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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Your moment of calm: A white-tailed kite hunting above the Tomales Bay Trail, near Point Reyes Station.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 7h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 7h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 12h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 6h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Linden @emilytheslayer.bsky.social · 4h

I think my hottest take is that actually, explaining jokes can be good and not suck all of the humor out of them because it's good to bring more friends into the funny part

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 8h

pussyronin on tumblr: "yeah im four years on elfstrogen i can commune with the forest pretty well but my ear points are still coming in. One of my buddys is on tuskosterone for becomi an orc"

wizardbreasts: "3 years spironolactgnome

ohh i am so small and under a mushroom"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 8h

Dune 2 chicks at the same time

Wallace from the movie Office Space showing Wallace from the 2 chicks at the same time scene with his eyes colored purple

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 23h

it is nighttime so now you can buy every one of my bookmarks for $20 ✨ that’s 40 bookmarks for twenty incredible dollars 📚 frankly that is one of the best deals I have ever heard in my entire life 🫡 shop: paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/product/ever...

Photo of two bookmarks, left features the neighborhood watch silhouette criminal and reads

YEAH I STOLE THIS BOOK FROM THE LITTLE FREE LIBRARY IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD

right bookmark features orange tulips against a blue sky and reads

Go to hell if you don’t like books

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2h

DEI is wrong and immoral. Here's why our immigration system should give preference to white refugees.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2h

Young Republicans are praising Hitler. Here's why Democrats are to blame.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

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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elenloth.bsky.social @elenloth.bsky.social · 1d

Someone whom I dislike, who is very big on Net Zero stuff, just bought a new car for the second time in three years. So naturally I'm gonna vent about it here.

The greenest/most sustainable car? Is the one you ALREADY OWN.

Thank you for coming to my petty ted talk.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Lackadaisy Tracy @lackadaisy.bsky.social · 5d

Hey everyone, we have some big news to share!

LACKADAISY - Last Call

A preview of Lackadaisy Season One - the Speakeasy is in its prime as Mitzi and the band regale the crowd with an original musical number, Last Call. This seemed like the ideal way to announce that Lackadaisy is now officially a ‪Glitch‬ Production!!

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Jonathan Moore @archparagon.bsky.social · 20d

this trilogy makes no sense

movie posters for the films Him, Her, and It

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Scott @smadin.net · 2d

[Rockwell "Freedom of Speech" painting] I don't think federal agents should be sexually assaulting clergy

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Rev. Woolf, who below describes federal agents grabbing his neck and twisting his nipple as he protested (in a clerical collar) outside the Broadview ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, is ordained in both the American Baptist Churches USA denomination and the Alliance of Baptists.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

I'm sorry what www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

The attack on Portland was supposed to make the place look like a lawless hellhole. Instead, the authorities have succeeded in making it look like the most fun city in the world.

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mel @mel.bzky.team · 2d

bus with one depressed and one happy character. the depressed one says the world is harsh cruel and unforgiving and is wearing clown makeup. the happy one, wearing a doctors coat, says great clown pagliacci is in town yay

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d

"It's really unfair to call us censors just because we're trying to ban books"

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Senator Troy McKeown (R-Gillette) spoke midway through the public comments regarding his concern about how challenges are being handled.
"We hide behind the First Amendment when it's convenient. When we have a group of people who want to do something else, it's censorship," McKeown said. "At the end of the day you say it's only the parent's responsibility. You can't ensure responsibility. Parents can sign every library card you want. You can't sign another individual's rights away, no matter how old they are."

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 2d

Viewing beautiful Native art at the Muscarelle Museum on the campus of William & Mary. This piece by artist Preston Singletary is called 'Standing Canoe'. #IndigenousPeoplesDay #art #museum

The piece is a curved standing shape, in deep blue and black colors in Native design, made from glass.

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elenloth.bsky.social @elenloth.bsky.social · 2d

I played the fan-made #MLP #magic set again today, for the first time in 12 yet, and I can confirm that Parasprites is the GOAT.

I mean, I came in last out of 8. But I had so much fun with it!

The fan-made My Little Pony Magic card "Para sprites"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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