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🕷️🕸️🎃 Skellyton (they/he/any) ♾️🏳️‍⚧️🪐 @kozmikkylekelly.bsky.social · 2m

I've seen 'Watership Down' a lot of times, and I'm just NOW learning that Nigel Hawthorne was in it? As Campion? Either that, or it got shuffled out of my memory file cabinet.

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🕷️🕸️🎃 Skellyton (they/he/any) ♾️🏳️‍⚧️🪐 @kozmikkylekelly.bsky.social · 10m

I'd like one, but I'd also like for edited skeets to come with an edit history so some people who would abuse it can't cover their tracks.

And yeah, agreed. No one is immune.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 19m

We are literally at the point with the GOP that saying you love Hitler or use the n word or propose gas chambers has no consequences whatsoever.

Why won’t the media talk about what that says about the party?

Not just that these people exist, that they REMAIN WELCOME.

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🕷️🕸️🎃 Skellyton (they/he/any) ♾️🏳️‍⚧️🪐 @kozmikkylekelly.bsky.social · 23m

Yeah I see this place is slowly bringing out the "you can't like this thing" genre of post that was beyond annoying on twitter and an message board forums. It's 2025 and fascists run the country, we're past this.

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🕷️🕸️🎃 Skellyton (they/he/any) ♾️🏳️‍⚧️🪐 @kozmikkylekelly.bsky.social · 7h

Will just reduce-reuse-recycle this one from 3 months ago. Happy #PortfolioDay! I make a-the arts and such.

🕷️🕸️🎃 Skellyton (they/he/any) ♾️🏳️‍⚧️🪐 @kozmikkylekelly.bsky.social · Jul 9

'Nother #PortfolioDay, huh? I make comics and sometimes I make time for other stuff too:

Page from my webcomic depicting a young enby woman w/ a septum piercing and blue hair encountering an alien llama/camel-looking being, throwing spices onto a threatening gooey creature that's making it recede into the desert grounds below.

An ink and graphite drawing on paper, of the word "Limitless!", each letter in a very stylized font, and surrounded by tons of different abstract things all built around the shape of an animation disk.

Digital drawing: A depiction of Santa and Mrs. Claus, along with Rudolph drawn to look more like a real caribou, and some elves, carefully walking through a dark snowy forest full of threatening creatures. Santa is carrying a scepter and a lantern, Mrs. Claus is wielding an axe, one elf has a sword and another is holding a candy cane, Rudolph's nose is glowing.

Digital drawing: Nighttime scene of a fairy tale-like fantasy land, with a massive crescent moon illuminating the ocean below. There's a fae on the moon, who has left a magic trail, flowers glow all over the land.

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 52m

You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today.

It takes way longer than one day to make a movie. If you wanted to make Blazing Saddles by today, you should have started months ago.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 1h

If I were to tell you right after the election last year that in terms of Dem Governors in the coming Trump 2 era, Hochul would distinguish herself and Whitmer would fucking flop, not a soul on earth would have believed me, but here we are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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🕷️🕸️🎃 Skellyton (they/he/any) ♾️🏳️‍⚧️🪐 @kozmikkylekelly.bsky.social · 4h

Politically correct siren goes “wee-woke wee-woke”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "You hear those sirens going off? That's good. A good sound. That means they either got the bad guy or they're gonna stop the bad guy. You didn't hear that sound bc nobody wanted to do anything. Listen to the beauty of that sound. That's the real deal sirens, not politically correct sirens"

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 15h

More books should include masturbation scenes as a way to show character development and romantic tension

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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🎃SCARE-sha🎃 @spacethey.gay · 4h

BREAKING: Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels caught using antisemitic language

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

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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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 5h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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scare-ron "actual ghost" shanxnywy @thxnywy.art · 17h

jim j vitus // stringy neighbor
#art

a frowning neon face surrounded by a halo

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Jack C. @madjackrabbit.bsky.social · 5h

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 6h

This was in a country with *far* more degraded democratic norms than in the US at present, where the caudillo had far power over the military than even the hypothetical worst-case scenario on paychecks, and where the use of military force against civilians was orders of magnitude more normalized.

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 6h

No, they didn't. The command of the Chilean military looked at the man who had had *de jure* and *de facto* near-absolute control over the state for the past 17 years and said "No, the people have spoken, you are no longer in charge and we will not serve or protect you any further."

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 6h

The command of the Chilean military were selected for loyalty to Pinochet above all other qualities, and I believe were forced to swear a personal loyalty oath to him. This is about as absolute of a control over the armed forces as you can get in a country. So obviously they obeyed, right?

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 6h

Something that I think people need to consider is that when Pinochet lost the 1990 referendum he refused to cede power and ordered his military to rally and oppress the people. Pinochet had full unilateral control of the military with no meaningful legal checks. He wrote their paychecks.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 6h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 14h

Hi #PortfolioDay - I am Kim Hu
Freelance Illustrator & Concept Artist

Looking for cool new projects to work on in 2026 💫

Portfolio: kim-hu.com
✉️ [email protected]

Cover of Killtopia Comic Anthology, featuring a despairing man in a tech helmet.

The cover to Blister City
In the background in orange and pink tones sits a massive city, behind which orange mountains rise into a dusty orange sky
In the foreground 3 punks perch on the edge of a building, surrounded by litter and soda cans. The punk on the left wears a blue jacket that says die young on the back.

The text Blister City can be seen in the sky above the city.

Illustration of Clippy the Paperclip in a Mad Max style truck, blasting through the wasteland; Done for Autonocast.com

Photo of a shirt, showing a girl with a nailbat on top of a smashed robot, holding up its severed head. The text says: Destroy AI; Done for Aftermath
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#kimgakaku

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Going to take a moment to millennial the fuck out and say avocados are great and other generations were wrong to slander them. Guac is the best dip and that poke bowl with extra mangos and avocados was the shit.

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🕷️🕸️🎃 Skellyton (they/he/any) ♾️🏳️‍⚧️🪐 @kozmikkylekelly.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, you know where it's at haha. I've always had a thing for the kitchen/household ones.

If I had a maid outfit, I'd love to pair them w/ yellow rubber boots, looking very caution/back off-ish lol.

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🕷️🕸️🎃 Skellyton (they/he/any) ♾️🏳️‍⚧️🪐 @kozmikkylekelly.bsky.social · 6h

When you close yourself off from everything because it's all "woke" and "DEI", and that you favor authoritarian uniformity... You become flavorless, and your lack of any real love and actual happiness also shows.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 7h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 7h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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🕷️🕸️🎃 Skellyton (they/he/any) ♾️🏳️‍⚧️🪐 @kozmikkylekelly.bsky.social · 6h

From the same people who blame everything they hate on George Soros:

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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