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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 19h

Remember that if the Democrats take power again, they will go into great detail telling you why they can't do things.

You will tell them that Trump did those things, and they will say he broke the law.

You will then ask why he hasn't been arrested, and they will be very quiet.

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 5h

My retirement plan is hoping that a witch turns them all into pigs. Or something like that. I'm not picky about the specifics.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 11h

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 6h

We are ruled by ancient dying sex offenders doing one last scam before they go, as if they're willing the world to end with them. At least we can outlive them, but that energy hangs heavy in the air.

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David A. Scott @djdasco.bsky.social · 10h

This is also at a point where the drawing and editing tools that we need to create digital art ourselves went from "buy and it's yours forever" to "buy, but pay every month to use it". Of **course** A.I. is going to do things that an artist can't, because the artists are now too poor to do them!

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 10h

We were also at a point where lots of new tech was being created to make things easier for artists, and suddenly that's all being wiped away in favor of an anti-artist AI fad.

"Oh, artists don't need tech that works, because ChatGPT will lie to you and say that it can do things it can't! Eat sh*t!"

Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 16h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 1d

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 3d

Deniro, Pacino, baby why don't we go down to Kokomo

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Allison Pregler 📼🎃🇨🇦 @allisonpregler.bsky.social · 2d

Craig and April start a romance, but Dr. Shark has returned to put a stop to it. The Baywatching on No Way Out is now public, please share!
youtu.be/98Nq34ktWCU

My thumbnail for Baywatching: No Way Out. Craig and April smile at each other. Dr. Shark (a shark in a doctor's coat) sits sinisterly between them.

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Leon Thomas @renegadecut.bsky.social · 2d

every american should receive the nobel peace prize for every day that we inexplicably don't assassinate the president

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 3d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 3d

They will spend any amount of money to avoid paying actual human beings for work. They want us poor and helpless.

Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

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David A. Scott @djdasco.bsky.social · 3d

I'm saying this as someone who has shared some creatively and tastefully made A.I. material in the past, and applauded people who've used it to carefully restore and remix audio. But this is not a world led by people who are creative, tasteful, or careful. We can't wait 3 years to fix this.

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David A. Scott @djdasco.bsky.social · 3d

So glad we're poisoning our drinking water so that a billion random people can make racist and homophobic memes that look like they were shot in H.D. For all the good it can do, the people using it the most don't give a SHIT about "good". We need restrictions on A.I. RIGHT NOW.

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David A. Scott @djdasco.bsky.social · 3d

They cured Trump of COVID before there was even a vaccine. I hate the government so much.

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David A. Scott @djdasco.bsky.social · 3d

I had no idea that John Fogerty was Archer from "Small Soldiers".

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 5d

New ep! TRAINWRECKORDS: "Eye of the Zombie" by John Fogerty! Yes, zombies. No, I don't know what the album cover is.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjxh...

TRAINWRECKORDS: John Fogerty's "Eye of the Zombie"

YouTube video by Todd in the Shadows

www.youtube.com

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 6d

We are under siege by an army of Paul Blarts that all think they are Judge Dredds

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 7d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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David A. Scott @djdasco.bsky.social · 6d

The upcoming Jan 1st is going to be the best Jan 1st to re-post this ever.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 7d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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