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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 8h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Harold Fjord @haroldfjord.bsky.social · 25m

Don't forget that they'll have national guard in blue cities and states

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𝕋𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕠𝕄𝕒𝕟 😱🇺🇸🤬 @tomatoman.net · 56m

OK, this is alarming and something to be alarmed about for sure. But there is a huge difference between doing something yourself and knowing someone who does it, and combining that into a single statistic is really misleading. It’ll be off by two or three orders of magnitude for most people.

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BrendanClay @claybrendan.bsky.social · 3h

Happy 40th Anniversary of Rorschach seeing the city‘s true face to those who celebrate

The first panel of the comic “Watchmen.”

On the top of the panel, text reads “Rorschach’s Journal. October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.”

The rest of the panel depicts an extreme closeup of a city street where a pool of blood runs off into a gutter. On the edge of the gutter there is a yellow smiley face button marred by a single drop of blood that partially obscures one eye.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Harold Fjord @haroldfjord.bsky.social · 2h

White should obviously be pineapple

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infinite brians @infinitebrians.neocities.org · 1d

this sword appeared to me in a vision

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Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.social · 20h

It's very telling that the bulk of the eponymous superhero team is made up of soldiers and assassins, many of whom are officially state-sanctioned murderers.

These... are our heroes? These are the people we venerate?

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Ben Diskin @bendiskin.bsky.social · 1d

Story idea:
When the value of gold takes a surprising drop, an ancient dragon rouses from a deep slumber to learn his horde of gold is now worth nothing.

Forced with potential eviction from his cave, he has to get a job at an upscale, casual, island-themed clothing store.

Title:
Tommy Bahamut

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Stashdragon @stashdragon.bsky.social · 1d

So take a police force and arrest the people who are breaking laws and go into the facility. This is not rocket science!

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Harold Fjord @haroldfjord.bsky.social · 1d

There's a program called calibre that you can use to load any other books to your Kindle from a pc

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

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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Harold Fjord @haroldfjord.bsky.social · 1d

You can't expect someone who calls himself a libertarian socialist to have coherent political ideas

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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 2d

An Tifa's girlfriend? Her name is Aerith, bitch

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

me doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

Robert F. Kennedy, Inspector Genital

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

There will be those who will once again council empty reconciliation with Republicans, on the grounds that “we need to be better than them.”

But here’s the thing: we ARE better than them. Much better than them. Everyone is far far far better than them. That’s why they all need to go to prison.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Everybody who pushed Democrats to be more aggressive after the insurrection was right. Listen to them next time (if there is a next time).

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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Harold Fjord @haroldfjord.bsky.social · 2d

Not a photo

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Harold Fjord @haroldfjord.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't that how Paramore tours

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

Jenna would make Liz write jokes for her, Liz would write a bunch of feminist material because she’s mad at Jenna and then try to pull it at the last minute because she’s worried for Jenna’s safety. Jenna would ham it up so hard that the Saudis would love it as parody of shrill American women

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 2d

which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna

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leveloneminiboss.bsky.social @leveloneminiboss.bsky.social · 2d

Tracy: no way am I gonna go shuck and jive for Prince Bone Saw!
Liz: wow, you’re really upset about Jamal Khashoggi.
Tracy: who? I’m upset because Mohammed bin Salaman sold me a bad bone saw!

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Harold Fjord @haroldfjord.bsky.social · 2d

You are funny wholesome and relatable

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Harold Fjord @haroldfjord.bsky.social · 2d

Man why would someone do something like that

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David Lo Pun-ch Nazis @helpmeskeletor.bsky.social · 2d

See how Israel gets to have ‘families’ and Gazans get to be generically referred to as ‘people’.

It’s little digs like this that are designed to tell you where to position your sympathy.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

My statement on Middle East peace

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