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Mara Wilson

@marawilson.bsky.social

Girl, if you really had a problem with “child pornography” you’d get the fuck off of Twitter

Sam Shirazi @samshirazi.bsky.social · 5h

Honestly can’t tell if it’s a bit at this point

January 30, 2026 at 12:21 AM

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✨brit✨

@britculpsapp.bsky.social

just choked on my beverage

daendeleon 2d
@ Threads
Greg Bovino was asked how he felt about his demotion today. "Well, obviously, I'm not happy", he replied.
Someone in the crowd shouted back, "So which one are you?"

January 29, 2026 at 11:19 PM

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ceeks

@ceeks.bsky.social

“we know you’re eating a hot dog”

January 29, 2026 at 8:55 PM

Charlie

@theuptownfive.bsky.social

Ilhan Omar has so much swag.

Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 8h

😍

January 29, 2026 at 8:19 PM

Charlie

@theuptownfive.bsky.social

The Steve Earle Justin Townes Earle cover album has some nice moments on it.

January 29, 2026 at 7:56 PM

Charlie

@theuptownfive.bsky.social

Money Jungle by Ellington, Roach, and Mingus makes me feel like how watching that Dream Team intersquad scrimmage video made me feel.

January 29, 2026 at 3:20 PM

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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)

@kleinman.bsky.social

Maybe this is maudlin but I feel like we need some type of Oscars montage for the posters we lost this year. Guys like Dan McQuade, Mike Fossey and Kaleb Horton contributed so much to online culture, but everything about it is so impermanent. People need to know who they were.

January 29, 2026 at 1:26 AM

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Parker Molloy

@parkermolloy.com

Drowning High Five refers to a comic by Russian artist Gudim showing a hand reaching out of water, evidently belonging to a drowning person. Another hand comes in and gives the drowning hand a high five. The comic has been used as a reaction image and object labeling exploitable.

Obama's "here's a podcast" line is in the third panel

January 28, 2026 at 5:06 PM

Charlie

@theuptownfive.bsky.social

I'm also prepared for a new home because I hate this one's sewage ejector pump and I wish I had a basement.

Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 1d

ESPN story on the Milwaukee Bucks starting to listen to aggressive offers on 2021 Finals MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is prepared for a new home at the trade deadline or in the offseason:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47755088/sources-giannis-antetokounmpo-ready-bucks-trade-amid-offers

Sources: Giannis Antetokounmpo ready for Bucks trade amid offers

Giannis Antetokounmpo is ready for a new home ahead of the trade deadline as several teams have made aggressive offers to the Bucks, league sources told ESPN.

www.espn.com

January 28, 2026 at 4:32 PM

Charlie

@theuptownfive.bsky.social

I was raised on MASH so I celebrate Alan Alda whenever I can.

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 1d

And, as a final testament to Alan Alda on his 90th birthday, let us never forget that he was not just a strong advocate for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, he was literally chairman of Men For The ERA & traveled the country for it for YEARS while starring in one of the top-rated TV shows

• Rocky Mount, N.C. Telegram Tues., Jan. 23, 1979-6 Alan Alda Talks On The N Necessity Of The ERA BY BARBARA FUSSELL Telegram Family Editor "I have come here to North Carolina to plead with North Carolinians to extend to all of the people of this country the same rights that now only a minority of the people in the country have," Alan Alda said in a speech in Elizabeth City Saturday. Alda, star of television's M-AS-H on which he plays the 1 role of Hawkeye, has been traveling throughout the United States to encourage support of the Equal Rights Amendment. "I have not come to North Carolina to tell the people of this state what to think, but I want to tell them about the necessity of the ERA," Alda said. The amendment will come up again for consideration at this year's session of the N.C. General Assembly. Thirty-five states have ratified the amendment. Thirty -eight must ratify it before June : 30, 1982 for it to become part of the U.S. Constitution. In some states, Alda said, laws exist which give women few rights if they should suddenly find themselves without their husbands. "I have h heard it said many times over that we want to protect the women in our lives, and yet by not putting the ERA into our Constitution, we are doing just the opposite." Alda said. "We are not now éven recognizing that women are people, according the Constitution, and salary scales show. how much, we really care about them. say that we want to put women ‹ on pedestals and keep them there. Well, I think it is time to bring them up from their pedestals and treat them as equals." Today 12 percent of the women in this country are heads of households and have the responsibility to support and maintain a home for themselves and their families, but they experience many roadblocks, Alda said. Alda is the father of three daughters, but said that is only part of the reason he supports passage of the amendment. "I don't want my daughters to have to shop around for a state to live in where they will have the same rights have," he said. "My daughters' are American citizens, and I want to know that they, as well as all the other women in this country, will have the same opportunities and rights to be treated as people just as men Dear Abby families under the ERA are unfounded. "We don't have to worry about * what would happen,' he said. "There are 14 states that now have ERAs in their state constitutions. Millions of people are now living under ERAs in those states, and no problems have developed which make those fears worth worrying about.' In Pennsylvania, Alda said, the passage of a state ERA has meant that women who have been homemakers while their hubands supported them now get credit for the value of their work when a divorce occurs. Before the state ERA was passed, Alda said, a woman involved in a divorce case was not entitled to any of the household goods unless she could prove she had paid for them with her own money. Now, he said, monetary and nor considered. contributions to a marriage are "This is an extraordinarily important principle," he said. "The work that homemakers do is now being valued. A bunch of flowers every once in a while is not the same as saying it is worth money, and it's worth money now in those 14 states." There has been no breakup of families, no striking down of protective labor laws, he said. "And," he added, "toilets have not been integrated. I'm sure you were waiting breathlessly for that news." . "A great injustice is being done to the women in this country as well as the men,' Alda says. "Most women have what they have as a privilege, but what happens should they find themselves without a man, then t they will find out that what they have is a privilege and not their right. "Men like to feel that they are protecting the women in their lives, and this is fine. We should protect them, but by protecting them we are also cutting them off and making things harder for them," Alda says. "If you really love the women in your lives, you will. protect them by giving them their rights and by letting them be recognized as persons in the U.S. Constitution and the only way this can be done is by the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. "The laws which now exist are valuable to women as well as to men, but they are not enforced and I do not say that with the passage of ERA that there will be any immediate overwhelming changing of things. It will still be a battle, but at the time of the passage of the amendment the struggle will begin and the Equal Rights Amendment will be a tool with which to work to fight the battle of equality in this country. "We love the women in our lives and we want to protect and love them, and I say, let's care enough about them to let them have the right to make their own decisions just as we as men have this right. The passage of ERA will not change the feelings or the love that we have for women, but will give them the equality that they should have," Alda says. "ERA is not dead in North Carolina and I implore the people of this state to say yes and to do it right now," Alda said. "We have an obligation and a responsibility to pass this amendment and to give women the rights with which they as people are entitled to have," Alda concluded. "The only thing wrong with the ERA is that we don't have it yet." Miss Blevins Is Wed Sheila Renee Blevins and James Elmer Savage, Jr., both of Rocky Mount, were united in marriage on Saturday, January 20, at 2. p. m. at Falls Road Baptist Church in Rocky Mount. The Reverend W. D. Hamrick officiated at the double-ring ceremony. The wedding was directed by Mrs. W. D. Hamrick of Rocky Mount. Wedding music was presented by organist Grady Howell and soloist Joe Peters, both of Rocky Mount. Given in marriage by her parents, the bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Blevins of Rocky Mount. The groom's parents are Mr. and Mrs. James Elmer Savage, Sr., a…

