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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 2h

good afternoon

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 14h

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 15h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 15h

LLMs think they invented randomly slapping texts into a template and I just did it for free.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 21h

This, in conjunction with the "you're 12" paradigm of aura farming, explains America.

Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 21h

this is… i… i think sarah’s article has genuinely unlocked all of 2025

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 23h

Every shitty ChatGPT essay is alike, but every shitty human-written essay is shitty in its own way.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 1d

why is it black?

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Humanoid robots have been working 10 hours a day for the past 5 months on BMW's production line 🤖

🎥 figure_robots | TW

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 1d

But Vin Diesel flouts these rules. His bald head cannot change. He is an aberration.

A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 1d

You instantly know which M:I you are in the moment you see Ethan Hunt's haircut. Tom Cruise respects this.

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 1d

jfc just cloyingly try-hard prose, fuckin teacher's pet sentences, chill tf out

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 1d

No I just don't understand, I am just dumb

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1st Viscount Craigavon @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 1d

Adam Amin revealing AJ Hinch doesn't even know Spencer Torkelson's name. Unbelievable.

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 1d

I have no idea what this is about and honest-to-god it could be about anything

1st Viscount Craigavon @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 1d

Adam Amin revealing AJ Hinch doesn't even know Spencer Torkelson's name. Unbelievable.

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 1d

John Wick understands the most important part of every action franchise is the lead's haircut

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 1d

Put this in history books.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 1d

They named it America after Amerigo Vespucci who was a weirdo pickle salesman/mapmaker and say what you will about the country named after him by his pickles were pretty lousy too.

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Lawrence Bailey @lawrencembailey.bsky.social · 1d

'In Fascist America, Drugs Pay You!'

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 2d

I would like to see the inverse question, how much more would your company need to pay you to get you back in office. I know I could make probably 25-30% more at an in-person job, but childcare and other logistical costs would make that a net loss for me.

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 2d

Didn't quite shit the bed, but did barf in the hamper

A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 3d

theonion.com/gop-maintain...

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 3d

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 3d

[clicking to the 50th page of image search results for "naked person," sighing loudly in exasperation] "No, not that one either!"

A Cheeseburger Pillow @cheeseburgowski.bsky.social · 3d

My bigger picture thoughts -- sort of my meta analysis of the situation and how we got where we are today -- is that, we really boofed it.