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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 13h

I'm sorry a what museum?

apnews.com/article/hair...

Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation

Century-old wreaths made from human hair fill the walls of Leila’s Hair Museum, and glass cases overflow with necklaces and watch bands made from the locks of the dead.

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 20h

Wait, we can't trust the numbers from the administration of the president who said 300 million Americans died from drug overdoses last year??

NPR @npr.org · 1d

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 22h

Check mate, libs

The Onion @theonion.com · 22h

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began https://theonion.com/ice-boasts-zero-murders-committed-by-5-year-olds-since-child-detainments-began/

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 1d

Love that the interviewer couldn't fathom that a writer wouldn't want to use AI. I guess that's the difference between someone who creates content to get paid vs someone who creates art to express themselves.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 1d

We are in an age of misinformation, outright lies, and absurdity proposed as hot takes. But one brave soul, paid to be the senior culture correspondent at The Economist, decided to be as dumb and wrong as possible, setting the bar so low it's a tripping hazard in hell.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

wtaf are you talking about

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 1d

Also, it's not just about winning elections. At some point you have to actually do something with the power you have. Do something good and then use your messaging to claim it! Unfortunately, those are two things the Dems have been very bad at.

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 2d

All any of these ghouls have is grievance.

Well, and all the money and power in the country right now.

But they'll never be respected by any of the people whose opinions they actually care about, so no matter how much they have, they'll never have enough, and it'll eat away at them forever.

Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 2d

lol

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 2d

You're thinking about sea horses again

Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 2d

In LA? He'd ride into the ocean and drown. You monster.

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 2d

She's from Canada, you wouldn't know her

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 3d

Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 4d

A screenshot from the Simpsons showing Homer and Marge attending their 50th high school reunion in the far-flung year 2024

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 4d

This phrasing is hilarious. "Look at this guy who took decades to make a movie and then a sequel to that movie!"

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/rob...

Rob Reiner on his decades-long film career, from "This is Spinal Tap" to "Spinal Tap II"

Director Rob Reiner brought the band back for a "Spinal Tap" sequel decades after releasing the original, his first-ever film.

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 4d

Why did Dem elites stop calling these freaks weird?

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 5d

Benny Johnson posted a AI video depicting himself as a costumed, pro-ICE Batman punching an Asian woman

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6d

"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 6d

Reskeet if ur Brash 4 Torkelson

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 6d

New space mutiny nickname just dropped

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 6d

I've never had a joke make me this angry before, and I've seen Dane Cook live

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 7d

At least for tonight, this headline is my "if it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college"

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 7d

There is truly no story that cannot immediately be turned into The Dumbest Idea Ever Published

Story from the Washington Post, theoretically a premier source of journalism, with the headline "What Jane Goodall's work with chimps can teach us about investing"

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 7d

This seems all well and good. But what I'm looking for now is a book about being a fan of sports. Wake me up when someone writes THAT book.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 8d

Seriously. Fuck these fascists. Join a No Kings protest on October 18 and stand up for our rights and our democracy.

no kings

Seriously. Fuck these fascists. Join a No Kings protest on October 18 and stand up for our rights and our democracy.

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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 9d

Not me learning from the new @ifbookspod.bsky.social that the writer of How to Win Friends and Influence People isn't by THAT Carnegie, just some guy with the same name!

Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 10d

The best part of this opinion is that there was no reason for him to write it. It was just a shadow docket decision. He chose to be publicly stupid and be provably wrong just for the hell of it.

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