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@milesklee.bsky.social

Rivian's new tagline: "a truck that WON'T burn you alive and melt your skeleton"

Headline: Family sues Tesla after Cybertruck owner dies in 5,000-degree inferno, causing bones to disintegrate

August 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM

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the Mountain Goats

@themountaingoats.bsky.social

good shit here. there’s more of us than there are of them, never forget it

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · Aug 19

In Middleton, NY.

This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.

This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.

August 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM

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qntm

@qntm.org

The full OceanGate report has some incredible, deep details. Submarine pilot manual was an incomplete draft; CO2 scrubber was obviously homemade by Rush and didn't work; Rush panicking when the sub gets stuck on an earlier mission, then throwing the sub controller at his assistant pilot

4.6.9.4.3. At the time the Pilot Manual was provided to the MBI, the majority of its sections were incomplete. Many of the essential functions were “TBD” (to be determined) in the manual and there was a watermark within the pages of the manual that were consistent with that of a draft.

4.29.6.2. According to a former OceanGate Director of Engineering, the initial scrubber system in the TITAN, designed and built by Mr. Rush, was a "homemade" system that consistently failed to maintain adequate oxygen levels. This system was not in use on the final TITAN hull. The date of its replacement is unknown. The Director of Engineering provided the following testimony to the MBI:

“The scrubber was a homemade Stockton thing. I tried to get rid of it multiple times. Always was told no. It was literally made from a Tupperware container that came from Walmart or Amazon or somebody like that. It had liked a screen in the bottom with an air space underneath. You would pour the scrubber into this thing which was a granular chemical material, soap and lime is what it is, right. You'd pour that in there, and then there was a lid, a Tupperware lid that went on and in that Tupperware lid there was a computer fan. You'd attach the computer fan to a battery. That would pull air out of the environment, push it into the scrubber material and then, you know, through the grid at the bottom and out some vent somewhere. So, this thing never really kept up. If you put four people in the sub, it really couldn't keep up with the occupants' breathing rate. So -- and it looked like it was a total piece of junk. I mean it looked like a Tupperware container from Walmart with computer fan on the top.”

4.10.12.2. In testimony regarding the ANDREA DORIA expedition, the OceanGate Director of Operations, who served as the assistant pilot to Mr. Rush, described a critical moment during a dive when the CYCLOPS I became stuck under the bow of the ANDREA DORIA wreckage. The assistant pilot stated that Mr. Rush experienced a "meltdown" and refused to let him assist in resolving the situation. When a mission specialist suggested that Mr. Rush hand over the controller to the assistant pilot, the assistant pilot reported that the controller was thrown at him. Upon obtaining the controller, the assistant pilot was able to free the CYCLOPS I from the wreckage and safely navigate it back to support vessel WARREN JR.

August 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM

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the Mountain Goats

@themountaingoats.bsky.social

great things are possible when you physically beat the shit out of fascists

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jul 29

#OtD 29 Jul 1962 fascist Oswald Mosley tried to march with the Union Movement in Manchester, UK. However, he was attacked by anti-fascists and had to be rescued by police. A Mosley speech later was drowned out by a crowd of anti-fascists. More info: www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...

July 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM

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merritt

@merrittk.com

i've never played grim fandango but i'm watching some friends play through the remaster right now and i love this guy

July 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM

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realm threatener

@guntoucher.bsky.social

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · Jul 16

Nvidia's CEO described AI as essential infrastructure in today’s world, comparable to electricity in its importance.

July 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM

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Cate.D 🇨🇱

@catedroguett.bsky.social

Oh yeah I made this OC like a month ago, SLIME!!

July 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM

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Yashar Ali 🐘

@yasharali.bsky.social

This man is a pet groomer in Iran.

I don’t know anything about this particular kitten, but there are many street cats in Iran, and Iranians often take them in — so pet groomers always have lots of customers.

Wait for the last couple of meows.

July 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM

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Greg Pak

@gregpak.net

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Jul 14

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

July 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM

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Gustaffo Vargas

@gustaffovargas.bsky.social

Ayayayayyayyyyyyy!!!! 😱😱🤖 ALTIPLANO, the complete Peruvian Cyberpunk Graphic Novel is coming to Kickstarter soon!!! Please follow this link to be notified when it launches!!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gus...
🔥 Please share away!!! Wiiiiiiii 🐯😁🤖🤖
#PeruvianCyberpunk #graphicnovel

Cover of ALTIPLANO, a Peruvian Cyberpunk Graphic Novel, coming soon to Kickstarter. Jaguar cyborg and two characters in the middle. Cyborg Warriors, tanks, and robots, cyborg monkeys and secondary characters in the background.

