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Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.

Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

05.11.2025 05:39 — 👍 12221    🔁 4119    💬 58    📌 193

It looked regular bad throughout most of it, but then Santa's hands show up and it becomes a horror film.

03.11.2025 23:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

03.08.2025 19:25 — 👍 13190    🔁 3693    💬 75    📌 100
The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken.  How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

17.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 50374    🔁 10359    💬 1809    📌 774
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In Super Smash Bros., the skeletons visible when characters are hurt by electric attacks are not tied to specific animations, and instead are a form that can be toggled on and off at any time, including in cutscenes. Below are excerpts of the game's intro, with skeletons.

09.10.2025 16:01 — 👍 5303    🔁 1814    💬 92    📌 93

The one-two punch of the spinelessness of Thune and the cruel pageantry of Noem are why I hate telling people I grew up in South Dakota.

09.10.2025 13:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think @bioware.bsky.social will be fine under PIF, Mass Effect 4 will just have to up the renegade option for reporters.

07.10.2025 21:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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why did he say this

30.09.2025 22:59 — 👍 3418    🔁 654    💬 181    📌 101

Anti-ICE? Hey, you’re nice.
Anti-trans? I’m throwing hands.

27.09.2025 23:31 — 👍 2111    🔁 424    💬 15    📌 4
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i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

24.09.2025 21:40 — 👍 8492    🔁 2894    💬 61    📌 74
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genuinely crying at this one

22.09.2025 21:35 — 👍 4298    🔁 727    💬 169    📌 287

@danryckert.com @tolkoto.com

20.09.2025 02:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

16.09.2025 17:18 — 👍 2166    🔁 599    💬 43    📌 140

Mario 64 taught me to think that way. It informed me that pressing right moved Lakitu right, which would make me see left. It's all a matter of deciding if you are making the camera move to the side or look to the side.

08.09.2025 19:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Minottiual Hydmike

02.09.2025 21:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Metal...gear?!

22.08.2025 14:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Um, he gave an incredibly long speech about nothing, not trying to delay anything but just to have the high score. Hero.

05.08.2025 20:30 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.

https://trib.al/ayccoO7

17.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 3519    🔁 968    💬 108    📌 218

It's been obvious for years that, apart from a handful of congressional districts, "Republican-lite" picks up a trivial number of swing voters while depressing base turnout, resulting in a net loss.

Problem is, the most influential people in our party prefer a loss to a win by anyone to their left.

17.07.2025 16:37 — 👍 1603    🔁 378    💬 36    📌 15

I was worried people were piling on him too much for his bad take, but after seeing this, I'm not so concerned his fate is unwarranted.

06.07.2025 11:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Air Canada Lost In ‘Remarkable’ Lying AI Chatbot Case The crux of the Air Canada case lay in a disagreement between the airline's chatbot and the airline’s Bereavement Fares Policy webpage.

There's Canadian precedent:
www.forbes.com/sites/marisa...

04.07.2025 17:08 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

04.07.2025 01:40 — 👍 32840    🔁 9433    💬 374    📌 323

He wrote the music for the first four Spyro games! Ive recognized his music since before I even heard of The Police.

27.06.2025 16:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I keep getting ads for Meta AI that basically boil down to "wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to remember so many things about your kids?" and that's a more dystopian sales pitch than you'd see in a satire.

27.06.2025 15:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s somehow still more controversial to be against this than to be for it

27.06.2025 11:31 — 👍 2419    🔁 677    💬 19    📌 5

@danryckert.com if you want to try mustard on a hotdog, may I suggest going full @gameovergreggy.bsky.social and try the Portillo's in Roseville?

25.06.2025 15:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

if the democrats were running on "the other guy is bad" & winning every election in a landslide, even if they did jack shit of any worth while in power you could be like well they suck but at least their electoral tactic is keeping the worse guy out. but they don't! they run on that and lose lol

15.06.2025 17:44 — 👍 1662    🔁 202    💬 32    📌 7
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DO NOT BUY JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION 3

They’re using ai generation in their game, boycott this shit and force their hand to remove this garbage from their game entirely.

store.steampowered.com/app/2958130/...

06.06.2025 22:52 — 👍 6093    🔁 3597    💬 91    📌 217
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'I Hate Being Called A Fascist Pig' says MPD officer protecting ICE - The Nordly

www.thenordly.com/nordly/i-hat...

04.06.2025 03:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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