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Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 9h

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 17h

It is rare that I read something that is so bat shit crazy I actually get a little nauseated. This is one of those things.

Thiel absolutely fucking nuts; his brain is a weird, narcissistic, paranoid, turd soup.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 percent.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration is offering $60K in student loan forgiveness as a recruitment tool for ICE, which just proves fighting Biden on student loan relief was never about the loans or “paying your own debt.” It was about who was offering it and who it would’ve helped.

Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 1d

Some powerful sexual energy telegraphed with those belly thrusts - yes, intimidating - but, also pretty hot too.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those federal agents don’t become a little Froggy-curious afterwards.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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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Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 1d

¿Te gustaría comprar algo de soja?

a woman is singing into a microphone while standing in front of two microphones .

ALT: a woman is singing into a microphone while standing in front of two microphones .

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Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 1d

If I may be so bold… “Fuck yes!”

a man wearing glasses and a tie looks serious

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a tie looks serious

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Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote an English paper comparing the sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella by Philip Sidney to a Tom & Jerry cartoon while hungover, no sleep, the morning it was due. Got an “A” and, honestly, one of the best god damn things I’ve ever written while hungover.

AI couldn’t ever…

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 1d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 1d

Watching clouds and rain. Chimes playing. Prayer flags flapping in the wind. Wind spinners — spinning. The woodpeckers are annoyed and complaining loudly from the trees. I have an adult beverage.

But, mostly I am please with the woodpeckers’ annoyance at the recent addition of the flags.

Picture of clouds, tops of trees. Wind chimes and prayer flags in the foreground.

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Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe we’ve just been expecting too little of them —for too long?

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Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂😂😂😂

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

doomscroll break

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 1d

Self serving nonsense. Andreessen has never demonstrated that he would do anything other than take profits if the cost of production went down. The idea that savings would be passed onto consumers is just another version of trickle down economics.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1d

OPINION: "Mississippi’s white leaders haven’t done nearly enough to reckon with our white supremacist past, nor its ongoing manifestations, to expect Black folks to live as if Jim Crow never was," MFP News Editor Ashton Pittman writes.

Editor’s Note | Mississippi’s Evil Past Still Haunts Us

News Editor Ashton Pittman writes about how the response to college student Trey Reed’s death illustrates how Mississippi’s past haunts its present.

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Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 2d

How did I end up in the dumbest timeline?

I think I may have made poor choices in school…

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Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 2d

Better than the ‘brown marker’ he uses to sign checks with…

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Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 2d

AI enthusiasts’ are lazy, self-absorbed chodes. They want to ‘claim’ to be artists, musicians, or writers without the work. They don’t really like any creative output … just what they can claim to feed their own ego.

I’ve known them all my life … although we used to just call them ‘assholes’.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2d

Eastern Australian humpback whale population now well above pre-whaling levels, report finds - ABC News 🦑🧪🌎

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there's 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

www.abc.net.au

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

abcnews.go.com

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

Another riot in Minneapolis was instigated by a right-wing agitator who was convicted of shooting into a police station and setting it on fire, in the hopes of starting a civil war.

A self-described "boogaloo boi," he drove up from Texas to create a false flag.

Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest

Ivan Harrison Hunter, a self-proclaimed member of the “boogaloo bois,” is accused of firing 13 rounds from a semi-automatic assault-style rifle at a Minneapolis station.

www.nbcnews.com

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

There is no left-wing violence in Chicago or Portland. It simply is not happening.

It's so not happening, in fact, that Republicans in Oregon took footage from two South American countries to create a hoax photo about Portland.

They have no actual violent footage to put forward.

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Angry Buni @angrybuni.bsky.social · 5d

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