benjaminsapiens.bsky.social
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This probably isn’t the developers’ top priority (although it should be), but I’d love to see the Bluesky app have an option to switch to the Julian calendar for those of us who reject the lies of Pope Gregory XIII
February 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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One of the fun things about used DVD stores is finding niche blurays that probably mean something to someone out there
February 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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I don't know whether to laugh or cry, or scream... or all of the above.
February 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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The January 6 pardons are turning out great.
January 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them
January 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
January 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet. I don't want them to have blinky lights or touch screen controls or be accessible by phone. All I want is for them to do the one thing they are supposed to do, and to beep less.

Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
January 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.

GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS

PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.

youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
January 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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yet another person failing the “have principles and not just narrow ideological goals” challenge
Ryan grim feeling happy about US saber rattling over Greenland, bc it's smol bean imperialism
January 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good.

Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.
January 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Stephen Miller and Homan’s goal is to shock and awe blue cities to terrify whole communities. They’ll deliberately targeting businesses, schools, hospitals churches and other places of worship. They want Americans to be afraid. Mayors and governors must stand up to them. Lawyers get on standby.
January 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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What are we even doing here
January 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Do you ever get the feeling that Earth gravity is...a bit much? Tripping and falling should not be as big of a deal as it is.
January 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Normally, most Americans and even we in the media don't pay much attention to the Secretary of Defense. Now with Pete Hegseth running this critical agency he has absolutely no qualifications for, which controls our nukes, we'll be keeping tabs daily to see if he's drunk off his ass or goofing on TV.
January 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Trump just undid the only good thing GWB did in his entire 8 years.
Many sudden and shocking health care developments this week. But this was a big one: The Trump administration on Friday paused funding for PEPFAR, the famed program to fight HIV/AIDS around the world.

@mradamtaylor.bsky.social @johnphudson.bsky.social Missy Ryan + a little help from me
Funds for fight against HIV/AIDS paused in Trump aid freeze
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, is credited with saving 25 million lives worldwide and has long enjoyed bipartisan support.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Significant upswing in zero-post accounts with no followers and pictures of attractive women messaging me here trying to strike up a conversation. Based on my long time on the internet and reading I recognize this means I am becoming an absolute DILF
January 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Still haven’t seen Wicked, but it does warm my heart to know that there is now an entire other generation that is going to attempt to read, and inevitably decide not to finish, the book it’s based on
January 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Can’t wait t’git my hands on nem cheap eggs!
January 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Helpful
January 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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i really like when horror movies have a scene with like, a horde of creatures gorily mutilating and eating a giant hunk of meat or a corpse and then a scientist / gov official is like "hungry little guys, aren't they?" and everyone else is aghast. more of this
January 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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T. Rex Evolution xkcd.com/3042
January 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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he really nailed it with this one
January 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM