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DecomposedMaw @decomposedmaw.bsky.social · 1d

cat and leaf boat #pixel #pixelart #animated

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

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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Captain von Trapp Godd @trappgodd.bsky.social · 2d

Only a small percentage of people have understood the prompt here to mean anything other than saying "classic literature is bad/good, actually." Thank you for delivering something genuinely unhinged

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 4d

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 7d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 7d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 14d

This is the only website where most users realize farmers suck ass as far as I can tell

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The Verge @theverge.com · 16d

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.

buff.ly

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 16d

you know, in more authoritarian countries, seeing that secdef is drunk by 10am and the president is a doddering old man who can't hold a train of thought for 30 seconds is the exact kind of things that gives colonels Big Ideas

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 17d

called @booker.senate.gov to say that if Republicans shut down the government everyone is going to blame them, if Democrats cave on trans rights they are going to further cement in the minds of voters that they're wimps who believe in nothing and they will lose an entire generation of voters

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17d

ICE is one of the most well funded military force on the planet, entirely used internally on it’s own citizens, and completely loyal to a far right fascist dictator. if democratic politicians are not on board with abolishing ICE, they must be replaced

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 17d

This appears to be the full video of the Chicago delivery worker. It actually appears that an agent tries to assault him after he curses the Dear Leader Kim il Trump to their faces.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 17d

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Local News
Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 18d

Abolish ICE. Now.

www.newsweek.com/ice-detentio...

ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint

A federal complaint accuses the warden of creating an ad hoc work program used to demean trans detainees.

www.newsweek.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 21d

"sexual matador" is the kind of fantasy you come up with if your homeschool had an abstinence-only sex ed unit.

"my favorite part is the dance with the weapon, by second favorite part is how he's always moving away from my touch while playing to a crowd and talking about Franco's campaigns."

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 22d

Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.

Stephen Miller's Wife Drops Cringe-Inducing Sexual Brag

Katie Miller joked about her husband being a “sexual matador” in an interview with Jesse Watters.

trib.al

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Andre Should Be Writing @andreshouldwrite.bsky.social · 25d

thank you! Just implemented a feature you might enjoy andregarzia.com/2025/09/link...

Linkgraphs are fun • AndreGarzia.com

AndreGarzia.com website

andregarzia.com

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 26d

An idiotic claim like this should make people question everything else Ezra says

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26d

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

Taking political positions that'll make it more likely to win Senate seats in Kansas and Ohio and Missouri. Trying to open your coalition to people you didn't want it open to before. Running pro-life Democrats.

Constitutional Amendment 3
November 5, 2024
Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative
Choice
Yes
X No
Results
Votes
1,538,659
1,443,022
%
51.60%
48.40%

Issue 1
November 7, 2023
Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety(1]
Results
Choice
Votes
%
& Yes
2,227,384
56.78%
No
1,695,480
43.22%
Total votes
3,922,864
100.00%

2022 Kansas abortion referendum
KANSAS
August 2, 2022
Should there be no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion, and reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion, including, but not limited to, in circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or when necessary to save the life of the mother?
Results
Choice
Votes
%
• Yes
385,014
40.84%
X No
557,837
59.16%
Total votes
942,851
100.00%
Registered voters turnout
1,929,972
48.85%

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 27d

The moment you're born in America you are CONSTANTLY bombarded with messages like "People died for your right to free speech" OR "you're lucky you were born in a nation with free speech" it's drilled in day fucking ONE. To see conservatives do a 180 on something so fundamentally American is BONKERS

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 28d

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28d

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

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Sweet Daniel @dansheehan.bsky.social · 29d

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Sep 16

They want to kill any information source the oligarchs don't control. Free access to information not filtered through their brainwashing algorithms is a threat to their control over their hyperreal simulacrum, even in the limited audience that Bluesky has.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 15

Truly insane post from The Federalist, which includes the recommendation that the government pressure tech companies to limit access to BlueSky because of the reaction to Kirk's death thefederalist.com/2025/09/15/w...

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