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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 6h

This skeet brought to you by throbbing feet and the newfound knowledge that I don’t know how to do the Wobble

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Jane N @jdopinkie.bsky.social · 7h

We are amphifa

Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 11h

Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 6h

Denny Arthur’s gets a bad name only because people are too cowardly to dance. Dance, you bastards. Be cringe and free

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13h

Making people afraid to be affiliated with antifascism—making people afraid to be associated with groups and people that actively oppose fascism—is some bleak shit.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 15h

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 14h

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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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 10h

Yo but this is so atmospheric and cool

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 15h

Right now I’m at a place in life where every minute spent relaxing will have to be made up elsewhere. But damn if it doesn’t feel good today to laaaaaze. We are pie for breakfast, watched Hocus Pocus, I finished a drawing, went for a walk, tonight, a party. Future Cat will be PISSED

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 2d

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 16h

Hey Vancouver, WA friends!

I'm at Dennis7Dees Vancouver location today and tomorrow for their harvest festival!

10-5pm • Sat-Sun • October 11-12

Vendors, donuts, kids activities and of course all the plants to your heart could desire! 🌸🌻🌼🌷💐

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 17h

he is. perfect

Rowan MacColl @skulkingfoxes.bsky.social · 17h

Also I love going to second hand bookstores because sometimes I find things like this endearingly goofy version of one of my favorite books. Also I love these pulp paperbacks, the perfect book size imo.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

However, the obvious glitches reveal how genAI works. Rather than simulating a world, it visualizes concepts based on patterns found in existing content: a reporter is a person with a mic & a detainee is a person with their hands cuffed behind their back. Combine the two, and you get three arms
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Her three arms/hands are the big tell in this case...

Screenshot from a TikTok video with red circles around the person's three hands and arms

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 20h

There are a number of accounts on Tiktok and IG that do extremely important work walking viewers through AI-generated slop videos like this and help them think critically about what they are seeing, how to spot it, etc. It’s a new era of critical media literacy instruction and I am happy to see it

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21h

I think it would be a huge public service if major media outlets interviewed people given RIF notices and let them explain in detail what their jobs are so that people can judge for themselves whether these positions are wasteful like Trump and Vought claim or whether they help the country prosper.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 21h

in my humble opinion it is journalistic malpractice for a verified account to be sharing garbage AI-generated news videos because they're too stupid and lazy to verify their sources

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 23h

we're all dead here #halloween #art

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1d

This boy got double vaccines today and is feeling ROUGH

A brown tabby relaxing, peets out, on a cable knit gray blanket.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

Illegally firing the CDC experts while he gets the latest COVID vaccine is really beyond the pale.
Marie Antoinette level of vibes.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 1d

We love you Chicago 🫶

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

A tow truck is bringing an ICE/CBP vehicle back to the facility—and its back window has been completely smashed out.

Front driver's side window is cracked, too.

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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · 1d

Sending this back around because it's so dang good.

Do yourself a favor and enjoy this queer musician who played a pro trans song at a straight pride festival in Boise over the summer.

Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · Jun 21

Hetero Awesome Fest - Guerrilla Performance - Boise, Idaho - Boy

🚨 A QUEER PERSON HAS SNUCK ONTO THE STAGE AT HETERO PRIDE THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 1d

frogblocfrogblocfrogblocfrogbloc

Mair Dundon @quietaction.bsky.social · 2d

With #AltText

Illustration of a hand pointing a finger at a cute green frog clutched in the other fist. “behave” is written above the finger. “no” in a bubble above the frog.

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