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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 5h

Thoughts and prayers to Sean Plunket who, it seems, is entering the "Find Out" stage of broadcasting.

NZ Herald article preview with the headline:
'We're going to war': Broadcasting watchdog claims authority over The Platform; Sean Plunket hits out

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 15h

really good headline & piece in stuff today - and also very unsurprising, somehow? i wrote about the making of mike king last year (no paywall: www.webworm.co/rockstar/) and it all leads to stuff like this:

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 11h

you are forgiven

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 15h

yes - valid, and (this sounds shitty but i am not being) this is all covered in that webworm piece i linked to!

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 15h

really good headline & piece in stuff today - and also very unsurprising, somehow? i wrote about the making of mike king last year (no paywall: www.webworm.co/rockstar/) and it all leads to stuff like this:

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 1d

my sweetie pies how lucky i am

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 1d

my sweetie pies how lucky i am

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 2d

spent a day & night outside ICE in portland with some very peaceful protestors, as goons with guns and masks cosplayed their little dick fantasies around us: www.webworm.co/fingresontri...

www.webworm.com for full text details of priests i was with and other details

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 2d

spent a day & night outside ICE in portland with some very peaceful protestors, as goons with guns and masks cosplayed their little dick fantasies around us: www.webworm.co/fingresontri...

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 3d

watching these moral vacuums of comedians (bill burr, aziz ansari etc) *double down* by using the same PR lines to justify shilling for a journalist-murdering regime at the royadh comedy festival is.... something.

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 4d

1,628 new zealanders should probably watch "mister organ" on netflix

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

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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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 5d

trigger hungry children in portland with shit for brains and zero backbone

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5d

sorry man i am not going to take you seriously if your name is Billy Peebles

Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, says the app hit 1M downloads less than five days after its launch on September 30, which is even faster than ChatGPT did — OpenAI's short-form artificial intelligence video app Sora hit 1 million downloads less than five days after its launch in late September, according to an executive.

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 6d

to anyone who's taken a few seconds to rate our podcast, thankyou - this all helps spread the word. you rock.

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 6d

they got sued!

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 6d

i just wanna say i'm yet to use chat gpt or sora or any of that ai shitbaggery. if it helps make your life better, or funny, good on you but i guess i just wanted to say my work and life is fine without it.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 6d

I collaborated with @davidfarrier.com to make TICKLED because of social media.

His Facebook posts about the bizarre response from Jane O'Brien Media were what pulled me into the story, ultimately took us to Sundance and saw us sued in two US states 😁

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 6d

i wonder if masked goons (ICE) attacking pastors and preachers will make "christian" republicans go, "maybe this seems bad afterall" (www.webworm.co/givingthemhell)

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 6d

yes

David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 6d

since coming to america i have dreamt of attending a hell house, in which adult christians try to scare the shit out of kids by telling them "hell is real and this is what it will be like to go there you little turd!" i'm out of the church scene and they don't openly advertise, any help appreciated

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 7d

today on flightless bird, episode #154: i go to my first homecoming! (if you don't know what flightless bird is, each week i make a 30 minute produced, scored audio documentary about a subject. it's on all podcast platforms & studio video is on youtube: www.flightlessbirdpod.com/listen)

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 7d

i reckon it's probably fine to fuck with ICE in any way you want

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 8d

i rage against christianity a lot. today on webworm, i talk to some christians who read my work: www.webworm.co/givingthemhe...

I often question am I part of feeding the broken machine, or am I helping to fix it a little piece at a time.

I still don't know.

I stayed with my church to protect the trans kids in my youth group, and then the anti-queer pastors left, and eventually the haters left. They took 1/3 of our budget with them, but still our leaders decided it was the right thing to do to become fully LGBTQIA welcoming.

Now I am the pastor of the church and we are doing our best to apologize, to move forward with love, and to serve our community. I like to say we throw love at the wall and see what sticks right now. If we disagree on scripture, we let Jesus’ words and actions be the tie breaker. We are not perfect by any means, but we are trying to lead with love.

Part of serving our community in Portland right now is standing in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors. Many of our people are protesting and writing, and doing all the things one can legally and peacefully.

The largest protest in the week – leading up to the announcement that troops would be sent – included over 100 pastors.

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