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Dave Stevens @noviceanarchist.bsky.social · 10h

Diversity of tactics.

Two scary looking dragons labeled Los Angeles and Chicago, and a dragon labeled Portland making a silly face. The Chicago dragon is giving Portland side-eye.

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 1d

QotD: "I put some fun things in there, I call them Easter eggs but my team called them IOCs"

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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 4d

The President is announcing more extrajudicial killings today.

A reminder that the administration has provided no limiting principles and these killings are completely untethered from the law (there was no "armed attack," there's no "armed conflict," and these aren't "unlawful combatants").

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 5d

Beautiful

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 5d

Everything seems so disconnected from reality right now

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 5d

Also, if you want a long one, Jefferson Mays' narration of the Expanse series is a great performance

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 5d

Babel by RF Kuang. Fascinating premise: the subtle differences between words contain magic and 18th century Oxford's translation department is researching its properties

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5d

Quick question: If the Republicans are right, and someone is paying millions and millions of us to protest, and has done it hundreds of other times, and they STILL can't figure out who's funding us, aren't they way too stupid to hold office?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 6d

It's supposed to do that 😁

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 7d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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An Enigma Shrouded in Mystery (Shadowlab) @shadownetworks.org · 7d

"Redefining the world wide web."

Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 7d

Arachnotechnology.

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Sith_art aka A’ine! 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 8d

Its almost like anti-porn laws are never actually about porn. 🤔

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 9d

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

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Ryan O'Horo @redteamwrangler.bsky.social · 7d

Food shelf visits tripled between 2020 and 2024. We are in a very precarious state in this country around hunger, and it's about to get worse with deep cuts to SNAP.

The shutdown will end. Hunger won't end with it.

Chart showing a steep rise in food shelf visits 2021-2024

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, news is not recommended.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 11d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 13d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 17d

For a headache the GOP caused, in many cases

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 18d

That is wild

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 21d

By investing huge amounts of money on car infrastructure and underinvesting in everything else, the government is basically creating another tax: you need a car to participate in society. It’s another cost that the government forces you to incur due to its transportation and land use decisions

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 21d

Driving didn’t “naturally” become inevitable. We designed a society that make driving inevitable in most places. We can design something different

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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 20d

When I was 17, a car died for me and my two dear friends who were my passengers. We all walked away, shaken but uninjured. Hanging upside down from a seatbelt has a way of giving you a new perspective of the world.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 23d

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!

It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

"How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" pocket guide. Instructs readers to Watch the Road and Slow Down. Further text humorously insists that watching the road and slowing down are indeed important.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 1

The third fascistic tactic to watch out for is their tendency to label anyone they disagree with who is to their left "a Communist." Fascists claim that they alone can save their nations from "the communist menace." Anyway, the 2024 GOP platform contains the phrase "Christ-hating communists."

3. It is accurate to call a member of a communist party a "communist." For short, he is often called a
"Red." Indiscriminate pinning of the label "Red" on people and proposals which one opposes is a common political device. It is a favorite trick of native as well as foreign fascists.
Many fascists make the spurious claim that the world has but two choices either fascism or com-munism, and they label as "communist" everyone who refuses to support them. By attacking our free enterprise, capitalist democracy and by denying the effectiveness of our way of life they hope to trap many people.

Hitler insisted that only fascism could save Europe and the world from the "communist menace." There were many people inside and outside Germany and Italy who welcomed and supported Hitler and Mussolini because they believed fascism was the only safeguard against communism. The "Red bogey" was a convincing enough argument to help Hitler take and maintain power. The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, whose aggressions plunged the world into global war, was called the "Anti-Comintern Axis." It was proclaimed by Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito as a "bulwark against communism."
Learning to identify native fascists and to detect their techniques is not easy. They plan it that way.
But it is vitally important to learn to spot them, even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.

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▲▼▲▼▲▼ @arajay.com · 23d

what if we kissed on the pretty freight machine

a boxcar with graffiti parody of the nine inch nails album cover art for "pretty hate machine" but it says "nine inch rails pretty freight machine"

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