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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.

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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'

J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 13h

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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Iron Curtain (Leah Abram) 🏳️‍⚧️ [🇺🇸 out of 🇻🇪🇮🇷🇬🇱🇨🇺!] @ironcurtain.northsky.social · 5h

I will die on the hill that Wikipedia and the internet archive are some of the greatest legacies of the internet, and I’d rather the internet exist so they could exist rather than not have the internet at all.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

Silicon Valley wasn't solely a shell game until the tech media started calling idiots like Musk and Zuckerman geniuses, two guys who notoriously didn't create shit. But they didn't know that because they were idiots too who shouldn't have been reporting on things they didn't understand.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7h

Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5h

A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h

man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 02/10/2026

in other unfortunate metaphor news, the Carousel of Progress is closed

The Carousel of Progress, from the 1964 World's Fair, at Disney World

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 5h

how am I gonna explain to my therapist that 149,000 people on twitter want me dead

tweet that says “we need to go back in time and kill the wendys social media manager from 2017”

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 4h

They can't let go of Texas. It's completely demoralizing.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4h

Brazil is voting today, and while the presidential election is likely to go to a runoff — the results are a clear and significant shift to the right since the 2022 election and set up Flávio Bolsonaro very well to oust Lula in the October 25 runoff.

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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 3h

This is a new thing with consumer technology, and it’s severely damaged AI’s reputation rather than helping it. The technology is being pitched as cod liver oil that might kill you.

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 7h

I was on the internet before the web and it was glorious. The web only made it even better.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 7h

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 3h

major democracies electing far-right populist governments

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

I have seen porn considerably less erotic than this man's sex dream about Jesus Christ.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2h

On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2h

The reckoning is here…

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Karen @risu23.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's gonna be really fucking weird to be an hour ahead of US West Coast folks when PCT goes into effect for B.C. on Nov. 1st 🥴

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No falling back with B.C.’s new time zone code, Pacific Time: PCT

PCT abbreviation establishes province’s single, year-round time zone

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Toish @toi.sh · 02/10/2026

Ok maybe we should've all done the ditching-daylight-savings-time thing at the same time... presenting our new fucking awful timezone map for this winter:

A map of the new canadian timezones for this winter, where BC, Yukon... and NWT??? are on PCT. The praries are on CDT, except for manitoba for some reason which is on CST, but also specifically north western ontario which is nearest to manitoba is NOT on CST but still on CDT. The north of Québec won't change their clocks which moves them into the atlantic timezone, but not southern québec. Newfoundland remains 30mins into the future.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

It costs MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to send those cats up there to all the steeples and watchtowers! And it aggravates Lowly Worm's free floating anxiety disorder

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

At the direction of the President, I am calling Senator Tom Cotton on his cellular phone to tell him to STOP making fire trucks full of cats and pigs climb HIGH DANGEROUS LADDERS to change the village square clocks in Busytown

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book13worm.bsky.social @book13worm.bsky.social · 2h

"Spaghettified leaves" "You mean vines?" #d&doutofcontext

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 6h

People keep asking me to be on their podcasts, which then turn out to be videos. If I have to do my hair and make up to be on your show, it’s not a podcast. Being on a podcast already takes up a lot of time, and you never get paid for them. Doing camera ready HMU takes up even more time and money.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump's economy in two headlines.

CNN Business: The US economy added just 29,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%.

ABC News: Households will pay more for energy because of Trump's policy changes

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Breaking News: The US only added 29,000 jobs in September. They were expecting 84,000. Unemployment is also up. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 02/10/2026

Alternate history time: the Transphobic Kid Wizard doesn't exist. What is the fiction that spawned the fanfic that the AI sex cult centers around?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If it was malicious compliance on the part of the designer then I tip my hat to them

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"This is what they asked for. Republicans have had so many opportunities to turn this thing around - there have been 20 war powers votes in the House and Senate since the war started in February - and they’ve just blown past every single off ramp.“

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Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Self-Promotion Just Backfired

An ad promoting the Iran War only serves to remind voters just how much of a disaster the war is, a baffling strategy just a month out from midterms.

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Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dangerous yes, but WHAT a holiday you’ve had!

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sadlyitsbradleybot.bsky.social @sadlyitsbradleybot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I like how they admit that this way to login is fucking weird

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Hunter Dyar @hdyar.com · 03/10/2026

svg is a file format for doing crimes

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 10h

Granted, Congress has the power to remove him but this one won’t. Our rights as citizens to have the laws faithfully executed can’t disappear when the President decides not to and Congress won’t stop him. Bc then we don’t have constitutional government, we have dictatorship with extra people.

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 10h

This might seem like a difference of opinion. It is not. It is among the most impeachable things a President can do. If the President can just choose to violate the budget Congress passes, Congress doesn’t have any power.

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RogueNOAA @roguenoaa.altgov.info · 10h

“Experts tell TPM that the Trump administration's use of the supposed "pocket rescissions" loophole is more an admission of guilt.” www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

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Russ Vought Insists He Has a Neat Trick to Override Congress. It’s More ‘a Confession,’ Experts Say

Following a failed bid by Senate Democrats to block it, President Donald Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...

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hoots @hoots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Two things can be true: 1) we can believe in & fight for a world in which anyone should have a path to redemption for even the most heinous shit and 2) you guys only seem to hum & haw over this shit when victims of sexual violence are tapping out their triggered feelings on social media.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 6h

We made a comic about a volcano.

1 tour guide: This volcano is 10,000 years overdue for an eruption.
2 tour guide: Could happen any day now! It's frightening to think about.
3 tour guide: But I also find the danger to be oddly enticing.
4 Volcano: Quit it Brett, I told you I don't date coworkers.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 5h

I'm telling you if you're not married by like 20, it's over for you. Women are building their own boyfriends with Claude right now. You're not even gonna get an entry-level boyfriend job. It's tough out here even for principal boyfriends.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 5h

We got AI surveillance on every corner before anyone asked whether we wanted it, and the first real attempt to roll it back is happening now, five years in.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

“.. Asked by moderator Kristen Welker whether he was thinking about running for president, Kennedy replied, ‘Yeah.’” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 6h

it ought to be interesting to find out who will win nfl games

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 6h

Today’s tornado risk area 🌪️. To make matters more fun, all the weather radar sites along the Gulf Coast between Mobile and Tallahassee are also down right now. Via StormThreat app.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 7h

About a dozen teams don't have an NFL QB to begin with and of the remaining 20, half of them are already hurt 3.5 games into the season. Unsustainable.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 7h

Cardinals-Giants turned into a nice demonstration of why the NFL has so many rules intended to protect QBs because boy is the product hard to watch when there are shit QBs out there.

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