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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Apr 25

www.worldconquer.org/evil_overlor...

The original Evil Overlord List. If you're on bluesky odds are you remember this.

If you're under 30: this was the original tvtropes

The Very Complete, Very Extended, Printer Friendly, Evil Overlord List (plus other evil stuff)

www.worldconquer.org

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

The only legally authorized way somebody could simply gift $130 million to the federal government would be under a program Congress created where you can do that and it's explicitly for paying down the national debt, which not many but some people do because they're dumb.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 6h

... Do I want a Cromwell? A religious authoritarian who desperately needed the big old stick up his ass removed? Nope.
But a Chuckles The First ending is a happy ending for everyone but Chuckles.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

worth reiterating again that “the executive can raise and spend money however he likes” has been anathema even under monarchies for centuries

we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Odds are this aggressively did not happen. But it would of course be just as unconstitutional to spend money donated to the government without a duly enacted appropriation as it is to spend tax money that way.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."

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CheminsdeFerTC @cheminsdefertc.bsky.social · 6h

=> #LilleFlandres est devenue une gare lumineuse quand le soleil éclaire sa verrière ! On reconnait à quai, un => #Z23500, un => #TGV Ouigo, un => #Z26500 et une automotrice de la SNCB #AM96 pour une liaison avec Anvers.
Auteur et date non identifiés, source : hellolille.eu

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese getting off a plane while wearing slim black pants, black boots, and a black Joy Division t-shirt.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1d

If Nazis are fascists--if German Nazis and sympathizers from 1940 are fascists, and they were--explain to me like I'm five why WE ARE NOT ALL ANTIFA.

Telling.
On.
Yourselves.

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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 5h

"Welcome to the exhibition at the end of the world! War and Peas, the webcomic created for over a decade by Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz, has never turned a blind eye to the apocalypse – instead, it has tackled it with an abundance of dark humour."

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 6h

🚨 Amelia King, volunteering for the Women's Land Army in 1943, was rejected by Essex farmers. This week's Substack post on John Scurr House in Stepney looks at the racial discrimination suffered by residents and its later redevelopment.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/john-scurr...

Contemporary leaflet protesting against the discrimination shown again a young black volunteering for the Women's Land Army in 1943.

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 8h

The dude who singlehandedly controls the government is demanding it pay him a quarter of a billion dollars of our tax money as restitution for having been caught committing crimes.

He’s discovered forms of looting no one ever even thought possible.

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Alexander Hamizdat @alexhammy209.bsky.social · Aug 28

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 5h

To this I would add:

Prodigy was launched in 1984 and arguably the first true precursor of the public community/social web as it is today.

Guess what much of it's early growth was built on:

Women talking Star Trek, fanfic and Kirk/Spock slash.

(To the confusion of its corporate backers)

Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 8h

Women saved Star Trek, women put together the first Star Trek con, women put together the zines and wrote the fanfic (and decided Kirk & Spock should be together and that ship was called Kirk/Spock and "slash" is literally a thing because of that slash). I could go on—

fanlore.org/wiki/Timelin...

Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 16h

okay grandpa, let's get you to bed

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America is a Pastoralpunk Dystopia @pastoralpunk.bsky.social · 5h

Quite a lot of posts assume he peed his pants in fear & guys adrenaline can do lotsa things & so can psychotic rushes, and I can feel psychotic rush energy from that pic

The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 7h

“I hope that’s urine “ is a phrase I have now said for the very first time in life.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 5h

One of my fave anthologies we've ever put out. Such a fun concept, a world where an FTL engine costs $200 in parts and can be built by anyone who can put an IKEA bookshelf together.

StrayCatalyst @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, I gotta reread it, but Iron Circus Comics (run by @ironspike.bsky.social ) has FTL, Y'all! as a fun compilation from a variety of folks: store.ironcircus.com/products/ftl...

FTL, Y'all!

A comics anthology about an Earth where anyone and everyone has access to the stars! Six months from now, detailed schematics anonymously uploaded to the Internet will describe, in perfect detail, how...

store.ironcircus.com

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 8h

Women saved Star Trek, women put together the first Star Trek con, women put together the zines and wrote the fanfic (and decided Kirk & Spock should be together and that ship was called Kirk/Spock and "slash" is literally a thing because of that slash). I could go on—

fanlore.org/wiki/Timelin...

Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 16h

okay grandpa, let's get you to bed

To understand this problem, first, you have to understand the demographics of Star Trek viewers. Trekkies are and always have been men. Women are not usually interested in science fiction, but that’s doubly true of Star Trek in particular.

I hear you, random guy who once knew some lady who watched every Voyager episode. I see you on Instagram, attractive girl cosplaying in Starfleet miniskirts. Unfortunately, you very cool Trek-girls are the exception, not the rule.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 5h

Do you understand the anguish of going to bed each night not knowing which of your friends or acquaintances or colleagues will be dead in the morning? Sometimes it's no one, sometimes it's someone close, but the result is the same, psychological torture.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 3d

ICE tries it with NYC. Canal Street wasn’t having it.

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America is a Pastoralpunk Dystopia @pastoralpunk.bsky.social · 5h

85kg is a good weight for you I'd reckon

ⰑⰓⰄⰑⰀⰎⰅⰀ でも怖い @ordoalea.hr · 5h

I'm liking myself at 85kg as well

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ayumi shinozaki | 篠崎あゆみ (she/they) @ayusheknows.bsky.social · 14h

My birthday is next Friday!

You can also send me money via Ko-Fi if that's more your jam.

ko-fi.com/ayusheknows

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 7h

my dad will never admit to how he hurt me and ill be paying the price for his pride for the rest of my life

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14h

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's speech on Islamophobia today at the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx is well worth watching.

youtu.be/3P6hz5ei_Xs?...

LIVE: NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at Bronx mosque

YouTube video by Reuters

youtu.be

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Siempre Simón @siempresimon.bsky.social · 11h

Smoked beef cheak tacos. Piñon mole with red and yellow beets; red snapper over saffron rice #mexicanfood 🍜🍽️

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · 11h

Still relevant. Especially when everyone else is always in the Teams room.

#resdev #resdevmemes #academicsky
@drmeagantyler.bsky.social

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America is a Pastoralpunk Dystopia @pastoralpunk.bsky.social · 6h

The red-brown pipeline is unfortunately very well known but I think it's also kinda only really trodden by a certain kind of (almost always white, cis, male) performative leftist

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 7h

Like he's literally saying in much more polite words that it's an unfortunate tendency of the left to become Nazis

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