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K. Thor Jensen

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On an island. Making things for you. Shirts pay for skeets: https://www.teepublic.com/user/kthorjensen

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · Jan 11

It's just too many good T-shirts. Eight pages of good T-shirts now. I will never stop. I will never die. www.teepublic.com/user/kthorje...

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 2h

what idiot called it (deep breath) a junkie rock duo recording a soundtrack for a 1988 vertical space shooter from Toaplan where you use unconventional strategies to beat it easily, in France, and not a Royale Truxton with Cheese?

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 6h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 8h

whoa calm down

an old web sidebar ad. The cow from the Cow Tools comic is pictured with 2 of it's crude lumpy tools. Caption reads,

MY FARMER IS DEAD

I don't want to remarry.
I only want TOOLS.
See my Prongler.
CLICK HERE

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 8h

Laura Labubumer

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 8h

It’s important to remember that every poster, even the ones you love the dearest, have at least one absolute blind spot in their knowledge that will cause them to show their whole ass if it comes up (mine is what it feels like to have no dick)

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 21h

if 1 is a gentle breeze and 10 is complete obliteration on the molecular level, I’d say a 2

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 23h

stop

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DegenerateHomeschooler @tonydelvecchio.bsky.social · 5d

We investigated the witness list from Illinois' homeschool bill and identified at least nine registered child sex offenders submitted testimony against it

Law Banning Child Sex Offenders From Homeschooling Stalled After Nine Child Sex Offenders Testify Against It

Illinois lawmakers proposed the state's first protections for homeschooled children; at least nine registered child sex offenders appeared as witnesses against the now-stalled bill.

www.spoonbeltandrod.com

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

I want to know what it is about film criticism that attracts the most deranged humans ever to live

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

important to recognize that this quote is from a man who has taken Cialis for nearly 15 years not for sex, but just to feel more confident walking around.

Randomly, Unassertively
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This is going to seem distasteful to some or at least in the realm of TMI, but I'm going to risk it. We've all read about (or have even experienced) the ED syndrome, which tends to afflict 50-plus fellows. I've been a Cialis man for the last 12 or so, not so much to fortify "performance" (which I've never written about and certainly won't mention in this post) as a mood enhancer. Because it makes me feel like I'm 36 when I'm out and about.,
I'm alluding to (here comes the risky) a relaxed form of spontaneous combustion while, say, waiting in line at a Dunkin' Donuts or pumping gas or strolling down a supermarket aisle. Which used to happen normally or naturally in my teens, 20s and 30s.
I'm mentioning this (and I promise to terminate this discussion as quickly as possible) because brief surges are happening these days while standing and not, as a rule, in any sort of horizontal position. A cinematic allusion that comes to mind is the first sexual encounter in Last Tango in Paris, during which Marlon Brando never even took off his camel-hair overcoat. Just saying.
February 28, 2023 9:54 am by Jeffrey Wells

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

legit lmao at this, the man never met a dumb thing he wouldn't say out loud

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Tony Hawk's Pro Hater

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Really think every true crime podcast listener should be forced to Ludovico Technique marathon this show and really have a good think

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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The Headless Guy @frailoldwoman.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to get this out of the way

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 1d

I'm only now starting to see the two-decade-plus social media/mass platform era as something with an overall arc that comes to a stopping point, and it's kind of shocking - I think this unquestioning total immersion and how it feels/felt will be impossible to reconstruct for people in the future

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump admin is fully powered by the attention economy. A universe of dumbasess talking to other dumbasess, built on the assumption our tastes have grown so rotten and atrophied that we can't even remember a world where we weren't inundated by worthless slop.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

why would you not want to take your dick to a bouncy castle

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 1d

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

new shirt for spoops. do i pick low-hanging fruit sometimes? sure, man, it's still fruit. www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8171...

Spoopy by kthorjensen

It's spoopy season, but if you're truly committed it can be spoopy season all year long.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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