May 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM

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Nicholas Kole

@nicholaskole.bsky.social

Hi #portfolioday!
I love character design and weird little guys

July 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM

Void

@and-void.bsky.social

its kinda crazy how the medication that makes me anxious and overthinky because thats a side-effect of it which has impacted me before will actually make me anxious and overthinky and somehow i still allow myself to like. act on those thoughts and emotions. hey did anyone else hear that noise

July 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM

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Lio 🌿 Gravehearts out now!

@kroovv.bsky.social

Hello #PortfolioDay !🌿

I’m Lio, a freelance comic artist, illustraitor and game dev from Scotland 🙌🎊

I draw a lot of fantasy, ttrpg, ghosts and gravestones!

📧 kroovcomics@hotmail.com

Other places to find me linktr.ee/kroov

A handsome unicorn man with a big hat and coat

Character sprites of a crusty cowboy man. Hes handsome with green hair.

July 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM

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Madeleine Fjäll

@madeleinefjall.bsky.social

Hey #PortfolioDay!

I'm Madeleine, an illustrator and concept artist from Sweden. I love to paint anything historical and fantasy with pretty light.

Would love to make more book covers!✨

🌐 madeleinefjall.com
✉️ madeleinefjallart@gmail.com

La belle dame sans merci by Frank Bernard Dicksee version of Hans and Henry from Kingdom Come Deliverance

Illustration showing the characters from my book Niketas and Ulvar, but mermaid AU where Niketas is a merman. They are both underwater and Ulvar is dying.

A pale changeling sitting in water in the deep dark green forest

An easter witch flying on a broom towards Blåkulla, a cat is standing on it as well. Both have glowing yellow eyes, staring into the camera. Birds are flying around them.

July 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM

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Zara H Art

@zarahartist.bsky.social

Hello #protfolioday!
I’m Zara H, a SWANA ☪️ character designer, book covers, and MTG artist.

A painting of Astarion from Baulder’s Gate with pomegranates

A painting of an elf with dark skin and light henna tattoos

April 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM

Void

@and-void.bsky.social

i am the hero of merlin monday

July 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM

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bites u

@snuffbait.bsky.social

July 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM

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the Mountain Goats

@themountaingoats.bsky.social

100% fascism

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Jun 30

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

substack.com/redirect/169...

June 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM

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سيف | 🇵🇸

@chanafehs.bsky.social

palestinian lesbians once again ✨
{ #art #pride }

Digital art Illustration of two women in a tender embrace in front of a arched window. Both women are Palestinian and wearing elaborately decorated traditional thobes. The woman to the left has a deeper skin tone and a tender smile. Her braided black hair is decorated with silver ornaments towards the bottom.

The woman to the right is wearing a heavy coin headdress that has chains leading down to her waist. Her face has subtle tattoos that match those on her hand.

In the arched window behind them there are palm trees in the distance and foliage that coveres the bottom of the window.

June 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM

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BDS movement

@bdsmovement.bsky.social

As a target of the BDS movement we call on supporters to amplify the McDonalds boycott this week, as part of an organic boycott movement taking place in the US.

McDonalds is feeling the heat!

#BoycottMcDonalds

June 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM

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the Mountain Goats

@themountaingoats.bsky.social

can we see some footage of the same guy after he needs to see the doctor

m @keptsimple.bsky.social · Jun 26

they are really acting like he's going to close every business or something

Billy binion: Show this video to Zohran. A Cuban seeing Costco for the first time gets emotional witnessing the sheer abundance. People who’ve actually lived under socialism are often the most moved by what markets can create. Capitalism is a miracle, actually.

June 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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the Mountain Goats

@themountaingoats.bsky.social

I mean I can't speak to other ppl's experience of a thing so if writing is a horrible I-have-to-do-this-but-O-would-that-I-did-not effort for somebody ok w/e I'm not you. To create is an immense privilege and any pains that accompany it are joy, the bliss of creation, to toil is to triumph

June 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM

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the Mountain Goats

@themountaingoats.bsky.social

esp if you are younger than me and weren't around for the first orchestration of this stuff, you should go over this timeline. it won't take but a minute and it's clear & not an op-ed: it's just an explainer. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...