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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

POLITICO: “.. 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 lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 9h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

a real water is wet scenario here

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10h

I cannot believe people were losing their jobs for being mildly critical of Charlie Kirk and the president of the united states just went on tv and said "skill issue loser, RIP but I'm different"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Invalid Hamdle (STOVE TOUCHED I REPEAT STOVE TOUCHED 👉♨️) @invalidham.bsky.social · 10h

First it's 19. Then it's 20. Then 25, 30, and then transition is banned altogether. That's their final goal and it's obvious to anyone who has been paying attention.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10h

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Lauowolf @lauowolf.bsky.social · 7h

The videos will continue until morale improves

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Jupiter ♃ @tempestarubida.bsky.social · 8h

I'm sure they were really hinging that narrative on this brightly-lit suburban intersection at Tulsa, Oklahoma. 🙄

Jupiter ♃ @tempestarubida.bsky.social · 9h

Darth Vader is evil, but he also killed a bunch of kids.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 15h

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

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 14h

oh wow okay this company is IN TROUBLE in trouble

The Verge @theverge.com · 14h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Aldia (Dee) @profaneannalist.bsky.social · 11h

my wife just got kicked off medicaid thanks to the cuts so my new policy on "are trans women bourgeois" is that anyone asking the question should be quartered

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john granule @bogbird.bsky.social · 11h

i can’t be your angel or your devil. i’m so tired

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 13h

We massively overrate male coded stuff and massively underrate female coded stuff.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 15h

Yesterday, California adopted a law to raise the pay received by incarcerated firefighters when they’re fighting a fire from $1 to $7.25 per hour—meeting the federal minimum wage. Four other new laws also give new rights to incarcerated firefighters.

California's incarcerated firefighters to see a ‘historic’ pay increase in laws Newsom signed

Hundreds of California state prisoners worked to put out this year's deadly Los Angeles wildfires, inspiring new laws that will improve their pay and open other opportunities.

calmatters.org

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

Researchers have devised a hack that uses a malicious Android app to read data from any other app installed on the phone. Google released a patch but the researchers say their methods still work.

Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones

Malicious app required to make “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions.

arstechnica.com

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Stephen Foskett @stephen.fosketts.net · 1d

No, #Portland is still not burning.

isportlandburning.com/

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 1d

I firmly believe that there should be a Year Without Shakespeare in which every Shakespeare play in every theater's calendar is replaced by new work from a local playwright. I think that would be good for both theater and society.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 17h

americans have been learning about "no kings" via alternative media. social media, tiktok etc. we dont need the msm anymore and progressives should be investing billions in building up our own alternative information beachheads instead of constantly begging the dying msm to "do better"

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20h

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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NO GODS, NO MASTERS, BISEXUAL DISASTERS 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🔞 @travisteatime.bsky.social · 18h

This is an extremely important part.

I can tell you from my experience, the reason Germans specifically take so easily to Zionism is because Islamophobia has mostly supplanted Antisemitism as the national hobby, and projecting on Israel also lets us escape our guilt.

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 17h

girl who learns architecture to make minecrafts better

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 17h

There are a lot of Onion/Clickhole articles that have become meme-ified to the point that they serve as short-hand responses to posts - "Worst Guy You Know Makes Great Point," "No way to stop this says only place it happens," etc, but I feel like this is an underutilized one.

Researchers No Closer To Understanding What The Fuck You’re Talking About

CAMBRIDGE, MA—Finding themselves increasingly frustrated after years of fruitless analysis, researchers working with a Harvard-coordinated international multi-university research initiative published ...

theonion.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Xy, First Minister of Furries and Autism @xylaria.vg · 17h

on the bright side, if you've got spare cash it could be a great time to scoop up some hardware

especially if you're into breaking it down for parts/recycling because hooooooooooo boy are those markets going NUTS right now with the tariffs.

vin; androgyne @hologramvin.bsky.social · 17h

so many computers are going to be thrown out due to the removal of support for windows 10. genuinely upsetting and disgusting to me

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Narancia⚧️ still in the blue wonder @naranciazebest.bsky.social · 1d

I also want to remind people that Hamas' main demands was straight up the liberation of these 2000 people, of which a huge portion of them are CHILDREN. They made this demand before October 7th and kept insisting this was the cause of their attack. Not one western news media told the public of this.

Jordan is the Huggiest Kaiju @parchmentscroll.bsky.social · 1d

Israel had TWO THOUSAND.

At least 1700 of whom were being held without charges.

SEVENTEEN HUNDRED.

That is HORRIFIC.

TWO THOUSAND PRISONERS, OF WHOM ONLY 250 WERE CHARGED WITH ANYTHING.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

DO YOU FUCKING GET IT?

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Jupiter ♃ @tempestarubida.bsky.social · 16h

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