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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 6h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 15h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 14h

The Badger football program needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt from scratch. This is pathetic.

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Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 1d

They're talking about the nickname "Señor Smoke" in the ALDS broadcast but somehow didn't mention Juan Berenguer?

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Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 1d

Says the guy who sang arguably one of the stupidest songs of the last 20 years (that awful "Sweet Home Alabama" ripoff)

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to imagine the reaction if Obama (or any other president) did this kind of stuff while in office. With Trump, it won't even raise an eyebrow...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2d

The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 3d

She goes to a different school. You wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 3d

Found out via Facebook that an old friend from middle school – who I'd lost touch with after he moved – was attending the same college as me. We reconnected freshman year and have been good friends ever since.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 4d

Thoughts and prayers for her safety in that war zone.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 5d

"Bucking tradition"? That's what they're going with?

NPR @npr.org · 5d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 6d

That first half was just as aesthetically pleasing as you'd expect from Vikings-Browns in London.

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Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 7d

I would also accept "hideous."

Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 7d

The best way I can describe the Wisconsin Badgers offense: putrid.

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Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 7d

The best way I can describe the Wisconsin Badgers offense: putrid.

Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 8d

What in the world were the Mercury doing on that last possession?

Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 8d

Alyssa Thomas is a baller.

Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 8d

Literally.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 10d

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Tyler Mason @tylerjmason.bsky.social · 10d

Love the personal touch of this email.