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Mangler

@mistermangler.bsky.social

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Not speaking in an offical capacity, guv. College instructor trying his best in an authoritarian country. Humanist, anarchist, socialist. Writes for fun, reads for nourishment. DnD and poetry. He/Him/His

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Mangler @mistermangler.bsky.social · Nov 12

Wrote this a while back. I only wish it hadn't become so relevant.

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Todd H. Baker @tbakerbroadmoor.bsky.social · 11h

Ya think?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say

Crash that hit apps and websites around world demonstrates ‘urgent need for diversification in cloud computing’

www.theguardian.com

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Dennis Perkins @dennisperkins5.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, great. Um, why are your state police beating the shit out of people protesting ICE in your state?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6d

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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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 6d

Breaking: Text messages of Young Republican groups across the country have just been leaked.

They talk about putting Democrats in “gas chambers,” attacking “Jews,” calling Black people “watermelon people,” calling to “rape” their enemies, and bringing back slavery.

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Mangler @mistermangler.bsky.social · 7d

A good part of me strongly believes that if the current government is invested in destroying every good thing it does while implementing fresh new horrors that only cause suffering, it should probably remain shut down for the foreseeable future.

Mangler @mistermangler.bsky.social · 9d

I'm not a Christian, but this does go pretty hard.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 9d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Mangler @mistermangler.bsky.social · 11d

Lightning McQueen flooring it through a darkened spaceship after Sigourney Weaver.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 12d

[as I tumble naked, battered and bruised down a bloody conveyor belt to be minced into chum to sate the infinite hunger of Gorek Vingoth, The Galaxy Chomper] we could have avoided this if it wasn't for the Left's ridiculous purity tests

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Mangler @mistermangler.bsky.social · 12d

AI is unethical, but it can be fun.

Mangler @mistermangler.bsky.social · 12d

Kryptid Noem

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The Eerie Potato @hunsweasel.bsky.social · 14d

Scream us a song, you're the Piano Man
A song from the darkness beneath
With your piano wire hair and your soul-chilling stare
And your eighty-eight black and white teeth

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Mangler @mistermangler.bsky.social · 15d

The sooner AI becomes prohibitively expensive for the end user, the better off society will be.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 15d

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

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Mangler @mistermangler.bsky.social · 15d

Sorry, domestic WHAT?

The permission structure of just calling whatever you want terrorism comes from the top.

Now criticizing or boycotting a company makes you Al-Qaeda. Do we feel free yet?

PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.social · 16d

Claire's Accessories closing down, but you will NOT predict the reason given.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 16d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16d

News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement.

Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 17d

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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