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Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 21m

Would you vote for Donald Trump? Honest question. Trump's campaign was laser-focused on Republican voters, and I assume that's not who you are, right? So I assume you understand why Democratic voters might not want to vote for someone who is seeking votes from Republican voters.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 12h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 22h

20 minutes later and I see my finger has decided to write "forst."

The creative process in action, everyone!

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Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 22h

My strategy has become to make my first draft a kitchen sink of ideas. Fill it up with heroes, villains, romantic subplots, side quests, etc.

The second draft is where the culling happens.

Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 22h

Everyone talks about how a forst draft's only purpose is to exist, but rarely does anyone mention how the second draft is supposed to work.

Here's my take: the second draft is built on the ashes of the first.

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Raidou KuzunOgre from the Silent Hills…f! @tactlessogre.bsky.social · 1d

The phrases I watch for are "political correctness" or "cancel culture". As in, the second a comic bitches about it, I shut it right off.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 23h

"We have enough staff."

or

"It's a quiet day."

badly-drawn boo! 👻 @soapachu.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I've added some notes"

Squiddy (eldritch horror beyond comprehension) @dr-squiddy.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Mini cheddars and yoghurt.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

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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Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 1d

Nevermind that most of the loudest antitheist atheists are still culturally Christian.

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ann hedonia 👻 @lyctor.space · 1d

The most honest thing Dawkins has done in the last couple of decades is declare himself a “cultural Christian”, which so many atheists haven’t realized about themselves

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Hey remember that time an Atheist spent an entire week on here calling for the ethic cleansing and complete elimination of Jews because they said it was the only way to fight Israel?

Atheists refuse to account for the ethno-part of Jewish ethno-religion when they whine about ending all religions.

...
Maybe. But behind the annoyance of the atheist there is typically much less bigotry, authoritarian tendencies, tax evasion, science denialism, closeted sexuality, etc.
October 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM

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Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 1d

Sad that it's hard to tell, huh?

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Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 1d

You also might want to read a few books.

Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 1d

If you're looking to convince me that you're an intellectual, you might try to understand that religion goes beyond "did these stories really happen?"

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Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 1d

I don't like mayonnaise.

Anyone else have any nonsequiturs to add?

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 1d

old meme

in the words of the famous culturally Christian militant atheist Richard Dawkins: “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

which is damning of the worldview of that sort of atheism

Vision telling Scarlet Witch "But what is anti-theism if not Christianity persevering?"

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Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 1d

Good grief.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 1d

So many just ditch the God/metaphysics part, keep everything else, and pretend it makes them smarter than anyone else.

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Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 1d

Here's one.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

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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Stephen Ferret @weaselwords.bsky.social · 2d

Forever wishing the Democrats were as cool as Republican fear mongering makes them out to be.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

The politics of punishment is for losers and creeps and we're throwing that in the garbage where it belongs.

The politics of care is for winners and heroes and that's how we're fucking doing things from now on.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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