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The Needling @theneedling.com · 1h

ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown: tinyurl.com/37euaejk

Masked ICE agents throwing bags of brown leaves in unmarked van

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3h

I understand that there are right ways and wrong ways to have the age conversation about Dem leadership and I don’t know how I feel about specific solutions like age and term limits. I do know THIS PART HERE is a problem bigger than any one individual 78-year-old and it’s making us all furious

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 4h

I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.

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rounding error @stealingzen.bsky.social · 2h

You are one of the most caring and kind people I know, and when your PMDD is kicking your ass, I wanna kick it right back.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 4h

the subreddits for luxury watches are some of the darkest places on earth

Rolex subreddit post:

My uncle has Alzheimer's and is often forgetful of his possessions. One of them is a Rolex Submariner. Would I be justified in taking and caring for it as my own instead of having it left neglected and forgotten in his jewelry box? Thanks.

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rounding error @stealingzen.bsky.social · 4h

I meant by user, specifically

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 5h

"ICE shouldn't use full body restraints"
"ICE shouldn't use teargas"
"ICE shouldn't break into homes without warrants"

ICE shouldn't exist. We don't have to split hairs, energy, and resources. Its a private military that circumvents limitations on deploying military force on citizens.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 5h

do people still not know what comes after "a few bad apples" in the aphorism

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 5h

The New York governor swiftly dismissed talk of "some bad apples" among leaders of the Young Republicans groups.

'This Bulls**t Has To Stop!': Kathy Hochul Takes On GOP Over Young Republicans Report

The New York governor swiftly dismissed talk of "some bad apples" among leaders of the Young Republicans groups.

www.huffpost.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

The moment when he starts giving his canned response and she goes “that’s such bullshit” lmao I have no idea who these ladies are but they rock

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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rounding error @stealingzen.bsky.social · 5h

I know I’m super guilty of this, especially lately. I blame the Deep Depression.

I honestly wish BlueSky would implement the Twitter feature of turn off reposts for people you follow, so I don’t annoy folks who don’t want to see the flood of things I repost. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Jarrett P. @notcrucial.bsky.social · 12h

I've been scrolling BS a lot less lately, and I think it's due to a lack of personal posts. It used to feel like I followed individuals and now it just feels like a news feed or horrors. I know all social media reflects the times, but man, im so tired.

Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social · 13h

i need you all to post more daily life stuff. i know we're all here to stare into the void together but i want to know what you made for dinner and what you've been reading before bed between all the void-staring.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 12h

Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise
The operation involved at least 10 officers and suspects were jailed for up to a week for stealing knit caps, sweatshirts, and a pet toy.
publicola.com/2025/10/14/s...

Seattle Spent Thousands on "Organized Retail Theft" Operation at Marshall's, Arresting Five and Recovering $400 in Merchandise - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett Last week, the Seattle Police Department announced it had completed a successful “Organized Retail Theft Operation”…

publicola.com

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 12h

Setting aside graverobbing woman who died in no small part due to men exploiting her image, copyright violations aren't "growing pains." It's literally the law. They’re breaking the law. Without copyright law, there is no creative industry, and without a creative industry, there is no genAI.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

can't deport them somewhere they want to go

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 11h

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 13h

LOLLL This reminds me of when Amazon shut down @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social's affiliate account with them and refused to give us the money we had made because they they deemed our site as "porn" (citing specific comics), while THEY WERE SELLING OUR BOOKS WHICH CONTAINED THOSE EXACT SAME COMICS 😂

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 14h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 15h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Doctor Hurdy Gurdy @notarealdoctor.bsky.social · 1d

Capitalism has taken everything from my generation.

Headline reading "Daddy Drought Hits Gay Community as Aging Millennials Grapple With Rising Cost of Sugar Babies." Subtitle reads, "Would-Be Daddy's Lack Means to Penetrate Gay Sugar Baby Market"

The headlines are superimposed over a young looking Twink with an older daddy

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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merritt @merrittk.com · 10h

the microplastics and heavy metals in my body squaring up to decide who gets to give me cancer

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 8h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 14h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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rounding error @stealingzen.bsky.social · 6h

They did this with the Supreme Court without negative consequences; it’s not surprise they’re starting with Dems in Congress when they have even more power

Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 11h

Adelita Grijalva won her Congressional race fair and square THREE WEEKS ago.

Mike Johnson’s refusal to seat her is an absolute disgrace.

Seat her now. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Who is Adelita Grijalva and why hasn't she been sworn in to Congress yet?

Democrats are ramping up the pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat who won a special election last month to succeed her late father.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 7h

This is no more lawful than if Iran / North Korea / whoever blew up a couple American yachts in the Mediterranean for suspected drug trafficking. On the legal spectrum it sits in the middle of a Venn diagram between overt acts of military aggression, state-sponsored terrorism, and simple murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 12h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Andrew @andrewcyberkop.bsky.social · 2d

If you buy an NFT of a stock in OpenAI you should have to wear a big bell like a goat for the rest of your life.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 18d

I love this human. Such a beautiful man.

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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 16h

Incredible admission from Meta: “People already expect us to be nefarious pricks, so nefarious prickery seems the way forward.”

Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 13d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 18h

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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