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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 13d

First of all we already have an AI actress and have had one for years. Her name is Gal Gadot and the results have not been great

Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 13d

Cannot even comprehend the mind that doesn’t find the idea of the “AI actress” completely repellant not to mention stupid

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 1h

That time Drew Struzan did a cover for Superman #800 (an homage to ACtion Comics #1 that featured himself in the corner!).

Drew Struzan's painted image of Superman lifting a car

The iconic cover to Action Comics #1 where Superman is lifting a car

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 4h

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Just Marcy! @marcille.bsky.social · 1h

you know the internet is cooked because the day this 'blew up' was the same day Asmongold said he felt "leftists" should be shot with live ammo because he does not consider them human, and you know which one people are still talking about?

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 2h

I can't believe we're still talking about this

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hasan ranting while his dog, kaya, attempts to leave her spot

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 1h

30 Days of Halloween Music: Day 13

I'm just gonna say it: "Halloween" by Froggy Fresh is better than at least 60% of the movies in the Halloween franchise. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Id...

Froggy Fresh - Halloween

YouTube video by FroggyFreshRap

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 9h

You might think Ryan is exaggerating but I used to go to a regular dinner that gradually got taken over by young Republican staffers and I promise you he is not.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 5h

recently learned that the guy who did this also coined the phrase "gay pride," a true legend

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 6h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Geoph Essex 🤨💭 11742d/4h/3m; 16940d/18h/34m 🕟 @semperbufo.bsky.social · 2d

#BookSky 📚💙

#Halloween is nigh!

#LovelyAssistant🎩 has #ghosts, #spooky riders in hooded black cloaks, and a #sinister creature more terrifying than anything under the sun (and bigger than it)—plus a climax that TAKES PLACE ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT!

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And buy it at:

LOVELY ASSISTANT, a novel by Geoph Essex

Preview and buy Geoph Essex's novel “Lovely Assistant” online in print and ebook formats.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 6h

I'm going to keep posting this 2017 Pareene article till it stops being relevant (forever?) www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

Charlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican Party

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 9h

The New "Meet the dapper white nationalist..."

Fuentes needs to get Richard Spencer'd.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 6h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 10h

Besides the obvious points to be made, these are the young people older professional Republicans turn to in order to understand newfangled things. Which explains a lot.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 7h

Starting to think they are specifically going after porn/erotica/nudey doodles because that's competition. Like walmart driving little mom and pop shops out of business.

"Well, there's no porn in my neighborhood, so I guess I have to drive all the way over to chaptgpt just to get one off." 🙄

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 8h

ChatGPT will soon allow sexting with verified adults

• Erotica and 'mature conversations' will be permitted

• Change arrives in December alongside new age verification tools

(via Sama | TW)

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 6h

for once I'd like to see one of these articles comment on how deeply WEIRD this desire is

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 7h

Also one time the President got turned into a snake and worked with the Red Skull, and a previous President was the head of an evil Secret Empire. Not a great track record, TBH.

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 7h

Which is why a Superhuman Registration Act would be a *better* idea, but that would require trusting a government with a history of using registration acts to pressure people into government servitude or sending giant murder robots after them.

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Tom @tomel.bsky.social · 7h

The reason why the Mutant Registration Act is a bad idea is because a person with an X-gene might be able to rewrite reality or control weather, or they might have some extra eyes, while a regular degular human could just as easily get exposed to radiation or alien tech & become just as powerful.

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 7h

Would it surprise you that the owner of Scientific American's parent company, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, invested $37 million in Inkitt, an AI firm?

What a SHOCK

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

these people know how extreme they are

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 10h

In one corner we have Pornhub refusing to store users' PII & government IDs because of the myriad security problems inherent in that situation

In the other corner, openAI very much wants to store your government ID attached to your gooning chats

OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract

Months after announcing a partnership with defense-tech startup Anduril, OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense.

www.cnbc.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

yesterday on twitter, some of the biggest far right doxxing users were suspended and then elon musk caught wind, and reinstated them. get everyone you can off twitter. it is firmly a pro-doxxing-if-you’re-far-right platform

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 10h

Produced in 24 hours, done under a punishing deadline, no time to hang about - yet that image IS "The Thing" to me, and to millions of others as well, I suspect. Those images, those compositions, those posters ARE the films, in my head. What a talent. He'll be so missed.

Eric Vespe @ericvespe.bsky.social · 10h

Rest in Peace to the great Drew Struzan, a man whose work sparked the imaginations of a whole generation of movie nerds. The master is gone.

I had the privilege of visiting him in his studio once and getting to talk shop. Here’s his words on one of his masterpieces:

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 19h

A lot of cis reporters who are otherwise capable of seeing what's in front of them are seemingly completely oblivious to bigotry against trans people.

The only real conclusion at this point is that they don't think it's bigotry: that they think it's simply putting us in our rightful place.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 1d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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