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Jungian. Cinéphile. Lawyer. Chess fanatic. CEO NanoApps Medical Creative Dir. Alias “Where there is power, there is resistance.” ― Michel Foucault Sydney Aust. No DMs

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · Dec 1

'Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.'

C. G. Jung

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 4h

👊 Flea

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 4h

Friedrich Nietzsche #BOTD
(15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900)

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 4h

FFS. Sam Altman and his AI snake oil. It's easy to see thru him, yet seldom challenged. Seriously suspect his 'Silicon Valley' vocal fry is a put on, too.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 7h

"One of the reasons we release technology like this is we see something coming and know that in some number of months or years it's gonna be widely available through open source models." - Sam Altman when asked about Sora being used to make realistic deepfakes and people removing its watermarks.

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 4h

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Varsha Pai @varshapai.bsky.social · 7h

OpenAI Ethics is an oxymoron

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 23h

TikTok is an opportunity for Donald Trump to bestow great wealth—and considerable media power—on a clique of allies and insiders. The details of this gift are taking shape out of the public eye.

Will be a right-wing propaganda channel; this one aimed at youths.

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Trump’s Dodgy Plan for TikTok

The details are murky, but it looks like the president is about to further enrich and empower his friends.

www.theatlantic.com

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Lee-in-Iowa 💙 @lee-in-iowa.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Mike Johnson manages to stay remarkably ignorant of nearly everything going on in our government.

How is he still employed at all?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 1d

Really good songwriting! Haven't heard in a long time.

Thanks, Simon!💙🥂🎶

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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nypapajoe.bsky.social @nypapajoe.bsky.social · 2d

Every tyrannical regime since the beginning of time has invoked that somehow it is “God's Will” that committing genocide, famine, hatred, and torture is divine. Only the mentally deprived would make such a claim to justify their own inhumanity.

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GOP Rep Claims ICE Agents Are ‘Doing The Lord’s Work’

The GOP rep called the “pushback” ICE has been getting “interesting.”

www.huffpost.com

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 2d

"DO SOMETHING!"

Someone should remind him that he was the President on Jan. 6 – therefore it was his Administration running the DOJ, not Biden. So how does this work, exactly?🤔

As for his "reading" of China... FFS. Personal projection (fantasy) vs economic reality? Two guesses.

Scary stuff.

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 2d

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 2d

Can't have too much of a good thing. So...The Disco Purrfection Version. Thanks, Simon! 💙🎶 💃🕺

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The Tymes ~ You Little Trustmaker 1974 Disco Purrfection Version

YouTube video by DJDiscoCat

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 2d

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 3d

Mine, too. 🥂

Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 3d

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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain

YouTube video by Creedence Clearwater Revival

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 3d

Wasn't this their first single as Creedence? Was actually recorded when they were still the Golliwogs.

Thanks, Simon!💙🎶🎶

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 3d

Diane Keaton #RIP 💔

"The best part is that I'm still here and, because the end is in sight, I treasure it all more."

Diane Keaton

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, Terry!💙

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 3d

Totally agree. Poisonous little insect.

Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 3d

You read him correctly.

Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 3d

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 4d

Tech-investor Peter Thiel, best known for sponsoring J.D. Vance and co-founding Palantir, goes theology:

“Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of 4 lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming.“

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Amanda Scott 💙 @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 3d

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Kyle Ian @kyleian.cool · 4d

It’s 1 am and I’ve just learned Peter Thiel has been giving off-the-record lectures suggesting people like Greta Thunberg are harbingers of the antichrist.

I should have drank less coffee today, how did I end up here?

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