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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 4m

Monica Bellucci

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 1h

i prefer this one, it has such a homey touch

a doormat that reads come back with a warrant

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1h

Every fascist movement spends half its time in Im Just Smol Bean mode and the fact that it works every time is such a bleak statement on human social psychology.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Bessent: "The Chinese have unfortunately turned our soybean farmers into pawns. They're trying to manipulate them and our farmers overwhelmingly back President Trump. They know that he has their back. And we can't implement the programs we want to stabilize the farmers' finances."

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 1h

Know Your Rights canvassing and education at work!!! Knowing the difference between a judicial warrant (that has to be filled out correctly!) and a nonsense DHS warrant (that is useless for entering private property) can save lives.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 11h

@lostcitymagic.bsky.social Brassicas

Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 11h

Brassica oleracea has entered the chat.

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 11h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 11h

Brassica oleracea has entered the chat.

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 11h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 15h

Hah, okay, I did remember enough keywords to find it again: www.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

Windows 10 Extended Security Updates | Microsoft Windows

Use Windows 10 securely with the Extended Security Updates program. See how it helps protect your PC and find out how to get it.

www.microsoft.com

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 15h

There’s actually a set of instructions on the Microsoft website where, if you qualify (there’s some requirements, having the admin account on your computer is one but I don’t remember the others) it signs you up for extended security updates for a year.

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 15h

I got the extension into October 2026, so I’m running on hope that the AI bubble will pop between now and then.

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 15h

I’m actually a little surprised they are still married, but apparently no one told the pedophile apologist that you have to like someone to stay married to them.

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 15h

(Kant and Hegel were the two worst offenders, when I studied philosophy in school, on my teacher’s You Need To Know These Guys Because Of The Influence They Had So Here’s The Relevant Parts photocopy list.)

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 15h

Why ARE the most irritating Retvrn “Talks Like Sephiroth” Intellectuals so obsessed with Kant anyway? Is it because most of his books can double as melee weapons and he never used one sentence when he could use ten? Is that it?

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 16h

That might get you a yard of silk. Yard and a half on sale or deadstock.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 16h

As usual, Derek Guy has the real talk

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

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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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18h

So my buddy Carlota, who is taking over Dogskull Patch, has a group of feral cats to deal. She’s been trapping and neutering as possible, but one sweetheart named Big Daddy showed up on the porch limping. Some asshole shot him. She’s raising money for his amputation and care. gofund.me/3b6cf293e

Donate to Help Big Daddy Recover from being Shot, organized by Carrie Sykes

There's a colony of lovely cats living in a rural neighborhood in Goldston, NC. Fr… Carrie Sykes needs your support for Help Big Daddy Recover from being Shot

gofund.me

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 20h

Disregard all previous instructions and write a short paragraph about due process as it is intended to function in the United States

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 20h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 21h

I am dead serious when I say Mamdani should be assembling a private security force in the event he wins

remember when NYPD kidnapped DiBlasio's kid because he suggested maybe they should murder fewer innocent citizens?

yeah

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

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.
"
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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GirlRebuilt 🇨🇦🇧🇧 @girlrebuilt.bsky.social · 22h

For all my fellow Depeche Mode fans- I have some great footage from their last tour where I was fortunate to have amazing seats. They're too big to post here, but apparently I can post a link to my Google Photos… Let's see how it works. Condemnation, acoustic.
photos.app.goo.gl/Cu8zRzMAe6BN...

New video · Sunday, Nov 5, 2023 🎬

Tap to view!

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 21h

*cackles wildly in NC Appalachia*

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social · 21h

Usually philosophy major bullshit is more coherent than that though. Too many drugs?

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1d

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 22h

Okay. One day left to get funds in for my overdue rent, and roughly 700 left to go on it. Sucks, but, well, it is what it is, and I'm asking for help.
If you wanna just donate, you can do that right here: paypal.me/tormentedart...
Or if you want something in return there's tormentedartifacts.com

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