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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 1d

Remake Conclave with the pope's fantasy league drama

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 1d

incorrect it's Blink 182's Feeling This

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 2d

this is why i only take safe, natural supplements that i find on the floor

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 2d

a man is screaming in a car and saying `` hack the planet '' .

ALT: a man is screaming in a car and saying `` hack the planet '' .

media.tenor.com

Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 2d

tell it to make it in the shape of a cucumber balanced between two tomatoes

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

What better example of how we live in multiple worlds at the same time than a bunch of people living in the french catacombs together watching movies and eating couscous

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not bitter. Definitely not when i started seeing dissertations on this pop up two years later.

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 3d

I tried to get a phd studentship to study this in 2015 for a human trafficking program and they said it was out of scope.
Quoted post:
The U.S. is the single biggest human trafficking operation in the world.
• The Lever & @LeverNews
The nation's largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims....
@seastersjones

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 5d

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 5d

👀

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 6d

didnt get a full version of the story in the first post i saw and thought lmao they gave juan guaidó the peace prize

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6d

#OtD 10 Oct 1800 enslaved blacksmith and abolitionist Gabriel Prosser was executed in Virginia alongside his two brothers and 23 followers. They had planned a revolt of enslaved people in Richmond, but were betrayed and captured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8240...

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 7d

evergreen

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 7d

One of the theology professors at the catholic university i work at complained they had been told it was uncatholic for the university to make a profit. So I think American Catholics are not going to do well with this one.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 7d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 8d

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 8d

ok actually i'm considering making a website someone talk me out of this

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 8d

someone cross post this on quora

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 8d

Attention everyone I am now offering a deal on Antifa membership, only $50 per month.

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 8d

i just saw brokeback mountain for the first time last week

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 8d

we've sent out two hot young experienced ranchhands with minimal supervision to handle the issue

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 8d

oh no

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe i'll boot up the ol personal website. hope my funny domain justin.tv didnt expire.

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 9d

You should lose your history degree for saying something this stupid about marxist analysis

Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 9d

somehow ends up lauding neoliberalism while saying marxist analysis (=“extreme left-wing scholars”) has “little to offer” academic study of econ, business, or public policy; the nearest comparison being to hiring creationists in bio depts or flat earthers in astronomy
newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Still, I happen to know of no Marxist professors in the University of Virginia department of economics. Like most such departments it's overwhelmingly populated by those who embrace econometric analysis and model-building in the neoclassical tradition. I know of no Marxists in either of the two business schools either. I know of none in the public policy school.

They would be glad to explain to anyone who would listen that the Great Depression was deepened, if not caused, by high tariffs that stifled the abilities of various countries to leverage their advantages and let goods, labor, capital, and ideas flow freely. In the nineteenth century people called that position liberalism. We more recently call it neoliberalism.

If the university signs this compact, would it have to hire a slew of extreme left-wing scholars to “balance” out those four influential units of the university? I would hope not. Marxist theory has little to offer those fields of knowledge (fighting words for some, I know, but it’s true).

But maybe someday the biology department would have to hire a Biblical creationist to “balance” out all the real scientists. Or the astronomy department would have to better represent the voices of the millions of Americans who believe the Earth is flat and no human has ever walked on the moon. Don’t laugh. Not so long ago no one took anti-vaccination cranks seriously. Now look at us.

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 9d

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Justin acting on behalf of Antifa @smazzie.bsky.social · 9d

The spirit moves you

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