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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 13h

yeah, they said that last year and the year before that. ain't convinced.

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 14h

night for real this time

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 15h

I've been wanting to hope people lose their toenails from seeing two of those posts more than I have from dealing with dozens of bigoted libs and right-wingers

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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 15h

Don't feel stupid, but also, if someone helpfully tells you "that's fake," the correct response is "oh shit, let me delete this" not doubling down and disabling comments.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 21h

Every hope is lifesaving—still. So although support has massively slowed down for these six families—despite ongoing famine, all their homes destroyed, impending cold, a baby due soon (‼️)—we’ll still be here every hour or two.

23 hours left ⚠️ 7/879: chuffed.org/project/hope...

A square white graphic. On the left is a stylized ink illustration of a kestrel falcon in black on white, without outline just the black marks on its wings and face, drawn from behind. His wings are partly open and his head is turned to the right. In his beak is an anemone poppy in red ink with a green stem. On the right is the title "Keep hope alive: a gaza giving circle" in ink-effect font. The text says "We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support." In the bottom right corner in green text is the link https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 16h

you sound like the type everyone covers their drinks around, including the bartenders

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 16h

night

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 16h

why do I say things?

Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 17h

at least the mariners seem to be doing the usual so that much makes sense in the world right now

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17h

Tonight there is a game that is going on longer than games can go on and also it's either very exciting if very boring or very nerve-wracking and also maybe someone failed to catch a ball and idk if it was a player or some rich person we hate

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

I love that I have finally hit a sufficient number of mutuals who post frequently about sports that I get to make up elaborate stories where I try to piece all of the vague & mysterious posts into a coherent narrative.

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 16h

"not all white people are racists", a thing famously never said by racists

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 17h

We're the richest nation on earth and by some standards the wealthiest nation in history.

I guess my point is... good job, everyone.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 17h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 17h

anime with bestie soon, anime with bestie soon, anime with bestie soon, don't get your friends subpoenaed don't get your friends subpoenaed don't get your place subpoenaed don't get your family subpoenaed don't get your friends subpoenaed don't get your place subpoenaed don't get your family subpoen

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 17h

find and replace "orc" for "klingon" and apply it to D&D too

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 17h

the klingon warrior culture is a fucking disease, honor cultures are means of social control designed to turn a man into a thing

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 17h

none of you watched enterprise and it fucking shows: "My father was a teacher, at the university. My mother was a biologist. But klingons these days are told the only thing that has honor is killing those who can't even fight back."

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 17h

depending on the era, they're a political commissar who feeds you into a disintegration chamber or they're a spoiled fascist noble cunt who stabs you in the gut for not bringing their bloodwine fast enough

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 17h

i despise "warrior culture" in fiction but you know what I fucking hate more?

twee ified tumbler ass warrior culture reclimation

no, an klingon would not be a therapist, you know what a klingon therapist is?

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 17h

anime with bestie soon, anime with bestie soon, anime with bestie soon, don't get your friends subpoenaed don't get your friends subpoenaed don't get your place subpoenaed don't get your family subpoenaed don't get your friends subpoenaed don't get your place subpoenaed don't get your family subpoen

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 17h

my sole disagreement with you is that people who claim to work intelligence or reporting that share these vids should have signposts flung at them, beyond that spot on

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

This is a real video of a journalist in Chicago being arrested.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

...but if you go check the video on TikTok (search the username visible on the screen and scroll through until you find the video) it also has an annotation that explains it's AI.

Screenshot that reads "contains AI-generated media"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

Her three arms/hands are the big tell in this case...

Screenshot from a TikTok video with red circles around the person's three hands and arms

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 17h

anime with bestie soon, anime with bestie soon, anime with bestie soon, don't get your friends subpoenaed don't get your friends subpoenaed don't get your place subpoenaed don't get your family subpoenaed don't get your friends subpoenaed don't get your place subpoenaed don't get your family subpoen

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 17h

GARNET PLACING HER HAND ON STEVEN UNIVERSE'S SHOULDER DOT PNG

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