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internethippo.bsky.social
Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
If you can, please consider donating to their GoFundMe. The money is going to union members this holiday so they can buy groceries and pay rent while they fight for a fair contract.

If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
Donate to Support Individualized Shirt Workers United, organized by Gabor Ptacek
Since this summer, worker leaders at Individualized Shirts have been organizi… Gabor Ptacek needs your support for Support Individualized Shirt Workers United
www.gofundme.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
A photo of workers at Individualized Shirts, a shirt factory in New Jersey. Each person has their fist in the air as a sign of solidarity. There's a sign behind them with photos and the words: "Fair Contract Now."
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
you can always x, it’s always morally correct meme saying you can always break a man’s Meta glasses, it’s always morally correct
December 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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junlper.beer
everyone needs to start pirating movies and TV shows again NOW
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 2d
Netflix Wins the Warner Bros. Discovery Bidding War, Enters Exclusive Deal Talks (Netflix offering $30 a share and a $5 billion break-up fee) www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...
December 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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mikescollins.bsky.social
Mad Men 4K
"I feel bad for you" meme with a boom operator saying "We're having sweetgreen for lunch"
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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roryblank.bsky.social
The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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dasharez0ne.bsky.social
HAPPY THANKSGIVIG - dashare.zone ADMIN
SKELITEN DRESS AS A TURKJEY "JUST WALK OUT , YOU CAN LEAVE " : FOOTBALL YELLING, PRAYERS AT TABLE, MEAT NOT AS GOOD AS CHICIEN, GET A COLD FROM A BABY, ROLLS ANND PIE ONLY GOOD PART, NO ONE TRIED MY TOFUKEY, HAVE TO SMOKE WEED IN SECRET, POLITICS UNCLE SUSPICIOUSLY QUIET, PIE RANKING ALL WRONG, HATE CONGRESS WRONG REASON, IF IT SUCKS HIT THE BRICKS, REAL WINNERS QUIT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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mrpostsgood.bsky.social
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
gerritd.bsky.social Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social · 11d
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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jamellebouie.net
this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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crushbort.bsky.social
imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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gregk.co.uk
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", ", and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly.
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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cpearsall242.bsky.social
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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warren.senate.gov
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Why would I work my ass off to provide valuable goods and services to my community when I can become a trillionaire by scamming rubes
helldude.bsky.social rich traditions @helldude.bsky.social · 22d
too much of the economy now is not built around solving a problem or meeting a need
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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katelynburns.com
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
police dressed as military in front of a police tank police dressed in camo like soldiers like total knobs cops dressed head to toe in camo like full kit wankers
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
On Armistice Day, I think about this recreated soundscape of the moment the guns fell silent on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.

A testament to the arbitrariness of war as much as anything else www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/l...
Listen to the Moment the Guns Fell Silent, Ending World War I
A new exhibit at the Imperial War Museum uses seismic data collected during the war to recreate the moment the Armistice went into effect
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
drewmcd.bsky.social
I just realized this also works
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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theverge.com
The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop.

Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...
a Verge headline: The algorithm failed music Illustration: A colorful waveform starts to pixelate
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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criterionchannl.bsky.social
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper make sparks BALL OF FIRE (1941) — Howard Hawks's snappy screwball take on the Snow White tale.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM