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theraquizt.bsky.social @theraquizt.bsky.social · 45m

Wow the stealth advertising campaign for The Mastermind is crazy for this

Louvre Closed After Brazen Daylight Robbery

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 20h

YOU NEED TO START OFF POSTS LIKE THIS BY SAYING THE PERSON IS ALIVE AND OK

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

Sir David Attenborough, the British documentarian and naturalist, became the oldest person to win a Daytime Emmy on Friday at age 99. He beat the record set last year by Dick Van Dyke. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/a...

David Attenborough sitting in front of a row of greenery and smiling slightly. A headline reads: "David Attenborough Becomes Oldest Daytime Emmy Winner at 99." Photo by Jane Barlow/Press Association, via Associated Press.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

what if ... we just never reopened the government

Al Lane @allane625.bsky.social · 1d

Supreme Court 'expects to run out of funding' in hours due to shutdown: report

www.alternet.org/supreme-cour...

Supreme Court 'expects to run out of funding' in hours due to shutdown: report

Both the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and the federal judiciary itself is about to run completely out of money to do anything beyond basic operations, according to a new report.The Hill...

www.alternet.org

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

My friend Andrew Lih @fuzheado.bsky.social is a freakin hero. A gunman came into his Wikipedia event, and he grabbed and disarmed him. Thanks to him and another brave volunteer, no one was hurt—not even the gunman.

Now let’s ask why we accept a society where this can happen at any large gathering.

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

www.nytimes.com

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theraquizt.bsky.social @theraquizt.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t have “CNN citing Wittgenstein to explain Gen-Alpha brainrot in South Park” on my 2025 bingo card

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theraquizt.bsky.social @theraquizt.bsky.social · 1d

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

This is how we compete with China

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Still waiting for this fucking technology to write the next great American novel instead of just defiling the memory of people to do racism or making Sonic the Hedgehog enjoy meth

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

OpenAI announced that it has "paused" users' ability to generate videos of Martin Luther King Jr. on its artificial intelligence video tool Sora, following backlash over "disrespectful depictions." https://cnn.it/4qxP0KX

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Katie Mummah, PhD @nuclearkatie.com · 2d

Rude, some of us grew up in Chicagoland and then left

Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 2d

Bad news for Bluesky, whose userbase remains almost entirely middle-aged Chicagoans

1. Mayor Johnson proposed
Chicago's first-ever social media tax
Mayor Brandon Johnson today
delivered on his promise to "challenge the ultra-rich" and make corporations
shoulder the financial burden to help rescue the city from a $1.15 billion shortfall, Fran Spielman writes for the Chicago Sun-Times.
The tax on social media companies - including Meta, TikTok, Instagram, X and Reddit - would charge 50 cents per user in Chicago after the first 100,000 users.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

This is a utterly horrifying story. A medical student in Germany that was part of 764 manipulated and coerced a 13 year old trans boy into taking his own life live on instagram and it took years to bring an arrest.

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"Portrait of a smiling child with short brown hair wearing a red hoodie. Below, a headline from The Washington Post reads: ‘It broke me’: Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to die."

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theraquizt.bsky.social @theraquizt.bsky.social · 2d

You’ve heard of the Hanoi Hilton, now say hello to the Hyatt Spandau

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

theraquizt.bsky.social @theraquizt.bsky.social · 2d

I was saying Tame Impala’s new album is good

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2d

Samuel Alito preparing to raise absolutely the craziest flag you've ever seen at his Long Beach Island compound.

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.

“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”

www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...

www.404media.co

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

I support everyone giving vast sums of money to Andrew Cuomo. It’s the “lighting a million quid on fire” art piece but this time performed by the worst people in the world.