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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 14h

HERSHEL AND THE HANUKKAH GOBLINS (Kimmel 1989)

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since i can't seem to get my mind off this, i did the math, because there are currently "the camps" in the US. last ice published stats on trans people in there, there were 47, out of ~60000, which is to say that trans women are _wildly less represented in "the camps" than the us populace_

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jae (hallowed) @fubarchitect.com · 18h

of marginalized groups of posters with reasons to be posting insane shit about camps, trans women sit behind almost everyone else. there are more, specifically, gay male brazillians, both by percentage and by sheer count, than trans women, in """the camps"""

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 18h

under old scottish law, you just gotta let someone go after a failed execution because the sentence has been carried out

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simon’s decrepit corpse (not a halloween thing just old) @trillymopena.bsky.social · 20h

Absolutely fucked that students still walk into some con law seminar and one of the Torture Memo guys is at the front of the classroom.

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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 21h

Hey all, an Israeli friend of mine just asked me to promote this fundraiser that supports protective presence against settler terror. All the money goes directly to supporting Palestinian families. www.drove.com/campaign/6ab...

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Keep Settler Terror Outside the Fence

In the occupied West Bank, violent settler militias attack Palestinian families almost every night. As the violence continues to escalate, we need to take our protection efforts one step further. Alon...

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 21h

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 23h

Documented in 1974 during the filming of Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (Gojira tai Mekagojira), this candid snapshot marks the 20th anniversary of Toho's iconic Godzilla franchise.

Captured in a stark monochrome studio photograph, the looming suit of Mechagodzilla stands in gentle juxtaposition beside a mother holding her child and two young girls visiting the set. On the left, the mechanical monster boasts riveted metallic plating, angular dorsal fins, and a jagged, open jaw, while overhead studio scaffolding and stage rigging expose the physical mechanics of the Toho film lot. Standing in serene contrast to the imposing suit, the visiting family poses calmly in classic 1970s winter attire, their quiet expressions bridging the gap between cinematic fantasy and domestic warmth. The image evokes an intimate sensory atmosphere: the scent of molded rubber, freshly sprayed paint, and warm incandescent studio lamps, the subtle hum of stage rigging, and the gentle hush that settles over a busy film set between takes.
Documented in 1974 during the filming of Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (Gojira tai Mekagojira), this candid snapshot marks the 20th anniversary of Toho's iconic Godzilla franchise. Directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects supervised by Teruyoshi Nakano, the film introduced Mechagodzilla—conceived by designer Akihiko Iguchi—as one of Godzilla's most enduring and formidable antagonists. Built by master artisans at Kaikai Productions and brought to life by suit actor Kazunari Mori, the Mechagodzilla suit represents a high watermark of Japanese tokusatsu (special effects) and suitmation art. Decades before digital CGI transformed special effects cinema, Japanese filmmaking relied upon hand-sculpted suits, miniature cityscapes, and practical suitcraft, standing as a triumphant manifestation of monozukuri (artisanal mastery and material ingenuity) in 20th-century pop culture history.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The number of YT comments on this one: "But mutual aid!" My guy... slavery is de facto legal in this country. We ain't gonna fix that with food pantries & bail funds.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Farm workers really, really, really need you to vote. Farm slavery is a very real multi-million business in this country. And Trump struck down major anti-slavery rules for farms last year. "Both parties are the same" Ok... Not for farm workers, they're not!

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What if I told you mutual aid is also an imperfect half-measure what then

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Everett Sloane in the Orson Welles film "The Lady from Shanghai" (with Rita Hayworth) - BOTD

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 01/10/2026

Great thread to read if you respond to every paywall like someone has shot you in the chest

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still waiting to find out whether 'anyone in Israeli leadership who let October 7th happen should not have a molecule of power today' is a Zionist or antizionist position.

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Giled Pallaeon @giledpallaeon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No, this is horrific, but it is also completely typical of industrial age urban combat where at least one side is not interested in collateral damage mitigation. Westerners not involved in the defense business just tend to memory hole this. See Stalingrad, Grozny, Aleppo, and most Ukrainian battles.

Destruction at the Battle of Stalingrad. Image from Radio Free Europe https://www.rferl.org/amp/stalingrad-photo-gallery/24691866.html

Destruction in Grozny, Chechnya, after Russian bombing. Practically the entire city was rebuilt after the 1990s. Image courtesy of BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60631433

Destruction in Aleppo c 2016. Photo taken from Atlantic Council. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/breaking-aleppo/

Severodonetsk, in only June of 2022. Courtesy of BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61811161

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This sort of heroism will age far far better than anything happening at a Trump rally.

