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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 6h

"Being Cool™ is illegal"

onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

PSA: if you quote post me first, you have formally invited me in

i abide by poster’s vampire rules

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, Grok sponsoring a Tron movie is the most anti-Tron thing and just shows how much Ares is straight up corporate tech bro propaganda. It’s very sad. Tron has such potential and never fully gets there. Legacy and Uprising are good but Tron: Identity tbh is the franchise peak.

A sponsorship installation for Musks Grok doing AI bullshit at the Tron Ares premiere.

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 21h

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Laruna Softpaw @larunasoftpaw.bsky.social · 16h

Weekend bug triage duty

(Upper management wants this done and we keep a united front on telling them no)

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

This is your occasional reminder that the last wooly mammoths were still roaming the Earth for about 400 years after the Great Pyramids of Giza were completed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf1H...

The Strange DNA of the last mammoths

YouTube video by Stefan Milo

www.youtube.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17h

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 22h

They also host "work therapy" programs for people with disabilities because they can legally pay them less than minimum wage by claiming it's helping them not be a "drag on society".

All while they sell inventory they didn't pay and don't pay any taxes to further enrich their "charity" management.

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

this is your fucking job that you're being paid to do. Imagine asking your plumber to stop your dishwasher from flooding your apartment and he's like "well what exactly do you want me to do?" The specifics are your part dog idk!

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know, just start trying shit! lock him in the dungeon! the answer can't be "nothing, and also you're not allowed to criticize them"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Laruna Softpaw @larunasoftpaw.bsky.social · 16h

I like that pumpkin and squash are such good soup veggies when their harvest season is also the start of soup season. It's just kind of serendipitous.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 19h

Best part of this is the subtle aside about how it took them so long to know to be mad about this because it’s not a movie for children

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 16h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17h

This app is not going to be sustainable if its trans user base don’t think it has their backs

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

i think it is fair to request a statement from @jay.bsky.team on TRANS PEOPLE and where we fit in on @bsky.app.

i think as a transgender journalist, it's acceptable and makes sense for me to ask this

and so, the question, am i not a person as a trans girl and do i not deserve to feel safe here?

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 17h

i think this is the logical endpoint of obsession with 'dating' as opposed to 'relationships'

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

we need to abolish this shit

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 16h

Actually, we're a trans news website.

1diane.bsky.social @1diane.bsky.social · 1d

Are you a one-issue person?

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 17h

the fact that Treasure used a lot of the same basic design from Astro Boy: Omega Factor for a tiny toon adventures game always makes me imagine them doing the same "covering the whole history of this creator!" that Omega Factor did but now it's for a kid's cartoon with like 80 cher impersonations

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 17h

god went looking for an example of TMS' work for Tiny Toons. doing crazy totally stunting on 'em animation shit for the most mid of mid around

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 1d

Contains Al-generated media
• new jersey news reporter

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Elizabeth Edgett @elizabethedgett.bsky.so... • 6h
Everything is Al generated these days. It doesn't mean it's fake. I'm still not convinced.

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wikihowtologout.bsky.social @wikihowtol... • 6h
Get a grip. Three arms and a watermark telling you it's Al and you are still doubling down?

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Elizabeth Edgett @elizabethedgett.bsky.so... • 6h
Well if it's Al, it's at least true. They ARE arresting journalists. Compare that to Trump's lying record. This doesn't hold a candle to that.

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Laruna Softpaw @larunasoftpaw.bsky.social · 17h

I'm not Catholic anymore but I still remember the little rituals and prayers. I didn't go to Catholic school but even in Sunday school they nail the most important prayers into you. I remember the Lord's Prayer & Hail Mary better than the Pledge of Allegiance.

Laruna Softpaw @larunasoftpaw.bsky.social · 17h

Wife: Wouldn't the water get filthy?
Me: Oh totally. But you're supposed to believe holy water doesn't get dirty.
W: But that's not how reality or physics works.
Me: You're supposed to just go on Faith that it won't make you sick. But my parents never trusted it lol

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