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In the belly of the beast, prodding around, trying to give it gastrointestinal distress.
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Its funny that this is maybe the most insane scandal in American political history: full of sex, money and murder and the reaction all us dorks have is like "wait, ffmpeg stands for something?!" bsky.app/profile/swol...
Raise your hand if youve been using ffmpeg since college and had no idea that it stood for fast forward moving picture expert group [the file format standardized by the group, not the group itself]
I didn't expect the Jeffrey Epstein story to contain assistant editor workflow gore but lmao
February 12, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Its funny that this is maybe the most insane scandal in American political history: full of sex, money and murder and the reaction all us dorks have is like "wait, ffmpeg stands for something?!" bsky.app/profile/swol...
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I didn't expect the Jeffrey Epstein story to contain assistant editor workflow gore but lmao
February 12, 2026 at 5:19 AM
I didn't expect the Jeffrey Epstein story to contain assistant editor workflow gore but lmao
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the longest, incredibly tortured and roundabout way of saying “they cut out part of the video”
I didn't expect the Jeffrey Epstein story to contain assistant editor workflow gore but lmao
February 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
the longest, incredibly tortured and roundabout way of saying “they cut out part of the video”
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It's almost like being fabulously rich doesn't make you happy or well adjusted. It's almost like it makes you sad and lonely. And leaves you forever casting about for scapegoats to offset your deep self-loathing. Thank you Jim Ratcliffe and Elon Musk for these important life lessons.
February 12, 2026 at 7:51 AM
It's almost like being fabulously rich doesn't make you happy or well adjusted. It's almost like it makes you sad and lonely. And leaves you forever casting about for scapegoats to offset your deep self-loathing. Thank you Jim Ratcliffe and Elon Musk for these important life lessons.
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🚨BREAKING: Minneapolis police arrest ICE protesters blocking the Target entrance in response to Target's continued cooperation with ICE terror.
LIVE NOW ⬇️
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February 12, 2026 at 12:19 AM
🚨BREAKING: Minneapolis police arrest ICE protesters blocking the Target entrance in response to Target's continued cooperation with ICE terror.
LIVE NOW ⬇️
LIVE NOW ⬇️
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And for neurodivergent people it often means catastrophic burn out....
We were never meant to live like this, we are a social(ist), communal(ist) species.
It takes a village to be functional and sane...
We were never meant to live like this, we are a social(ist), communal(ist) species.
It takes a village to be functional and sane...
February 12, 2026 at 7:48 AM
And for neurodivergent people it often means catastrophic burn out....
We were never meant to live like this, we are a social(ist), communal(ist) species.
It takes a village to be functional and sane...
We were never meant to live like this, we are a social(ist), communal(ist) species.
It takes a village to be functional and sane...
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It was inevitable. You can't be an environmentalist without also being anti capitalist.
The word 'admits' makes me feel that this was originally written by a right wing boot licker as an 'aha! Gotcha!', but it makes me feel like a proud dad,
"The kids grow up so fast these days".
Greta followed the environmentalist to anti-capitalist pipeline because its logical for a thinking person
"The kids grow up so fast these days".
Greta followed the environmentalist to anti-capitalist pipeline because its logical for a thinking person
February 12, 2026 at 7:46 AM
It was inevitable. You can't be an environmentalist without also being anti capitalist.
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Israeli settlers used bulldozers to uproot Palestinian olive trees on the eastern edge of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
February 12, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Israeli settlers used bulldozers to uproot Palestinian olive trees on the eastern edge of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
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All these fucking freaks do. They are used to doing this shit with impunity and that really needs to change.
February 11, 2026 at 7:34 PM
All these fucking freaks do. They are used to doing this shit with impunity and that really needs to change.
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**When someone in their 60s and tries to identify teenagers to harass them, it's spelled doxxxxxxx
February 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
**When someone in their 60s and tries to identify teenagers to harass them, it's spelled doxxxxxxx
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Chicago-area Proud Boys, Terry Newsome, showed up in Downers Grove yesterday to harass and intimidate high school students protesting DHS-activity.