January 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM

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Joe Berkowitz

@joeberkowitz.bsky.social

Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.

MAGA fuckface in cozy red sweater, holding dog also wearing sweater, against a background of vivid red foliage.

Endlessly useful Zack Fox tweet from 2018: this how photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family. (it's a guy on a jetski with wife and daughter.)

January 28, 2026 at 2:59 PM

Charlie

@theuptownfive.bsky.social

Quote-posting this isn't going to help my problem, but the NYT follows me with this enough that I think I'm going to have to make it.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Both a whole chicken and noodles cook in the same vessel for a creamy meal that’s not just warming, it’s also so easy to clean up.

One-Pot Creamy Chicken and Noodles Recipe

Think of this warming dish as a relay race, each ingredient handing its flavor to the next During the (almost!) hands-off cooking, a head of garlic and a whole chicken stuffed with a Parmesan rind roast, then give themselves to salted water, which in turn flavors the egg noodles that soften around the bird Salt and water are your best tools here: Season the chicken, season the water and season both again

nyti.ms

January 28, 2026 at 4:14 PM

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Shameka 🏀

@shameka23.bsky.social

I’m CRYINGGGGG!! Kevin Durant really got a lotion deal with CeraVe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #NBA #Cerave #Ad

January 27, 2026 at 7:07 PM

Charlie

@theuptownfive.bsky.social

I’m as removed from the Amazon ecosystem as I can be without throwing tomatoes at passing delivery trucks so instead I’ll just give them a 🖕from my little soapbox.

RMJ=H @rmj.bsky.social · 1d

"In latest anti-bureaucracy push"

you mean, "anti-worker push"

CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

Amazon said Wednesday it plans to eliminate about 16,000 corporate jobs, marking its second round of mass job cuts since last October. cnb.cx/4korFst

January 28, 2026 at 2:30 PM

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The Jarmer Fones

@thefarmerjones.bsky.social

She took a half step back and then stepped AT this dude. ICE needs 30 masked guys each with their own body armor and assault rifle to even approach this level of courage.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 2d

video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight

January 28, 2026 at 1:27 AM

Charlie

@theuptownfive.bsky.social

I felt like a loss was coming when UNC got the lead from 16 to 9 at the half on Saturday. Hope ND is a little shook.

January 28, 2026 at 12:55 AM

Charlie

@theuptownfive.bsky.social

Virginia mbb, wyd

January 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM

Charlie

@theuptownfive.bsky.social

Better Oblivion Community Center made a good record.

January 27, 2026 at 8:41 PM

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Kristen Radtke

@kristenradtke.bsky.social

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

I grew up with Alex Pretti

The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

www.theverge.com

January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM

Charlie

@theuptownfive.bsky.social

There's so much stuff we could do with that money that could conceivably make Americans feel better taken care of and less alienated and prone to turn on whatever they can punch at, but we haven't figured that out yet.

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2d

fun chart for the "dunk on red states" crowd, but also shows a path to killing fascism dead: education.
take those ICE billions and spend it on schools in all 50 states. free college for all. we have the best higher ed system in the world, let more people be a part of it

January 27, 2026 at 3:52 PM