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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 2h

This just goes to show that once fascism has completed its function of reasserting the colonial white supremacist norms of our society and trying to build an ethnostate, the liberalism that will come after will only work to serve our techno-capitalist future. Let me put on my Weyland-Yutani outfit.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 4h

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete

The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h

To the extent anyone cares, the legality of tapping into tariff money is identical to the legality of tapping into federal income tax money, because they are both taxes that accrue to the treasury. Appropriations are still needed to spend it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Leavitt: "The president tapped into tariff revenue to keep WIC money going out the door. He found a creative solution to keep the troops paid. And rather than congratulate him for doing that, this unprecedented action to get our troops paid, Dems want to sue him for it. They're saying it's illegal."

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A.D.🍀🦩 @adwills.bsky.social · 9h

Please keep going, bro. Take breaks if you need them. Take care of yourself. Shut things down for a bit. Surround yourself with your favourite things. Just keep going. I get it's easier said than done. I've been through this. It's crushing sometimes. Please don't give up. Don't let anyone else win.

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 11h

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Combine_Kegan @combine-kegan.bsky.social · 22h

Deltarune: Coast-to-coast

#Deltarune #SpaceGhost

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 4h

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 1d

Jake & Elwood Blues, The Blues Brothers, are sitting in their car, stuck in traffic, looking annoyed. A speech balloon is coming out of Jake's mouth as though he is saying the text in the quoted post.

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Jordan @slclunk.com · 13h

Media is awesome because it can show an organization trying to get rid a guy who is underwater with state Democrats by 50 points, undermines any Democratic policy, and is just completely off-putting to anyone who has to spend five minutes around him; and they phrase it as “seeding discord”

Axios @axios.com · 16h

SCOOP: Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary, threatening to tear the party apart in the biggest battleground state in the nation.

Scoop: Dems plot Fetterman ouster

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 20h

A similar thing happened to me about 25 years ago, when I was a preteen. It was a nightmare.

Now, thanks to AI, so many young girls all over the world will have to live that same nightmare.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Aug 11

it's 30 years later and this still happens.

Jenna Ortega revealed in an interview with The New York Times that she quit Twitter after seeing explicit images of herself generated by Al when she was a teenager. She also became inundated with messages from fans that ranged from "disgusting" to "absurd."
"I hate AI," Ortega said. "I mean, here's the thing: AI could be used for incredible things. I think I saw something the other day where they were saying that artificial intelligence was able to detect breast cancer four years before it progressed. That's beautiful. Let's keep it to that. Did I like being 14 and making a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing dirty edited content of me as a child? No. It's terrifying. It's corrupt. It's wrong."

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Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social · 14h

royal oshawott

Screenshot of a king oshawott sitting on a throne in a crown and robe in the Pokémon anime

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 17h

He's back.

Flash Gordon Comic Strip 2025-10-16 | Comics Kingdom

Read the Flash Gordon comic strip from October 16, 2025, and check out other Flash Gordon comics by Dan Schkade.

comicskingdom.com

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claudia @claudiiigrl.bsky.social · 2d

cursed website

snippet from this deranged post about AI influencers i saw on linkedin today. it reads:

So stop following and believing all the self described media consultants on
Linkedin who are pied pipers of the creator economy.
They are leading today's youth into a false promise of a non existent career.
And before you're one of those who say Al Slop, in the not so distant future, we will look back at this era as the age of human slop
🧐Do you think human influencers are cooked or is Al a fad?

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Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social · 1d

holding the Pidove

Screenshot of PokePark for the Wii showing Oshawott holding a Pidove

Screenshot of PokePark for the Wii showing Pikachu holding a Pidove

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Retired&Salty_2003 @eydiesakura.bsky.social · 1d

As a former DoD public affairs official for 20 years, this has me disgusted, scared, and angry. Politicizing the military is wrong, wrong, wrong.

This goes against EVERYTHING we are taught at Defense Information School and I am seriously concerned about the state of our military.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Eduardo Quezada @asparaguseduardo.bsky.social · 1d

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Out of Context Pokémon @oocpokemonofficial.bsky.social · 1d

this will be pokemon black 3 and white 3 graphics in 2030

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote this awkwardly, to be clear the Nazis are doing the doxxing. Elon is not doxxing Nazis lol. Go lock your account and email Wayback to delete your archive. Deleting it won't prevent them

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 1d

what even happened on the other site this time

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 1d

what even happened on the other site this time

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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 1d

protesting genocide: we need to purge antisemitism from college campuses

praising hitler and gas chambers: boys will be boys, cancel culture is out of control

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 1d

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Heathcliff comes a-walkin' down the sidewalk, about to pass right under two birds who are sitting on a telephone wire. One of the birds says "Prayer really does work."

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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 3d

!!!

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Matías Bergara @matiasbergara.bsky.social · 2d

Kiki's Delivery Service

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

We'd better build more AI data centers, AI will fix this problem for us --

*waits five years*

The oceans have boiled and the drinking water is gone but at least all the intellectual property has been stolen and now I can use AI to create a really accurate representation of Batman fucking Pikachu

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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