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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 3h

god I can't wait for election season to be over STOP TEXTING ME TO ASK FOR MONEY. I want the republicans to get absolutely fucked and lose in spectacular, historical, generational fashion, but I don't trust you bozos to spend it wisely after years of "send us $5 to stop trump now!" messages.

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 3h

"Society is set up to prioritize heterosexual reproduction, which has negative social, financial, and psychological consequences for people who for whatever reason do not participate" is not a new or controversial observation. It coexists with the fact that raising children is itself expensive.

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 3h

Like imagine if this post was set 15 years ago and it was a childless gay couple who were, 20+ years in, getting a bit tired of being treated like the Forever Fun Uncles who always had to pay airfare to visit their friends because they had no kids because they were barred from adopting.

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 3h

To characterize this post as incontrovertible evidence that this guy has been "seething with hatred and resentment for his entire life" seems like overstating the case by a lot. He's fine. He can have a party. The reactions seem to me like evidence of why he felt the need to ask.

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 3h

To me it sounds like this guy has been gamely playing the fun uncle to a bunch of his friend's kids for 20+ years and he's only NOW going "hey you know what, it's kind of shitty that there isn't an equivalent community support celebration for people like me" which seems...reasonable? He's not wrong!

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 3h

It’s really disturbing how fast and how far we’ve slid back into blatant, public homophobia that’s not even couched in “religious freedom” terms in politics

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

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The Daily Montanan @dailymontanan.com · 6h

The leader of the Montana Democratic Party has stepped down so she could endorse the independent candidate for U.S. Senate. She said the Democrat in the race, Alani Bankhead, doesn't have the will or campaign to beat the Republican Kurt Alme. dailymontanan.com/2026/10/12/m...

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Montana Democratic Party chairperson steps down, endorses independent US Senate candidate • Daily Montanan

Montana Democratic Party chairperson Shannon O’Brien announced Monday she was resigning her leadership position to endorse Seth Bodnar.

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 5h

whenever i can't remember a word, the one word that DOES inevitably pop into my mind and refuse to leave is always "aphasia"

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 5h

and while both groups do purport to provide general progressive voting advice and thus really should have taken a clear progressive stance here, it's also fairly normal for an activist group to have a specific focus that puts many measures or elections outside their purview. an actual party, though?

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 5h

i didn't catch that one, but i DID notice the time somebody said "padawan," which wasn't a thing until Phantom Menace in '99.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 6h

If your show takes place in the 80s, then WHY ARE THE KIDS PLAYING WITH THE POWER OF THE FORCE 2 MILLENNIUM FALCON THAT DIDN'T COME OUT UNTIL 1995?

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 6h

"I have used Claude to prove that Aaron Rodericks is a transphobe!" Wow. I proved that by using my eyes and ability to recognize patterns in people's behavior.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 6h

"Evil Tool, please prove that this other evil tool is a transphobe."

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worm / the wussy 🔞 @softandworm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The MXTX red blacks as magical girls! i tried to style them based off different flavours nehehehe

The MXTX red blacks as magical girls. Luo Binghe is very classic Shoujo a la Sailor Moon. Wei Wuxian has a newer more utilitarian design a la Utena/Penguin Drum. And Hua Cheng is Homura Madoka Magicka, obviously.

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worm / the wussy 🔞 @softandworm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Modern Bingyuan on a Winter date! somewhat tied to the hockey AU i drew once hehe. classic binghe

Luo Binghe and Shen Yuan are skating together. Luo Binghe apparently doesn't know how to brake and and crashes into SY. Shen Yuan keeps him upright with a tight embrace and feels Binghe's packed muscle.

LBH: Sorry... I just don't think I'm getting it.
SY: Ahha... it's ok. That's what I'm here for!
SY (internally): Holy shit, how is he so... solid.

Ming Fan and Ning Yingying are outside of the rink. MF looks at the duo with disapproval. NYY looks away with a pleased expression and she sips her hot cocoa.

MF: I should tell him that Luo Binghe used to play ice hockey with me.
NYY: I think A-Luo would actually kill you.

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Pennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com · 5h

As candidates debate public safety ahead of the midterm elections, a new assessment of the nation’s historic homicide decline suggests there is no single explanation for the drop — and that some widely discussed enforcement strategies may have played little role. From @stateline.org

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Researchers point to community violence programs, pandemic recovery in historic homicide decline • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

A new assessment of the nation’s historic homicide decline suggests there is no single explanation for the drop — and that some widely discussed enforcement strategies may have played little role

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zaza🍄 @zazhah.bsky.social · 13h

🎋 #svsss

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 15h

penguinking.itch.io/eat-god "Eat God" playtest draft 0.8 is up. Big changes. Brain hurts from tracking them. Changelog here: penguinking.itch.io/eat-god/devl...

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Eat God (early access) by Penguin King Games, David J Prokopetz

A game for 3 to 7 players

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 5h

Speaking as someone who walked up to the rental car counter in Portland ME to discover I had reserved a car in Portland OR and this Portland was out of cars: this is the funniest thing I've ever heard 😂

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

there are a lot of things that we "don't do in this country" that we have somehow done in this country in the last 10 years (see also, the 230 years before that)

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Miller: since when does the [air quotes] “judicial branch” have anything to do with the “government”? What’s up with that?

