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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

The ability to remove your post when a hostile account quote-tweets you is a great feature of Bluesky.

To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.”

It shows up as “removed by author.”

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 7h

Pretty much every single one of these new government accounts is posting rage bait. It's possible (like 100% guaranteed) they are trying to provoke people here on purpose, so don't fall for it. Blockity block block block.

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 10h

Gotta block ‘em all!
Here’s the one-stop shopping blocklist to disappear the Trump regime accounts that swarmed Bluesky yesterday.
Flush these turds HERE -

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 16h

Government is force and coercion.

The rule of law is a detente between political factions who agree to mutually binding conditions so that said force and coercion isn't used against them when they lose power.

When a faction breaks that detente, like the GOP, they deserve only force and coercion.

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 20h

I think at this point it’s fair to say that we’re no longer under the rule of law.

Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’

www.nytimes.com

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I want to be like, "hey, jon @likeheyjon.bsky.social · 18h

I wonder how that one guy that said the rapture was happening last month is doing

I want to be like, "hey, jon @likeheyjon.bsky.social · 1d

ominous thought: hepatitis with a Greek letter

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I want to be like, "hey, jon @likeheyjon.bsky.social · 1d

Football fans love it when a player gets the ball and they can all say his name out loud and the TV audience can tell that they are doing so

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I want to be like, "hey, jon @likeheyjon.bsky.social · 1d

Good: the all white Bengals unis. Bad: Flacco wearing number 16. You can't wear odd numbers your whole career and then just switch to even.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 3d

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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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I want to be like, "hey, jon @likeheyjon.bsky.social · 5d

not clicking on the CBS news horseshit headline no matter how much you quote tweet it folks

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 5d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 6d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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I want to be like, "hey, jon @likeheyjon.bsky.social · 6d

Tiers of NFL QB play:
1. Brady/Mahomes
2. Star
3. Discourse
4. Fine Whatever
5. Fun Backup
6. Ass

Fields placed himself firmly into tier 6 today and Nix is stuck in 4 until further notice

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I want to be like, "hey, jon @likeheyjon.bsky.social · 6d

Sean Payton switched to the "good stuff" play sheet for a bit there.

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I want to be like, "hey, jon @likeheyjon.bsky.social · 7d

Nice to chill out before bed with a couple innings of relaxing baseball.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 7d

we are all sherman

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 8d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 9d

Just a reminder that Jack published a book last year called “unhumans” that makes the argument that all Democrats and anyone left of Francisco Franco should be rounded up and murdered en mass for the rest of the populations entertainment.
Jack is a Nazi and hell bent on the murder of his opponents

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 10d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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I want to be like, "hey, jon @likeheyjon.bsky.social · 11d

Me when you ask if I have 30 minutes to hop on a call

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11d

From @theathletic.com: Taylor Swift addressed rumors about turning down the Super Bowl halftime show and revealed why she wasn’t interested in it.

Taylor Swift reveals why she wasn’t interested in Super Bowl halftime: ‘I’m just too locked in’

During her interview with Jimmy Fallon, Swift also revealed how the "New Heights" podcast played a part in Travis Kelce's proposal.

nyti.ms

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 11d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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I want to be like, "hey, jon @likeheyjon.bsky.social · 11d

chiefs are back

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11d

That's a Draymond Green screen

I want to be like, "hey, jon @likeheyjon.bsky.social · 11d

Landed on an old browser tab and was reminded of that time the president of the United States shared an AI-fabricated newscast promising a nonexistent miracle medical technology. Remember that?

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I want to be like, "hey, jon @likeheyjon.bsky.social · 11d

half-asscism

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I want to be like, "hey, jon @likeheyjon.bsky.social · 12d

Borthumi. Yulipan. Vanazipoline. All in a day's work for me, the guy who names prescription medications. I make 83 million dollars a year.

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 13d

wizard frog is insane

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