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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 55m

He really smashed the "make everything more expensive" button

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4h

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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KW @2022onward.bsky.social · 1d

Narratives must change for progress to happen: SARS-CoV-2 is airborne, highly transmissible, fast mutating, transmitted all year, and associated with a high burden of disease. In 2025, where are the IAQ regulations, the 2nd-generation vaccines, treatments for Long Covid, etc.? Masks are a tool.

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Raigan Burns @raiganburns.bsky.social · 21h

If we had a proper *group* response (much better air quality indoors), masking wouldn't be as necessary.

Try to apply this to water: "if I don't filter my water, sometimes I'll get cholera" -- in the short-term, personal filtering makes sense; the real long-term solution is water treatment plants.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

oh wow they are who we knew they were

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 21h

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and 'the watermelon people' and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Alex Strook 🐭⚡️SQUEAKROSS @alexstrook.bsky.social · 1d

"tetraminis Deffect" a pico-8 demake of tetris effect that looks and sounds amazing! made by a very talent friend that just joined bsky!

go give him a follow! ▶ @tromagon.bsky.social

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

OBAMA: “There has always been this fight over what is the true story of 🇺🇸?”

The former president boils it down powerfully on Maron’s final episode

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Linda McQuaig @lindamcquaig.bsky.social · 15d

Here’s something that could make Canada Post profitable — like it did before -- but instead Mark Carney wants to gut our national post office. That’s no way to build a nation. #canlab #cdnpoli #postal #canpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Linda McQuaig: Postal banking once made Canada Post profitable — and could again

Providing banking services to rural and low-income Canadians through post offices would be a Canada-first form of nation-building for the people.

www.thestar.com

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 2d

I make my triumphant return to The @insertcredit.com Show... as host!? Highlights include actual coin-flipping and bending the show’s format to my evil whims by making the panel design games based on the names of Motern Media films. Listen now:

The Insert Credit Show #410: Games Somerton - exp.

I make my triumphant return to the Insert Credit Show... as host!?

expzine.com

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4d

When the bailout for Argentina…is actually a bailout for the Treasury Secretary’s hedge fund billionaires.

They get richer…and it just gets harder for you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

www.nytimes.com

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 2d

Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 1d

My semi-regular Columbus Day message:

Columbus wasn’t called crazy because he thought the world was round. That had been known for 1000 years.

He was called crazy because he thought it was so small he could reach India by going west. And they were right! He was a delusional fool!

But lucky.

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 10d

It’s the infinite typewriter given to us, infinite monkeys, except instead of recreating Shakespeare, we’re maintaining a big, dumb fidget spinner. One that trashes the planet and drains natural and financial resources in the process.

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 1d

All experts agree: the world simply doesn’t have enough homework to cheat on to justify all these AI investments
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 1d

everyone's favorite "scroll through lists of thousands of game demos to find the one thing that catches your eye" fest has started up again. if you missed it, pls check out this from June where i talked about Steam as a platform and reviewed some Next Fest demos ellaguro.blogspot.com/2025/06/i-pl...

i played some games for Steam Next Fest

note: you can also read this post for free on my Patreon . plz consider subbing though, if you don't! chart of Steam demos launched during t...

ellaguro.blogspot.com

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Raigan Burns @raiganburns.bsky.social · 1d

but what about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish%C5... ;)

Kishōtenketsu - Wikipedia

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 2d

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 2d

If you are using Twitter you are supporting the far right.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Robinson allegedly failed to comply with officers who ‘became concerned’ by his behaviour at Channel Tunnel Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counter terrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. The far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon, refused to give police the pin for his phone because it had “journalistic material on it” after they stopped him at the Channel Tunnel on 28 July 2024, a court heard. Continue reading...

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

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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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

zack polanski is so good and i genuinely think if the left rallies around this guy and the green party in the UK, they can easily beat back the hysteria of the reform party

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

HIRING HITS ITS LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 2009 — CNBC

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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 2d

Her legacy is all around us in the form of a broken hollowed out country that exists only to serve the wealthy.

That’s me being kind about it.

Emma Gee Flowers Music ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 2d

I've already had my "lavish celebration" about her.
news.sky.com/story/thatch...

Thatcher at 100: Lavish celebrations to mark the Iron Lady's life, leadership and legacy

National treasures to sporting greats and politicians will commemorate what would have been Margaret Thatcher's 100th birthday with a celebratory dinner and other events.

news.sky.com

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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵) @stecurran.bsky.social · 2d

I have done a lot today and I have a lot to do next week. I am sure you do as well, but even so you could, and maybe should, play my game:

mindset.game

You don't have to download anything. Or you could just trust me and install the app, which is free: mindset.game/app

Mindset Go – Daily Puzzle Game

Sort, Slide, Solve! Expand your mind with daily puzzles and challenges.

mindset.game

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

Rep. Jim Himes on Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean: "The White House has not shared what they believe their legal justification is. They did put out a memo. I will tell you based on what I know now and the reading of that memo, these are illegal killings."

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 3d

Grandpa: I sent your grandma 57 handwritten love letters from the western front and she finally agreed to marry me when I returned from the war

Me: the computer told me to say "I had a good time last night" to this girl but it didn't work for some reason

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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