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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 19h

Yikes. This was great, smart and scary. Best part was the step by step explanation of how AI gets smart. Still don’t understand why the pink elephants are not an experience; why isn’t a (human) hallucination an experience of imagination?

Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 21h

The case that has to be filed first is to show that the presumption of necessary deference to the president does not apply at this time, with this president. Get the court to recognize that, and everything follows.

Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 2d

So I can sue my husband for abandonment if I rely on what he does in response to the suit? Seems wacky.

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 2d

But isn’t a president held to the prong he used? Was there any up-front statement or argument by him other than the gnomic “rebellion in Portland”—which seems not a prong 3 basis. I realize the government attorney said “we’re not just relying on the tweet” or words to that effect.

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 2d

Good gif for “slinks off” too

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 6d

But note the wording: his “determination” was untethered to the facts. Whether he himself, as you state, is untethered to the facts, may be true, too, but that’s different. It’s the difference between saying X is a lie vs Mr. X is a liar.

Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 10d

As Agent J said to the giant monster bug: Don’t start nothing, won’t be nothing. The Democrats are Agent J in this metaphor. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 10d

Derry Girls: Send in the Clowns

Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 11d

Can I just say in a totally apolitical way how much I adore the phrase “Temu-ass bargain basement villain”

Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 11d

You’d need sunglasses to look at their kids.

Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 11d

The wannabe writer (or frustrated writer) who styles themselves as a purist for not using tropes when they’re only attempting to justify their lack of output.

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 11d

Can you imagine if they had all said no? Just called each other on a secure line and said, this is beneath us?

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 11d

Possible sequel to “Canary in a Coal Mine.”

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 11d

I’m an arguer at heart and I tried to come up with a downer of his…could not. Even his everything’s-going-wrong songs have wit and humor.

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Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 13d

Learn the word for “multiply” and go nuts.

Screenlight @screenlight.bsky.social · 13d

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