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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 1d

This aerial image from the 1960s shows that the 'yellow line' of Israel's redeployment in Gaza is roughly matching with the border of the area's coastal sand dune, leaving Gaza without the absolute majority of its agricultural areas on the fertile soils in the east.

@forensicarchi.bsky.social

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 3d

I was today years old when I realized the Monty Python bit was based on a real thing

chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 3d

Medieval manuscripts have inexplicable scenes of knights fighting rabbits, so I guess frogs is just our thing for some reason.

Medieval killer rabbits: when bunnies strike back

Vengeful, merciless and brutally violent... yes that’s right, we’re talking about medieval bunnies.

www.bl.uk

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Kancho Yogo @kanchoyogo.bsky.social · 2d

I now fear that the bunny making pies out of people is going to turn up in a dream some time.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Kancho Yogo @kanchoyogo.bsky.social · 3d

Employees of state and local government in Australia are lucky if they can accept a cup of coffee from a stakeholder lest they appear open to influence.

But some federal politicians are happy to go along to a parliamentary sports club openly and actively selling influence opportunities.

Kancho Yogo @kanchoyogo.bsky.social · 3d

'Corporate membership of the club begins at $2,500, according to its website, and allows sponsors to access "key opinion leaders" and "over 200 parliamentary members" at social games and functions.' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Gambling lobby’s sponsorship of Australian parliament’s sports club condemned by crossbench MPs

Exclusive: Kate Chaney calls on PM to remove Responsible Wagering Australia’s membership, which allows sponsors to access ‘key opinion leaders’

www.theguardian.com

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Kancho Yogo @kanchoyogo.bsky.social · 3d

The Australian parliament has a social sports club sponsored by a sports betting lobby group.

Corruption and influence in Australian federal politics has become normalised and should be more of a headline story than it is.

Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 3d

This is utterly … what’s the word? Oh yes … fucked.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 6d

you could give an infinite number of reactionaries an infinite number of typewriters over an infinite timeline and they would never invent a sesame street

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 6d

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 4d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s video of the incident

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5d

US commentator Van Jones has apologised for making a joke about Palestinian babies killed by Israeli attacks, but he is not alone when it comes to dehumanising comments about Gaza aje.io/33pm5k

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Kancho Yogo @kanchoyogo.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder which god they are praying to. bsky.app/profile/flgl...

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s video of the incident

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 5d

It’s been a long time since my Latin American Politics class but I remember that people generally don’t like it when you target priests

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s video of the incident

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Kancho Yogo @kanchoyogo.bsky.social · 5d

A friend grew up on a farm that had geese and it did not endear him to them.

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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 5d

Finally, a visa for me 😎

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Kancho Yogo @kanchoyogo.bsky.social · 6d

Trump doesn't even type his own tweets. But he allegedly did a whole interview via text messages? Mmhmm.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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Kancho Yogo @kanchoyogo.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to those who celebrate. 🙏🥮

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

The judge notes that noncitizens detained after 9/11 weren't held nearly as long without notice for the legal basis. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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