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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 4m

It's such a non-movie that it was originally meant to just be a merch dvd at live shows and it went on to win an Oscar and make its stars world famous

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 8m

rewatching Once. Nothing about it should work. Filmed on a potato with no lighting, looks like shit. Non-actors doing improvised dialogue filmed illegally in public spaces or at friends' houses. Basically no plot. And yet Once is nearly perfect, one of the best movies ever made

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 13m

The thing about police is that they don't seem to understand that literally everyone else hates their guts. No one is pretending you're heros anymore. It's well known what shitty little cowards every single one of you is

David Noll @david.noll.org · 21d

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Brian R. Marvel, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, which represents over 87,000 public safety officers, said he was outraged by the passage of the law.

He said in a statement that he believed that California did not have the authority to regulate federal agents, so it would ultimately apply only to local law enforcement officers, which he called a “troubling betrayal that California’s local law enforcement community will not soon forget.” He said that limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 17m

I am adamantly against the death penalty but I have reached a point where I think we might need some trials that end in hanging to get out of this

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 41m

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 · 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.
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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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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 3h

Getting the impression that a lot of people think 1. Freedom of Speech is something you have a right to on privately owned social media platforms and 2. Conveniently stops after you’ve announced your opinion, but before anyone else is allowed to say it’s stupid.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 3h

Ep is Donny Talks Toilets

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 3h

Hyperfixed

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 3h

I just learned on a podcast yesterday that the reason stalls in America have horrible gaps that are easy to see through is intentional so people can look in and make sure you're only doing approved stuff, so this nosey pervert thing is built into our national character

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21d

i really don't think anybody else's endochrine systems are my business in general and that's because i am not an odious freak who is constantly trying to peek into public bathroom stalls

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21d

a group of people were like "i found a way to live my life as a truer version of myself" and instead of being like "that's beautiful, how can i help" people were like "i don't think schools should have books in them anymore"

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21d

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 4h

Horchata beats lemonade as a hot day drink by miles

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 4h

Bluesky used to be a cool place full of people saying "you're right" and "agreed!" But I posted one really dumb thing and now it's a toxic place full of people saying "I don't agree" and "that post was dumb." Says a lot about society

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Feb 18

Welcome to AI Chat! You're chatting with Yoshi With A Gun.

You: Hello
Yoshi With A Gun: *idly twirling Desert Eagle by trigger guard* Yoshi!

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

Notably also the skill of Elizabeth Holmes

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 6h

all of these people being like "the manager at build a bear didnt let me name my bear Charlie Kirk and wouldn't officiate a marriage between me and Charlie Kirk (bear). they must be executed" really highlights how businesses need a hard and fast "no weird shit" rule

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 7h

Name a better sweet beverage than horchata. You can't

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 8h

Every democrat should be talking like this. Not the feckless mueller time version of this that we’ve had for years, but actual promises of actual consequences

As long as it goes unpunished we’ll never be free of this

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 8h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 9h

I'm more worried it's not going to be ugly enough. That the Dems will just do Biden in 2020 again, and the Republicans will just keep trying to do this. When what we need at this point are Nuremberg Trials

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 23h

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 23h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 22h

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 23h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

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.”

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 1d

do not forget to feed your troops

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