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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 6h

A jewel heist at the Louvre is something I personally cannot not endorse

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 9h

me: ugh god you know how you make plans for friday night but then friday night gets there and you don't want to do it and it feels sooooooo good to cancel?

my liege lord Daimyō Nobunaga (unsheathing katana): even a dog understands loyalty. She whose word is not bond does not deserve to live

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 6h

if harris had won and vance was just on his way to a podcast appearance they'd be calling this an assassination attempt

John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 7h

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 7h

It doesn't matter how despicable a person is, mocking their innate physical appearance is always wrong.

Not because it's cruel to them, but because it perpetuates the harmful idea that innate physical appearance has anything to do with one's character / beliefs / actions.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Jerry Williams! @greatersapien.bsky.social · 8h

A great march in Portland! #nokings

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 9h

No Kings in Los Angeles: Patriotic Angelenos showed up, y'all — BIG TIME. 🙌💪👏✊️🇺🇸👇

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 10h

Imagine if other mainstream artists did this on tour. Imagine if they brought tables to their venues to explain to fans why this is so important. It would change the conversation profoundly. This is important.

TSCUniversity 🎓💟 @tscuniversity13.bsky.social · 3d

The Sabrina Carpenter Fund will now directly support The Transgender Law Center! The fund will support the Legal Info Helpdesk, which responds to more than 2000+ requests annually and the training of 400+ trans leaders through programs like the Disability Project, Black Trans Circles, and more. 🏳️‍⚧️

An image of a description of the Transgender Law Center reads:
Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization working to ensure all people can live freely, safely, and authentically. Centering BIPOC, disabled, and HIV + communities, TLC advances community-driven strategies that harness trans knowledge, power, and joy, while addressing the urgent political, legal, and social violence faced by trans communities. Through advocacy, education, and leadership development, TLC works to create a world where all trans people can thrive.
The Sabrina Carpenter Fund will directly support TLC's Legal Information Helpdesk, which responds to more than 2,200 requests annually and the training of more than 400 trans leaders through programs like the Disability Project, Black Trans Circles, and Positively Trans - driving the Trans Agenda for Liberation forward.

Sabrina Carpenter in a Polaroid style picture with long blonde wavy hair and a red button down tank top.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 9h

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10h

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 9h

oh fuck in the draft of ch 1 of my fic i forgot aragorn spent time in gondor before. lol. can’t fix it rn so i’m making a note. this bodes ill for my ability to keep lotr canon straight enough in my head to write a good fic if i can’t get halfway into ch 1 without a mistake 🥲

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Star Swallow @starswallow.bsky.social · 11h

Happy Calypso's Birthday and happy two year anniversary to my favorite earworm.

youtu.be/UhlJqepvTE4?...

La Vie en Rose (French)

YouTube video by Con O'Neill - Topic

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 14h

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

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sea salt 🔞 @cecillusive.bsky.social · 9h

also happy 2 year anniversary to being given this awful miserable feral cat of a man

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 10h

me every friday around 4 pm before i give up and log off in despair:

'I do not know, answered Aragorn wearily.
'Before he died Boromir told me that the Orcs had bound them; he did not think that they were dead. I sent him to follow Merry and Pippin; but I did not ask him if Frodo or Sam were with him: not until it was too late. All that I have done today has gone amiss. What is to be done now?'

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 10h

i did give aragorn shit just now but i really love how aragorn from outside is so cool and mysterious and the hobbits are so in awe of him and then in TTT you get his own pov for the first time and it’s just “fuck. Fuck!!! I fucked up! Oh god, I can’t do ANYTHING right”

'The horn of Boromir!' he cried. 'He is in need!' He sprang down the steps and away, leaping down the path. 'Alas! An ill fate is on me this day, and all that I do goes amiss. Where is Sam?'

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 10h

paused the book after boromir’s funeral bc i’m back from walking the dog and my family is trying to talk to me and i’m literally just sitting here like, i miss boromir 🥲

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21h

you gotta imagine that people protesting with NO KINGS signs in London, a city that very famously does in fact have a king, makes a whole other bonus group of people very mad

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 10h

I literally need the director’s commentary and score for this fucking audiobook production, it’s SO good. but I’m happy that at least this article exists: scottroutenberg.substack.com/p/the-music-...

The Music of Middle Earth: Analyzing Andy Serkis' Character-Driven Melodies in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Audiobooks

Celebrated Actor Brings New Life to Tolkien's Poetry Through In-Character Singing

scottroutenberg.substack.com

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 11h

Also the melody used for this in the audiobook is now stuck in my head. It’s very pretty and melancholy

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Zozo @zoestertoaster.bsky.social · 11h

this was fucked up of aragorn. like dude pick some way to eulogize boromir that you weren’t better at 😩

'What news from the West, O wandering wind, do you bring to me tonight?
Have you seen Boromir the Tall by moon or by starlight?'

Aragorn was the tallest of the Company, but Boromir, little less in height, was broader and heavier in build. He led the way, and Aragorn [screenshot cuts off.]

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 23h

I want to believe good art isn’t worth putting yourself in toxic situations to produce it but unfortunately the chain by Fleetwood Mac exists

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1d

A big lesson of the civil rights movement was that everyone has their own activism and we support each other. If you're a radical activist, you can draw fire away from peaceful protestors. If you're a pacifist and you see radicals fucking shit up, no you didn't. You didn't see a damn thing.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 7d

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

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