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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 1h

I am the kind of pedestrian your parents warned you about.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 2h

Every JD Vance interview:

REPORTER: The president literally declared war on Democrats to military leaders. Do you agree?

JD VANCE: Umm haha what I DISAGREE with is Chuck Schumer telling the American people they have to give their cars over to immigrants. But you wont report it!

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2h

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2h

Petition to call “anti-DEI campaigners” what they actually are. I propose professional racists, hired bigots, mercenary chauvinists.

BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 3h

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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spoOoOopymama! @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 3h

this made me lol

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3h

We are Amphifa.

AMPHIFA:

Amphibians Against Fascism.

Black and green flag of a Portland protest frog.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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L Chupacabra: The Pope Of Chili Town @lchupacabra.bsky.social · 3h

AND CHEF BOYARDEE IS RIGHT THERE.

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 3h

It's that time of year so I thought I'd once again share how my Italian-American ancestors recognized Columbus Day.

Anyway the time to stop venerating the guy has long passed and anyone who says it's about Italian heritage is full of shit.

Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · Oct 14

As an Italian-American I think it's really important for me to share how my grandfather - a first-generation American - celebrated Columbus Day. He used to sing this song:

"He sailed the world around-o, his beard grew to the ground-o, navigatin' calculatin' son-of-a-gun Columbo."

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 4h

we need to matrix the oligarchs, is what I think I'm saying here

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 4h

the only ethical use case for GenAI is creating a parallel internet stocked with infinite varieties of sycophantic agents where our oligarchs can run free, secure in the knowledge that everyone loves them and blissfully ignorant of the existence of an actual internet that nobody tells them about

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 4h

don draper that's what the incomprehensible amounts of money are for dot jpg

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 4h

I hate how accurate this is

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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gretchen @boxofmillipedes.bsky.social · 4h

what is the charge, eating a meal? a succulent Cava meal?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 4h

This is good, hopefully next time he cuts him off during the rant about why his ratings are low. There is no informational value in having JD Vance on your show.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22h

get in losers we're repenting

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 22h

Liberation theology in the USA. More please.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 7h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social · 18h

Boston has perfected "the worst person you know made a great point" and made it their entire identity.

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Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 5h

"The data's in PDF."

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 14h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14h

"The chancellor approved it"

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GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 22h

Pretty sure “by mistake” here means “we were screamed at by various Republican Senators and other officials and we take it back.”

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 22h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 6h

I spoke w/ Politico about how Dobbs further disrupted and destabilized clinical research with people who are pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant. The lack of data makes it easier to spread misinformation and instill unwarranted fears....

Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 8h

A decades-old problem (underrepresentation of all women, but especially pregnant women, in medical research) is getting worse.

Post-Dobbs, “fear of liability is a regularly cited obstacle” to enrolling pregnant women in medical studies, according to a 2024 @nationalacademies.org report.

RFK Jr.’s got advice for pregnant women. There’s limited data to support it.

Women of reproductive age have long been missing from clinical trials. It’s getting worse where abortion is banned.

www.politico.com

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 5h

The lab leak conspiracy theorists running the US health agencies are getting kookier & kookier 🤦‍♂️

In fact, research shows that “the Lyme disease bacterium is ancient in North America, circulating silently in forests for at least 60,000 years” (medicine.yale.edu/news-article...)

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

Makary is now saying that Lyme came from a lab too.

youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w?...

Silly Makary says COVID and Lyme came from labs.

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 6h

It's still less than half of what I'd walk on a typical Sunday, but it's a little quality time outdoors and a little exercise, so I'll take it.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 6h

I rewatched 1987’s “Baby Boom” in the wake of Diane Keaton’s passing and a thing that’s so consistent when you watch even middlebrow stuff from the 80s and 90s is that it plays like a masterpiece compared to so much of what gets made today because the scripts and exiting are TIGHT

Official Trailer BABY BOOM (1987, Diane Keaton, Sam Sheppard, Harold Ramis, Charles Shyer)

YouTube video by Trailer World

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 6h

Love that Chicago is getting in on the Portland humor bandwagon! Hard to say it’s a warzone when this is happening!

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