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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 10h

...another NITW dream sequence...

Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 13h

"Dear Angel of Death:
How are you? I'm fine. Of course you'd be more clued in on that statement. Anyway. I am writing to express concern about your aim..."

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 13h

The only watching the Friday and Monday soaps of sports fans.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 14h

I can't muster the sarcasm for this weakness of action after all the bluster, @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 15h

These are state police, under @jbpritzker.bsky.social’s control. The great khan.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 15h

These are state police, under @jbpritzker.bsky.social’s control. The great khan.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 15h

(The oven has a convection setting - it just takes longer to heat up)

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 15h

This gives me terror contemplating the eventual attempts at robotic surgery being paired with AI.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 21h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 18h

I'm sure the family protecting Anne Frank was eventually charged with a variant of trafficking.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 20h

While acknowledging the failings. The contradictions. Showing he does see it all.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Scouring my library and finding both Philip K. Dick and Franz Kafka because of how the librarians thought of "science fiction."

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Japan populated by robots who were the last caretakers of the elderly, keeping up their traditions and living their lost lives. Slowly falling into disrepair in an all too accurate emulation of their creators and the state of their country.

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 1d

ICE out of Portland!
#abolishICE #resist #PDX

A digital drawing of a frog standing on a bright red background. The frog is holding a sign that says “ICE out of Portland”. The frog looks mad.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Baseball is broken. Fixing it will take a courageous band of mavericks to drill to the center of the fabled Baseball Diamond.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Hey I didn't make any of them evil, I'm just putting it in stark relief!

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 1d

The monsters can't get you if you close your eyes.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 1d

Is actually full of them. 900 baseballs in an umpire suit.

Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 1d

So many of these right-wing tough guys would wither from one sideeye from Tom Waits.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Jul 14

Hey, uh, open letter to billionaires.

Just call me. Hit me up. I can be your friend unswayed by your income. I refuse all gifts. I'll give honest opinions that may have you mad at me for weeks.

But I promise honesty at no charge.

I'm free. The only cost is humility.

When all the yes men fail

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Feb 17

This is part of the hate that the wealthy have for the skilled. Money can't instantly make them acclaimed artists or intelligencia, so they try and mock and devalue what they can't have.

AI "art" and LLMs are the biggest example of sour grapes ever.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Jun 26

"But the rich might get taxed!"

"Go on..."

"Which might cause them to leave!"

"You've got my attention..."

"But real estate prices would plummet!"

"Really selling me..."

"And then the poor would move in!"

*prepares writing a large cartoon check*

"Defund the cops and there's plenty more!"

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'm shocked they don't have their own gated community of social media where rich people talk. Except that they'd all expect sycophants and none of them usually praise anyone else. They'd end up paying a grifter class to grovel.

Hmm. This explains a lot of AI.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Jan 17

Being rich doesn't magically grant you taste or acceptance or talent or anything really.

It instead grants you a bunch of sycophants who will gladly tell you it does.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Jul 10

Just thinking about how the billionaire class thinks it has an image problem that can be solved by buying outlets and social media and stifling opinion

And not a fundamental problem that is rooted in their own greed

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · Nov 25

Billionaires are never the solution.

No billionaire of any flavor will save you.

Coddling billionaires puts you in the grave that much faster.

No billionaire, ever, is or was "self made."

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