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OtterlyRob

@otterlyrob.bsky.social

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Dog lover, foodie, Pokémon trainer, and 🏳️‍🌈 Occasionally NSFW. Definitely be 18+ to follow me Atlanta

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OtterlyRob @otterlyrob.bsky.social · Sep 4

Reintroduction thread:

Name: Rob
Pronouns: he/him
Location: ATL
Interests:🐶🎧⛰️📻🕹️🔐🏳️‍🌈🦝
Vocation: emails

Rob, wearing a shirt with an image of a cat riding a popsicle. He's building a lego set

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OtterlyRob @otterlyrob.bsky.social · 2d

Starting my annual re-listen of the Behind the Bastards podcast's 3-part series on Christopher Columbus

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 4d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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OtterlyRob @otterlyrob.bsky.social · 4d

I took lessons as a kid, but it didn't stick. Wish it did!

OtterlyRob @otterlyrob.bsky.social · 4d

For me, it's Nightswimming on piano

OtterlyRob @otterlyrob.bsky.social · 4d

You can learn how to play 1 song on 1 instrument

What song and instrument do you choose?

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OtterlyRob @otterlyrob.bsky.social · 4d

You can learn how to play 1 song on 1 instrument

What song and instrument do you choose?

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 4d

Georgia radio call: “Auburn fans are incensed, and I’m here for that, Scott.”

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OtterlyRob @otterlyrob.bsky.social · 4d

"unknown number" is just another term for "future friend"

OtterlyRob @otterlyrob.bsky.social · 4d

Not sure what your schedule is, but try and see Magdalena Bay if you can! I caught them on tour around this time last year and it was a great concert

OtterlyRob @otterlyrob.bsky.social · 4d

Big hugs. I've been there before too

OtterlyRob @otterlyrob.bsky.social · 5d

#1 is the way to go

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 6d

*Cries in American* 😭

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5d

“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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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 7d

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

4 frame comic where Miller slowly blinks. Text reads. A few hours ago, speaking on cnn about Trump's plan to send the national guard into us cities, Miller said : under title 10 of the us code, the president has plenary authority, has... He then fully stopped talking and just blinked at the camera, as if he realized that he said the quiet part out loud. "Plenary authority" means "complete power over a particular area with no limitayions". It is equivalent to ruling by decree, which us how Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler governed. Having "plenary authority" over the military would mean that Trump can just use the national guard as he pleases, no matter what the courts say. It's a power grab.

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OtterlyRob @otterlyrob.bsky.social · 8d

I found the setting to turn it off, thankfully. I don't wanna keep accidentally hitting that button when I just want to view an email in light mode

OtterlyRob @otterlyrob.bsky.social · 8d

Microsoft annoyingly moved the copilot button in Outlook to where the menu full of email options is

Great start to my Tuesday

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Kittie @kittiepeters.com · 9d

delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

fortune.com

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 9d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 10d

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 10d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 10d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?