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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 12h

Next 'Trump Boat Parades ' gonna be lit!

Lit up. Literally.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22h

So this time the boat *wasn't even moving*.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 13h

Great, then. Nothing more to do. Go golf. Free to golf.

Free Golf. Fuh Golf.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump says he's being called "the greatest president of them all. Does that include Washington and Lincoln? Yes it does."

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 14h

People gave this org, and this particular individual, some grief over 'stances' regarding particular actions the org took.

Those 'stances' were '!A applies universally' and its basic corollary, 'you can't just stand up for speech you approve of'.

Consistency matters in, um, these matters.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 21h

If you were an admin or member of one of the Facebook groups that the DOJ jawboned Facebook into censoring, we want to talk to you!

Please shoot me a message,

Rtorney Pamela
' @AGPamBondi
Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a
large group page that was being used to dox and target
@lCEgov
in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and
social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing
their jobs. The Departrnent of Justice will continue engaging tech
companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent
violence against federal law enforcernent.
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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 1d

*Taps early 90s copy of Dinesh D'Souuza's 'Illiberal Education'*

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 2d

An anticipated 'big internecine fight': Leo's Opus Dei far-right RCs/Scotus vs. the Vought flank - NAR/Dominionist/SoBaps - vs. The Papacy.

Could be consequential.

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 2d

There is probably some Shakespeare quote, or maybe Dril, that addresses this peculiarly American phenomenon.

Not on the Tip Of The Tongue just now, sadly.

Don't print in the newspaper that it's the guns.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 2d

Shootings at Alcorn State University and Jackson State University on Saturday bring the death toll for this weekend's shootings across five Mississippi counties to nine, with at least 15 injured.

Other shootings hit three Mississippi high schools on Friday night, including two homecoming games.

Nine Dead, at Least 15 Injured in Shootings Across 5 Mississippi Counties

Six people are confirmed dead and at least 12 others injured in three separate shootings in Mississippi on the night of Friday, Oct. 10.

buff.ly

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 2d

"Enigmas never age."

www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

User Clip: A Wag of the Finger

Former Supreme Court Justice, Anthony Kennedy, learning the hard way about what a deal with *resident trump means.

www.c-span.org

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 2d

This is one of the strangest video clips of all time. Enigmas never age, do they?

www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

User Clip: A Wag of the Finger

Former Supreme Court Justice, Anthony Kennedy, learning the hard way about what a deal with *resident trump means.

www.c-span.org

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 2d

Even managed to get some pathetic fallacy rain in. Beauty, eh?

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty good. But, strangely, also what Weiss and the FP generally 'constructed' with their jouramalism.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 2d

RIP Flaco

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 2d

Song is great. And even your formative style is indelible.

Just curious, are you familair with Tom Bagley's stuff (Forbidden Dimension, Shadowy Men, etc.)?

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 2d

That looks like just post-Birthday Party days.

Man's been through 'A Lot'. Yet remains extremely generous in age.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 2d

Sad. And not just because the agency is under the purview of well-known pet lover, Kristi Noem.

(Seriously though, this is thoroughly depraved and totally messed up.)

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 2d

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 3d

We used to have Kuvasz, which are related to Komodors. Big, lovely dogs. But the heartbreak's built right in.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 3d

Wish you woulda mentioned. Coulda had a parley.

If you're still here, come on out to Roncesvalles. It's Polish-ish. Or was.

Hope you enjoyed your time here.

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 3d

Portland is doing 'Politics The Right Way'.

Keep Portland Weird. And free.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 3d

Self-awareness and consequential utterance are now the sole preserve of meatspace interactions. Which is so cringe.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 3d

Did a couple of jobs with Joachim Roenning in the early 2000s. He - and his then artistic partner Espen - were really great. But they got sucked into franchise via Bruckheimer (PoC 4 or some such).

The Norway stuff they/he did, while small, is really good (e.g., KonTiki). He needs better scripts.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 4d

Someone sent out a 'Truth' group DM simply stating 'BTFD'?

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 4d

tariff otaku woke up and posted one China tariff threat and we get the worst stock market result in 6 months lol

Blurry TV Headlines @blurrytvheadlines.numbergoup.com · 4d

S&P, NASDAQ CLOSE OUT WORST DAY SINCE APRIL

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 4d

This old chestnut was prophetic.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lno...

Peace Frog

YouTube video by The Doors - Topic

www.youtube.com

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 5d

Play it loud. Play it everywhere. Play it live.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 6d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 5d

Borat voice: Verrry nice.

Has 'Jesse Waters reported to have slashed woman's tires to offer her a drive home' vibe to it.

Regardless, even if alleged, such claims ought be thoroughly vetted.

Oh, who are we kidding?

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 5d

This might indeed be great. Currently, though, GenAI music stuff is shite. Like early 90s Midi shite.

And to gain any proximity to any kind of simulacra of 'real instruments', they would have to raid the sample libraries of extremely copyright vigilant cos. (NI, Ableton, E/W, etc.).

No way.

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 5d

Like, I will never be able to play guitar well enough to capture the music I hear in my head -- my dyspraxia won't let me. I would *love* a machine that could telepathically hear the stuff I have in my head and convert it to sounds other people could hear.

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 5d

"Hello, fellow cool kids. Always take 'tips on cool' from our 'dude' with the pulse on cool, 'cool guy', Jon Fasman. So cool.

See his other thinkpiece: "Some say he was there at its birth, but was Miles Davis cool? I'm not so sure."

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