Terry claims he wants to ban books to protect students in the same post in which he shares video of himself trying to bully them. He's in his 60s.
Terry claims he wants to ban books to protect students in the same post in which he shares video of himself trying to bully them. He's in his 60s.
February 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Chicago-area Proud Boys, Terry Newsome, showed up in Downers Grove yesterday to harass and intimidate high school students protesting DHS-activity.
Terry claims he wants to ban books to protect students in the same post in which he shares video of himself trying to bully them. He's in his 60s.
Terry claims he wants to ban books to protect students in the same post in which he shares video of himself trying to bully them. He's in his 60s.
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Industrial music is so often just theatrical shit talking to a hard ass beat
February 12, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Industrial music is so often just theatrical shit talking to a hard ass beat
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14. If you go back and look at the violence and vitriol from the late 19th century before they disenfranchised Black men, the biggest complaint was fear of "Negro Rule."
Not Blacks being in power, but determining power.
Hell, that's what "Birth of a Nation" was essentially about!
Not Blacks being in power, but determining power.
Hell, that's what "Birth of a Nation" was essentially about!
February 12, 2026 at 1:31 AM
14. If you go back and look at the violence and vitriol from the late 19th century before they disenfranchised Black men, the biggest complaint was fear of "Negro Rule."
Not Blacks being in power, but determining power.
Hell, that's what "Birth of a Nation" was essentially about!
Not Blacks being in power, but determining power.
Hell, that's what "Birth of a Nation" was essentially about!
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13. Make no mistake, this is all a ploy to restore voting to...well...
white men.
Because the SAVE Act will disenfranchise women (which they want. They hate the 19th Amendment.)
And any minority group, especially Blacks. Because we sway elections. Always have
white men.
Because the SAVE Act will disenfranchise women (which they want. They hate the 19th Amendment.)
And any minority group, especially Blacks. Because we sway elections. Always have
February 12, 2026 at 1:29 AM
13. Make no mistake, this is all a ploy to restore voting to...well...
white men.
Because the SAVE Act will disenfranchise women (which they want. They hate the 19th Amendment.)
And any minority group, especially Blacks. Because we sway elections. Always have
white men.
Because the SAVE Act will disenfranchise women (which they want. They hate the 19th Amendment.)
And any minority group, especially Blacks. Because we sway elections. Always have
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12. And because elections are a "state function," and federal oversight is essentially unconstitutional....who's gonna stop them?
Now with the "SAVE America Act," you have to prove your citizenship.
According to who?
Which means it can always be challenged, regardless of your "papers."
Now with the "SAVE America Act," you have to prove your citizenship.
According to who?
Which means it can always be challenged, regardless of your "papers."
February 12, 2026 at 1:28 AM
12. And because elections are a "state function," and federal oversight is essentially unconstitutional....who's gonna stop them?
Now with the "SAVE America Act," you have to prove your citizenship.
According to who?
Which means it can always be challenged, regardless of your "papers."
Now with the "SAVE America Act," you have to prove your citizenship.
According to who?
Which means it can always be challenged, regardless of your "papers."
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9. Also you must know, the laws during Jim Crow never explicitly said that Black people couldn't vote.
That was illegal.
What they did was create "race neutral statutes" that *just so happened* to mostly affect Black people
That was illegal.
What they did was create "race neutral statutes" that *just so happened* to mostly affect Black people
February 12, 2026 at 1:23 AM
9. Also you must know, the laws during Jim Crow never explicitly said that Black people couldn't vote.
That was illegal.
What they did was create "race neutral statutes" that *just so happened* to mostly affect Black people
That was illegal.
What they did was create "race neutral statutes" that *just so happened* to mostly affect Black people
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7. Well, in 2013 they did it again...only through the Supreme Court. Shelby v Holder made federal oversight of elections in certain areas historically known for voter suppression, to be unconstitutional.
The reason?
"We're not racist anymore."
But what happened?
Voter ID laws everywhere!
The reason?
"We're not racist anymore."
But what happened?
Voter ID laws everywhere!
February 12, 2026 at 1:19 AM
7. Well, in 2013 they did it again...only through the Supreme Court. Shelby v Holder made federal oversight of elections in certain areas historically known for voter suppression, to be unconstitutional.
The reason?
"We're not racist anymore."
But what happened?
Voter ID laws everywhere!
The reason?
"We're not racist anymore."
But what happened?
Voter ID laws everywhere!
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5. However twenty years later in 1894, Congress repealed the federal oversight sections of the 1870 Force Act.
Most people credit 1896 Homer v Plessy as moment that marked Jim Crow, but I'd argue that repealing two years earlier allowed for the crafting of new restrictive state constitutions
Most people credit 1896 Homer v Plessy as moment that marked Jim Crow, but I'd argue that repealing two years earlier allowed for the crafting of new restrictive state constitutions
February 12, 2026 at 1:16 AM
5. However twenty years later in 1894, Congress repealed the federal oversight sections of the 1870 Force Act.
Most people credit 1896 Homer v Plessy as moment that marked Jim Crow, but I'd argue that repealing two years earlier allowed for the crafting of new restrictive state constitutions
Most people credit 1896 Homer v Plessy as moment that marked Jim Crow, but I'd argue that repealing two years earlier allowed for the crafting of new restrictive state constitutions
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4. Also the 1965 Voting Rights Act technically wasn't "new" legislation either. After the passage of the 15th Amendment in 1870 (which gave Black men the right to vote), it was the 1870-71 Enforcement Bills (also known as the KKK Act) that gave it teeth. It called for federal oversight of elections
February 12, 2026 at 1:12 AM
4. Also the 1965 Voting Rights Act technically wasn't "new" legislation either. After the passage of the 15th Amendment in 1870 (which gave Black men the right to vote), it was the 1870-71 Enforcement Bills (also known as the KKK Act) that gave it teeth. It called for federal oversight of elections
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2. The 1964 Civil Rights Act was not technically a "new" law, it was a restoration of the rights repealed in 1883 that were the product of the 1875 Civil Rights Act introduced by Senator Charles Sumner.
It essentially passed because Sumner had died the year before. It was gone in 8 years
It essentially passed because Sumner had died the year before. It was gone in 8 years
February 12, 2026 at 1:07 AM
2. The 1964 Civil Rights Act was not technically a "new" law, it was a restoration of the rights repealed in 1883 that were the product of the 1875 Civil Rights Act introduced by Senator Charles Sumner.
It essentially passed because Sumner had died the year before. It was gone in 8 years
It essentially passed because Sumner had died the year before. It was gone in 8 years
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Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was.
For example
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For example
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February 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was.
For example
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For example
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An incredibly important thread on the history of voter suppression
Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was.
For example
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For example
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February 12, 2026 at 7:36 AM
An incredibly important thread on the history of voter suppression
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Ok, from a middle aged cis woman, I just want to say
Gender euphoria and racial/ethnic pride are just the most beautiful things. I love when people are happy about who they are!
Please, if you feel safe, please post pictures that makes you most happy about you! We love to see it!
Gender euphoria and racial/ethnic pride are just the most beautiful things. I love when people are happy about who they are!
Please, if you feel safe, please post pictures that makes you most happy about you! We love to see it!
February 12, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Ok, from a middle aged cis woman, I just want to say
Gender euphoria and racial/ethnic pride are just the most beautiful things. I love when people are happy about who they are!
Please, if you feel safe, please post pictures that makes you most happy about you! We love to see it!
Gender euphoria and racial/ethnic pride are just the most beautiful things. I love when people are happy about who they are!
Please, if you feel safe, please post pictures that makes you most happy about you! We love to see it!
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Don’t worry, we’re all just in a nightmare place of our coma. We’ll wake up soon & find we still have healthcare & a BlackBerry
‘At 2am, it feels like someone’s there’: why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy
‘At 2am, it feels like someone’s there’: why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy
With many unable to access or afford qualified therapists, AI is filling the mental healthcare vacuum, amid calls for tighter regulation
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Don’t worry, we’re all just in a nightmare place of our coma. We’ll wake up soon & find we still have healthcare & a BlackBerry