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faye✨

@segirly.aegis.cafe

every xenoblade 1 cutscene

February 3, 2026 at 1:34 AM

dk

@dk382.bsky.social

I refuse to believe Mewgenics is actually releasing.

Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 3d

Wake up! (Grab a brush and put a little makeup) Tomorrow is the first day of a new month which means new G A M E releases.

What is your most anticipated release this month?

64 notable new game releases:

January 31, 2026 at 12:03 PM

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Qewie🥝

@qqqewie.bsky.social

🚗

October 28, 2024 at 2:08 PM

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AL Creed 🇨🇦

@alcreed.bsky.social

The No Take / Only Throw dog comic translated into Sumerian

January 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM

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Bill Corbett

@billcorbett.bsky.social

This is unconscionable. Evil.

But it happened in May 2023, when Biden was president.

So no, we don’t “reform immigration detention,” we destroy ICE, CBP, and DHS. We can’t reform this soul sickness.

Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 7d

Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody.

She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.

We need to reform immigration detention.

January 28, 2026 at 5:18 AM

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molly conger

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

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Jeff Rueter

@jeffrueter.bsky.social

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM

dk

@dk382.bsky.social

Jesus fucking Christ

January 24, 2026 at 5:03 PM

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn

@unburntwitch.com

The guy was being held down on the ground by like 6 scumbags and he was shot point blank while doubled over on his knees after the piece of shit pistol whipped him several times. Now you don’t have to watch.

January 24, 2026 at 3:59 PM

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buggo baby’s journey

@onryo.bsky.social

January 23, 2026 at 9:06 PM

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andy™

@andylevy.net

nine years old

“I am Puerto Rican,” she says. “I send my kids with their passports to school. I’m having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and — just — you get that fight-or-flight response.” At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it’s in her back pocket. “I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped,” she says. “I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away.”

January 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM

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エド＝モンド

@edomond02.bsky.social

お絵描き
イヅツミ

January 22, 2026 at 12:09 PM

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn

@unburntwitch.com

abolish ice but also the entirety of DHS. They were founded in the xenophobia/kleptocracy patriot act spree of 2002 and never should have existed to begin with.

January 21, 2026 at 10:15 PM

dk

@dk382.bsky.social

I know I'm *years* late, but I'm finally getting around to playing beyond the demo in Dragon Quest XI. Just got the 6th and 7th characters. Man, this game is pretty goddamn good, huh?

January 20, 2026 at 1:08 PM

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Catsuka

@catsuka.bsky.social

From "Frieren" Season 2 ending, animated with colored pencils by Mimei Aoume (she had already worked on Season 1 ending).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY4B...
www.instagram.com/mimei_a

January 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM

dk

@dk382.bsky.social

In Ultima 7, items could just randomly disappear from your inventory without warning. Even progression-critical items. Due to the fragmented nature of inventory management, it was entirely possible to not notice the missing items until hours later.

Rice !! @ricelikessquids.bsky.social · 21d

"games used to release without any game breaking glitches" is such a lie because like every nintendo game had japanese version exclusive glitches all the time

also super paper mario could just randomly crash for no reason, no one ever talks about that.

January 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM

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muscular baby jeb lund

@mobute.bsky.social

"guy with a don't tread on me flag dresses up as a nameless agent of state power and rains lethal force on someone who mildly inconvenienced him" is the last few decades of that flag wrapped in a single murder

January 9, 2026 at 3:03 PM

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Rick

@rickwebb.net

Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 26d

Previously, several of these companies, like Apple, IBM, and Disney, have paused advertising on X in response to antisemitic content. But antisemitism on X never slowed, sexual abuse imagery increased, and all of these companies quietly resumed advertising anyways.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott?

Advertisers, politicians, and investors are still all-in on X, despite a sexual abuse crisis.

spitfirenews.com

January 8, 2026 at 9:28 PM

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depths of wikipedia

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

January 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM

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Colin Spacetwinks

@spacetwinks.bsky.social

no one has ever gotten the spirit of our country as right as paul verhoeven making robocop

Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Dec 5

"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."

CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza

The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.

truthout.org

December 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM

dk

@dk382.bsky.social

I think this is one of my favorite CGs on the PC-98, and it's a hundred times more impressive when you realize they had just *sixteen* colors to work with.