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chrismclaren.com
This thread, summarizing Judge Sara Ellis' ruling in Chicago is a good read.

Especially of note her more than once saying the DOJ/ICE version of events is "not credible".
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · Nov 6
Ellis: "Requiring the government to comply with its obligations under the Constitution, in particular the Fourth Amendment, is simply not a harm."
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
consider that the psychotic loop of chatgpt mostly seems to be 'the chatbot repeating your own ideas back to you and telling you they're brilliant' and then consider billionaires and the people around them
October 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
It was an Issue on which serious people were expected to have opinions.

Over and over again we’ve seen the media refuse to create Issues out of anything related to right-wing radicalization. If they get any mention, they’re in stories about ‘polarization,’ a misstatement of the actual problem.
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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sarahquaint.bsky.social
While providing tech support for my FIL:

FIL: What's that screen?

ME: The terminal. You should never use it.

FIL: Never?

ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself?

FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.
October 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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richardfallon.bsky.social
A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?
October 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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spryoldlorax.bsky.social
Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.
I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting. The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The "known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson. So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself." 1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium. Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary. Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
September 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
In 1887, Ivan Aivazovsky gave each of his 150 birthday guests a tiny seascape—painted onto a studio photo of himself, brush in hand before a once-blank canvas. At 10.6 × 7.3 cm, each is almost 1/1000 the size of his masterpiece The Ninth Wave. Read more: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...
miniature seascape painted into a photograph of a man in front of a frame (which holds the painted scene), with brish and easel in hand miniature seascape painted into a photograph of a man in front of a frame (which holds the painted scene), with brish and easel in hand miniature seascape painted into a photograph of a man in front of a frame (which holds the painted scene), with brish and easel in hand miniature seascape painted into a photograph of a man in front of a frame (which holds the painted scene), with brish and easel in hand
September 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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catbus.phd
the perfect wall clock doesn't ex......
Will Riker wall clock where the hour and minute hands are his legs
March 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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kbspangler.com
Over the last few days, I’ve learned that this guy who said vile things about me and those whom I love was coded and sold as a young Mr. Rogers to a very receptive audience. Has helped me understand the general response.

Journalists, however, are really blowing the moment by going along with it.
clairewillett.bsky.social Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Sep 13
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
September 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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ianboudreau.com
America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive
September 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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allisonbetus.bsky.social
*breathe in*

I am not a dumpster fire.

*breathe out*

I am a dumpster phoenix.
August 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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criminalerin.bsky.social
"people are just not built for modern times, that's why everyone's sick and nuts" DID IT EVER OCCUR TO U THAT MODERN TIMES SHOULD BE BUILT FOR US
January 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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rincewind.run
“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic

they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned
restingdinoface.bsky.social Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · Jul 24
You don’t have to like, approve of, or engage with porn and nsfw work to see how right wing extremists are using fear and stigma around smut to ban queer people from public life, define “good” sex as only between married people for procreation, and otherwise further force white supremacy on everyone
July 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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saletan.bsky.social
On the starvation in Gaza, an Israeli minister says 1) “there is no nation that feeds its enemies," and 2) Israel is “driving out the population that educated its people on the ideas of 'Mein Kampf.'"

Seriously? If you're accusing others of following Mein Kampf ... maybe don't parrot Mein Kampf.
As Starvation Rises, Israeli Minister Says Israel Is ‘Driving Out’ Gazans
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social
Good Morning
Graffiti depicting people destroying cyber trucks.
July 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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portersqbooks.bsky.social
Wee Free Men has the Ultimate quote about the way selfishness is just another way of being stubborn and protective and possessive (and the quote I think about all the time) which was the deciding factor though
“All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine! I have a duty!”
July 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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thatwriterguy.bsky.social
Cowabunga Dude! 🤙
#tmnt
July 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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xkcd.com
Building a Fire

xkcd.com/3114/
4-panel comic. (1) [Two people in front of tent. Person with short hair kneels, stacking sticks.] PERSON 1: Can you show me how to build a campfire? PERSON 2 with short hair: Sure! We’ll use the log cabin method. First, we build a square cabin out of sticks. (2) PERSON 2 [holding tiny table and chair]: Next, we’ll add interior walls, doors, and some cabin furniture made from twigs. PERSON 1: This is very elaborate. (3) [Person 2 runs wire to miniature cabin. Tiny lightning bolt symbols indicate the wire is energized.] PERSON 2: Now we’ll add some rudimentary plumbing and electrical wiring. 50 amps, nothing fancy. PERSON 1: It kind of seems like you’re just building a cabin. PERSON 2: I just— …Oops. (4) [The mini cabin is on fire.] PERSON 2: I think my wiring wasn’t up to code. PERSON 1 [leaning away and shielding face]: *AAAAA!* PERSON 2: …And that’s how you build a fire!
July 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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queerbrokenfate.bsky.social
This actually helped today. Thought you might benefit from it as well.
nitewrighter Follow Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better han I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times mor n top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and nulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunke p with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of vour rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances. Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW. Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
July 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
strangewonders.bsky.social
!!!
July 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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captainpooky.bsky.social
The point is if you see someone trying to find some sort of comfort in awful situations, yelling at them more about the doom is probably not going to help them. Let people enjoy things. Let people take breaks. Let people have a moment of peace.
July 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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normative.bsky.social
If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.
willoremus.com Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Jun 24
Separately and notably, GLAAD — which dropped its opposition to KOSA last year after changes to the bill, easing its path to Democratic support — told me it now wants lawmakers to review the bill in light of "changes in the FTC and other government leadership." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Now a leading LGBTQ+ rights organization says it, too, harbors fresh concerns about KOSA. After initially opposing KOSA, GLAAD changed its stance to neutral last year after lawmakers revised the bill in response to concerns from it and other rights groups. That seemed to have cleared the political path for Democratic lawmakers in particular to support it. Asked for comment on Monday, however, a spokesperson for GLAAD said the organization has changed its view again in light of “changes in FTC and other government leadership.” “When reviewing KOSA, lawmakers must now take recent, harmful and unprecedented actions from the FTC and other federal agencies against LGBTQ people and other historically marginalized groups into consideration,” said the spokesperson, who asked not to be named because they have received personal threats from anti-LGBTQ+ advocates.
June 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?'
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'
June 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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literaryfey.bsky.social
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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rincewind.run
Bonus Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

“Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”
June 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM