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guillotine 🍉 destroy ice @sasaboba.is.bi · Nov 11

i got smoke for the republicans who routinely hold americans hostage by starving them and stripping them of basic human rights while they have their billionaire gatsby parties and steal $$. look at the facts laid out to you by @dossdiscourse.bsky.social (vid on ig). the gop hates you too! wake up!

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kwisatz haderade (hootie hoo edition)

@booksandbows.bsky.social

they won’t do shit. i wish everyone would stop preemptively cowering before losers who will fold the minute they don’t have daddy protecting them.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Even under a best case scenario — Dems take the WH in 2028, ICE and BP are abolished or rebuilt from scratch — we’re still going to have thousands of angry, unemployed, well-armed, MAGA loyalist former immigration cops who have been told for 3-4 years that they’re above the law.

February 2, 2026 at 5:43 AM

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George Park

@georgeparkart.bsky.social

A funny-looking friend

February 2, 2026 at 5:54 AM

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Manda

@mandaamsbt.bsky.social

🔴live~
wrapping this illustration up before working on a char ref sheet for twitch @/strippin!!
www.twitch.tv/manda
#mandastream <- mute to hide going live notifs

February 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

Protect independent journalists at all costs.

Screenshot of an X post by Kelly (@broadwaybabyto, 11h) saying: “Remember how much noise we made for Colbert and Kimmel when they were being silenced? Make that noise for Don Lemon. Make it for Georgia Foot. We need their voices, their courage & bravery.” The post quote-tweets philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_, 11h) saying Don Lemon spoke outside the courtroom after release and won’t be silenced. Below is a video thumbnail showing Don Lemon speaking to media outdoors; a chyron reads “DON LEMON ADDRESSES MEDIA AFTER COURT,” with “BREAKING NEWS” and “LIVE” graphics.

January 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM

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Wajahat Ali

@wajali.bsky.social

Don Lemon arrested but no pedophile billionaires

January 30, 2026 at 7:10 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”

January 31, 2026 at 4:54 AM

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HasanTheHun (automated mirror)

@hasanabirepeater.bsky.social

you CAN say nazi pig on twitch
you CAN say democrat pig
you can say republican pig
you can say islamist pig

you CANNOT say zionist pig

the adl which is an arm of israel's supression in the west that works w/ law enforcement & does espionage has made it a bannable offense.

January 30, 2026 at 11:30 AM

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HasanTheHun (automated mirror)

@hasanabirepeater.bsky.social

pay close attention to who’s silent about the new epstein drops 👀

January 31, 2026 at 7:42 PM

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Daniel José Older

@djolder.bsky.social

Everyone on tiktok has the chance to do the funniest thing ever right now (get off tiktok)

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

There are a lot of straws on this camel’s back, and Ellison has added one more in the form of TikTok’s US operations (which bleed billions of dollars a year) and with the direction of the algorithm, the idea of a user exodus isn’t unthinkable.
www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide...

You probably are wondering why I didn’t talk about Oracle becoming a partial owner of the US version of TikTok, and that’s because I wanted to save the best for last.

Oracle has, for some time, been TikTok’s official US infrastructure partner. Per TechCrunch:

Oracle will serve as the trusted security partner, responsible for auditing and ensuring compliance with National Security Terms, according to a memo. The company already provides cloud services for TikTok and manages user data in the U.S. Notably, Oracle previously made a bid for TikTok back in 2020.
Here’s another great factoid about TikTok: it loses billions and billions of dollars:

TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, doesn’t disclose TikTok’s financial performance. But ByteDance investors estimate TikTok lost several billion dollars last year on revenue of roughly $20 billion.
Now that ByteDance isn’t principally responsible for the health of the app, and within a few days of the deal closing, its algorithm went to dogshit. While TikTok is attempting to claim that a power outage was to blame, anybody with even a basic knowledge of anything knows that the most likely reason behind the deterioration is Oracle diddling with the algorithm itself, as TechCrunch reported it would:

A White House official previously said Oracle would replicate and secure a new U.S. version of the algorithm, and the U.S.-based TikTok owners could lease the algorithm from ByteDance, which Oracle will then retrain.

So, let’s review:

Oracle has already fucked with the TikTok algorithm, the main reason people use the app, and people using the app is how the app makes money (by serving them ads).
TikTok was already losing billions of dollars.
Larry Ellison’s wealth is almost entirely tied to his shares of Oracle.
Oracle’s shares are tied to the health of the company, and said shares are already losing value because of Oracle’s egregious debt.
This situation will only improve if Oracle is able to build data centers that are behind schedule and it does not yet have the capital to build, requiring debt that bankers are hesitant to provide.
Even if successful, if OpenAI cannot pay for the compute, Oracle’s shares will slide into oblivion.
All the while, Oracle just bought into one of its largest cloud customers, and is currently in the process of making its business less-valuable.
Great stuff.

January 30, 2026 at 7:04 PM

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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics

@portaltohades.bsky.social

I got in an a fight w/ a film student in college when I showed him proof that Inception lifted scenes from Kon's Paprika & he still denied it. He then dared to say "well animation is easier so Inception is the superior film" and i saw red aha

Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 3d

Satoshi Kon talks about how Requiem for a Dream took from his film Perfect Blue (1997)

January 30, 2026 at 7:08 PM

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Matt Bors

@mattbors.bsky.social

Worthwhile thread from a labor reporter I respect.

Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 3d

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

January 30, 2026 at 7:28 PM

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Rich

@hopstache.bsky.social

No way, I would have never expected this from the owner of the on-demand CSAM generator

January 30, 2026 at 6:16 PM

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Joe Sonka 😐

@joesonka.lpm.org

OK, so Musk was requesting to attend the wildest party on Epstein's Island, I will grant you that. But who doesn't love a party? I mean, it's not like he was looking for love in all the wrong places or anything.

January 30, 2026 at 7:54 PM

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Greg Pak

@gregpak.net

Repulsive creep. Anyone doing business with Musk is filth.

Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 3d

Shot and chaser from new Epstein batch

January 30, 2026 at 7:44 PM

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Trung Le Nguyen

@trungles.com

Phoenix

A young woman with red hair in a green leotard superhero costume with gold accents is bathed in flame.

January 30, 2026 at 5:01 AM

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This Does Not Compute

@thisdoesnotcompute.bsky.social

You should delete TikTok.

January 29, 2026 at 2:05 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

More TikTok shenanigans — users are reporting the word “Epstein” won’t go through in Direct messages 🤔

January 27, 2026 at 3:48 AM

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Saeed Jones

@theferocity.bsky.social

TikTok was sold overnight and the algorithm immediately became trash.

January 27, 2026 at 3:37 PM

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Greg Pak

@gregpak.net

Just deleted my TikTok account.

Please note that if you open TikTok on a web browser, it will ask you to accept a new TOS.

DO NOT ACCEPT THE TOS!

You can click through to settings and delete your account WITHOUT accepting the new TOS.

January 27, 2026 at 9:03 PM

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Robert Reich

@rbreich.bsky.social

TikTok misusing our personal data was bad.

TikTok now being partly controlled by a Trump-aligned billionaire family and one of his biggest political donors who also owns other major media outlets is even worse.

January 26, 2026 at 11:31 PM