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⚡חשמל⚡ @erraticstatic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is a good time for me to remind folks to support @standing-together.bsky.social I can personally vouch for them!

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We don't curse Newt Gingrich enough for destroying congressional staffing

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They worked together to set up the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” which was an American company that worked with Israel to control aid distribution in Gaza. This is after the dissolution of USAID - it took its place. This was the Trump admin’s first priority. It was established in Feb. 2025.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Normalize saying that Elon Musk committed crimes against humanity and that he had a big role in killing a projected 14 million people.

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Majestic Twelve (plus one for spooky szn) @majestic12.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey look! Let’s shit on democrats for *checks notes* doing the right thing.

The party-line vote was 53 to 47. While the bill adds more constraints on
lawmaker stock trading than what exists under the current law, all Democrats opposed it, saying it did not go far enough to outright end the practice. Democrats also disapproved of the Republican decision to attach changes to voter ID requirements to the legislation.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if you begin feminist history at #MeToo then it's easy to despair that nothing has changed (or that some things have actually gotten worse). if you take a much longer view though things have changed so much! the little gestures we make today are adding up to something we can't see yet!

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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's a lot of confusion about what Covid-19 RNA in wastewater is telling us. Here's data from Biobot for the United States. Currently Covid-19 RNA concentrations are elevated *relative* to recently (a real "wave") but absolute levels are low compared to the height of the pandemic.

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Keeping an eye out @yanshuf09.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rule of thumb: if the democrats blocked a bill that overall sounds good? Check the amendments, see if there's poison pills, and decide for yourself if the pill was poisonous enough to force a block

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Tremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline.

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Deanna Something @deannatheanalyst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Republicans added a voter ID section to this, that's why it got blocked.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Easy. The past sucked, and people in the past were frequently evil. If you were alive in 1858 or 1930 or 1939 or even 1955 it might have been hard to imagine the social progress we now take for granted. There probably seemed no path out due to the wickedness of men. Yet, somehow, we improved.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 30/09/2026

Harris was screaming it from the rooftops but the media failed us once again.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 30/09/2026

Again, *Harris was literally telling everyone constantly how inhumane Trump's plans were! You don't have to lie about this, Andrew!

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i think two things can be true: 1. biden should've had red lines with israel* 2. the oft repeated notion that he could stop it all with a phone call was wildly out (& that was clear at the time)

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

We have got to excise cancerous, reactionary growths from the movement, or else we lose the movement to fascists wearing a different colored armband.

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Biden literally did the mythical One Phone Call that would stop Israel in it's tracks, &... it didn't stop Israel in it's tracks.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes! What we’re seeing is the spread of a pervasive social norm where constant lurid expressions of misery and pessimism are de rigueur. People can’t see it because they’re part of it. But it’s obvious when you talk to groups who have every reason to be pessimistic, and they don’t have it.

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🐈‍⬛️כעלעמער קאַץ @orphanim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

satanism is just a branch of protestantism

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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

re: satanism is a branch of Protestantism I also have bad news about theosophy

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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like a major lesson of Trump is that people like him will act in bad faith or violate the law no matter what, so it's literally not possible to Trump-proof a policy except through robust removal and punishment provisions for people like Trump.

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Hellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

not to devalue the moral consequences of the Bush era, but Trump has shifted the "The Discourse" to like, core questions of whether virtue matters, if we should have a national conscience or just nihilistic rage at a world we can't control. it's more "temptation by the Devil" than policy debates

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

In an alternate universe, DESERT FURY was remade in 1987 as an erotic thriller where everyone is bisexual. I mean, more bisexual than they already are.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The unemployment rate during the Great Recession was more than 2x as high, real wages were lower, and the health insurance situation was significantly worse

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really don’t think that’s the case. I do think that probably these people hate femininity, which they see as weakness. But that doesn’t mean that they are secretly gay or trans. And I think that it does damage to insist that they are. Maybe some are, but definitely not all.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

She was fully on board with this caravan bullshit when it inspired the Tree of Life shooter. Stop handing it to MTG.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not Iran targeting *Belgium* It's Iran targeting *Jews*

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 27/09/2026

While EVERY race for EVERY office is important, I'm still urging folks to focus heavily on STATE LEGISLATIVE races, especially in ALASKA ARIZONA GEORGIA IOWA MICHIGAN MINNESOTA NEW HAMPSHIRE PENNSYLVANIA WISCONSIN Blue26.org/state

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State Legislative

Links on this page allow you to easily donate to multiple Democrats running for state legislative seats in every state! Competitive District pages list Democrats running in districts which have a par...

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