Baja Blastoise
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This is 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘢. He is going to be convicted of being a vital pollinator, after being caught yellow-headed at the scene of the crime 🌼
🦇 Peruvian tailless bat
📸 Antony Rivera
🦇 Peruvian tailless bat
📸 Antony Rivera
January 22, 2026 at 4:30 PM
This is 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘢. He is going to be convicted of being a vital pollinator, after being caught yellow-headed at the scene of the crime 🌼
🦇 Peruvian tailless bat
📸 Antony Rivera
🦇 Peruvian tailless bat
📸 Antony Rivera
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Never has a bad performance. No one is ever disappointed when Delroy Lindo pops up on screen. Long overdue. Baller time
Delroy Lindo has finally received his first ever Oscar nomination for his performance in ‘SINNERS’
See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
January 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Never has a bad performance. No one is ever disappointed when Delroy Lindo pops up on screen. Long overdue. Baller time
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"Well, Child, yesterday I used one from Superbad, from 13 years before you were born, to reference a complaint about copper ingots from 3790 years before you were born".
Today I learned that apparently kids in school are being given the assignment "go home and ask your parents what their favourite meme is and write a report about it"
January 22, 2026 at 2:44 PM
"Well, Child, yesterday I used one from Superbad, from 13 years before you were born, to reference a complaint about copper ingots from 3790 years before you were born".
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“When I was your age we didn’t have the word ‘meme.’ Anyway sit down, I’m gonna put on the Strongbad episode with Trogdor again”
Today I learned that apparently kids in school are being given the assignment "go home and ask your parents what their favourite meme is and write a report about it"
January 22, 2026 at 2:37 PM
“When I was your age we didn’t have the word ‘meme.’ Anyway sit down, I’m gonna put on the Strongbad episode with Trogdor again”
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The trouble with fascism is that eventually you run out of other people's children
January 22, 2026 at 4:10 PM
The trouble with fascism is that eventually you run out of other people's children
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Stitching together flawed data stored in different formats to create an unconstitutional citizenship database to check voter rolls against because US leaders are in the grip of conspiracy theories is having exactly the effect you would expect. @telliotter.bsky.social reports:
DHS’s Data Grab Is Getting Citizens Kicked Off Voter Rolls, New Complaint Says
As states check voter registration against a mashup of federal data, a new complaint says US citizens are getting kicked off state voter rolls as a result.
www.wired.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Stitching together flawed data stored in different formats to create an unconstitutional citizenship database to check voter rolls against because US leaders are in the grip of conspiracy theories is having exactly the effect you would expect. @telliotter.bsky.social reports:
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Economists are blaming Trump's tariffs for the continued decline in manufacturing employment since April. But this isn't stopping Fox pretending Trump's policies are actually reviving the industry.
Fox pretends Trump and his tariffs have revived manufacturing, but reports show the US has lost 72,000 manufacturing jobs since April
Fox News pretended that President Donald Trump and his tariffs had revived America’s manufacturing sector while Trump was on tour to defend his economic policies. But the most-recent data shows that m...
www.mediamatters.org
January 22, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Economists are blaming Trump's tariffs for the continued decline in manufacturing employment since April. But this isn't stopping Fox pretending Trump's policies are actually reviving the industry.
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Here’s something fun that has gone relatively unreported. It appears that Microsoft is going billions of dollars in vendor financing, and has been for years.
January 22, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Here’s something fun that has gone relatively unreported. It appears that Microsoft is going billions of dollars in vendor financing, and has been for years.
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It's weird
I was REPEATEDLY told that payment processors "had" to ban all nsfw to mitigate the risk of processing CSAM.
So if that's true then why wasn't X immediately dumped by every one of those payment processors when Grok turned into an automated CSAM generator?
I was REPEATEDLY told that payment processors "had" to ban all nsfw to mitigate the risk of processing CSAM.
So if that's true then why wasn't X immediately dumped by every one of those payment processors when Grok turned into an automated CSAM generator?
