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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 9h

The King comes at me with his sword. I duck, brace my blade against my palm, and rise from my core, passing the razor sharp sword of my people from his hip to his shoulder, bisecting him. Inside, swirls of cinnamon and cream cheese. He is a king cake. I have been fooled. The witch's words ring true.

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 17h

Holy shit this is amazing

Rarely does annoying liberals actually result in things being destroyed this badly. One of the strongest arguments against. "Go woke, go broke yet".

This is "don't go facist, even as a last ditch"

...that probably needs some work

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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maasslitagency.bsky.social @maasslitagency.bsky.social · 16h

THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT by Caitlin Starling

Margaret’s rare autoimmune condition has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated and in pain. It has no cure, but she’s making do as best she can―until she’s offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial. The…

THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT by Caitlin Starling

Margaret’s rare autoimmune condition has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated and in pain. It has no cure, but she’s making do as best she can―until she’s offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial. The conditions are simple, if grueling: she will live at the hospital as a full-time patient, subjecting herself to the near-total destruction of her immune system and its subsequent regeneration.

maassagency.com

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1d

Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed.

Doctor says “great clown pagliacci is in town. Go see him. You’ll feel better”

Man says “but doctor, don’t you mean great magician clown *throws smoke bomb on floor and when it clears he is in full clown getup* PAGLIACCI!”

Doctor:

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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 19h

STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 19h

An old Taurus rattles by my front porch. Headlights flashing between the gaps of tightly parked street traffic. "You're dragging. It's OK. Not quite my tempo." I say blandly, but there's a tinge of annoyance in my voice. An F-350 roars by at 80mph. I raise my fist up sharply. "Nope. You're rushing."

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 19h

Today is the day I finally resurrect my RSS reader for blogs, feeds, newsletters, and podcasts. Social media was a mistake. We must return to the old ways.

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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 1d

NO-TELL MOTEL is so back.

The Employee Bundle is BACK in stock, and now includes the Door Hanger for when you wanna tell people to slink away or slink inside.

Keychains, door hangers, "Dice Trays" still available a la carte. Matchbooks with every order.

Check in: bannerless.games/shop

The No-Tell Motel door hanger. On one side Stella the cover model says "Shhh...." and the other side says "Please clean! It looks like someone died in here!"

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Cheru w/ a lil witch hat @cheru.bsky.social · 1d

The library app hate to see me comin’

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 1d

For me, this book is _ORA:CLE_ a sci-fi novel by Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Made a lifelong impression, I have bought it multiple times.

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1d

It's pretty random which books stand the test of time. For every acknowledged classic, there are a at least half a dozen books that are just as good and no one remembers them except one grad student or crazy bookstore owner.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 1d

East Liberty. Penn Ave. Caller said he took an edible and is now high af. They would like for someone to help them land back on earth.

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 1d

what is the name of Lara Trump’s critically reviewed single, wrong answers only

a tweet from @covie93
BREAKING: Lara Trump will be performing her critically reviewed single to close the TPUSA Superbowl halftime show.

then there’s a still from what seems to be an AI slop Alexis Rose music video

Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 1d

vibes government

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 1d

The people need to know

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 1d

I just want to make sure that @werewolfambulance.bsky.social sees this.

Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 1d

Shadyside. 5442 Baum Blvd - Wendy’s. Caller said that an employee got drunk at work and just threw chili at a rude customer.

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Mari 🏳️‍⚧️ @mari-paige.bsky.social · 1d

For Indigenous People’s Day, I’d like to infodump about the Cahokia mound. Built near present day St. Louis around 1000 CE, it was a vast trade hub with a population of about 20,000. This made it the largest city north of Mexico on the continent, bigger than London and Paris at the time!

The Cahokia mound, located outside modern day St. Louis, Missouri. It is a large hill which is now covered in grass, under a clear blue sky.

Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

put the fucking elevator pitch on the fucking jacket god damn it what is the book about WHAT IS THE PREMISE

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 7d

I think also about how it doesn’t matter if those girls ever decide to be dancers

What matters is seeing it was an option. That they can make the choice

jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 7d

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

its a picture of a ballerina teaching future young ballerinas!!!

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Matthew Mercury @matthewmercury.bsky.social · 1d

Reading Spider-man comics is what first gave me my deep and abiding respect for materials science. We continually innovate with the development of incredible new materials that affect us in our daily lives.

merritt @merrittk.com · 2d

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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