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Kat Abughazaleh

@katmabu.bsky.social

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.

January 31, 2026 at 4:53 PM

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Feymien (giveaway pinned)

@feymien.bsky.social

Since the second one is slowly filling up, here's the OG starter pack for trans and/or non-binary artists, with 150 awesome artists to follow 💙

go.bsky.app/52jBDmM

Please check them out!

I'll also be linking the second one below, as well as the NSFW artist version 💙

January 30, 2026 at 6:23 AM

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

A year ago: We need TAXES on the WEALTHY

Now: We need a cleansing fire

January 31, 2026 at 4:40 PM

Orestria 🖤💀🤍💜

@orestria.bsky.social

The best gay story this anime season isn't the bean counter BL, isn't the noble gentle man vacation 'i can't believe it's not BL'
but the invisible man and his soon-to-be-wife

January 31, 2026 at 2:08 AM

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Maven Raven

@mavenraven.bsky.social

Another #DnD commission finished~

January 30, 2026 at 9:01 PM

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@orestria.bsky.social

And that's all for my first impressions thread!

21 anime I haven't dropped yet, QUITE a difference from last season! You can subscribe at youtube.com/orestria to make sure you don't miss the full Fall 2025 review video when it comes out and follow me here for anime takes and Spring 2026 impressions

January 25, 2026 at 5:11 AM

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CastBound🔞

@castbound.bsky.social

Reminding everyone, PLEASE, DO NOT sub to your favorite content creators through phone apps as it not only charges you more, it also takes a higher % from us AND to top it all off blocks the money from being received for 30 fucking days for some goddamned reason.

Kenno Arkkan✨✨raffle sketchcomms next 02/07✨✨ @kenno-arkkan.bsky.social · 3d

For fucks sake, again with the apple/patreon bullshit. I have to move to monthly billing and fuck me over www.patreon.com/posts/148395...

13 years on your platform. Thanks for nothing patreon. I hope the apple dick is that good.

Apple has reimposed its subscription billing mandate for creators on Patreon | Patreon for Creators

www.patreon.com

January 28, 2026 at 7:54 PM

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Papa Warden, Urban Legend

@ceedro.bsky.social

Crunchyroll’s YouTube channel will have the first 3 episodes of “Sentenced to Be a Hero” available to watch this afternoon…for anyone curious and without a subscription.

January 29, 2026 at 10:22 AM

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Rachel Gilmore

@rachelgilmore.bsky.social

🚨Want to know which Canadian companies are profiting off of ICE and Trump’s violent mass deportation agenda?

Well I just spent the last few days digging into exactly that.

Here are the companies I found, how much they’re making, and whether they’re getting Canadian taxpayer dollars.

Sneak peek:

January 28, 2026 at 11:24 PM

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Dennis Detwiller

@drgonzo123.bsky.social

January 28, 2026 at 1:37 PM

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Ed Lynch

@goatburgler.bsky.social

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This image is a meme using characters from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to express a strong opinion on labor strikes within the video game industry.
The first character asks if game developers should strike.
The second character responds that all exploited workers should strike.
The first asks if this is true even if it disrupts the industry.
The second emphasizes that it should happen especially if it causes disruption.

January 28, 2026 at 1:12 PM

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Governor JB Pritzker

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution.

If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."

January 26, 2026 at 7:33 PM

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Unseen Japan

@unseenjapan.com

Today in Very Important Research: Shipping company Yamato (known for its "black cat" logo) decided to discover which kotatsu was most beloved by cats. After three test runs at five different temperatures, "researchers" said they... had no idea, actually.

January 27, 2026 at 6:01 AM

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Council of Geeks

@councilofgeeks.bsky.social

I'm not saying world building doesn't matter. I'm not saying world building isn't something worth doing. I'm not saying world building doesn't enhance a work.

But more writers need to get it in their heads that if nobody is engaged by the characters and story it won't matter how built the world is.

January 26, 2026 at 8:01 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7d

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM

Orestria 🖤💀🤍💜

@orestria.bsky.social

And that's all for my first impressions thread!

21 anime I haven't dropped yet, QUITE a difference from last season! You can subscribe at youtube.com/orestria to make sure you don't miss the full Fall 2025 review video when it comes out and follow me here for anime takes and Spring 2026 impressions

January 25, 2026 at 5:11 AM

Orestria 🖤💀🤍💜

@orestria.bsky.social

prism rondo
love through a prism

I mean. I guess that was fine. It certainly has an interesting time period and subject matter to work with and looks great. But I also knew everything that was going to happen 5 minutes before it happened.

Anime poster for Prism Rondo. The words 'Prism Rondo' written in Japanese in white are prominent taking up most of the top of hte poster. 8 characters are standing in front of an oldfashioned building. They're all quite sharply dressed. Half are men and half are women.

January 25, 2026 at 5:08 AM

Orestria 🖤💀🤍💜

@orestria.bsky.social

high school! kimengumi (2026)

The lesbian pornbot anime gave me more laughs than this comedy gag anime.

A group of 5 unattractive in caricature-esque ways guys pose wildly in identical maroon school uniforms. Behind them are many different rectangles crammed in showing other characters in front of a pastel blue background and a barely visible shot of the school they go to.

January 25, 2026 at 3:54 AM

Orestria 🖤💀🤍💜

@orestria.bsky.social

android wa keiken ninzuu ni hairimasu ka??
does it count if you lose your innocence to an android

Oh it's PORN porn.
Straight up lesbian porn.

A redhaired woman in business clothes reacts in shock to a purple haired woman in a purple dress lovingly clinging to her.

January 25, 2026 at 3:20 AM

Orestria 🖤💀🤍💜

@orestria.bsky.social

uruwashi no yoi no tsuki
in the clear moonlit dusk

I feel like this is a concept made for me, but it's not grabbing me. I thought I would love the main girl but I'm liking the main guy way more. Ionno. I'm super on the fence.

Two anime characters sit looking at each other in a classroom. The light from the windows is overwhelming to the point the background looks mostly white. Sitting lower is an adrogynous girl who could easily pass for a guy but her uniform skirt is in view. Her face is being held gently by the man, who is raised up some, being crouched rather than sitting. He has white hair and a pink shirt under his fully open white uniform shirt.

January 25, 2026 at 2:17 AM

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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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Andy Craig

@andycraig.bsky.social

Them, but also more directly: 285 people out of 535 could end all this (218 + 67). That fact should not be treated as an "oh they'll never do it" shrug, as if they don't have agency. They should be hammered constantly as traitors and cowards every day they don't.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8d

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

January 23, 2026 at 10:56 PM

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Bill Kristol

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM

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Claire

@baseball-broad.bsky.social

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:

1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account

Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

WIRED @wired.com · 8d

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...