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Andrew @andrewcyberkop.bsky.social · 2d

If you buy an NFT of a stock in OpenAI you should have to wear a big bell like a goat for the rest of your life.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 11h

March 4, 2013. Brooklyn Bowl. D’Angelo and Questlove working out D’Angelo’s stage fright and what was by then the nearly finished Black Messiah.

D’Angelo playing piano and singing in March 2013. He’s wearing a hat and focusing hard.

Side view of D’Angelo playing piano and singing in March 2013. He’s wearing a hat and has hands in an organ and an electric piano.

D’Angelo and Questlove. Brooklyn Bowl 2013.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 14h

D’Angelo deserved to live older than 51 as a human being, but we are bereft as a species of music listeners for no longer being able to hear more of his work. there was more music there and it would’ve been the best you’ve ever heard.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 14h

I had the great fortune of seeing D’Angelo perform with Questlove in the summer of 2013 as they were tuning ‘Black Messiah’. It was one of his first gigs in ages and was one of the most emotional concerts I’ve ever attended. Like D’Angelo sharing his healing with this small group of lucky folks.

D'ANGELO & QUESTLOVE 7/2/2013

Live feed from a duo performance at the Brooklyn Bowl

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 14h

A great tragedy. A towering figure. RIP to one of the greatest ever to do it.

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 14h

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO www.tmz.com/2025/10/14/d...

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 19h

It takes a real Triumph of the Will to separate the artist from the art in “Manhattan”

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 1d

Dune was edited by moderate strength cocaine. The subsequent novels were edited by that driven flake.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 2d

Punks jump up to get beat down.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 3d

Semifreddo: I sorta knew it was you. You kinda broke my heart.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 3d

We’re taking our time. Relishing it.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 3d

The end of the world sounds a little like: “This is AI slop depicting something that didn’t happen, sure. But what if it wasn’t? And sure, I’m passing it off as real. But what if I wasn’t! What then, huh?”

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 6d

Hotdog water all around.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah he’s a stone cold weirdo. And somehow, and I can’t work it out—I don’t even know if this is true or just me—he gives off a significantly more well adjusted vibe than your Johns Gruden and other like more hype football obsessives.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 10d

Commedia dell'sharte

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Cait 🐸 @caitesq.bsky.social · 15d

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.

P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social · 15d

"Kavanaugh stops" are in full swing in an occupied blue city near you. Learn how DC intends to fight back:

with @lizdye.bsky.social

www.lawandchaospod.com/p/scotus-ble...

SCOTUS Blessed "Kavanaugh Stops." Will They Also Give Thumbs Up To "Roberts Residencies?"

Maybe Barrett Bookings? Alito Arrests? Gorsuch Guest Passes?

www.lawandchaospod.com

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 14d

Not the absolute best genre for experiment with narrative forms in the best of times.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 14d

When one corrupt priority meets another corrupt priority comin’ thro the rye

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 14d

Turns out we don’t deserve a better class of villain!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14d

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15d

In DC, almost every single person charged with assaulting a federal officer has had their case downgraded, moved to superior court, or thrown out altogether

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 15d

the phenomenon that’s been going on for 20 years is more stark than ever: the court tells the conservative legal apparatus what it wants and they go manufacture it.

as true with Heller as it is with birthright citizenship. it’s less balls and strikes and more calling the pitches.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 15d

Look at what the United States Government is citing in the birthright citizenship case.

Non-expert legal scholarship and work done hastily in service of their political goals.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 15d

Mocking SpongeBob macro: “a growing body of modern scholarship”

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 15d

No way (absent information you’re keeping to the chest) to know if it will be received as “we couldn’t help but notice you clicking Sisyphus’s boner, Dave” or “haha we’re all three buddies enjoying a slightly raunchy joke! is Sisyphus priapritic lol?”

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 15d

Is husband getting a cc?

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 15d

King’s water is blue.

Official Clip | The Royal Waters | The Madness of George III - Nottingham Playhouse

YouTube video by National Theatre

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