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bnq 🌈 Ben @bnq1.bsky.social · 1d

Phil "god of war" Lamarr is the goat of that era

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bnq 🌈 Ben @bnq1.bsky.social · 1d

gay fire lol

A fire in a metal bonfire pit, at night. The base of the flames has touches of purple, teal, and green.

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bnq 🌈 Ben @bnq1.bsky.social · 1d

[retired 3x all-star from the '90s nicknamed "The Chunt"]:

"Wow that was a baserunning masterclass. Absolute textbook definition.

I mean you look up the definition of class-master, that play is the definition of book-text, run-basing; perfect dictionary."

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Arash Mohebbi @thatoldbear.bsky.social · 2d

finally caught up with @thejenna.bsky.social 's video about the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto and it's kinda fascinating to see what gaps corporations create in their own history to create a vision of how they want to be seen www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0N6...

Nintendo's museum problem

YouTube video by Jenna Stoeber

www.youtube.com

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bnq 🌈 Ben @bnq1.bsky.social · 2d

Who is Bob Taylor and why is she so sad

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rexalogy @rexalogy.bsky.social · 3d

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Ki @ SHOP IS OPEN ✨ @gawki.bsky.social · 4d

James C Mulligan is going after vids and people who call him out for selling AI images. He’s using copyright as an excuse to get them removed, which is so baffling considering he’s a serial tracer. He has claimed official Bambi background art as his own, but there’s so much more.

A long 🧵

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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bnq 🌈 Ben @bnq1.bsky.social · 4d

Honey still got me

a PNG of a beagle barking, with a block of text made up entirely of ceaseless barks, roo-roo-roos, and occasional sneezes

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tom @tomwalker.bsky.social · Mar 25

Demi tries to remember the short story “for sale: baby shoes, never worn.” on BigSoftTitty.png

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 6d

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bnq 🌈 Ben @bnq1.bsky.social · 5d

Believe it or not, it's nice here.

You're gonna learn about some obscure organ inside of you, why it hurts, and get a surgery or two, but you know what? It's nice here.

I haven't cringed when thinking about myself since my 20s and that weight is never comin back to these shoulders

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POWERFUL CRAB FART🦀 @powerful.crabf.art · 5d

The year is 2025. There are three social networks remaining. They are run by Dweeb Lowtax, Tweaker Lowtax, and Girlboss Lowtax. You have to pick at least one.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

You Can Just Push Shit In Back Seat Out Of Way

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 5d

Let’s fucking go we better respect the robots before “they use us“

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 5d

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 6d

anyone who invokes anti- or post-humanism (both things I'm totally fine with) but who focuses their love and defense of the non-human on, for instance, the machine that gives you imperfect answers in a perfectly obeisant tone, and not the non-human things devastated by that machine, can fuck off.

Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · 6d

truly hilarious that this is an attempted attack on ai critics. yeah being mean to chatgpt is eugenics. saying sam altman shouldn't be able to steal the entirety of human creative output for profit is genocide. words don't fucking mean anything

if you’re writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go “oh that’s fine to say because it’s not a real person” (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 6d

hey man just bc i'm platforming the Francis Galton of gender on my 70% gay website doesn't mean i'm not an ally! I still party with the dolls, I know ball! I saw Sophie live, I play Bloodborne! I have the Ikea shark I said Lindsey Graham was 'clocky' and no one got mad! I gave matrix revolutions 5/5

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 8d

A lot of people learned the shorthand Dolls and just assumed it meant A - all trans women and B - that using it in conversations or on T shirts was a sign that you're cool with the transgenders

Paul Frazee

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I feel the same way about the way jay was treated today - disappointed. And I still hang out with the dolls so I don't know what you're saying

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bnq 🌈 Ben @bnq1.bsky.social · 6d

@square put 2 Dudes With Attitudes outfits as Glamours and I will come back

photo of Shawn Michaels and Diesel circa 1994, holding the WWF Tag Team Championships

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · Apr 30

It's 1925. I'm leanin' against this lamppost on the lookout for dames who are lookin for trouble. I start flipping a quarter. I catch her eye. I fumble the quarter and it rolls into a sewer grate. I have lost the equivalent of thirty thousand dollars.

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bnq 🌈 Ben @bnq1.bsky.social · 6d

that'd def be worth a fite dot tv trial

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bnq 🌈 Ben @bnq1.bsky.social · 6d

if a millennial tells you this they're a fed cuz no the fuck we don't think that

Fortune @fortune.com · 6d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 7d

this is like half of r/ups now

Hi Andrew,

You have a new invoice for $63,755.71

Tariff Fee on T Shirt

Total Due: $83.27

Government Charges: $59.27
Brokerage Charges: $24.00

How to go about disputing an incorrect tariff charge?

Total Due: $82.92

Government Charges: $68.92
UPS Brokerage fees: $14.00

I’ve received 15 different duties and tariff charges for items I didn’t order.
Customer Seeking Help
The title is the crux of the issue. Over the past 3 weeks I’ve received numerous brown envelopes all charging me for duty and tariff fees associated with items that I never ordered.

The seller is somebody I’ve bought from before, but the last time I purchased from them was several months ago and my name is on the sold to slot. The “shipped to” person is someone I don’t know and the address and tracking address are both unrelated to me.

I’ve sent emails to an address given to my by the one time I was able to get through the phone number listed on the paper bill. They said the invoices will be removed in 4-6 weeks but now I’ve started receiving late fee bills on top. I’ve tried to call in again once a day, but I either get hung up on or my call drops once the wait lasts over an hour.

Any advice? I just don’t want this to go to collections or affect my credit for something I didn’t order or have any relation to besides my name being on something it shouldn’t have.

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