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What the fuck man. I can clearly hear full-sized chopper rotors nearby, but flightradar24 shows nothing for like 20 miles. Where is my shoulder-operated SAM?

As @owillis.bsky.social says, FIGHT AND WIN.

It appears that people being able to eat is now an emergency.

This is cute

Don't talk to me or my son ever again

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Gotta say the impromptu call-and-response was pretty cool. Especially because it worked so well.

Mamdani: "I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life but let tonight be the final time I utter his name."

Cuomo gave a fairly graceless concession speech, and Mamdani rips his skin off: "My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life. But let tonight be the last time I mention his name."

God damn that was brutal. “Let that be the last time I say his name” is such a huge flex.

I am gonna be pissed if these assholes were bluffing. I’m really looking forward to NYC being nicer next time I visit.

Oh, and they’re calling prop 50 already, based on exit polls.

ZOHRAN COME OUT AND TALK TO US IT IS GETTING LATE

The real question is: what lesson will the Democratic party take away from this? That they can run progressive candidates and win? Or that they need to work even harder to oppose fresh blood like Mamdani so this doesn't happen again. I know which one would be smart, and I know which one will happen.

There is apparently something about NYC that I thoroughly do not understand. One of this things is WAY THE FUCK not like the others.

If you haven’t donated to your local food bank and you can, today is the day.

People are having some strong feelings today. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DU7N6k/

Bluntly, our multi-ethnic queertism household and extended family spent a lot of fucking money at Target, for years. Even today our apartment is full of stuff we bought from Target in years past. Liberal moms and gay couples were load-bearing for Target. Without them, it is slowly collapsing.

Looks like Dick Cheney has hung up his shot gun and shuffled off this mortal coil to go commit war crimes in the great beyond.

Wait -- so now the right wing is worrying about Nigerians in Nigeria being disappeared by masked Islamists when they manifestly don't care about Nigerians in American being disappeared by masked ICE agents? Bullshit. These people don't care about Nigerians. They just love war.

One of the things that will forever stay with me is the raw Dunning-Kruger effect on display as some of the least popular people in the country tilt the election toward Mamdani by endorsing his opponent. Surely the percentage of New Yorkers who don’t consider Musk and Trump anti-geniuses is < 5%.

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Something I had not anticipated this year is that, apparently, a full-man-sized crow with a flamboyant black feather collar and steampunk-style gothic jacket handing out candy is, in fact, terrifying to young children.

It looks like Azure, in a presumed attempt at AWS feature parity, has decided to have an outage today.

“Texas is one of the queerest states in the country. Only California has more LGBTQ+ identifying residents. Texas is home to more queer people than all the queer people in Canada.”

This is nearly 1 out of every 8 Americans who will probably start missing meals in less than a week. If you haven’t already, donate to your local food bank, or give to Feeding America, which distributes finds to them. give.feedingamerica.org/b34NMcohLUeT...

and finally, ppl deserve food. even if they don't work or aren't unable to or whatever. humans need food and they should have it regardless. no qualifiers needed.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

There are two companies I would expect to be sitting pretty during a wide-scale AWS outage, and that's because they run their own major cloud services. Relying on AWS would just be strategically bizarre. Oh. Huh.

Shot and chaser.

Look, I know there's a lot going on right now, but on top of all that, the shutdown is threatening funds that nearly 42 million Americans rely on for food. Please consider donating money, food, or time to your local food bank. Find them at www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

This headline does neither the story nor the video justice. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Look, the organization and affiliated party can try to publicly disclaim these attitudes until they’re blue in their face, but if these are the kinds of people who stand up and cheer for the same things as you do, it’s time to take a hard look at why. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

For any Oregonos (or whatever y’all call yourself) in my network…

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once: — Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — Against raising the minimum wage — Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

"We won't swear in a member of the opposition party because we don't like how they vote" surely is a position. I hope the Democrats are taking notes, but know that they're not.

I want to once again put in a plug for Spigen’s “tough armor” cases. I had my phone fall out of its holder and hit the ground at nearly 20 mph today; and while the case is badly banged up, the phone is in pristine shape. (I have lens protectors on the camera, and they’re chewed up but did their job)

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Having internet issues? In the US? Yeah, it's not just you. I don't know what's up, but something went *really* *wrong* about 20 minutes ago, and things haven't fully recovered yet. www.thousandeyes.com/outages/

The folks over at Martin House Brewing have done a crazy thing again.

This is their *selected* *promo* *shot* and what the *fuck* is happening to her neck. Their hand-picked demonstration image has eldrich-level misinterpretations of human physiology, and yet they think this is ready for prime-time?

Nothing special, but weather has turned nice, so it’s time to cook outside…

Honestly, the fact that these chucklefucks can't figure out *why* people are demonizing ICE is probably the biggest testament to their lack of competence.

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

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NOLAN RYAN ANGUS TENDERLOIN STK

Wait… the dimmest host from Fox is recalling military leadership from every world theater to read them his Vogon poetry?

I hadn’t hear Ben Hodges’ name until today. Here’s a link if you hadn’t either. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hod...