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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 5h

When I walk up to accept my academy award I hope the announcer mentions that I went to the same high school as Max Fried as a fun fact

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 12h

This is the guy who Substack's founders fell in love with, did podcasts with, and otherwise promoted. I knew those guys some after launching my newsletter, and we chatted sometimes, so I asked them why in the hell they'd do that. They said, basically, all opinions matter. That's when I bailed.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 13h

I consider it my duty to remind everyone that JCO is a broken clock if a broken clock had a gun and shot the right person twice a day and the wrong people all the other times

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 15h

Pete Hesgeth is stripping the military of anyone who would think Ferris Bueller is a righteous dude

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18h

“I knew that he was going to start deporting people, but that he was going to go after bad criminals, like true hardcore criminals, rapists, killers,” And frankly, we’re not going to really get anywhere until we deconstruct what people mean when they say this.

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Samantha Burns @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ok so this is bad and it looks seriously bad, but as someone who frequently has to search for tweets on google, this is unfortunately very normal for their SEO. they often pull the replies and make it appear as the account itself is tweeting it until you click through

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“If you don’t move, she can’t see you.”

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taber @kvetch.gay · 30/09/2026

a way people try to do a lil antisemitism, as a treat is "oh it's (subset of Jews) that I hate, not Jews" and the response to that is, baby. many of us are very annoying, but we still deserve to be safe from discrimination and harassment. Mr. Mamdani has met enough annoying Jews that he *must* care

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every time an appraiser handles Confederate memorabilia I want them to refer to the soldier as a “traitorous loser” but alas

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes when I’m sad I tell all my problems to Linda In Accounting and I feel better.

Photo of a grey and white terrier and chihuahua mix named Tunnel. She’s adorable despite being a mix of two chaotic breeds. She has a white Mohawk, which is naturally occurring. She’s lying curled up in a file box on a sweater with a knit toy, and I’ve placed my square tortoise shell glasses on her face. It gives her a very wide and inquisitive appearance.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am dogsitting a friend’s tiny dog for the next week and I am so excited about the imminent rookie x tunnel content

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really burying the lede here on this one lol "The Democratic Party's unfavorable rating was the same as the DSA's at 55%, but its favorable rating was higher, at 44%. The Republican Party's unfavorable rating was higher than the Democratic Party's, at 58% & its favorable rating was lower, at 41%."

thenationaldesk.com

Poll: 55% of voters view DSA unfavorably, compared to 30% favorably

According to a Fox News poll, 55% of registered voters view the Democratic Socialists of America unfavorably, compared to 30% who view them favorably.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 29/09/2026

I wrote about the end of the MAGA makeover, the aesthetic normalization of bigotry, and the mall store selling fascist sweatshirts to teenage girls. New for @theflytrapmedia.com!!

theflytrapmedia.com

The 'MAGA Makeover' is Over, and Its Replacement is (Even More) Terrifying

Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.

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Michael @masmus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would like to ride the earthquake simulator

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Worth the wait

Joey Votto, legendary first baseman and human at Game 1 of the wild card game. He is wearing an epic blue and red blazer, sky blue tie with small black box patter, and crisp white shirt.

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nerdydodger @nerdydodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

baseball baddies. as you cheer for the Phils, the Barves, or chaos please if you are able consider donating to our #bracketszn fundraiser! with everything going on outside of baseball raising money for domestic violence charities feels even more important

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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I mean, fair.

She also shared that the museum has not been financially stable for some time, stating that on average, the museum spends about $1.3 million per year and generates about $470,000 in revenue. She said the university has explored financing tools like federal museum funding, STAR bonds or a dedicated property or sales tax levy, but none have proved viable.
Mason said that FHSU is partnering with the FHSU Foundation to launch a fundraising campaign. However, she said that to keep the museum open, FHSU would need about $1 million in new revenue every year, which cannot be solved by a one-time gift or a single fundraiser. The building that houses the Sternberg Museum also faces more than $20 million in deferred maintenance.
Mason shared that the university will still need to make additional cuts to reach the $2.4 million legislative budget reduction. Some additional changes the university has made includes pausing the school's golf program, reducing staff and payroll at the Office of the President and stepping down as the state host for the Small Business Development Center.

She also said that she understands the frustration felt in the community, however, the university "cannot absorb repeated, deep legislative reductions and simultaneously preserve everything our community.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is going to be *so* destructive to North American paleontology, for both the Cretaceous Interior Seaway and Neogene mammals. All because of state-level ideologies that hold tax cuts and slashing spending are the only thing that can ever be done.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026

Women: hey can we have functional pockets on our clothes? Society:

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.

An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was totally baffled by this—I thought maybe I missed something. Because why would she go to police if she said it was all consensual? It turns out the DA was playing language games: Doe described what happened to her, and *prosecutors* made a legal determination that what happened wasn’t a crime.

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Kimista @kimista.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everything she says is true. They are constantly moving and you cannot go to the toilet mid movie without missing 3 twists. I did really enjoy it though, and it is so nice to see a disaster movie about a Mum and kid instead of a lone angry man. (If you're a Mum it is an intense watch).

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The local country station has not played Choosin’ Texas in three hours, I’m still not sure how not having heard it is my fault bsky.app/profile/denn...

Screenshots of the last hour of songs played on go country 105, LA’s country station. Tons of men, no Choosin’ Texas (but an inexplicable inclusion of Boston By Stella Lefty)

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember when the president of Cornell got so mad at some anti-Israeli-genocide protestors on campus he tried to hit some of his own students with his car?

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I stood outside in shock, trying to process what I’d just learned and that though crept in. Maybe I’d overreacted by leaving. But, even wo the SA part, I was sitting there watching guys in their 40s prey on two 23 yos. And my presence, my willingness to shrug it off, was an endorsement.

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A few years ago I was at a hangout with a 40 year old twitter mutual and a few of his friends, and the 23 year old he was dating at the time. I texted a friend of ours, bc it was weird she wasn’t there, and she told me he had assaulted her. I called a Lyft and realized my presence is an endorsement.

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m watching a PBS nature episode about walruses, and it is very apparently unlike every other species of mammal, walrus pups are actually less cute than their adult forms. Without the tusks, they just look like the larval Godzilla in Shin Godzilla

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everyone stop yelling about iced coffee or whatever and start yelling about how flamazing this makeup tray looks

Close up to show detail. In the center there is gold and sparkly pink text that reads “you totally look flamazing” a pun that makes no sense outside of the context of the canvas. This is because forming a border above and below the words are two rows of 9 flamingos. The background is a dark blue with a stitch called nobuku, which gives it a little texture. There are two neon green palm trees on either side of the words

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Makenna @makfmartin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

happy game 162! can we get to $3,000 by the end of the day before we’re left to twiddle our thumbs during the bye week? GOOOOO DODGERSSSSSS 💙💙💙⚾️⚾️⚾️🔥🔥🔥🔥 fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/GoDodgers...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Screenshot from Letterkenny of a guy with a short beard and a grey shirt wearing a Star of David saying “basically, Jews always prevail.”

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Kat La Ronde @katlaronde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t listen to the radio. Once a year I go to a break fast at Amanda’s place and one of her gay friends will play good music and that is how I’ll learn about, say, Chappel Rown.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Verlander being taken out of his final game: aww, it's his daughter! he's crying! we're crying! how can you not be romantic about baseball! Scherzer being taken out of his (maybe) final game: and Scherzer is baring his teeth ... and there's the bite! it'll take a few minutes to clean up the blood

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

lol this may be the best thing I’ve ever made

Photo of finished canvas in an acrylic tray.canvas has two rows of pink flamingos and a dark blue background and then “you totally look flamazing” written in the center in sparkly gold and pink thread

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Personally I think there’s a much more interesting conversation to have about how music streams can have no impact on the monoculture despite breaking records but sure I guess “cultural cache” works too

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching Tony Vitello argue with the umpire is a real “can’t they both lose” moment for me

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I like that #bracketszn2026 comes a few days after Yom Kippur, donating to Peace Over Violence and analyzing my attraction to 32 men is always a fun way to start the year. That being said, the exclusion of Benny Biceps is a travesty fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/GoDodgers...

2026 bracket, with my winner as Shohei but really we’re all winners look at these guys * *not you Blake

Blank tournament style template is:
Left side:

Shohei v treinan
Alex call v tanner scott
Freddie freeman v Alex Sheehan
Tommy Rodman v Edgardo Henrique’s
Tyler Glasgow v Andy pages
Hyseong Kim v Roki sasaki
Max muncy v Kyle Tucker
Alex vesia v Alex freeland

Rght side:
Will smith v Edwin Diaz
Justin wrobleski v Evan Phillips
Mookie betts v jack dreyer
Dalton rushing v Miguel Rojas
Kiké Hernández v Brock Stuart
Josue de Paula v Tarikskubal
Teoscar Hernandez v Blake snell
Yoshinobu Yamamoto v hunter Fedducia

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TwoSense @twosense.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Interviewer: what’s your greatest weakness Me: (straw slurping) probably iced coffee

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

idk I am not trying to tell the ad people at Tubi what to do but I just don’t think old episodes of Antiques Roadshow on the right place for sports gambling ads.

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