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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1h

@damienmiller.bsky.social just asked if 'Biblically accurate' having so many eyes means that angels were spiders.

Lloth worshipping ancient civilization theory confirmed. :|

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 9h

Always pictured Miller as more Mouth of Sauron rather than Grima Wormtongue, but this makes sense.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16h

peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands?

chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨

Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 10h

We've all seen Chicago dude. Take your Temu Barad-Dur ass tower and leave our city if this is how you feel.

San Francisco doesn't need military occupation, and it doesn't need people begging to lick the boot either.

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 11h

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 11h

This is great; any chance of larger sizes?

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 13h

You may have noticed I’ve been writing every week at @liberalcurrents.com lately. Well, @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com and I can make it official: it’s a weekly column.

You can catch me there every Thursday (unless someone thinks we should change the day)

www.liberalcurrents.com/author/alan/

Alan Elrod - Liberal Currents

Alan Elrod is the president & CEO of the Pulaski Institution, an Arkansas-based think tank. He is also a columnist and Contributing Editor at Liberal Currents and an adjunct instructor at Arkansas St...

www.liberalcurrents.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 15h

Don't tell the people on my Nextdoor, heh.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 16h

So many things wrong here, but it's rough because it's upsetting to call Thunberg a 'legionnaire of the Antichrist', but somehow so much cooler than Yudkowsky deserves.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 19h

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

(Washington Post) -- Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are "legionnaires of the Antichrist" in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future, according to recordings reviewed by The Washington Post.
In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents "off-the-record," according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings.
"In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science," Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. "In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It's someone like Greta or Eliezer," he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry's approach to AI.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 16h

new daft punk music video just dropped. - many reviews

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Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · 1d

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

I imagine it's roughly the same as the set of simple infosec questions.

None of them are actually simple, but some of them have bounded costs. "Simple".

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

How much of that is being a crypto lickspittle? :P

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

Having a stroke would be a better explanation than this being real.

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 1d

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

Of course it haunts me when I see people from my family's church and what they post on Facebook now. Did they not understand the assignment?

But it stuck with me, a non-believer, that this was a great big idea. You are to be a neighbor to everyone.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

Basically the only moral lesson from myevangelical Southern Baptist upbringing before they got consumed by terribleness was that the point of our religion was that God's gifts were for every one of every race and every gender. And they cited the parable about your neighbor to prove it; telling.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

“King Donald The First. F*ck that.”

Robert De Niro wants to see you in the streets on October 18 to show the world that America has no kings, and power still belongs to the people: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

He's living in a fictional world with fictional opponents who aren't snatching people off the street.

Maybe he thinks things will get better if some shitty Christofascists debate college kids, but the rest of us know better.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

Years of Republicans beating their chest about states rights and being the party of small government. I have known they were lies for a long time now, but they also preached fantasies about Democratic and liberal authoritarianism.

They were all just projection. This is what they wanted, all along.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

This was predicted.

ID Verification for the internet and its many websites is a mistake.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

Prisoner's dilemma ass game.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 1d

don't know why the Dems seem to think they can just wait this one out

we've been waiting since he came down that golden escalator

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve also got to stop imagining that this will all somehow stop and go back to normal overnight once Trump makes some specific key mistake or, eventually, leaves the stage entirely.

We are a decade into Trumpism. Whatever comes after him for the GOP isn’t going to be a McCain or a Bush.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about how hard it is to do politics in reality right now, both because of the fictions beings imposed on us and because of the fictions we maintain in our own minds. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 2d

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 2d

Very surprised this is a Will not Fix from Google; perhaps popularizing will help.

(ht to @headmold.bsky.social, source of gloomy stuff this evening).

Also would it be more or less likely to be fixed if it were called 'ASCII sNuggling' vs. 'smuggling'.

Google won’t fix new ASCII smuggling attack in Gemini

Google has decided not to fix a new ASCII smuggling attack in Gemini that could be used to trick the AI assistant into providing users with fake information, alter the model's behavior, and silently p...

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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