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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7h

the NYT decides on its narratives and really, really has a hard time adjusting coverage to reality. it was the biggest pusher of 'resistance is dead', reflecting the general desire among the US establishment for Trump to be a punitive force against their critics. #nokings doesn't fit its story

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 7h

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23

Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic.

Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 3h

I liked the Rutherford, Banks, & Collins (1986) production with puppets a lot

Still shot from Genesis - Land of Confusion where puppet versions of Nancy Reagan, Bonzo the Chimpanzee, and Ronald Reagan are together in bed.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3h

Before AI, if a president wanted to make a video where he dropped poop on protesters, it would cost hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars in effects. Reagan had to do his entirely in stop motion.

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 3h

Wish a certain type of poster could read this one :(

Tumblr post by bourtange:

a common misconception is that a revolution is built by years of painstakingly raising class consciousness among the masses while at the same time building up a party capable of taking leadership during a revolutionary crisis. nothing could be further from the truth. a revolution is built by making social media posts calling for a general strike over and over until one day it just happens

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4h

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 6h

Once again kind of funny how different the contemporary ultra-left is from the classical far left. Communists, socialists, and anarchists of 100 years ago literally believed the LAWS OF HISTORY DICTATED that “we are going to win.”

Today it’s all “boot on our face forever” all the time

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

I realize that all the "we are going to win" inspiration posting codes as aesthetically liberal (being left is being unimpressed) and invites the responses you'd guess from a certain genre of more radical than thou poster but still surprised at the particular condescension strategies people go for

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 18h

Fondant would be awesome if it tasted good

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 18h

grok is this true

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 18h

trump has obviously diminished capacity and the people around him are taking advantage of him

Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 18h

But seriously the president posted an AI video of himself violently shitting from an airplane, that's gotta be 25th Amendment territory right?

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 18h

Go Survive, Birds!

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 18h

The normie grandmas want to abolish ICE and are cool with "Free Palestine" being out and about so tbh that's a W.

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 18h

Lol, you losers haven't even heard xkcd 1053? Are you 10 years old?

🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 20h

This is such a great xkcd 1053 to witness today :)

🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 18h

I'm seeing a lot more "seething leftists mad at the success of No Kings" and not that many seething leftists mad at the success of No Kings. Indeed, a lot of "seething leftist" praise.

Making up a guy to be mad at knows no ideology, and if there's an antifascist coalition, stop making up guys.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 20h

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 19h

Being a former Boeing employee worried me about that too.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

A young boy holds a sign that simply states in plain handwriting: Trump hit on my girlfriend

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 19h

Now it is Donald Trump's turn to study statistical mechanics.

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 19h

Very cool, let's keep that morale tumbling

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h

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Henrock @bchenrock.bsky.social · 22h

Seeing all the reports of #NoKings protests from big cities to small rural communities in every state across the country is giving big “Remember the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere and even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward” energy.

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 20h

This is such a great xkcd 1053 to witness today :)

[Caption above the panel:]
I try not to make fun of people for admitting they don't know things.
[Caption right below said caption:]
Because for each thing "everyone knows" by the time they're adults, every day there are, on average, 10,000 people in the US hearing about it for the first time.

[A list of equations.]
Fraction who have heard of it at birth = 0%
Fraction who have heard of it by 30 ≈ 100%
US birth rate ≈ 4,000,000/year
Number hearing about it for the first time ≈ 10,000/day

[Caption above the next panel:]
If I make fun of people, I train them not to tell me when they have those moments.
And I miss out on the fun.

[Megan is standing. Cueball is walking, with his palm out.]
Megan: "Diet Coke and Mentos thing"? What's that?
Cueball: Oh man! Come on, we're going to the grocery store.
Megan: Why?
Cueball: You're one of today's lucky 10,000.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, very cool pull :)

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 1d

Stancil is deeply annoying but at least sometimes he is Like That for the powers of good

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🎃 Jerb O’ Lantern ⚒️🍉🧬 🎃 @jerbivore.bsky.social · 1d

My uncle turned me on to this one with his new book, but mangrove shrimp farming is one of the most disastrous carbon producing products that exists today and needs to be curtailed.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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