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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 1h
VOTE NO on Pro 75 (the 'TAX DRACULA' bill.) If we try to tax Dracula, he will simply move away to Texas.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 23h
Chicagoland friends, I have a favor to ask. I have a pro bono client, a Black woman, who is currently facing charges for allegedly pointing a gun at her abusive ex - who admitted to raping her. I would love if there could be a show of support for her at her next few court dates.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 23h
This must go so hard if you stopped learning about the world in 1993
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Brad the Inhaler 🌳 @erectilefunction0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I deleted a post in which I said Michael Tracey should kill himself. That was a mistake, I’m sorry. I should not have deleted the post, I will be better next time.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
if democrats retake congress they must restart the investigation into where mommy goes when i can't see her
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nice handsome boy @edward86.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when i was a freshman in college one of the frats tried to sell me on their frat by saying that they were the only non-rapist frat. which, good for them i suppose if true, but i had only heard of their frat before because they were on the news for killing a guy
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Alex Rikleen formerly for Senate @rikleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This clip from Katie Nolan on @pablo.show captures the vibe perfectly. It's been decades of stories where the villains and bad faith are obvious, but no one ever faces consequences.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I dunno, if you meet someone who calls himself an Archduke I think you're pretty much always morally right to shoot that guy.
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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Epstein files makes this ABUNDANTLY clear btw. He's straight up whining post conviction about how "unfair" his treatment was and every single department head at elite colleges is like "tell me about it, I can't even fuck alcoholic teenagers anymore without having to worry."
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 28/09/2026
this is a zen koan
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a bat hangs upside-down from a telephone line at sunset. The bat is in front of a billboard advertising the Florida Mega Jackpot, which is valued at $5,318,008 - represented with a digital ticker. Panel 2: the POV flips to the bat’s upside-down perspective, which makes the digital numbers look like they spell “BOOBIES”. The bat appears delighted.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A sentence like this appears in every one of these articles: "Sure I object to everything Trump has ever done, but on the other hand I also disagree with some things about Democrats I made up."
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Two of the committee’s current members — Lily Ho and Trevor Chandler — work for Flock.... Neither Ho nor Chandler offered to abstain from voting on Wednesday." You read that right. No better than the US Supreme Court in terms of members casting votes despite blatant conflicts of interest.
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S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in sweeping vote
Two Democratic committee members work for Flock, but were allowed to vote regardless
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Blues Brothers was a documentary
Opb headline "more than 40 units respond to shooting in southeast Portland"
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026
impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat
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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It helps to understand America as a casino you’re trapped in: no windows to another future, no concept of time apart from the casino itself, designed to wear you down. Neon lights and beeps and boops, every machine dressed up as some familiar IP, all doing the same thing: slowly bleeding you dry.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
9/ That cafe meeting, Kao asserted, was just one episode in a sprawling pay-to-play operation in Congress. He and his close associates donated nearly $900K to dozens of politicians, allowing Navatek to establish operations in half a dozen states with $40M+ a year in government funds.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'll believe they've "lost control of their own systems" when it creates a substantial cost to the owners of those systems. These people want to cause harm, so until and unless it happens to them, there's no misalignment, no mystery - it's doing exactly (if not precisely) what it's meant to.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, as you can see in exhibit A this gun is powered by AI. So lock up the gun if you must, but I suggest this is simply a case of misalignment and the 14 health insurance executives were, tragically, victims of progress.
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ideally i would love to support minority rights but in this case the minority in question is a minority of the population, so it just isn't worth it, mathematically speaking
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wishbone dressed up as Sherlock Holmes
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Snakes on a Plane opening night. The first preview was for the first transformers movie and people were going crazy until the screen went black and the words "Directed by Michael Bay" appeared and the whole audience as one went "uuugghhhh"
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They went so long without a new warcraft/starcraft that the -craft suffix has a different meaning now. If they want to regain the trust of gamers, the new starcraft should be an open world survival builder.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 12/09/2026
A bunch of Israeli politicians said “we will destroy Gaza” and then the IDF blew up the hospitals and shot starving people with snipers and killed everybody in the NICU so all the preemies died but prominent people will still argue with you under their own names about whether or not that’s genocide
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
that rhetoric never went away. one of the reasons that trump resonated in 2015/16 was that his muslim ban proposal brought synthesis to the way that the republican establishment and its base talked about muslims.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyway I bet it really did FEEL like unity to everyone who was an enthusiastic participant in the mob screaming that anyone who questioned them was a terrorist sympathizer who hated America. Being inside the tent pissing out of it is a great way to form a memory that nobody got pissed on.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh wow the AI solved a difficult math problem and all it took was 10000x the combined budget of every math department in the world? Incredible.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Cool when do you start?
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
here's an idea for a premise: the muppet show
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
hell yeah
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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now
photo of a white truck with the logo for Bob’s BBQ Emporium, which is written in comic sans and has a charming rudimentary illustration of a pig
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 01/09/2025
happy labor day
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
To be fair, I also have a blind spot directly behind my eyes
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sure thing boss here ya go:
That line from true detective
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 02/09/2026
Today marks one year since the United States began an unlawful campaign of lethal military strikes targeting vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, claiming 227 lives. US officials should be urgently held to account for these killings. Read more: bit.ly/4cnFJ2t
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Apropos of nothing, it's kinda weird they never caught this guy despite having video surveillance of his car.
Opb article about the 2024 ballot box thermite attacks
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am perfectly open to the idea that some of the data center panic is overblown, what I am telling u is I don’t care
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026
i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 15/07/2023
One of the defining aspects of American conservatism is the inability to distinguish fantasy from reality
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Negative Buddha: get attached to everything. Develop attachments to whatever you see that are so profound you go insane
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/08/2026
I think maybe Democrats should be trashing this guy and not a twitch streamer
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
one thing 2008 and everything since has impressed on me is that it’s an act of grace for a muslim to vote dem. the casual islamophobia tolerated or flat out welcomed across the party would have burned me out ages ago
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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