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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 2h

I should not have checked social media today because this has made me irrationally livid.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2h

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 6h

Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend.

Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.

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Sebastian @sebdoggo.bsky.social · 18d

Trans joy will always exist because I exist, amd I am filled with it.

A painting of a white and pink jackalope wearing a spiked collar. Behind the jackalope is the transgender pride flag and text that read "TRANS JOY Will Always Exist Because I Exist And I Am Filled With It"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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IronClaw99 @ironclaw99.bsky.social · 6h

It's so fucking windy in my area today.

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niko oneshot but they’re duen @riolu.gay · 7h

I worded the OP of this thread very poorly, sorry for being unclear -

I'm looking for a Massachusetts housing lawyer to look over my case and help draft a letter to my landlord

If you know a person or organization who can do this for cheap/free, please let me know.

Thanks so much!

niko oneshot but they’re duen @riolu.gay · 2d

hello again gamers

temporarily reactivating because i am in desperate need of legal advice for a weird housing situation

my previous landlord has not only withheld my security deposit, but sent me a bill for nearly $2500 in "damages"

the previous apartment was in Medford, MA. i am in Somerville

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 10h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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🌟🎃 Spoopy Magician Tommo 🎃🌟 @tommothecabbit.bsky.social · 7h

Press P to protect is the new press F to pay respects

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 7h

People who go out of their way to reply negatively to not just everything but everyone they see to rage at and talk down to them are fundamentally exhausting. I know everything is terrible and no one is exempt from it but good lord

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IronClaw99 @ironclaw99.bsky.social · 6h

I'm so fucking happy to see crypto die.

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 11h

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 11h

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🌟🎃 Spoopy Magician Tommo 🎃🌟 @tommothecabbit.bsky.social · 6h

You love to see it

Keep crying, crypto bros

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 11h

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 8h

lmfao

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

bitch what

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 17h

remember this for every AI headline you read

but also keep this one in mind, too

The metaverse economy offers the potential of a wide range of revenue streams, with some estimates predicting it could become an $800 billion-dollar market in just two years and that it could contribute $3 trillion dollars to the global economy in the next decade.

Euronews, August 17, 2022 https://www.euronews.com/business/2022/08/17/new-virtual-economy-what-does-the-rise-of-the-metaverse-mean

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🌟🎃 Spoopy Magician Tommo 🎃🌟 @tommothecabbit.bsky.social · 11h

We still need private accounts here

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 10d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 1d

This is very helpful when calling your reps. Make sure to call them daily to make sure neither bill pass! Make noise and spread the word! Protect our free speech and privacy! #SaveSpeech

5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

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minimatt.bsky.social @minimatt.bsky.social · 1d

PSA: Twitch partner support is just chat GPT now

Also do NOT use the /warn command EVER

As a moderator you can't remove a warning given on your chat through any means so if the user is on mobile and can't click the popup they are functionally shadowbanned.

This is absolutely fucking ridiculous

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14h

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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