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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16h

if you're going to a protest today I wish you luck. The only specific thing I will beg of you is this: don't use milk to wash out tear gas or mace. if you see a street medic with milk, yell at them until they throw it out. do not continue to spread lies about emergency medicine.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 6h

There’s a lot of people who are leftists and there’s a lot of people who just get off on telling people off

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 7h

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 7h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 16h

Keep it up lol

We are
KIRK ARMY
NOW
1983-2025
Mike @BigMike31491329 •15m
Replying to @catturd2
I got on @bluesky yesterday wanting to troll and have a good time. After about 20 minutes, I had to delete said account. They are disgusting!
Mostly porn, trans porn, and just. I had to delete that account and wash my eyes.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 14h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 11h

Saw multiple people with this sign at No Kings in Chicago today — and only one “we love JB Pritzker” style sign. Purely anecdotal data, but that’s a very different spread than the last couple of anti-ICE/National Guard marches downtown I went to. I just think that’s interesting.

A protester dressed as the statue of liberty (with her face obscured) holds a sign that has a photo of state police attacking someone and the words: Hey Pritzker, protect us not ICE. Call 312-814-2121 to demand no state police at Broadview.

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horse @horseonvhs.com · 29d

A panel of Autumn from Nothing Doing looking very muppety saying "So there's this whole other world called Lyoko" overlaid on top of another panel of Vee from Nothing Doing looking strained as they consciously suppress their remembrance of the Code Lyoko theme tune (Code Lyoko, we'll be standing tall / Code Lyoko, stronger after all) and say "That's great man"

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

ICE continues their terror campaign today as people protest in mass. Border Patrol was seen in Blue Island, and at the O'Hare rideshare lot again. Sightings in southeast side. A truck with a smashed window in Villa Park. Right now, they're hunting people on the southwest side.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 22h

the US government has arrived on bluesky

4 panel comic

Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing

Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot

Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself

Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 1d

inspirational

Gadsden Flag but it's with a sandwich and says
DON'T TELL ME WHAT HOLE TO USE

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · Jul 1

I just saw a Goth account praise ICE, and make racist comments about Latinos.

Motherfucker, you are a GOTH. There IS no goth today without Chicanos and Mexicans. They are almost single-handedly keeping it alive. That’s like being antisemitic but building your identity around Manishewitz.

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lil ocellus @deejay.likes.earth · 1d

“What’s the problem we are solving here” is the question.

If my gen-alpha-chronically-online-gamer nephew and his friends all hate AI generated social media content and refuse to use AI tools then who or what is this make a moose have a spa day even for?

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Reverend David Black is here shaming the cops.

"You're arresting us? Look at yourselves. Look at yourselves.

You know which side you're on and I don't think you want to be there.

And you have that choice."

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Bruka Jones @brukajones.com · 2d

There’s a free application, shutup10++, that lets you disable all the shitty windows stuff with a series of checkboxes.
It even tracks if windows rolls anything back between updates and lets you reverse the changes with a click.
I can personally recommend shutup10++ if you need to stick with windows

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 2d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Little Greenis @durtmchurtt.bsky.social · 1d

Heavens to Betsy
Betsy to Heavens
Heavens BACK to Betsy
Betsy GOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLL

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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.bsky.social · 1d

This is what @govpritzker.illinois.gov 's Troops are doing.
They're not resisting the Trump Administration at all.
The Illinois State Police Directed By Governor Pritzker seem like they're in a contest to brutalize & arrest more protesters than ICE & CBP.
No Police or authority will help the People.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Back when posting was good

@BustaRhymes
SHOULD I BUY A HOUSE... or.. A LINK TO A PICTURE OF A PIXELATED MONKEY
7:49 AM • 10/15/21 • Twitter for iPhone
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NFTea Expert @NFTeaExpert • 7h
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Replying to @BustaRhymes
Houses are often more of a liability than an asset unless you can make it cash flow or you are flipping

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 2d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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Marty Tina G. ⚢ @geezmarty.bsky.social · 2d

One of the concepts for my Carmilla sequel comic that you can read even if you're not familiar with the book, as long as you like lesbians and vampires and haunted women.

Only two weeks left to get it, only at the shortbox comics fair!
🖤 www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

sketch of a woman in a victorian nightgown. she is standing on a windowsill and reaching one hand towards the viewer as she walks forward, her long hair flows behind her. there are disembodied, monstrous hands wrapping around her torso, pulling her back.

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Jake Goldsbie @jakegoldsbie.bsky.social · 3d

This is possibly the all-time funniest real answer to an interview question

Cheryl Hines clarifying her mutant husband only had a bit of his brain eaten by an actual worm

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

open.substack.com

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 6d

She was known as Madame D’Gizarde, and, in the early ’40s, she used deceit, drugs, and her beguiling charms to become the bane of chicken farmers everywhere.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

Anybody whose worth their salt will not collect your data , they will have ways for you to contact them after

Don’t put any contact info on ANYTHING

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently, ICE has set up a website to trap individuals attempting to do the right thing. Please exercise caution.

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