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@fearjunkie.bsky.social

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Computer nerd, fiction aficionado, trying my best to fight the good fight. He/him, 29 years ancient. Writing account: @fearjunkiewrites.bsky.social

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fearjunkie.bsky.social @fearjunkie.bsky.social · Nov 6

My mom didn't beat cancer twice just to put me in the ground. I'm staying alive, for her sake if nothing else.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 3h

"women don't like the vehicle" is going to be lodged in my brain's neocortex for the rest of my natural life www.wired.com/story/owning...

Q: And are you married?
A: I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2h

Remember how Trump reposted that AI thing about magic beds that cure all sickness and how you need to get a special card for the magic bed

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fearjunkie.bsky.social @fearjunkie.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not sure, probably trying to solve a mystery.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4h

Nobody can know everything, let alone everything by their own research. We always rely on experts to navigate our complex world. The question is whether we pick credentialed and experienced people or internet demagogues and grifters.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 18h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Gay Breakfast @gaybreakfast.bsky.social · 20h

✨🐦‍⬛🏳️‍🌈 &🐦‍⬛⏳✨

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“Feathers grow a little different on some crows.” The Crow Time crow stands on a log and looks down at a smaller rounder crow with rainbow chest feathers perched on a branch. The smaller crow’s eyes sparkle in trans colors.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Man escapes ICE while handcuffed, bystanders use pliers to free him.
Salt Lake City, UT

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · Jul 28

Wake up, kids
We got the posters disease
Ten platforms, someone please take my keys
Shit posting, when you see nuts you think deeeeez
Mutuals, who when you post don't click like
My timeline never shows all my friends
Candles cost so much, my family will diiieee

The fellow from New Radicals at the start of that video where they bother a bunch of people in a shopping mall.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4h

Transphobia is evil and, if there is a God, will be punished in the hereafter.

Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 5h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

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Tokyo Game Life @tokyogamelife.bsky.social · 9h

A manga based on the life and career of Masahiro Sakurai is coming 11/18! Roughly translated as “Masahiro Sakurai: Making The World More Fun With Games” it focuses on his childhood, creating Kirby and Smash, and beyond. Only one volume though so definitely an easier read than One Piece.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 4h

I mean, we don't have to guess how an outlet that sees this regime as a massive breach of public faith would cover it from the right. But pretty much every media outlet has moved to the right of Drudge.

NYT: White House Overhaul of Refugee System to Favor White People...
Swastika Flag in MAGA Rep's Office Sparks Probe...
UPDATE: 'I Love Hitler' Texts...

CHICAGO FIGHTS BACK
LA STATE OF EMERGENCY
ICE SLAUGHTERS FAMILY DOG
AGENTS HUNT IN WALGREENS
DOJ PUSHES FACEBOOK TO CENSOR
DRUGE REPORT

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Jenn @jennralize.bsky.social · 1d

Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.

My records have been altered, which is upsetting.

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fearjunkie.bsky.social @fearjunkie.bsky.social · 4h

That's not a Ranger, that's a Kamen Rider.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 13d

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two screencaps from 'Kamen Rider Fourze'

alien in tweed jacket and hat: you're jumping to conclusions by thinking it's ninjas just because the room was locked.

Kamen Rider, gesturing: first of all, this is the moon.

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Bean•D•Tea @beandtea.bsky.social · 12h

AINT NO WAY I GOT A SHINY THIS EARLY! #ShinyPokemon #PokemonLegendsZA

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · Sep 5

How To Recognize a Drug-Seeker

Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon
Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry

This cartoon has four panels. The cartoon is set in a doctor’s examining room – it has one of those tall examination tables with padding so patients can lie down, medical equipment and a degree hanging on walls, various cabinets, a sink. A tired-looking woman in a yellow tank top and black capri pants is sitting on the exam table. A doctor is standing in front of her. We can tell he’s a doctor because he’s wearing a white lab coat and has a stethoscope hanging around his neck. He’s holding a clipboard in one hand.

PANEL 1

The doctor is speaking to the patient. The patient is slumping a little, while the doctor is stiffly upright.

DOCTOR: Some people use narcotics to get high. So when you come here and say you’re in constant pain, that tells me you’re a lying drug-seeker.

PANEL 2

A closer shot of just the doctor as he speaks, looking stern and a bit angry, clutching the clipboard to near his chest.

DOCTOR: If you ask for pain meds, you’re a drug seeker.

DOCTOR: If you seem desperate, you’re a drug seeker.

DOCTOR: If you cry, you’re a drug-seeker.

PANEL 3

A close-up of the doctor’s face as he lectures, one forefinger raised.

DOCTOR: If you talk back to me, you’re a drug-seeker. If you don’t like me assuming you’re a drug-seeker, you’re a drug-seeker.

PANEL 4

A shot of the patient and doctor. The patient is now very wide-eyed, and leans back, away from the doctor. The doctor leans forward, hunching over his clipboard a bit as he makes a note.

PATIENT: Could I talk to a doctor who isn’t horrible?

DOCTOR: “Doctor-shopping.” Classic drug-seeker.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Alyxandra Fications (Comms Open!) @alyfications.bsky.social · 19h

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15h

"it will last forever"

because they want an eternal authoritarian police state.

that's the political and financial plan.

Anita Wadhwani @anitawadhwani.bsky.social · 1d

Tennessee governor predicts lengthy Memphis crime fight

“We do know this is going to last for months, and we have just begun. In fact, I will tell you that it will last forever,” Gov. Bill Lee said.

tennesseelookout.com/2025/10/15/t... @tennesseelookout.com

Tennessee governor predicts lengthy Memphis crime fight • Tennessee Lookout

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Tuesday the crime-fighting “surge” of state and federal officers in Memphis will be a long-term effort. At a Memphis press conference, Lee said the operation’s success wil...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

You have to understand that there is NO accountability for ICE even in theory. You can't sue an ICE agent. They won't be criminally prosecuted for violating your rights. They won't be fired. THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ICE IS TO RUN FROM ICE.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

Here's another Kavanaugh stop in action. Agent says: "Why are you running?" Admitting that he had no cause to stop and tackle this boy.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about how all the beautiful dumb stuff really does matter, and why you should come out for No Kings Day on Saturday.

The opposite of complicity

Why showing up matters and what it can actually do.

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❄️Beth ❄️ @rollinrabbit.bsky.social · 1d

ok you know what? ice-types your doggies ❄️
#art #pokemon #arcanine #growlithe

arcanine and growlithe as ice types. They're blue and fluffier, with diamond shaped patterns and arcanine has a pair of icicle saberteeth.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like in terms of gates, Hitlergate has to be the worst one you can get or at least in the top 5.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 17h

A new analysis shredded Vice President JD Vance's dismissal of outrage over a leaked Young Republicans group chat containing racist and Hitler‐admiring messages, in which he referred to the participants as "kids" and argued people were overreacting.

'Sorry, JD Vance': VP's claim 'Hitlergate' chat was just 'kids' promptly smacked down

A new analysis shredded Vice President JD Vance's dismissal of outrage over a leaked Young Republicans group chat containing racist and Hitler‑admiring messages, in which he referred to the participants as “kids” and argued people were overreacting.But Mother Jones' Julianne McShane issued a searing...

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 16h

Why do people fall for this shit? Every single person associated with The Lincoln Project is a Republican who gleefully supported making it harder for Americans to afford groceries, gas, and basic healthcare before the Trump era.

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 17h

MAGA thought they elected Trump to save America, but instead he’s saving Argentina. $40 billion now going to Trump’s buddy Javier Milei, while Americans can’t afford groceries, gas, or basic healthcare.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 2d

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