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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 5h

It’s a good thing BlueSky added a feature to add comments when someone is added to a blocklist, so it can be verified that the claim is correct.

Oh wait.

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · May 19

Yeah, when he goes after a woman he’s always way more nastier than when he goes after a man. Usually in the case of a man he can’t muster much more effort than dismissing them with one word (“beard” is a favorite), when it’s a woman he puts in effort and energy.

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 7h

Hey look it’s Grahams favorite insult.

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 8h

How brave do you have to be to hide behind security?

zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 10h

bsky.app/profile/conm...

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 21h

lol just checked and Adam “Joined Nov 24”

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 21h

Invite-only ended, and then in November 2024 Maddow did a segment on BlueSky.

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 22h

Exactly. She just hates Palestinians slightly less than Jewish people.

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 22h

“1-900-9099-CRY” over an image of a crying woman on the phone

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 22h

This is absolutely demonic. Of all the vile shit Bondi spouted, this might be the most ghoulish. Just pure, unadulterated, evil. Zero humanity left in that monster.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 22h

Grifting these suckers for all they’re worth is a moral imperative.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 1d

A bit of good news is always welcome.

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 1d

Bilbo from the animated movie smoking his pipe, with text: “PACKWATCH
rest in piss you won't be missed
RIP BOZO”

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 1d

It couldn’t be said enough that when these guys say “make America healthy again”, they don’t mean improving the health of all Americans, they mean killing off the “weakest” ones. They’re eugenicists.

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 1d

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 1d

She has restricted replies to follows/followers, which seems to be her SOP. Let’s see if she corrects herself later.

zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, I see she generally does this with her posts. It could be that she accidentally posted this with no restricted comments, and “fixed” it later, and didn’t pay attention to replies. But that’s giving her a lot of benefit of the doubt. Let’s see what she will do.

zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, I see she generally does this with her posts. It could be that she accidentally posted this with no restricted comments, and “fixed” it later, and didn’t pay attention to replies. But that’s giving her a lot of benefit of the doubt. Let’s see what she will do.

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 1d

Comments are restricted to people who follow or are followed by her. As I understand it, comments were previously wide open.

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 1d

It cannot be overstated just how much of an abject idiot Musk is. His attempts at sounding smart are so transparent to anyone who’s not a dumbass, it really says something about tech journalism and Silicon Valley that they let him create this genius reputation for himself.

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 1d

buried in this: Peter Thiel says Elon Musk singled out his trans daughter as not being worthy of receiving his wealth in an inheritance 🫠

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 1d

I’m leaning towards “grifter”, and that’s the kindest interpretation.

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 1d

@jennbudd.bsky.social spreading a clear LLM generated video (the reporter has 3 arms) is bad, but could be a honest mistake. Leaving it up and locking replies after multiple people have pointed it out seems like a more deliberate act.

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 1d

So many people didn’t see it. (And quite frankly, i don’t know if i would have.)

We’re so, so fucked.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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