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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h
i love when subscription services send me those coy emails like ‘the price of your subscription is changing.’ yeah? it’s changing? in what way? what sort of personal growth will this already expensive subscription undergo?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h
this is how i felt giving a presentation in sixth grade
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"
Chris Pratt: Knives OutBetsy Palmer: Friday the 13thMatthew Lillard: ScreamMasato Hagiwara: Cure
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Doing a pre-dawn house raid is obviously being done as thuggish intimidation and as a literally violent assault on her and her family. Overaggressive raids happen in other contexts but in this case it's going out of their way to do politically targeted state terrorism.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
*Even if* there was some factual basis for that suspicion, and there is absolutely none, there is no plausible basis to think any related evidence could be at her home all these years later. And the statute of limitations would have long expired even for any theoretically possible criminal charge.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
cat on a statue
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Gavin Alexander @gavin83bay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You gotta give it up to Earth Wind & Fire for not even bothering to add a Water guy. They were just like it’s fine
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just QPing this for anybody interested in the Richard Montgomery, if only so you see this amazing image of the wreck.
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discostu @stuallen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I can’t help feeling this is what he wants - it hides his falling asleep/ stroke face/ hand marks/ mobility exoskeleton
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
Follow
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Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
happy #caturday
tortie peeking out from box with warning on it that says "warning: if left empty and unattended this box will contain a cat
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is obviously such cowardly loser behavior but I do wish that if anyone ever tried to make me do a work task I wasn't into, I could just leave for several months while continuing to collect a salary.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
All of this is a lie. Anyone who has visited recently knows the KC was not "in a virtual state of collapse," and anyone who can read a tax filing can see that it was not "losing hundreds of millions of dollars". In fact, its finances were pretty healthy UNTIL Trump trashified it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Safe to say the people of Kentucky are not being represented properly
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15/09/2026
but Matt Taibbi and all the other contrarian substack trolls told me the "russia hoax" wasn't real
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Stoo @stoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Shout-out to the brave motherfuckers chopping the collapsing, rusting masts off the SS Richard Montgomery on the bottom of the Thames between Southend and Sheerness today. If it goes badly, we're all going to very much know about it. Fascinating, also terrifying stuff youtu.be/R9u41aeItss?...
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Unexploded Bombs off the British Coast: the SS Richard Montgomery
YouTube video by Tom Scott
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 11/09/2026
daughter: hey dad, this is ella, my new beastie me: don’t you mean “bestie” daughter: i know what i BOTH: MEAN daughter: and i know what i BOTH: SAID daughter: question me again and I’ll whack your BOTH: HEAD
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026
The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.
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discostu @stuallen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I know what I was doing on 9/11 and I live on a different continent
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.
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discostu @stuallen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I finished it yesterday and loved it!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
democrats, literally the only thing you should be talking about for the next 3 days is donald trump lying about being a 9/11 hero. i dont care if the question is about the economy or gas prices or about how sexually attractive you are, you steer that answer to trump lying about being a 9/11 hero
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/09/2026
Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 07/09/2026
shit
hyprdrvn on threads

Executive function: "Do it now so you can relax later"
ADHD: "Counteroffer: remain vaguely stressed all day"
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discostu @stuallen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Way to kill reading for smart kids.
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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discostu @stuallen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Same for Lewisham. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...
en.wikipedia.org
Battle of Lewisham - Wikipedia
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This was clearly not an act of spontaneity. Dozens and dozens of men travelling down, all wearing black, all wearing masks is anything but a spontaneous protest. An infuriating response.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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discostu @stuallen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I love this from 1933
Cubist 1933 London Zoo poster depicting an elephant
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wow. Watch Channel 4 News now Nigel Farage discussing elicit funding for reform U.K. from a foreign donor All on secret camera
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Knowing that the plastic dinosaurs we played with as kids consisted, to whatever actual extent, of real dinosaurs.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
These people are weird and creepy and Democrats need to say it more
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026
I would like to return to an era where I do not have to assume that every single statement that comes from a government spokesperson is a lie
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Samuel Alito is corrupt, accepting gifts from people with business before the court, and holding stocks directly impacted by cases he rules on. Those financial conflicts of interest and refusal to accept basic judicial ethics, on their own, warrant impeachment and removal. If the US had standards.
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discostu @stuallen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I expect the next Democrat president to be reading a list of EOs during the fucking inauguration.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"
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discostu @stuallen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Same here.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 24/08/2026
If you used an allegory like this in a novel, the editor would tell you it was too much.
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discostu @stuallen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Mouse the cat, asleep on my chest
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discostu @stuallen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I definitely think better when writing written notes - and better when using pencil rather than pen
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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2026
Watching Prime Minister Carney discussing the breakdown of the Canada-US trade deal at a press conference and just really appreciating living in a country where the leader can speak coherently and knowledgeably about what is actually happening.
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discostu @stuallen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’ve not seen my 10yo for 2 weeks- we’re mid house move and she’s staying with grandma - but we spent the last 2 hours on a Big Walk and it was simply magical. Top work @househouse.com
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