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Adam16bit @adam16bit.bsky.social · 16m

Star Wars Figure of the Day: Day 3,284: C1-10P (Ahsoka show redeco, Droid Factory) figureoftheday.blogspot.com/2025/10/star...

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Don Figueroa @sketchyfigs.bsky.social · 40m

There’s always a plan B…

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 41m

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

www.latimes.com

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 1h

Gavin Newsom's position is clear: if it costs corporations money, or could cost corporations money, he will veto it, no matter who it protects or who it harms.

The man is another corporate toady, and nothing else. His priorities are CEO priorities, the same ones we see cozying up to Trump now.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 4h

"“While I strongly support the author’s goal of establishing necessary safeguards for the safe use of AI by minors, (the bill) imposes such broad restrictions on the use of conversational AI tools that it may unintentionally lead to a total ban on the use of these products by minors,” Newsom said."

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2h

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 1h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 20h

Barack Obama had this and used it to defund ACORN

To pass your agenda a Dem will need 60 votes in the Senate & a majority in the house. In every battleground state voters need to show up to give a Dem President the power to deliver without negotiating. If we fail to do that, we cant complain when what's delivered is watered down

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 14h

AB 554, which Newsom vetoed and would've protected access to PreP, was so uncontroversial that *every Republican but one* voted for the bill across both houses! Republicans who voted no on the suicide hotline bill, btw.

This is purely a decision made to protect health insurance companies.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 17h

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 17h

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 15h

what Trump and Newsom have in common more than anything else is a commitment to using their power to protect capital, at all costs.

Both will virtue signal on occasion in ways that signal support for their tent's political positions, but they agree on a lot when it comes to protecting corporations.

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Toy Box Comix (.com) @toyboxcomix.com · 8h

Random Old Comic: Let Me Tell You About This Head https://www.toyboxcomix.com/2020/07/01/let-me-tell-you-about-this-head/ Let Me Tell You About This Head #Data #GeordiLaForge #StarTrek

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 4h

Day #139: Fish Police (1992)

A teal lunchbox with a white handle, with an undersea tableau of a city skyline and taxi, with sea creatures dressed in 1940's/50's film noir outfits, including a fish in a trench coat, and devious-looking squid. Next to it is a white thermos with a teal lid, and image of a smirking fish in a fedora and trenchcoat next to the words "Fish Police"

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4h

Attempting to crush a rising younger Democrat from the next generation.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h

Breaking News: Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, is running for Senate, aiming to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine to Run for Senate, Aiming at Senator Susan Collins

A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself “battle tested” in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.

nyti.ms

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 6h

signing a bunch of LGBTQ+ protections into law but then vetoing two other ones bc they would cost health insurance companies 0.00001% in yearly profits is just so Newsom

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 17h

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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Memories of No One @historysraven.bsky.social · 8h

That veto on PreP attacks the entire community. If it wasn't bad enough that vetoing stockpiling HRT will kill trans people, he's also going to kill cis people in the community.

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 17h

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

Conservative Justices: parents have total rights to know their children's gender identity and any school which interferes with their desire to police and control such identity violates the Constitution. Also, it's completely cool if States make it illegal for a parent to give gender-affirming care.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3h

Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch, suggest that public schools violate the Constitution when they help a student transition (by acknowledging them as trans) without their parents' knowledge or consent.

Would force schools to out trans kids to their parents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
JONATHAN LEE, ET AL. v. POUDRE
SCHOOL DISTRICT R–1
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
No. 25–89. Decided October 14, 2025
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Statement of JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE
THOMAS and JUSTICE GORSUCH join, respecting the denial
of certiorari.
I concur in the denial of certiorari because petitioners do
not challenge the ground for the ruling below. But I remain
concerned that some federal courts are “tempt[ed]” to avoid
confronting a “particularly contentious constitutional questio[n]”: whether a school district violates parents’ fundamental rights “when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender
or assists in that process.” Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School Dist., 604 U. S. ___,
___–___ (2024) (ALITO, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (slip op., at 1–2) (citing Troxel v. Granville, 530 U. S.
57, 70 (2000) (plurality opinion)). Petitioners tell us that
nearly 6,000 public schools have policies—as respondent allegedly does—that purposefully interfere with parents’ access to critical information about their children’s genderidentity choices and school personnel’s involvement in and
influence on those choices. Pet. for Cert. 24. The troubling—and tragic—allegations in this case underscore the
“great and growing national importance” of the question
that these parent petitioners present. Parents Protecting
Our Children, 604 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 1).

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!

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Snacko Racko @snackoracko.bsky.social · 19h

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 3h

Well it's a fight you provoked and a fight you're getting unless you decide to leave us the fuck alone.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 20h

Privileged ‘gender critical’ transphobes abusing their positions of power in National newspapers to propagandise their own personal brand of hate to attack trans people are a fight actual feminists could do without.

… But here we are! 🤷🏼‍♀️🙄😣

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2h

Important to note that this isn’t a problem for the billionaire buying media properties. If they make them into successful rightwing propaganda? Cool more money. If it fails? Cool they’ve destroyed one of the few outlets with the resources to investigate them. Either way they achieved their goal

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Adam16bit @adam16bit.bsky.social · 10h

If you did not know Shonen Knife is currently on a US tour, they are, and we just saw them. They put on an excellent show.

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Adam16bit @adam16bit.bsky.social · 10h

Takara-Tomy Transformers Missing Link Sunstreaker is neat. And here is a review! 16bit.com/fotd/251014-...

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M(orte) Sipher @msipher.bsky.social · 11h

it is distressing how few food options there are for like, a dollar

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 12h

We wouldn’t have the Star Wars books we have without Carol Titelman and Lucy Wilson getting it started and keeping it running when it mattered the most in the early years.

Tom @darthinternous.bsky.social · 15h

Random fun fact of the day - women are the reason #StarWars #publishing exists. And the reason it has been so successful that it could endure as it has for so many decades.

(I'm an expert on this stuff)

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12h

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking to Ezra Klein. Quote: "Was silence not an option?"

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