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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

A fallacy that I see some organizers promote [sometimes] is that people 'just know what to do' and this is simply not true. Tell people what you are doing and invite them to join in.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

If you were out in the streets today, thanks. If you left feeling inspired, please seek out local ways that you can keep organizing with others.

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the moon dude @themoondude.bsky.social · 14h

faith the unholy trinity is a 7 hour game, give or take a few hours, and i took like 15

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the moon dude @themoondude.bsky.social · 14h

me, to myself: i can play a 3 hour horror videogame in one sitting. I budget my time and i do it well :)
me, after playing mouthwashing for 100 minutes: you know, i think i will pick this up tomorrow to finish it :)

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 15h

Amid the ruins of The Blitz, HG Wells once visited George Orwell and his wife Eileen for dinner and ate so many servings of chicken curry that he had to be hospitalised.

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 17h

The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

Jess Gill
@jessgillO3

I've never had curry or a kabab and don't intend to.
British food is the best. English breakfasts, Sunday roasts, fish and chips, pies, pasties, scones.
Also, our national dish isn't a chicken tikka masala we only think that because a Labour MP said it decades ago to push multiculturalism.
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Cythrin @cythrin.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it does look like the government accounts joining Bluesky are real, including Homeland Security and the White House. They're tweeting about it on X.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

tangential point but it concerns me that basically no one is doing their homework properly anymore and the people whose jobs were to catch such errors are either vastly overextended or just laid off

conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2d

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 2d

"What are you gonna do, set me on fire?"

Woman doused friend in fuel, set him alight for misogynistic comment, court hears

Her anger then flared when Mr Loader told her she should stay in the kitchen making scones where she belonged, and not to go drinking with boys.

She left the table where they were drinking to collect a five-litre container of petrol from her garage, and poured it on Mr Loader before waving around her lighter.

Mr Loader said, "Go on, do it," before Walpole set him on fire.

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 6d

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 4d

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the moon dude @themoondude.bsky.social · 5d

can't believe i'm the age (or the maturity or lack thereof) where i'm critiquing the artistic choices of game devs. Feels petty. Guess it's true most people flock to SMT and Atlus games for the anime, but excess is real, right?

Great game though, 9/10, fix the sound mixing a bit and you're golden

the moon dude @themoondude.bsky.social · 5d

i honestly think metaphor's

"to you our world is fiction, but i hope you took some strength from the fantasy"

could've approached the impact pathologic's

"we acknowledge the victory of the player"

had, but they had to have One. More. Anime. Cutscene.

the moon dude @themoondude.bsky.social · 14d

my main complaint about metaphor refantazio is the anime cutscenes have terrible sound mixing where the music overpowers the voice acting, but thankfully those cutscenes only have high drama moments and not something important like exposition

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 6d

The Thiel stuff is a real advertisement for the virtues of analytic philosophy.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 8d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 8d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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the moon dude @themoondude.bsky.social · 8d

In the light of the setting sun,
Men either beat the pot and sing
Or loudly bewail the approach of old age.
Misfortune.

[me, sitting there needing to pee] so, maybe give it a minute

the moon dude @themoondude.bsky.social · 8d

nowadays i ask the i ching questions like "should i go pee pee now or wait until this microwave finishes"

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the moon dude @themoondude.bsky.social · 8d

had a period of my life when i was obsessed with divination, Biblical prophecies, Nostradamus, that sort of thing. The imagery of it all was fascinating. Of course, i was also a precocious teenager and didn't know the first thing about textual criticism.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 8d

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 9d

Scarecrows have it right. All facsimiles of human shape should be named according to their function. A department store is full of clotheswears.

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 11d

The King of All Cosmos from the Katamari series, with a speech bubble.

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 10d

A rare appearance of one of my own paintings imaginatively titled ‘Eyes in the Ground’ (1995, oils on canvas)

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 10d

People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · Apr 15

#weirdmagic - power creep

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Cyra 杨金丽 @cyrabaine.com · 10d

Hi, I'm Cyra! And it’s my BIRTHDAY! 🎂🎉

I'm freelance illustrator who loves to paint gorgeous fantasy ladies AND some video game fanarts on the side! It would be the greatest gift for me today if you ❤️ and 🔄 my artworks! Best of all, it costs you $0 to do so!

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 11d

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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the moon dude @themoondude.bsky.social · 12d

"We...regard capitalist journalism as an effective weapon in the hands of a well-informed, but utterly unscrupulous, enemy, rather than merely as an unbiased, but ill-informed, recorder of passing events."

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 12d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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