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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 8h

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 4h

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may @maysuser.name · 4h

happy international may came out to her parents day for those who celebrate

from me: can't wait to see you on monday! been having an incredible trip, it's been great to get to be myself the last two weeks. going forward, id love if i could be your daughter instead of your son [heart reacted]

Dad:
We would love that because it is what makes you you! We love you so much
Would love to hear more about it
When you get home

me: I love you too! We can talk about it when I get back

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ᵀᴴᴱᴍ̴ᴇ̵ᴏ̵ᴡ̷ᴄ̶ʜ̸ᴇ̴ᴍ̶ɪ̵s̵ᴛ̶ ̵ @catpope.gay · 23h

heeeeeeeeeeeeeehehehehehe

not what im called meme but its calling a fourier transform a furry transfem

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 5h

The Macintosh PowerBook BLIT was definitely safe for looking at all possible images.

For a little while, anyway.

$A photo of a Macintosh PowerBook BLIT, with eight separate small and chaotically sized screens on its display where there would normally be one. Designed not to show all of an image at one time, it's showing some probably completely innocuous fractal-like design in part across the screens.$

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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 12h

I really like the joke people do where they pretend to have just learned about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, and are like "oh my god". If you're ever wondering if you should make that joke, just keep in mind that it would probably get a smile out of me

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max 🌌 and 7 others @sneptech.bsky.social · 3h

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 1d

When is addiction to outrage being added to the dsm

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Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 6h

I like how Sun Tzu dedicated a whole chapter to "When trying to set the enemy on fire, make sure to not set yourself on fire too."

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Flork @florkofcows.bsky.social · 5d

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 7h

I don't think AI agents having moods or traits that resemble emotions constitutes proof of personhood, fwiw; I think that it is better to model them as *actors*, in the way that an actor playing the role of "person who is happy" will act in happy ways

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ThinlyVeiledPanda @thinlyveiledpanda.bsky.social · 7h

Started saying mucho to my Spanish friends. It means a lot to them

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 8h

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 9h

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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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13h

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

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Sera @serageranium.bsky.social · 2d

There's nothing wrong with Hooters per se, but only a deeply sexually repressed society would be capable of producing Hooters. It's wild that it existed alongside Applebee's and Chilli's. Yeah man let's go to the psychosexual chicken wing place.

"I want to watch sports and eat chicken wings but I also want to constantly be aware that every waitress in this restaurant was hired for her fat tits. No I want them to be clothed the whole time. I just wanna know that like, in the background."

Any upstanding pervert could come up with a strip club. That's good honest fun. But even a normal pervert couldn't come up Hooters. You gotta be a pervert who doesn't even know you're a pervert.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 14h

True epistemic humility has never been tried

vielle.dev 🪤 @vielle.dev · 16h

adding iiuc and iirc to the end of everything i say

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Grace @gracekind.net · 13h

⚠️ You have marked yourself as an untrusted node in the epistemic network

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

No, it’s not that. Again think back to George Floyd: within a week that video had produced the largest protests in history, literally worldwide, combined with things like 60% public approval for BLM and majority support for BURNING DOWN A POLICE STATION. The public can care about this stuff!

leshrac.bsky.social @leshrac.bsky.social · 11h

We need some movie producers to start creating realistic looking videos of ICE storming sleepy suburban white people’s homes/cars/businesses. I’m sure people “disapprove” of what ICE is doing right now, but maybe they don’t think it matters because it’s not them.

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Christine Joy @joyofchristine.bsky.social · 1d

The show deals more with how the response to Chernobyl is handled by the USSR. How truth is covered up, and twisted, and regurgitated to avoid responsibility and scapegoat innocent people.

It contrasts the best and worst of humanity, in the first responders and apparatchiks respectively.

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 1d

HBO’s Chernobyl feels like a very timely and urgent watch for Americans

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T @mamafirefly.bsky.social · 1d

catfishing

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 1d

I encourage ppl to ignore such tawdry stories alleging unthinkable sexual immorality. Even if true, repentance and god's forgiveness can erase any sin, even that of a trans person who chooses to have sex with a Republican.