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Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 3d

when the captcha wants me to select all the squares with a traffic light in them

apocalypse (x-men villain) saying "do i look like a player of games?" i believe during the x of swords event

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 17h

Ah well surely voting blue will save me and you and our kids too

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 22h

"“While I strongly support the author’s goal of establishing necessary safeguards for the safe use of AI by minors, (the bill) imposes such broad restrictions on the use of conversational AI tools that it may unintentionally lead to a total ban on the use of these products by minors,” Newsom said."

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🐍Medusacious Mortician💀 @bwphades.bsky.social · 1d

Like sure it blew my mind the first time I read a storyline like that but looking back I don’t think it was the move

🐍Medusacious Mortician💀 @bwphades.bsky.social · 1d

Oh interesting because I think the opposite; too many writers do exactly that for edgy points instead of thinking through who the characters are as human beings and concluding that heroes (for kids, including the sense of childlike wonder in our brains) simply wouldn’t do such things

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🐍Medusacious Mortician💀 @bwphades.bsky.social · 1d

If you leave a review on a book you did not finish a skunk should immediately wander into your yard and spray you so everyone knows that you and your opinions stink

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · 1d

Huh, it’s by the same reporter who was skewered by John Oliver last night (as part of a longer feature on FP)

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

youtube.com

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🐍Medusacious Mortician💀 @bwphades.bsky.social · 1d

I think I just don't want to do a parasocial one-way zoom call! I can handle a documentary just fine but I don't need somebody I don't know making pretend eye contact at me and ranting!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Oct 14

“Oh and, ah, one more thing: Y’see, I don’t know much when it comes to India. But my wife? She loves the place. Has all the books. And she’s always telling me it’s a good hike east of here…

So — and forgive me, Señor Colón — I have to ask: Where were you on the night of October 12th, 1492?”

Andy Screamo @colonelnemo.bsky.social · Oct 14

Its Colombo Day!

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Spheal Posting @sphealposting.bsky.social · Aug 18

Pokemon rumble spheal saying "hope i don't have a long day" outside the long day factory

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 3d

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🐍Medusacious Mortician💀 @bwphades.bsky.social · 2d

I know some of you want your packages destroyed, but not like this! Not. Like. This!

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 3d

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

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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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 3d

Jenny Nicholson tweet
"How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor"

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

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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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 7d

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 8d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Chris Martin @mreschatologist.bsky.social · 4d

Jabba the Hutt with downward word balloon

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3d

Closing down disease monitoring is like a Bob Loblaw approach to pandemic management.

- WHY SHOULD YOU GO TO JAIL FOR A CRIME SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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🐍Medusacious Mortician💀 @bwphades.bsky.social · 3d

These days if you count the fingers on one hand you might have seven left over

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think for me it is so much "criticism" as "if you were a comic I still listened to before you went this thing, that's not what you are anymore, so long and thanks but no thanks."

There are plenty of other funny people out there to listen to.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 18d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 19d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Jelly🪼 @huskapet.bsky.social · 14d

smart guy in an rpg: hmm..
party member: what's wrong?
smart guy: it's nothing.
(20 hours later)
smart guy: so it's true... i knew it.

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🐍Medusacious Mortician💀 @bwphades.bsky.social · 4d

Can they hire this guy as a dem consultant

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Apr 10

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@_unwell
"99% of western art is apologia for capitalism" is a great example of why reading abstractly is bad-read concretely. moby dick's a book about how you shouldn't go on boats. heart of darkness's a book about how you shouldn't go on boats. robinson crusoe? you guessed it. fuck boats
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