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Jay @envinyon.bsky.social · 4h

Every internet website needs to roll their UI back like 10 years and then fire all their UI designers

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 4h

And if he's alive, make him watch.

Take the money to pay for it from his entire family, while we're at it.

Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 4h

Guessing the Nazi tattoo stuff hasn't hit among survey respondents yet, but if Maine Democratic Primary voters can truly shrug that off...fuckin' oof, dude.

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Do a bad thing, then quintuple down on it and try to shock the audience into numbly accepting that you can do whatever it is you're doing.

Straight out of a dozen awful playbooks.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

Oh

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire
East Wing

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Dude could'a just gotten a quirky Beholder from D&D and everyone would've loved him again.

Chibi Beholder by brooskee: https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Dungeons-and-Dragons-Chibi-Beholder-by-brooskee/90596131.EJUG5

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, Merkley plans on going until about 5 PM EST. Guessing there's gonna be another (hopefully failed) vote around that time.

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Jeff Merkley is STILL going. Dude's 68. He's been at it for almost 22 hours now.

Congressional Chronicle - Members of Congress, Hearings and More | C-SPAN.org | C-SPAN.org

www.c-span.org

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

User eva.computer compiled a pretty good blocklist if you want to go through and completely avoid them:

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

The regime made some accounts on here so a lot of those dipshits will follow suit. They can't live without victims to abuse.

Over time, they'll all get blocked into oblivion, crash out, and then scamper copefully back to X, somehow claiming victory as they go.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Jeff Merkley just crossed 20 hours in his marathon floor speech on authoritarianism. He began speaking at 6:20pm yesterday.

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

"A company monomaniacally focused on building plastic space battle mans regularly puts out stronger diversity statements and delivers better follow-through than multi-billion dollar megacorps" remains one of the wilder truths of the last twenty years.

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Hell, 40k usually gets a pass on all its problematic shit because they chase the fascists out and/or troll them into apoplectic fits every couple years. It's part of their charm.

Exhibit A:

WARHAMMER IS FOR EVERYONE

One of the great powers of our hobby is its ability to bring people together in common cause, to build bonds and friendships that cross divides. We believe in and support a community united by shared values of mutual kindness and respect.

Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be.
We will never accept nor condone any form of prejudice, hatred or abuse in our company or in the Warhammer hobby.
We will continue to diversify the cast of characters we portray through miniatures, art and storytelling so everyone can find representation and heroes they can relate to.

And if you feel the same way, wherever and whoever you are, we're glad you are part of the Warhammer community.
If not, you will not be missed.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Especially as a Jew, "has no problem with someone sporting a Nazi tattoo" is one of those little facts about someone that you mentally file away for whenever you encounter them in the future.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

as i said, the jones text scandal might have made a difference had it dropped three days before the election. as it stands, not so much.

Chaz Nuttycombe @chaznuttycombe.bsky.social · 1d

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Mary Radcliffe and I with the breakdown and takeaways

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

It'd be nice if Democrats just did round the clock floor holds/filibusters until Republicans finally break.

We'd probably be here until the sun burns out, but it'd be better than some of the alternatives.

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

a group of men are sitting around a table with one of them saying one of us !

Alt: a group of men are sitting around a table with one of them saying one of us !

media.tenor.com

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Tony Miller @beardedrogue.bsky.social · 1d

I grew up food insecure. It’s a hell that no one, especially a child, should have to endure. This is unconscionable especially since they can somehow find enough money for the gestapo & a fucking ballroom remodel…

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 1d

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, this completely flew under my radar, but Merkley's on hour eighteen now? What the hell?

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

Is @merkley.senate.gov doing what @booker.senate.gov did and we’re only paying a small amount of attention?????

Also, Merkley has been training for something for the past three months and he said it was a race to save the Senate but now I’m wondering if it was for this

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

I have no idea who you are and intend to keep it that way <3

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

Michael Rapaport tweets: "How’s a so-called “working class” mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani eating at OMEN SUSHI tonight — one of the priciest joints in NYC? 🍣💰
This clown lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens but dines like a diplomat on a Qatar-funded per diem.
Who’s paying for that toro, “Zoron the Moron”?"

There are two photos of Zohran Mamdani and his wife eating at a restaurant.

Michael Rapaport eating outside of a restaurant. There are some white canopy umbrellas around him and a tree in the background. Also the ocean and some fence.

Two photos. The first shows the outside of Nobu in Malibu. The second shows the area where Michael sat. There is the same tree, ocean, white canopy umbrellas, and fence.

The menu for Nobu in Malibu shows prices around $60. The menu for Omen Sushi in NYC shows prices around $35.

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Sanders needed to get gone years ago. His schtick gets tiresome the minute you look at his actual legislative wins, missed votes, and the time he handed Trump the USPS on a silver platter.

Never mind the staggering number of fake-leftists-turned-Republicans he's enabled over the years.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

Why are we even having this conversation at all. This entire conversation should just be “fuck this guy” and then we all go on with our lives confident in the fact that we kept another Nazi out of office.

But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the "death's head" symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II.
"He said, 'Oh, this is my Totenkopf," the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. "He said it in a cutesy little way."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"

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Ben Blythe @visitingwriter.bsky.social · 2d

If Mills did this, it would instantly flip me into a supporter.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2d

I’m disgusted by the photos of Ttump’s demolition at the East Wing, but I’m even more sickened by the renderings of his mar-a-lago ballroom dwarfing our White House. Once we’re rid of this despicable man, that ballroom must also be removed.

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