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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 7h

incredible use of the passive exonerative tense

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 10h

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

I’m a subscriber to The Onion print edition and trust me, the ads alone are worth it

Fake Apple ad

Remember when those
Chinese factory workers were all committing suicide?
Neither do we!

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 9h

I’m good. I also had convinced myself that the midterm elections were this November. Like in three weeks. So when I say good I mean I feel like I’m being eaten by crocodiles.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10h

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 10h

My "not because we are usage-maxxing" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

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Kate Devlin 🎃👻🍂 @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 11h

If you build it, they will come.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

OpenAI boss says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults

CEO Sam Altman says upcoming versions of the popular chatbot would enable it to behave in a more human-like way - "but only if you want it".

www.bbc.com

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 11h

I saw D'Angelo on his Voodoo tour, 2000, at the Superdome in New Orleans. Friends, the horniness in that room could have powered the planet for decades. His every note and move commanded the crowd like he was conducing a pheromone orchestra. RIP to a king.

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 14th - #Hackers of the world united to overload the Gibson, and prevent the Da Vinci virus from capsizing an oil fleet, designed to distract from "The Plague's" worm stealing $25m.

📽️📅 Hackers (1995)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Hackers" (1995): First, a group of young people is gathered in a subway car, with one reading a paper as another looks on, while a subtitle reads, "Wait a minute. The 14th... that's the same day the worm ends its run." Second, a person with a striking hairstyle and colorful clothing stands in front of a vibrant, patterned backdrop, saying, "Hackers of the world, unite." Third, a person leans out of a car window, passionately shouting, "Hack the planet!"

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Eric S-z @plowair.bsky.social · 1d

I read this too fast and thought it read “PM, Dead, and Me.”

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Eric S-z @plowair.bsky.social · 1d

2.5 Pro got 63 but for a very different reason.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

The consensus is kids dont have garages anymore outside the purview of HOAs and that killed the garage band.

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a national shortage of kids from shitty towns who learned to play guitar, or what's the situation?

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot begin to explain how much this fucking sucks. Good god. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xf0R...

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Kate Devlin 🎃👻🍂 @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 1d

My 15yo child, unexpectedly: “Yeah, I have at least 3 LinkedIn accounts. All fake. I use them to check on my teachers’ qualifications. I keep getting job offers because I ticked something that said I used to work in middle management for Asda.”

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d

Silicon Valley tradition of dogfooding continues. Although this one's feels a bit more forced than the norm.

"Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla’s unsold Cybertrucks" electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

electrek.co

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

the more I read about the promises OpenAI has made, the more disgusted I am. They've promised to deploy 10GW of Broadcom chips *by the end of 2029*, a chip that has yet to tape out, in data centers yet to be planned or funded or the power acquired. We are in a black hole of ethics and good sense.

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 1d

things bullets say

Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 1d

Almost every time I go thru JFK something weird happens.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Eric S-z @plowair.bsky.social · 1d

Well except the band radicalized a particular group of people in a unique way: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Ma...

Dave Matthews Band bus incident - Wikipedia

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Patrick LaForge @palafo.bsky.social · 1d

I gave up my TiVo when I quit cable TV but it was a liberating piece of tech and whoever designed the remote was a genius. cordcuttersnews.com/tivo-confirm...

TiVo Confirms It Has Stopped Making DVRs, Marking the End of an Era | Cord Cutters News

In a significant shift for the home entertainment industry, TiVo, a pioneer in digital video recording, has officially ceased selling its DVR products. The company confirmed this development in a stat...

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

Happy Columbo's Day! Celebrate by doing one more thing on your personal to-do list, even if that thing is just watching your favorite episode.

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 1d

like most people my age, i've been with mtv since the first day. the channel was formative for me, the videos always leading me to more and more music. it was all i watched for a long time. this is really sad but expected news
cordcuttersnews.com/mtv-is-shutt...

MTV is Shutting Down Its Last Music Channels, Marking the End of an Era | Cord Cutters News

Paramount Global has delivered a devastating blow to music fans worldwide, announcing the permanent shutdown of five iconic MTV music channels by December 31, 2025 according to the BBC. For 44 years, ...

cordcuttersnews.com

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Eric S-z @plowair.bsky.social · 2d

Not enough people are aware of the magic of an unfrosted pop tart. It’s totally different toaster confection.

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Eric S-z @plowair.bsky.social · 2d

Random guilty pleasure: unfrosted pop
Tarts, toasted and buttered.

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 2d

Solid aside from the NY Review of Books about Pynchon 🚀

"Trump's sometime ally Elon Musk is especially Pynchonesque, bringing together a number of the writer's fixations: silly names, rockets, drug use, tasteless puns, the fragile egos of plutocrats, and the legacy of European rule in southern Africa, to name a few.

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