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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 15m

Instagram is still a big deal especially for youth marketing and design-reliant businesses. But I stand by my point.

Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 1h

Zuckerberg polls about as favorably as polio now. I predict that antipathy will push business out of the "just go to our FB/Instagram" mode.

Ofc maybe I think so because I abandoned both last year and am still able to shop and buy things.

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 3h

"No one is made to feel duty bound to engage with Facebook"... uh...

If you want to find current information about local businesses, organizations, churches, Facebook is it. _Maybe_ there's a website maintained within the past year, but it likely directs you to Facebook for more up-to-date stuff.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 6h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 22h

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Sam @very-simple.com · 2h

They’ve daylighted the corner near me as an experiment, and in addition to being easier to cross, they put up planters and (sometimes) tables and chairs, and people seem to really like it. www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 7h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 3h

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15h

They like Trump and want to help him and reporting on this would not help him so they do not do that

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 17h

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 12h

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 15h

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

trib.al

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 23h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah well all the "entrepreneurial spirit of Latinos... should make them natural conservatives" Republicans died off. Now it's all "leave at gunpoint" or "oh ho ho of course we don't mean YOU"

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13h

Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries recording music on SoundCloud to being one of the most streamed artists in the world. He embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of Latinos that Republicans say should make them natural conservatives. Instead they are crashing out on him.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 3h

Bingo

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 23h

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23h

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity

In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.

www.levernews.com

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 3h

No. Because 1.) you don't give up on a winning run and 2.) nothing in life is more certain than that Tubby will turn this (and anything) into an opportunity to hurt his enemies, reward himself, and maybe spread a little chaff to the rubes if there's anything left.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 21h

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 4h

Are you fucking kidding me

THE HILL
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN
AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
OPINION > HEALTHCARE
How to reopen the government:
Rebrand Obamacare as
"TrumpCare'
BY BLAKE NARENDRA, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR
10/11/25 09:00 AM ET

A bill could restore premium tax credits but require the Affordable Care Act exchanges to make it clear that one man saved enrollees from exploding costs.
The enrollment website could read: "Check to see if
you are eligible for TRUMP CREDITS."

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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 15h

We should be putting up signs to mark these acts of state violence in every community in the country.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’
The neighborhood signs follow an older tradition of simply bearing witness — in this case, to the arrests by federal agents of immigrants who make up the fabric of some neighborhoods.
By Anthony J. Rivera

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 5h

There are certain things you can always rely on. The sun rises. Death comes for us all. And the government of Israel, like that of the US, Russia, and China, lie like they breath.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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All Kinds Of Nope @woozleweasels.bsky.social · 10h

When are we going to say enough?

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 7h

‘The pro-appeasement British ambassador, Nevile Henderson, said he was no longer worried by the British press corps: “Except for Ebbutt, who is now gone, they don’t seek to make mischief.”’

Patrick Cockburn on a journalist who saw the Nazi threat coming: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Patrick Cockburn · Diary: Interviewing Hitler

In August 1937, three German journalists were expelled from Britain for suspected espionage. Retaliation was a...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19h

I suspect one reason they hide their identities is to conceal past restraining orders and DV arrests.

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 22h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Link | Subreddit

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

www.reddit.com

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