punch it hurts, she's cheer captain and my spine is transverse

Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 12h

Please enjoy OUTRAGEOUSLY ROWDY CHEERLEADERS (or O.R.C.), a dice-stacking game about the 'ardest cheerleaders you ever fuckin seen conjuredcraft.com/en-gbp/produ...

OUTRAGEOUSLY ROWDY CHEERLEADERS

O.R.C. is a fast paced game of Dice Stacking, Table Smashing, Orc Cheerleading! Working with your Cheer Squad you must max out Crowdness Loudness before your cheer tower falls to the ground. Can you a...

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 2h

I don't know what visual metaphor you need for the moment, but this should do it

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2h

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:

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🦇👻 Boo Li Khaw 👻🎃 @juleshortstuff.bsky.social · 2h

Now that I have cats, the Twilight Princess Link picking up a cat and walking while cradling it baby style until he has to put it down to do his next errand is the most realistic to my real life gameplay feature in any game. Everything else has been a step back IMO.

Screenshot from the game Twilight Princess where the character Link, a green-clad elf boy, is standing cradling a cat in his arms while an army of cats sits in rapt attention in front of him

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 3h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 5h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

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It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2h

Absolute bombshell from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social:

Meta's internal research found that Instagram's algorithms preferentially displayed harmful content to vulnerable teens.

I'm glad I left Instagram back when I did, even if it was for other reasons (their anti-LGBTQ policies).

Exclusive: Instagram shows more ‘eating disorder adjacent’ content to vulnerable teens, internal Meta research shows

Meta researchers found that teens who report that Instagram regularly made them feel bad about their bodies saw significantly more “eating disorder adjacent content” than those who did not, according to an internal document reviewed by Reuters.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 2h

Among everything else fascinating about the Louvre heist, it's delightful it took place at 9.30am. Most of us, if planning a massive jewel theft, would be setting an alarm for the middle of the night. The French remind us you can have a decent night's sleep and THEN do it.

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Brandonomicon Ex Mortis (Brandon Seifert) @brandonseifert.info · 54m

Oh, that’s nest! I like Aubrey Plaza’s character, the Christmas Witch. Which is when Aubrey dresses up as a witch, and goes to her friends’ houses, and tries to steal their kids presents.

She’s turned it into a two book series. I just learned this last night!

Aubrey Plaza Goes All Out to Scare Kids on Halloween

YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Brandonomicon Ex Mortis (Brandon Seifert) @brandonseifert.info · 54m

Oh, that’s nest! I like Aubrey Plaza’s character, the Christmas Witch. Which is when Aubrey dresses up as a witch, and goes to her friends’ houses, and tries to steal their kids presents.

She’s turned it into a two book series. I just learned this last night!

Aubrey Plaza Goes All Out to Scare Kids on Halloween

YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2h

“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,”

Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social

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Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software

FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of ...

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1h

Such a striking photo opportunity from an administration full of people who made a huge fuss about how pulling down some crummy Confederate statues “erased history”. But there’s no contradiction here: it’s all part of the construction of the historical narrative they prefer.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Layman @themightylayman.bsky.social · 1h

Trump's White House. What an apt fucking metaphor.

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Sarah Giffrow @sarahgiffrow.bsky.social · 1h

Once again I’m here to remind y’all that your web developer shouldn’t need Elementor or Divi or whatever other page builder to design for Wordpress.

It’s a dependency and a paid license that will absolutely become a problem for you down the road.

Your Go-To Marketing Nerds 🤓 @upsweptcreative.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s an unpopular opinion: you DON’T need a pagebuilder to build a high-quality Wordpress website.

In fact, you could be inviting more trouble than you bargained for, if you DO have one installed.

#WordpressDeveloper
#PageBuilder

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1h

The powerlessness of all of us to stop Donald Trump from turning our hard-won civic property into his personal pleasure dome for life is both a cause of this travesty and a reason he's doing it, and it's another reason everything about America now just makes me sad.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 16h

This…Trump’s behaviour is now so obscene that mainstream media in the US - and I might add the UK - have decided it must be hushed up.

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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isaac @sevier.io · 14h

This article is a reminder that "abolish ICE" isn't just about the agents now in our streets, but is about a sprawling carceral system that must be dismantled completely. There must be consequences for politicians who try to spend a single dollar more on this.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...