January 22, 2026 at 4:18 AM
It's weird
I was REPEATEDLY told that payment processors "had" to ban all nsfw to mitigate the risk of processing CSAM.
So if that's true then why wasn't X immediately dumped by every one of those payment processors when Grok turned into an automated CSAM generator?
I was REPEATEDLY told that payment processors "had" to ban all nsfw to mitigate the risk of processing CSAM.
So if that's true then why wasn't X immediately dumped by every one of those payment processors when Grok turned into an automated CSAM generator?
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annoying little guys are ACTUALLY our best weapon against fascism and I am not even joking, you know exactly who every ICE agent was in high school, you know how distracted they will get when they see a stancil-looking mfer filming them and have to decide between doing fascism or doing bullying
I'm gonna be real, I respect bluesky's ability to pivot so swiftly and completely on stancil. I never really got why everyone liked fighting with him but I 100% get why everyone likes watching him break ICE's will to go on.
January 22, 2026 at 6:16 AM
annoying little guys are ACTUALLY our best weapon against fascism and I am not even joking, you know exactly who every ICE agent was in high school, you know how distracted they will get when they see a stancil-looking mfer filming them and have to decide between doing fascism or doing bullying
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A thing that might not be clear from the outside is that while everyone here is engaged in this fight, ICE’s use of dystopian technology means that you essentially have to pick a lane between observing ICE and doing mutual aid. They are tracking observers’ cars, and taking pictures of their faces.
January 22, 2026 at 5:59 AM
A thing that might not be clear from the outside is that while everyone here is engaged in this fight, ICE’s use of dystopian technology means that you essentially have to pick a lane between observing ICE and doing mutual aid. They are tracking observers’ cars, and taking pictures of their faces.
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Appalled to your core by what Trump's fascist henchmen are doing in the United States? Well, read for yourself: Nigel Farage wants to repeat it in the United Kingdom.
January 21, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Appalled to your core by what Trump's fascist henchmen are doing in the United States? Well, read for yourself: Nigel Farage wants to repeat it in the United Kingdom.
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Fine, I did it myself: As of 1/21 evening, 14 Democratice Members of Congress support abolishing ICE, including @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social, who used the term "disband" on @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's show.
Four more have supported abolishing ICE in the past.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Four more have supported abolishing ICE in the past.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
January 22, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Fine, I did it myself: As of 1/21 evening, 14 Democratice Members of Congress support abolishing ICE, including @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social, who used the term "disband" on @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's show.
Four more have supported abolishing ICE in the past.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Four more have supported abolishing ICE in the past.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Once the police or state national guard directly disobey state and local elected officials, it's game over and there's no longer civilian control over police forces. It's what leftists have been saying for years, that police are unaccountable occupying forces in their own cities. They were right.
January 22, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Once the police or state national guard directly disobey state and local elected officials, it's game over and there's no longer civilian control over police forces. It's what leftists have been saying for years, that police are unaccountable occupying forces in their own cities. They were right.
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I’ve never understood why this isn’t a thing. A financial and ethical audit at the end of the term, with penalties enforced right away—something like clearing in high school—makes far more sense than the present combination of scrutiny before office, immunity while in it, and impunity after.
Politicians having to undergo a thorough audit every few years is also an appealing idea if we’re thinking in Athenian terms.
January 22, 2026 at 4:06 AM
I’ve never understood why this isn’t a thing. A financial and ethical audit at the end of the term, with penalties enforced right away—something like clearing in high school—makes far more sense than the present combination of scrutiny before office, immunity while in it, and impunity after.
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No it’s the other way around. All year people have said “Anthropic will only lose $2.8 billion” all year to defend against them losing $5.6 billion in 2024. They lost $5.2 billion in 2025. People will try and spin that as good somehow. It is not. The company is a dog.
bsky.app/profile/dl31...
bsky.app/profile/dl31...
Oh, it will ONLY lose 2.8 Billion? How reassuring. For a second I thought this whole thing was FUCKING STUPID. My mistake.
