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Angel Alys @angelalys.bsky.social · 1h

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 16h

When white man cannot refute black existence they turned to snide derision. Watermelon once represented a crop that black people could sell and make money on. White man pushed that point of pride to mockery. When black scholars saw that black Africans were once kings, white man mocked “we wuz kangz”

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 16h

White man hated when they saw depictions of black African people in Egyptian ruins. When we claimed them, they mocked us. But look

a picture from thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, depicting the people (Egyptians) as brown skinned Africans (because they were)

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 1h

It will never escape my attention that I achieved this higher than average level of literacy due to reading comics and listening to rap. The forms that *you* scoffed at and considered to be lesser. I am smarter and more literate than you because I’ve engaged in *something,* as opposed to nothing

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 1h

I hate it when people talk badly about 1984 because if you actually read it, that book explains what’s wrong with society and what’s wrong with anti intellectualism

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 13h

he just learned what a pig is and he is intrigued. he thought they were merely myth and legend, rather than a creature a cat could meet

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Angel Alys @angelalys.bsky.social · 13h

every time I see a clock I remember that one meme like "Don't forget the L in grandfather clock. Worst mistake of my life"

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Angel Alys @angelalys.bsky.social · 13h

yeah but like, the most I can psychic damage at once is like 3 or 4 friends. You can do 2d8 psychic damage to thousands. Using this power for nought but evil is just the kinda bonus that would make it worth it

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Angel Alys @angelalys.bsky.social · 13h

can u sow some panic for me real quick? there isn't long left to harvest and we need one last good crop before the winter

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Ryan Wilson @hailseitan.bsky.social · 15h

They also eradicated extreme poverty, homelessness, illiteracy, and medical debt. Raising 800 million people out of poverty in the process. Thanks to the world’s largest Marxist Leninist party the CPC.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 16h

This train station in China cost $7.8 billion to build.

America could have built 4 of these over the last 2 years for under $32 billion, but we decided to send that money to Israel so they could kill a bunch of civilians.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 13h

Look, this is what Catholicism does so well. Yes girl, BRING OUT THE MONSTRANCE. MAKE THEM SAY IT IN FRONT OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. Martin Luther could *never*. He failed to predict the Trump Presidency and also is directly implecated. I am so serious.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Angel Alys @angelalys.bsky.social · 13h

Legit just seeing him ruined requiem for a dream for me. Idk why is it like an irrational hate or something? Everytime I see him my brain goes "this is not a real person and you should react with fear"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
Debt & Money
Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

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According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 14h

One of the wildest issues AI creates is that it makes people who shouldn't do things they don't understand, do those exact things believing they understand.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

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☭ Comrade Kidfur 🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭♿🦯 @comradekidfur.bsky.social · 16h

Way better than AI

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 1d

I have been enjoying Silent Hill f so much I decided to do some terrible fanart.

#silenthillf #silenthill

The protagonist of Silent Hill f Hinako, a Japanese girl in a blue school uniform, with one beefy arm and holding a sledge hammer, but all drawn really poorly in MS Paint.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 22h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

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ynoham @ynoham.bsky.social · 16h

Building more of the world, I'm finding the room maps give away a little too much. Trying a compass instead - it switches to a stage map on the pause screen, showing visited rooms as squares and the connections between them.
#GunmetalGothic #ScreenshotSaturday #GodotEngine #IndieGameDev

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 19h

Too many womens? *DING*
Woman in hijab? *DING*

Once you see it, it starts to bring into focus a lot of what these cringe crusaders complaints actually are, no matter how nonsensical, they're all playing at doing a Cinemasins for games. Gay characters? *DING* Story with environmental themes? *DING*

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 19h

Fashy Cinemasins

That's what this is, the effect the proliferation of "anti-woke" youtube grifters have had on their audiences as a whole, stunting their ability to engage with media and training them to look for "DEI sins" to call out, atrophying their ability to enjoy the games they're playing.

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 2d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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EllaMenta⚡Storm Elemental Vtuber⚡ @ellamenta.bsky.social · 14h

Baby Goobers🐀🐀

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”