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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 1h
My other ride is a camelsaurus
Color photo of panel of white speckled terra cotta in the shade, depicting a creature with a camel-like head and neck, but with a hump that takes up the rest of the body and squat legs. Also ridges along back and curled tail. Dude is hauling a flat transport sled.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 4h
A truly stunning set of children’s books for the book historian or printmaker in your life. We just got a full set for the library @skeuomorphpress.org
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 9h
The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day.
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certified mars moment @baphomars.bsky.social · 20h
they either don't believe a fucking word of it and are trying to convince people it's that smart so they'll buy into the scam, or they do believe ai agents are people and they're gleefully engaging in human trafficking, and either option sounds like a good reason to get shot in the street
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not to repeat the obvious, but this is literally lawless behavior that makes a mockery of the Constitution and judicial system, should result in contempt prosecution for anyone involved, and disbarment of any lawyers
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 02/10/2026
Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)
On September 9, 2026, Respondents permitted Pablo F. to exit the building where 
he was detained, but he was immediately swarmed by four ICE officers and handcuffed as 
soon as he stepped outside. (Doc. No. 25-3 at 4:48:45–4:49:26.)3
 The officers drove him
to the back of the Whipple building and returned him to a holding cell. (Doc. No. 21 ¶¶ 8–
9; Doc. No. 25 ¶ 5.) During this encounter, officers dislocated Pablo F.’s shoulder. (Doc. 
No. 21 ¶ 7.)4
 Pablo F. now bringsthis Motion seeking to enforce the Court’s Order granting 
the Petition.Again, Respondents make no attempt whatsoever to support their assertion that 
Pablo F. was released. Absent any such argument, the Court cannot agree that a reasonable 
person would have felt free to leave when exiting the detention facility and immediately 
being stopped by ICE officers. Likewise, absent some argument, the Court necessarily 
concludes that Pablo F. was subject to restraints not shared by the public generally when 
he took one step outside of the detention facility and was immediately stopped by ICE 
officers who forcibly returned him to a detention cell. Because Respondents do not make 
any legal argument that Pablo F. was ever meaningfully released from custody, the Court 
grants the motion and orders Pablo F.’s release.6
6 To be clear, Pablo F. is not arguing, and the Court is not concluding, that an order of 
release in a habeas matter renders unlawful any future arrests. Rather, the Court reaches 
the narrow conclusion that because Respondents advance no legal argument in this case to 
support their assertion that Pablo F. was released from custody, and because the 
uncontested facts show that ICE officers immediately swarmed Pablo F. as soon as he 
stepped out of the building, Pablo F. was not released from custody.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23h
If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.
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Silverrain64 @silverrain64.bsky.social · 23h
And as the NSA found out 20 years ago, that data becomes useless if EVERYBODY is a suspect. Support your local activists, people. Bring friends.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 22h
While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 22h
As an update for anyone who isn’t digging through the comments: I found more articles by USA Today journalists I’ve never met. There are THREE that used quotes from my interview recording—including many quotes that were never publicly published anywhere else.
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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 21h
Watching Weird Al music videos with my kids. Never know when they're going to be oddly educational, but they're always fun. (Word Crimes is my fave, but I can't find a gif)
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Weird Al Yankovic dancing in 'Tacky' outfit
ALT: Weird Al Yankovic dancing in 'Tacky' outfit
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Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Marigold Arcade, created by me. Wallpaper, fabrics, blankets and things available in my Spoonflower shop. 70s retro roller rink to get lost in. www.spoonflower.com/en/wallpaper...
Marigold flowers falling in groups next to wavy retro rainbow stripes on cream background. By Sewzinski on Spoonflower. Mock upClose up of marigold Arcade wallpaper. MockupMarigold Arcade fabric Wallpaper marigold Arcade mockup.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October issue
The cover of Vizier Monthly with a shapely big-haired woman in a loose blue gown with a trailing yellow scarf, seated in a throne-like chair. Headlines around her read:
"Some of us are hot": Urda the Fair on the Politics of Pleasure
Ladies of Miss Rule: Tyranny knows no gender!
Oh My Goddess! Simple Ways to Make Him Worship You
Poison Rings: Hot or Not?
It's Lit! Arson, Parliament, and You
So You've Been Overthrown: 10 Tricks to Get Back on Top
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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#boktober
My black and white drawing of a chicken sitting on a skull.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This story about how a community responded when a fascist was invited to speak there in 1946 might hold some useful lessons for folks in Indiana and elsewhere who don’t approve of Bovino’s definition of “American values.” rightlandia.ghost.io/in-1946-a-wi...
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In 1946 a Wisconsin Town Invited a Fascist to Deliver the Keynote Address at their Centennial Celebration
Few people in Viroqua, Wisconsin WANTED Gerald LK Smith, the head of the America First Party, to speak, but when they ALLOWED it, they fanned the flickering embers of the American Fascist Tradition
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Kat Tales @mme-kat-tales.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is important. These people will try to rewrite their recent history and rebrand themselves as "the adult in the room". It is vital that hold them to what they actually did. No money for books, boycott the publishers. No air, no ratings on the news shows they circuit.