January 22, 2026 at 5:06 AM
No it’s the other way around. All year people have said “Anthropic will only lose $2.8 billion” all year to defend against them losing $5.6 billion in 2024. They lost $5.2 billion in 2025. People will try and spin that as good somehow. It is not. The company is a dog.
bsky.app/profile/dl31...
bsky.app/profile/dl31...
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And this federal agent has travelled state to state doing this shit. The idea that de-escalation training will fix this is a JOKE.
January 22, 2026 at 4:38 AM
And this federal agent has travelled state to state doing this shit. The idea that de-escalation training will fix this is a JOKE.
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This is who federal agents are ripping out of their communities and shipping across the country. This is the danger we're being protected from.
January 22, 2026 at 3:40 AM
This is who federal agents are ripping out of their communities and shipping across the country. This is the danger we're being protected from.
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It’s so interesting that the comet pizza-Q-Anon folks have disappeared just as their deeply held concerns about a widespread elite child trafficking conspiracy has been proven correct
January 22, 2026 at 3:37 AM
It’s so interesting that the comet pizza-Q-Anon folks have disappeared just as their deeply held concerns about a widespread elite child trafficking conspiracy has been proven correct
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All Cops Are Enemy Combatants doesn't have the same ring to it, but it's the truth.
Once the police or state national guard directly disobey state and local elected officials, it's game over and there's no longer civilian control over police forces. It's what leftists have been saying for years, that police are unaccountable occupying forces in their own cities. They were right.
January 22, 2026 at 4:38 AM
All Cops Are Enemy Combatants doesn't have the same ring to it, but it's the truth.
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I want to scream because you know what ICE/DHS aren’t doing? Enforcing law. They’re accountable to nothing, breaking court orders, ignoring laws/rights in place to prevent the things they do. The more they break the letter of the law, the more you’ll be hard pressed to convince others to follow it.
To quote one source:
“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I want to scream because you know what ICE/DHS aren’t doing? Enforcing law. They’re accountable to nothing, breaking court orders, ignoring laws/rights in place to prevent the things they do. The more they break the letter of the law, the more you’ll be hard pressed to convince others to follow it.
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Ohhhh this is good. Should've aired it.
While it made it as far as dress rehearsal, Tommy Brennan's Weekend Update desk bit on Trump's ICE deployments in his home state of Minnesota did not make it to SNL broadcast.
But they've made it available anyway. And you should watch it.
But they've made it available anyway. And you should watch it.
Weekend Update: Tommy Brennan on Trump's ICE Deployments in Minnesota - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
youtu.be
January 22, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Ohhhh this is good. Should've aired it.
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ngl you should probably set push notifications to Molly’s account for this storm and what it will mean for FEMA
hi are you as freaked out by the big scary winter storm maps peppering the internet? i wrote a little guide:
What We Know About the Winter Storm About to Hit the US—and What We Don’t
A huge portion of the United States is going to be hit with snow or freezing rain this weekend. Exactly where, what, and how much remains uncertain.
www.wired.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:41 AM
ngl you should probably set push notifications to Molly’s account for this storm and what it will mean for FEMA
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Today, the City Council voted 9-4 to give LAPD more money since they're hiring 170 more officers than what was budgeted for.
In the past two fiscal years, LAPD went over budget by $210 million + had $260 million in liability payouts.
The City will always find money for LAPD.☑️
In the past two fiscal years, LAPD went over budget by $210 million + had $260 million in liability payouts.
The City will always find money for LAPD.☑️
January 22, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Today, the City Council voted 9-4 to give LAPD more money since they're hiring 170 more officers than what was budgeted for.
In the past two fiscal years, LAPD went over budget by $210 million + had $260 million in liability payouts.
The City will always find money for LAPD.☑️
In the past two fiscal years, LAPD went over budget by $210 million + had $260 million in liability payouts.
The City will always find money for LAPD.☑️