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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 14m

columnists logging into to bsky to start their posts with "you're probably gonna spank my naughty little ass for this, but"

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

there's something here

A normal-versus-normal matchup is what politics used to be — persuasion, messaging, negotiation, compromise. Behaving this way will lose against someone donning body armor while calling you an antifa domestic terrorist MS-13 gang member. And the guy in the body armor will always lose to the guy in the inflatable frog suit.

3x3 grid charting how aura farming, shitposting, and acting normal interact

Aura Farming Shitposting Acting Normal
Aura Farming Stronger aura farmer wins Shitposter wins Aura farmer wins
Shitposting Shitposter wins Society loses Acting normal wins
Acting Normal Aura farmer wins Acting normal wins We live in a society

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 14h

what the fuck

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 1d

My big conspiracy is that due to our overall systemic decline in both cultural literacy and actual literacy we have spawned a generation of people who don’t even know how to get horny anymore

TheGamersician 🎮🎶 @thegamersician.com · 2d

🤦🏾‍♂️

Speak for yourself lol

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 1d

i’ve seen enough. and by that i mean lots of evidence. If you’re running an account that uses phrases like “antifascist,” or anything in the vicinity, the FBI, the NYPD, it doesn’t really matter, it’s all the same thing now, you’re on a watchlist.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Friday to you guys

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

Would be nice if the NAFO "anti-imperialists just hate Americans" types and the Will Stancil "leftists are unusually violent" types acknowledged how much they normalized this kind of talk

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 2d

As the shutdown extends, the rhetorical utility of a 94-style Contract With America becomes significantly greater.

Democrats need something material they can point to and say, "These are the perfectly reasonable points Republicans are refusing to do their jobs for."

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2d

It seems like the cause of some minor furor every year but you'd think people would have internalized that the Nobel Peace Prize is a little suspect after Kissinger and Arafat each got one.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

There is a style of management which does this, almost entirely defined by its lack of sufficient theory of mind to understand how other people would react to this.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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sweet kerry eleanor @leavingtheparty.blog · 2d

It’s 🐝 yourself Friday don’t forget to 🐝 yourself today

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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 3d

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 3d

we’re still going to have elections, they’ll just own the voting machines now so it won’t matter who you vote for

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 3d

2 Passion 2 Christ

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 3d

Am I “into Pynchon?” Hell yeah I’m into Pynchon…into Pynchon them ass cheeks, what up girl

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nora 🎃 @downtownkitty.com · 3d

i refuse to believe these are real people

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 3d

Not to be that guy but the democrats should have had the foresight to see this coming when Obama did this exact same thing (including to US citizens!) and they did nothing. It’s not as if they weren’t warned by the ACLU and many others! Bipartisan “war on terror” foolishness delivered this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."