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 15h

Thread about what would be an amazing breakthrough in treating glioblastoma, the brain cancer that killed Kaija Saariaho and Michael Tilson Thomas.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Telltale's Walking Dead is basically a whole string of adults giving a 9 year old increasingly complex and dangerous jobs. "Ok Clementine, climb up to the roof, rappell down through the window, pick the lock of the safe, then install the carburetor" Clementine: I am literally 9 years old

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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 15h

"It’s unlikely that El-Sayed and Ossoff will drastically change the trajectory or the margins of the midterms by calling a bigot a bigot or a Klansman a Klansman." If they both win their elections though, it will demonstrate that there's no downside to Democrats calling their GOP opponents bigots.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

Among the elite media, there is a consensus that Trump is committing illegal extrajudicial murders of random Latin American guys in boats all the time, but if you say he might have also committed an extrajudicial murder of Jeffrey Epstein, the idea is treated like saying he rode a unicorn.

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 15h

the other two "neutral on G" groups mentioned by the DSA's post are not national political parties that run their own candidates, they're just local activist groups. and the DSA has been in the spotlight lately for their recent wins, thus they are getting more scrutiny from prospective allies.

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 17h

A new example of the unique brainworms found in the San Francisco left: DSA-SF has apparently refused to take a position on Proposition G, which would destroy Sunset Dunes park and reopen the Great Highway to cars. Why? It doesn't achieve "working-class justice."

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 17h

Sure, keeping the street closed to cars and retaining the park have major benefits from an environmental and public health standpoint. But consider: it isn’t full communism, so it simply isn’t radical enough!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16h

Hey remember this

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Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 16h

Sony and Microsoft are convinced video games are a "mature market" now, meaning there's no more growth to be found in it. lmao

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 16h

In yet another brilliant jab at Canada, today President Donald Trump stuck it to Vancouver by changing Mount Rainier’s name back to its original name of Tacoma.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 20h

You're listening to Good Time Oldies Radio, the station the whole family can enjoy together! Now here comes a favorite from 1952: Three solid minutes of a grown man singing about a teenager he's obsessed with!

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Krispy @feathernotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Comic tip for artists who struggle with layouts or making each page not so same-y: be less literal about where your characters are sometimes. Become more artsy with emotions they feel or information they share, you don't need them standing in the same room/position like a scene from a movie

an image describing trying different panel layouts with emotions

an image describing trying different panel layouts with emotions, featuring a lot of roses

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16h

NO NOTES

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Disguising yourself as a civilian in order to carry out a lethal attack is called perfidy and it’s one of the most serious of war crimes. The usual punishment is execution.

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U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane

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p(Dulany) @dulanyw.bsky.social · 21h

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Person who wrote the layout engine for Microsoft Word: absolutely not

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 16h

No. No no no. “raises serious questions” implies there’s any doubt. “Yet more proof” or “clear evidence of”. You’re not trying to convince people through a later argument, you are stating a fact. How are they so bad at this?

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16h

Until next year, may that piece of shit rest in piss.

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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 16h

Holy SHIT lmao

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“They think we are dogs, cockroaches and vermin. But we are the citizens of this country who have the right to ask questions of our government system.” Neha Bora leading the student movement in India. bsky.app/profile/70sb...

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.

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Transgender Mutilization @depressionmeals.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The means testing is *really* important. You are barely scraping by working full time? Well you work full-time so you can afford a lawyer. Can't keep yourself and your family fed and housed? Tough shit. You should let your kids starve and be on the street. I'm dead serious

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Dove | merelydovely | 🍉🇵🇸 @merelydovely.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

if i never hear an elected democrat say some insane republican crime "raises serious questions" again it'll be too soon.

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Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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Instagram post from Gilbert... Text reads as follows.

For anyone seeing this shit with my dad...

He was booked on a film, it's not pro-ice, it's not overtly pro anything. His agent described it as "a complicated story about a complicated time, where everyone looks bad except youm the hardworking Mexican shop owner who just wants peace."

He jumped at the idea of playing a good guy.

About 2 weeks into shooting everyone, including us, found out Ben Shapiro was involved.

My 82 year old dad has never heard of Ben Shapiro, I had to explain to him who that is, and what kind of guy he is.

My dad contractually can't bad mouth him, the film, or walk away without being sued for breach of contract. He couldn't even release the statement he wanted to.

It's fucked up. He's handcuffed to this stupid project, and swaths of people have instantly turned their back on him without knowing any of the facts.

Ben Shapiro got Mexicans to abandon one of their heroes, got his own name to the top of google's searches, and made us look like angry fools lacking any nuance. He wins.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

whenever trump's DOJ has to go in front of a judge to get yelled at, every lawyer on here is like "omg i've NEVER seen a judge this mad, if a judge yelled at me like this i'd immediately commit seppeku," and then at the end of the hearing the judge is like "ok no sanctions just don't do it again"

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12/10/2026

Looks like this is going to get broader release in LA/Orange County in the coming days, I should be able to fit in before the 20th.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026

First Indigenous Peoples Day where I can say: If you are not fully aware of how the US government has terrorized Indigenous people and our children from its inception, read my book.

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Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story by Ashley Fairbanks | Moon Palace Books

Created in collaboration with Race2Dinner, here's the harrowing true story of America's history with boarding schools, and the forced assimilation of Indigenous kids and families.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So let's talk about this in terms of being a lifelong Bostonian and specifically the legacy of the town of Salem. Before Salem got overrun with tourism in the kitsch sense of things, the town had dedicated its entire legacy to the restitution of what happened on Proctor's Ledge.

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

one of Terry Pratchett's best ideas is reverse phrenology, where you tell the practitioner your desired characteristics and they hit you on the head with special hammers to produce the corresponding skull bumps

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