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Daily Spurious Correlation 🤖 @dailycorrelation.bsky.social · 2h

Popularity of the 'distracted boyfriend' meme correlates with The number of statisticians in New Jersey (r=0.963)

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1h

Except they awarded it to a person whose first action after winning the prize was to praise Trump directly and gargle his balls for money.

So on all I think it's time for us to stop pretending the Nobel Prize means anything.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2h

Canadians are so upset with the United States & Trump that this year they are boycotting Thanksgiving & holding their own this weekend, calling it, "Canadian Thanksgiving".

They are PISSED.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1h

Gotta handshake with the Nazis

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 2h

"we didn't know about Rowling being a raging transphobe and a total bigot," says park board that replaced a charity event with a for-profit event.

This might as well be "I'm sorry you're offended."

‘This will not happen again’: Vancouver Park Board apologizes for hosting Harry Potter event

A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.

www.ctvnews.ca

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 15h

Kurzgesagt made a video explaining precisely why AI is deadly to human knowledge.

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 16h

Why has every recipe website become 98.53% advertisements and pop-ups.

Don't make me get out a cook book.

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Wanda Maximoff 🎃👻 @westviewwandam.bsky.social · 17h

My Clancy loved leaf piles 🥰

White and red greyhound sitting in a leaf pile

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 21h

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 21h

Their masculinity is already janky given they joined ICE. Shooting pepper at an inflatable frog must work on their fragility late in the night when laying away on their sweaty mattresses. Like the hot Santa Ana winds in a Raymond Carver story.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 18h

What? A white banker whose dad ran a colonialism school is also a misogynist? No way!

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 20h

I didn't have time for that. I just responded "ban AI" in various wordings throughout. Even if it's not constructive it will add a data point against AI.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 1d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 23h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 21h

Positive examples like ripping out bike lanes.

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

Teacher. Not on strike.

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

Username honestly checks out.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

This is a beautiful illustration of "just because everyone has an opinion doesn't mean we should waste our time on them"

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

I don't. I don't claim to have the answers, I just know where the usual ideas have their flaws.

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

Anything modded should require a special cert sticker visible on the vehicle with a unique code that police can check. Or maybe just tie mod certs to license plates.

Basically all lifts are illegal, but it's never enforced. Same with muffler deletes.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

Disappointment, but not surprised, I presume.

Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I get it. Just don't insult her by comparing her to a sociopathic billionaire

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

You can't, it copies as a blank space.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

Lol you're captioning wildlife docs again aren't you

Please tell me "bleppy" was something you put in the captions

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

Bill Gates is also a piece of shit, not really the bar we want to put up for good people.

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