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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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elenloth.bsky.social @elenloth.bsky.social · 1d

Someone whom I dislike, who is very big on Net Zero stuff, just bought a new car for the second time in three years. So naturally I'm gonna vent about it here.

The greenest/most sustainable car? Is the one you ALREADY OWN.

Thank you for coming to my petty ted talk.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Lackadaisy Tracy @lackadaisy.bsky.social · 5d

Hey everyone, we have some big news to share!

LACKADAISY - Last Call

A preview of Lackadaisy Season One - the Speakeasy is in its prime as Mitzi and the band regale the crowd with an original musical number, Last Call. This seemed like the ideal way to announce that Lackadaisy is now officially a ‪Glitch‬ Production!!

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Jonathan Moore @archparagon.bsky.social · 20d

this trilogy makes no sense

movie posters for the films Him, Her, and It

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Scott @smadin.net · 1d

[Rockwell "Freedom of Speech" painting] I don't think federal agents should be sexually assaulting clergy

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Rev. Woolf, who below describes federal agents grabbing his neck and twisting his nipple as he protested (in a clerical collar) outside the Broadview ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, is ordained in both the American Baptist Churches USA denomination and the Alliance of Baptists.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

I'm sorry what www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

The attack on Portland was supposed to make the place look like a lawless hellhole. Instead, the authorities have succeeded in making it look like the most fun city in the world.

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 2d

bus with one depressed and one happy character. the depressed one says the world is harsh cruel and unforgiving and is wearing clown makeup. the happy one, wearing a doctors coat, says great clown pagliacci is in town yay

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d

"It's really unfair to call us censors just because we're trying to ban books"

county17.com/2021/09/30/l...

Senator Troy McKeown (R-Gillette) spoke midway through the public comments regarding his concern about how challenges are being handled.
"We hide behind the First Amendment when it's convenient. When we have a group of people who want to do something else, it's censorship," McKeown said. "At the end of the day you say it's only the parent's responsibility. You can't ensure responsibility. Parents can sign every library card you want. You can't sign another individual's rights away, no matter how old they are."

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 2d

Viewing beautiful Native art at the Muscarelle Museum on the campus of William & Mary. This piece by artist Preston Singletary is called 'Standing Canoe'. #IndigenousPeoplesDay #art #museum

The piece is a curved standing shape, in deep blue and black colors in Native design, made from glass.

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elenloth.bsky.social @elenloth.bsky.social · 2d

I played the fan-made #MLP #magic set again today, for the first time in 12 yet, and I can confirm that Parasprites is the GOAT.

I mean, I came in last out of 8. But I had so much fun with it!

The fan-made My Little Pony Magic card "Para sprites"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Trivialencounters @arnettjonathan.bsky.social · 2d

Hello everyone! As you may know, our friend at @infinitokens.com was recently injured during Magic Con Atlanta. This injury has created some difficulties that may result in a loss of revenue. To support our friend, I have partnered with some others to bring you #NotAFundraiser p1/?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

The irony is once upon a time aluminum was more valuable than gold because it was initially much more difficult to refine, thus aluminum cutlery, etc was a sign of significant wealth, also this motherfucker is tacky as shit, with or without casting aspersions on aluminum

Fetid Moppet @onthelowend.bsky.social · 2d

I hate to break it to you John, but gold is the new aluminum.

Our dementia-addled President sitting in the ridiculously gold-plated White House.

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 2d

I'm nominating Robert Picardo. He's first generation Italian-American. His parents are from Italy.

photo of actor Robert Picard. he's dressed in a Star Trek TOS uniform while holding a photo of himself as his character, the EMH, Voyager's EMH in Star Trek Voyager.

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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 2d

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor the Native communities who’ve shaped Maryland for generations.

Maryland stands committed to truth, equity, and partnership with indigenous peoples. Not just today, but every day.

Governor Wes Moore in the background of a graphic that reads “Celebrating Indigenous People’s Day”.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

You can arrest us or pepper spray us or whatever, but we will make you look stupid and feel silly doing it because wanting to assert control is stupid. You want to assert control? Do it to an inflatable frog!
So, it’s not just a meme thing, it’s a Portland cultural thing.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

For a very long time, this weird libertarian mishmash basically ran under the national radar because Portland was so small. But the whole time, my understanding of Portland was as a place where absurdist, self-determining approaches to everyday experiences were the norm.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 2d

signing up for the hot new linguistic dating site

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Halloween Born, Halloween Raised @nerdishnerd.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, but also: Survivorship Bias.

Or there's a reason why your grandparent's microwave lasted 40 years and it has nothing to do with "it was made better" back when.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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elenloth.bsky.social @elenloth.bsky.social · 3d

We're reclaiming the frogs!

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