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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 3d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1h

Whew, for a minute there I thought a Black person might get this job

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 4h

one of the most not the onion but the onion headlines I've ever seen

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 4h

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Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 4h

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 3h

if you don't you might end up believing portland burns down every night and then they rebuild it with plywood and it burns down even more :(

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 4h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 3h

oh no do your best

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 14h

usually takes more than one game to learn that. your wife is a prodigy.

Lumpy MD @lumpawaroomd.bsky.social · 14h

This is the first baseball game my wife has ever seen and she now believes this is a sport about eternal punishment

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 3h

had me choked up in bed at 9 AM on a saturday

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 3h

i still think the movie in which his absolute lack of anything resembling relatability worked the best is blade runner 2049

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3h

if this flops i think jared leto's vacuum of charisma is the most likely reason but a good secondary reason could be that there's never been a good tron movie, only a few movies with good special effects and scores

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 4h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 4h

car > dog > battleship

SWIIRL @thatonegirlkendra.blacksky.app · 1d

Before the change, what was your go to monopoly piece?

I always wanted the iron

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 5h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 7h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 7h

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 6h

got me crying in the club (bed) at 9 AM

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14h

Top of the 15th Inning

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 10h

“Deloitte “misused AI and used it very inappropriately: misquoted a judge, used references that are non-existent,” Pocock told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I mean, the kinds of things that a first-year university student would be in deep trouble for.””

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Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations | Fortune

The updates “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.

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A Quaint Duck @serisothikos.bsky.social · 6h

imagine if all our opposition politicans unified around this message

just fuckin imagine

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 14h

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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