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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 4h

"'Dude, is this why you haven't been responding to my texts asking to hang out?' is perhaps the most heartbreaking message that an adult American woman with no real problems can possibly compose."

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Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 4h

Like you go in thinking, "Yeah, the American military is awful, I'm not surprised" and like a third of the way through I was like, "No, every single person who has served in this kind of unit should be exiled and imprisoned."

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 4h

This is a wild, harrowing book about the rot that lay deep within the American military's most lionized units. A great, fucked up work of journalism.

Cover for the book "The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces" by Seth Harp

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 12h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 23h

Remember when the American government assassinated a Rolling Stone journalist on American soil for reporting on the CIA and Delta Force and then investigated themselves and said they actually didn't do that?

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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🧣 Scarf-by Capa-cozy 🍄🍂 [Feral Edition] @virtuistic.bsky.social · 1d

Though disgusting, none of this should be surprising.

Once more for the people who need to catch up on acceptance: Republicans are abusive racists. Their entire platform is White Supremacy for Capitalist Christian Colonizers. This is why most people don't like them and are entirely correct not to.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 1d

The Onion can re-run this today with D’Angelo swapped in for Prince

RIP a(nother) legend

@theonion.com @bencollins.bsky.social

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 1d

Ooooooh, I'm in love with this piece!

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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 1d

To anyone who says, “Don’t worry, there’s still a FEMA,” I say: Where’s your evidence?

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ruba. Ruba is 23 and has been studying to be a pharmacist. She has been living in tents with her family since this all began and her home was destroyed, this includes her niece Tulin, 8 her nephew, Mohammed, 4 and her father who is ill.

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't seen this one, but I'm always looking for more great horror personally, so thank you!

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 2d

Also last year, in case you didn't see any of these: HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, PERFECT DAYS, CHALLENGERS.

Also, again, cartoony violence but I really loved SLAY, a horror comedy about drag queens trapped in a small town not-very-welcoming bar, fighting vampires.

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like when it came out I heard mostly negative-ish things, but I think it's found its audience and I'm hearing more and more that I should check it out, I'll really have to do that soon!

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't love THE MATERIALISTS like I did Celine Song's previous movie (PAST LIVES, very worth watching) but it's a solid romantic drama.

A NICE INDIAN BOY is a queer romcom that I've heard really good things about, it's high on my to-watch list.

Late last year, but SING SING was great.

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 2d

Movie friends, any advice for Kira?

Kira Magrann @kiraserpentine.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your best movies of the year (from any country)

I’m having a real hard time finding anything that’s not super violent, not super dark and depressing, not stressful, doesn’t feature scary things happening to kids, and also isn’t a kids movie lol. Do these movies exist anymore?

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 2d

violence directed at its characters, but it is largely slapstick.

SUPERMAN is a family film, obviously, but I was really pleasantly surprised by how inspirational I found it.

One that may fit your criteria (I haven't seen it yet!) is THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND, which I've heard good things about.

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 2d

It'll really depend on your sense of humor but I really enjoyed both THE NAKED GUN and ONE OF THEM DAYS as big goofy comedies.

BLACK BAG is an adult spy drama that I really liked, though it does have one moment of violence (and might be depressing).

DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY has some broad, cartoony

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 2d

God DAMN, shout out to Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, and Mattia de Iulis -- ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN Vol 1 was phenomenal. Lived up to the hype I'd heard and more.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 2d

My One Battle After Another crew is going after stores that put up their Christmas decorations too early

Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 2d

Kroger near me is already putting up Christmas decorations and I can't believe we're letting them get away with that.

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Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social · 2d

Kroger near me is already putting up Christmas decorations and I can't believe we're letting them get away with that.

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 2d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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final grrrl 𓂀 @charlotlaveau.bsky.social · 4d

I am experiencing exploitation and need help traveling away from this area. I need to raise $1900.

I know mutual aid is strained right now, but shares help. Witches- positive energy appreciated 🕯️

> payments: linktr.ee/dominalaveau
> finalgrrrl.bandcamp.com

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