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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 2h

That’s horrifying, and absolutely awesome!

Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 2d

laura palmer / everybody scream

a black abstract line art illustration of Laura palmer from David lynch’s twin peaks, screaming. she has white eyes and inside her eyeballs the words “fire walk with me” are written. the background is bright red.

Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 3h

Great damned movie! See Frailty immediately, people!

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h

One of my all time favorites. Always tell people to see it because it didn't get nearly enough love.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 4h

at a 35mm screening of Bill Paxton’s Frailty

Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 4h

I have a confession- I am the current president of antifa and I need your help. Just Venmo me $122 and keep the struggle going

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 4h

Which is only marginally less coherent than what your average tech billionaire vomits out when they talk about the technology.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "AI is based on information. I hope they're right about information. I don't know. You've gotta make a lot of money to-- there's gotta be a lot of information out there, but that seems to be pretty hot. We're leading the world on information on AI."

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 23h

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 4h

Wish he wasn’t pushing for AI now because his movies essentially defined my childhood

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sixpenceee none the richer @kagredon.bsky.social · 7h

i think about this tweet a lot

tweet from @arod_twit:

"characters in tv shows are too self aware now! every emotional convo is like "i guess i yelled at you earlier because i never processed dad leaving" no!! no!!! flush someone's blood pressure medication because they called you lazy."

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 7h

Yeas, this is shitty. But also, who the fuck buys rum cake for a five year old’s birthday?!? This woman is a monster!

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve seen this posted a few different places - as somebody over a decade sober this would piss me off and I would cease contact with that sister.

It’s not funny - nor a joke - this is abuse.

Tik tok post where a young man was served rum cake at a five year olds ?!?! Birthday party and not told. He was also five years sober and didn’t know it was rum cake until he ate it.
Vile shit

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 10h

They say they want new things in fantasy, then authors from marginalized groups do new things, but they don't like that, they want the new thing to be like the old thing except new.

What they really want is a book to rewind time and make them young again, something no book or anything else can do.

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 8h

Ms Rachel schools Obama on why he really should stop using dehumanizing language.

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ commissions open! @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 15h

someone followed me with dramione on their profile and posts so here's another psa: I AM A TRANS ARTIST if you have anything to do with hp on your profile or posts, my art is NEVER going to be for you 🏳️‍⚧️

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 12h

Not gonna lie, this one surprised me.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14h

Well, good for DC

search.app/PK45E

DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

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Jude "BE NOT AFRAID #4 Out Now" Doyle @judedoyle.bsky.social · 13h

Honestly, at least half of the guys on this bill have been MeTooed, and the only reason Bill Burr hasn't is because his material makes the MeTooing redundant. Hannibal Buress is a disappointment. Otherwise, this was just a festival of Guys That Suck

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21h

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Emily Miller @emilymillerlit.bsky.social · 2d

Please repost to support writers of erotic fiction.

Emily Miller @emilymillerlit.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome to Day 7 of The #Halloween 2025 Competition on @literotica.com #WritingCommunity #EroticWriting

www.literotica.com/stories/cont...

Welcome to the Halloween 2025 Competition on Literotica. A she-demon punching a vampire

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 13h

I mean…you’ll probably destroy 43% of some wetlands, but you do you…

Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 13h

Boring? Annoying?!? Kitten, those are the bad voices again and they can fuck right off because you’re a treasure!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13h

Something I’m working on, and it’s kind of necessary if we don’t want an omnipresent algorithm determining the content we see, is hitting that reskeet button more, because there’s been several times I’ve noticed good posting and/or someone I didn’t know was on here solely through a mutual doing that

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 13h

idk what to say about the ceasefire.

I've been living/covering/researching/writing about this conflict for decades & it's only ever been one step forward, one & a half steps back.

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 13h

I love how power works. “We’ve found an excessive number of violations so we’d like to lower the fines by 90%”

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 14h

so it goes... another day, another example of elon musk being inexplicably let off the hook for crimes

ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h

NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

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🎂 Sydney Screams 🎉 BIRTHDAY MONTH @sydneyscreams4u.bsky.social · 2d

porn is not evil.
sex is not evil.
pleasure is not evil.
kink is not evil.

none of them are things to feel shame or embarrassment about.

none of them deserve the heavy-handed censorship that they're facing.

resist oppression (even if you don't partake in what is being oppressed)

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, and I lost the Stanley Cup to the Florida Panthers because I wanted that, despite never playing a single second of hockey.

Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 15h

lol @people.com didn’t hold back

PEOPLE MAGAZINE HEADLINE: Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan Politician María Corina Machado After Repeatedly Saying He Wants the Award →

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 14h

Holy shit, is he still trying to make Metaverse happen?!?

(Also, what exactly does he think it is about AI that would in any way achieve this goal?)

404 Media @404media.co · 14h

NEW: an internal Meta message we obtained tells employees on its metaverse team that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster”. That's 5 times faster, not 5 percent more www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 14h

I fucking love this thread!

Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody believes me, but I swear to God that Punisher can be saved. But no one wants to save him but me.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7d

3c) Want to take the opportunity to share this great article from @truthout.org about racism/fascism and The Punisher character

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t think you can truly understand the level of hate one can have for Greenwood’s shitty song unless you were a leftist in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 14h

Oh I swear to god if these chucklefucks start a war over AI…

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

“.. It’s an economic equivalent of nuclear war—an intent to destroy the American AI industry,”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/china/...

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