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Kate Klonick

@klonick.bsky.social

So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 1d

Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI

Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.

www.theverge.com

November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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Bringus Studios

@batarong.com

Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based

November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM

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ItsJustZip

@itsjustzip.com

I cannot express how important it is for anyone going through a secured checkpoint like TSA to make sure thier phone is in BFU (Before First Unlock) mode. To enter this state: reboot your phone and don't unlock it.

In BFU mode all data is encrypted and your phone requires a passcode to unlock.

Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 1d

I was just asked for my phone (to swipe the outside for whatever) for the 1st time during a “random” TSA extra screening for a domestic flight - i told them i didn’t consent to a search of the phone, made sure there were no notifications visible & it was locked and didn’t let it out of my sight…

November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM

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Dave

@dave.9000ish.uk

Babies are born worshiping unknown gods

November 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM

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Chad Loder

@chadloder.bsky.social

wait for her 😍 IG:emmakeys836

November 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM

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Lisa Reyna Loe

@lisaloe.bsky.social

Hey Megyn Kelly,

14-year-old Eloise would like a word:

“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”

Sound up! 🔥🔊

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November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM

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Dr. SkySkull

@drskyskull.bsky.social

My dream is that Megyn Kelly tries to interview and debate her on air but Eloise declines, saying she was taught to avoid sexual predators

Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 4d

Hey Megyn Kelly,

14-year-old Eloise would like a word:

“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”

Sound up! 🔥🔊

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November 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM

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Brad Meltzer

@bradmeltzer.com

Hobbes is real and this is genius at work.

November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM

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Bits

@bitshammer.bsky.social

No one should be asking that question. Rape is wrong to start with, but asking "why is it wrong to rape children" should be an immediate hard drive check, visit from Chris Hansen and deportation to Epstein's Island to starve.

November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM

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CHOAM shareholder (non-voting)

@samthielman.com

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates:

"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

QT of @avidreader1000
Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...

November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM

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Debbie N.

@beatlesfandeb.bsky.social

November 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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FreeLinkophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛

@shelleybwoke.bsky.social

Because, sadly, there are.
bsky.app/profile/shel...

FreeLinkophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · Sep 29

The 4 laws of Terfodynamics
1. There are only 2 genders. Genders can neither be created nor destroyed.
2. Genders are fixed at birth and cannot be transitioned.
3. Nobody thinks about trans people's genitals more than transphobes. Not even trans people.
4. Scratch a transphobe and a fascist bleeds

November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM

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Katie Aki ✶

@katieaki.bsky.social

Keep Trying
#art

a digital drawing of a gray cat with a capped eye and studded collar, leaning forward and bleeding from the nose. It looks at the viewer with defiance or determination. Text around it says “get killed eight times/ come back nine”. The red border around the image has two cars, arrows, knives, and poison bottles, numbered to match its deaths.

November 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM

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Marcus Hutchins

@malwaretech.com

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM

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John Bull

@garius.bsky.social

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information"

They want people to assume this means game info or assets.

But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:

'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 12d

"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting," the protesters declared.

'All you had to do was follow the damn law, Rockstar!': Workers are protesting outside Take-Two after GTA 6 dev's alleged 'brazen' union-busting

"They can get used to seeing us on their doorstep."

www.pcgamer.com

November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM

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Lynda Lopez

@lyndab08.bsky.social

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️

@sophianyx.bsky.social

Name a Film that made your Jaw Drop.

October 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (Not very scary)

@ela-bambust.bsky.social

easiest way to nerd snipe me, apparently, is to go "hey what if vimes was in this situation" at which point i just start writing discworld fanfiction off the cuff

On today's docket: what if lord of the rings but discworld?

Vimes would take the ring, then turn to Detritus and say "Detritus. Listen to me. I'm not being funny. If I, for any reason, look like I'm about to put this on my finger, I need you to stop me."
"Like those re-strai-nin' techniques you told me about, sah?"
"Them's the ones, Corporal."
"The ones you told me not to use on account of them makin people's eyeballs pop out like eggs?"
Vimes gave him the kind of smile divers will sometimes see in their dreams, big and full of teeth and without even the slightest hint of a sense of humor.
"Yes," he said. "Those ones."

The tower fell. There wasn't much funny about it. There often isn't when a thousand tonnes of stone held together with nothing but hate comes tumbling down. The light of the dark lord shattered before the last brick had hit the ground.
But he was not, not yet, destroyed. Diminished, yes, but he had been diminished before. He had come back from worse. From being less. All he needed was power. The power of those bound to him.
A hooded figure strode between the rubble.
"Wraith," Sauron whispered, a voice like a thought on the wind. "My Black Captain. Come to me. Bring me your sword. Your ring.
"I'M AFRAID," the figure said, "YOU HAVE ME CONFUSED WITH SOMEONE ELSE."
"You have no power over me," Sauron said, and if you tried really hard you might have almost believed it.
"I'M SORRY TO SAY I LEFT MY SWORD AT HOME," Death said. "NOR DO I WEAR RINGS. ONLY THIS."
A scythe. A farmer's tool. It was no weapon any capable warrior would wield. And yet, at the foot of awakened Mount Doom, his army defeated, the dark lord Sauron laid his eye on the curved blade and for the first time in an age, he feared.
"There are heights even someone like you can aspire to, grey rider."
"THE LORD OF THE RINGS," Death continued, smiling at the rising sun over the mountains, like he couldn't hear the voice that scratched at the mind. "I DON'T SEE THE POINT OF EITHER. RULING. RINGS. ONLY THE WORK MATTERS. IT'S ALL THAT MATTERS, IN THE END."
"Nothing ends."
"SOME THINGS DO," Death said. "THIS DOES." He raised his arm, and swung. Once. One swing to end it all, in the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie. "YOU DO."

August 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM

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lincoln carpenter

@lincolnhello.bsky.social

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."