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pheonix89.bsky.social @pheonix89.bsky.social · 18h
Going after appearance? Not OK, generally. Going after terrible, terrible judgement? Always OK.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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pheonix89.bsky.social @pheonix89.bsky.social · 20h
Oh my god I am laughing out loud! This is the kind of punchy anti-corruption adds we need.
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pheonix89.bsky.social @pheonix89.bsky.social · 23h
This is actively working against client's interests. Ban him from law for life. Maybe also neuter him.
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 06/10/2026
The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s...
The Los Angeles Police Department's officer union said Tuesday it will oppose Measure FD, the half-cent sales tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot pushed by the city firefighters' union - setting up a bitter and expensive clash between two of the city's most powerful unions.
The Police Protective League said it plans to spend several million dollars on broadcast and digital advertising as well as mailers to oppose Measure FD, which if approved by voters would direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the Fire Department to build new stations, hire firefighters and upgrade
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Husky "Synthwhoa" Powerfist - Certified Hat Owner @synthwhoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Extra fun (related) fact: When Tesla developed the Model S, the screen they specced was bigger than any existing automotive grade screen. Automotive grade means the screens can survive extreme temperatures. They just bought non-automotive grade screens. So the screens in early Teslas melt.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/10/2026
Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.
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Besame mucho means Kiss me a lot @ceu---azul.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
wait, what is this I see? it's trump's kryptonite: the truth!
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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The Amityville Jordan (1979) @jackal27.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TIL that the opening of Onimusha 3 was directed by Takashi Yamazaki, director of Godzilla: Minus One! Sadly, nearly every upload of it is a stretched, GenAI abomination. So, I ripped and painstakingly upscaled what I consider the greatest video game cinematic ever from its 2007 PC release! Enjoy!
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BOO!👻 LAO GATE! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also choreographed by Donnie Yen, @bakoon.bsky.social since I saw you reposted it.
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Imagine threatening a rape victim because you wanted to defend some rapists.
An article titled "woman in Cornell rape allegations case targeted with threats, her lawyer says"
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pheonix89.bsky.social @pheonix89.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lock the judge up. Lock the ICE reps up. Ethnic cleansing is still a crime against humanity if the law as read by the perps says it's legal!
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026
Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…
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Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · 04/10/2026
The Heritage Apple Corps have found trees in central Oregon that are genetic matches for some of the rare "lost" apple varieties we find in the islands. With more sampling, both here and there, we hope to be able to properly identify these varieties and bring them back into production.
centraloregondaily.com
These 130-year-old Central Oregon pioneer apple trees are still bearing fruit
Apple trees planted by Central Oregon's first homesteaders 130 years ago are still producing fruit, and some varieties are so rare that DNA tests came back as unique.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Periodic reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I would just like to note that the Allies started winning WW2 when they moved from naming their tanks after racist Confederate loser traitors (Stuart, Lee) to naming them after righteous Union winners (Sherman). The British caught on to this earlier, renamed the Lee the Grant, and never looked back.
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pheonix89.bsky.social @pheonix89.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Off with Tucker's Nazi head.
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Repost this if trans people should have access to dark magic...
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pheonix89.bsky.social @pheonix89.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dead on.
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pheonix89.bsky.social @pheonix89.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pete thinks modern warfare is decided by who wins in a brawl. Modern warfare is decided by who is better at blowing the right things up.
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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey everyone, I'm really in a bind. I was just told earlier today that my job will be terminating me on October 13th, exactly one day before my upcoming requested paid medical leave to recover from bottom surgery. I intend to fight this in court, but I could really use some help in the meantime.
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Donate to Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery, organized by Katra Ariello
Hi, my name is Katra, and I’ve just been notified that I’ll be let go of… Katra Ariello needs your support for Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I mean yeah, a decade of no one holding Trump accountable for his much more obvious crimes, combined with both Nazi and Confederate rehabilitation projects on the right, was always going to lead to “actually we’ve never done ANYTHING wrong and you guys owe us apologies for every check on our power”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
irony is dead -- Sarah Huckabee Sanders is on Fox & Friends decrying "manufactured" conservative outrage
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RN Mayhem @mayhem1994.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She’s pretty good at demonstrating irony 
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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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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Are you a cis man feeling disgusted at the news? Good. Use that. Talk to your fellow men about what you're going to do to make our industry and our world safer. And then actually do it. You may lose friends or opportunities, but a better and safer industry and world starts with you.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The reason for this is that we put universities in charge of punishing rape on college campuses instead of investing in better policing vs sex crimes. When someone does that the Cornell 7 are alleged to have done, there is a carceral solution. We need to unfuck sex crime investigation to get it.
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pheonix89.bsky.social @pheonix89.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't like romance novels but people say the same shit about sci fi and fantasy and you can throw out and replace my Tchaikovsky and Natalie Meyer with AI slop over your cold dead body. Not a typo, if I meant over my cold dead body I would have said that.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026
I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.
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Gyratorio @gyrate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT] So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never deliberately investigated the President of the United States for political reasons? [COUNTER STAFF] Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026
The idea that women are given special rights based on sex is a remarkably absurd framing and not how discrimination protections actually work in practice. It can only stem from a thoroughly right-wing understanding of the world that believes marginalized people are granted extra entitlements.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha, citing intelligence data, stated that Russia is preparing to stage dozens of videos in occupied Oleshky to show "happy" locals who are "well-fed and grateful to the Russian occupiers."
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
populism reaches its apotheosis by treating a machine as an unimpeachable source of knowledge
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pheonix89.bsky.social @pheonix89.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe the Democrats will grow a brain and spine and sideline the wanna-be council of god-kings in 2029?
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GD (Mima Spooky Season) @mrgamerdude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(I’m not from Brazil but please read this before the elections as it’s still important) From OP: Please keep your eyes on Brazil, especially if you're from the US. I do not like to post this kind of stuff but we are scared. #brazil #important #awareness #awarenesspost #eleições2026 #elections
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What makes the current dynamic unsustainable is that the rule of law, appearance of propriety, and good governance are all really important. It cannot be the case, however, that only one political party values those things over an extended period of time. There needs to be one set of rules.
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ahahahaha get fucked, loser.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, Republicans. The entire news cycle on your moronic Jack Smith hearing will now be dominated by Eric Schmitt’s basketball game buffoonery and John ‘Foghorn Leghorn’ Kennedy asking Smith about the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy. Brilliant job, once again by the feckless fools.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.
Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News. 

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:
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Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison
Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning.
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