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Ed Macdonald @ed4words.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meta has never had a problem with being a criminal company. It's stalking software. Everyone on Facebook and Instagram knows that Meta takes a cut form every scam running on it's platforms. They know that it's a pro-predator, highly racist, pro-pedo company. This has never been a secret. We all know
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Shane M Coyle @shanemcoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Prey Bans by Meta
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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Its #ForestFriday. This image was made on the Florida National Scenic Trail in North Florida. This trail overlooks one of the most beautiful rivers in our area. Old mature cypress trees line the banks with some of the largest cypress knees I've ever seen. #photography #landscape #ECK #conservation
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 02/10/2026
"Medicaid work requirements" are above water with the American electorate (net +18). Calling the same policy "Medicaid eligibility cuts" meaningfully decreases support (net -11). I do not understand the insistence on adopting the framing of those trying to destroy Medicaid
Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress.
Title: Voters Support the Same Medicaid Rules When Called "Work Requirements" and Oppose Them When Called "Eligibility Cuts".
Description: Under new rules, some adults can get or keep Medicaid only if the state confirms that they meet work, school, or volunteer rules. [Split A n=613] Do you support or oppose these Medicaid work requirements? [Split B n=598] Do you support or oppose these Medicaid eligibility cuts?
[Split A] Medicaid work requirements — Support: 57%, Oppose: 39%
[Split B] Medicaid eligibility cuts — Support: 42%, Oppose: 55%

September 25–28, 2026 survey of 1,211 U.S. likely voters.
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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love it.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
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Dena Hyena @denahyena.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I find it quite sad that they think it’s “performative” to stop a rape…
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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: We dive deep into Trump "shadow president" Russ Vought in the new episode of PAPER TRAIL, @propublica.org's podcast. I'm so excited about this. You will hear Vought - on tape! - in a way you haven't before. Pls listen — and subscribe to PAPER TRAIL www.propublica.org/podcast/who-...
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Who’s the Shadow President?
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I thought he'd given up and was just running his own propaganda tv channel now? Did I hallucinate that? I refuse to give it any google air that might suggest to some algo I'm at all interested.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holy shit I did not know this Incredible insight into Western Higher Education, going back to Oxford and Cambridge and still seen today from @harikondabolu.bsky.social
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Destiny is tired of all the S#!t 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @destinysraven.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Further down it states that the townspeople did hang those two students. Funny how the scholars and priests who left Oxford for Cambridge felt threatened by the punishment of two criminals 🤔
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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fuck no.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Anya Taylor-Joy Division @eggmancat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Michael Tracey looks like if you asked someone to draw a bus pervert from memory
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Boys will be boys. Locker room talk. It’s just a mistake. Don’t ruin their futures. I AM FUCKING SICK OF THE FUTURES OF WOMEN BEING STOLEN WHILE MEN’S ARE BEING PROTECTED.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026
she is everyone's ally and no one's ally, it just depends on what mood she woke up in. LOL
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026
yes she absolutely thinks this, but it's fitting. there is nothing more on brand when having an ignorant take about romance than having your metaphor be wrong all the way down. lol bsky.app/profile/tale...
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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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Rob Pollard @robpollard45.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Amen. I keep going back to the Reflecting Pool. Trump & co stole tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, gave the money to unqualified political allies, fucked up a national monument, then sicced the DOJ on an Olympian who Trump falsely blamed for the damage. It's not a joke. It's a huge scandal!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"prosecutor who actually does his job" is the same as "democrat" to them since "republican" and "criminal" are now synonymous bsky.app/profile/cold...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
HAHAHA THEY TRIED TO SEND THIS PUBLIC SERVANT WHO JUST DID HIS JOB TO FEDERAL PRISON AND FUCKED UP THEIR FACES MUST BE RED like actually, this is worse than what joe mccarthy did?
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imo the next administration should raze every ICE detention facility to the ground except for the two worst. Make the worst one a museum like Auschwitz, and use the second-worst one to imprison these ghouls.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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I like beer @steakandpepper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it may be a grand Russian plan but they are all so fucking stupid
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D-Cym @d-cym.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Schmitt screw up is a manifestation of the problem identified a year ago: that the pipeline of young R's being sent to Washington to become aids in Congress has become a sewer pipe. R senators and congressman can only get brainwashed idiots to do basic research for them.
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Grungehamster @grungehamster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People cannot help but assume that public ignorance is the result of a media encouraging such thoughts rather than people accepting comfortable lies that there is a big "get rid of thing that bothers you" lever that have no ramifications for you (personally or ethically) if it gets pulled.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.
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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good morning. For Quest for the Queen's Tears by Lord Dunsany. Launch of this new collection (dream project) collection less than a month away now!
queen of the woods seated on a throne of twisted wood and moss among stones , trees and fungus. She gazes dispassionately at the viewer while on either side of her, her handmaids weep. Pencil and mixed media on toned paper. Colour applied.
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SpookyWeasels @stupidweasels.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe it would communicated a point more clearly if instead of having a survivor give a speech, they had a perpetrator get pulled apart by horses on stage instead
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