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Haplo

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PRONOUNS: they, þey NOUNS: nerd, burner, artist, crafter, chatter, unionist, leftist?, elder ADJECTIVES: white, queer, neurodivergent, exvangelical VERBS: hyperfocus, make, protest, mask, post pfp: headshot cartoon banner: purple space blobs

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Haplo @haplo.bsky.social · Dec 5

It's Haplo, danananananananana Haplo!

ex-OK, currently MA, but you probably know me from the internet: 3K, Radio KoL, various fandoms and followings and conventions

I'm employed in higher ed disability services. Please turn on the setting that reminds you to use alt text!

campus protest attendee

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Haplo @haplo.bsky.social · 2h

I've seen it!!

Haplo @haplo.bsky.social · 18h

what an intense game

4 skeets on my skyline in succession:
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
This Mariners-Tigers battle is one of the best baseball games I've ever seen
Darth @DarthBlueSky.bsky.social
maybe some of these guys just *like* extra innings. It is just an observation if I love to doing something I would also not want it to end
Shiv Ramdas @NameShiv.bsky.social
the winner of this game isn't even going to be able to lift a bat on Sunday
Tony Clark @AnthonyClark.bsky.social
If we survive this as a country and we don't hold every one of these people accountable we will not have survived this as a country.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 21h

i saw people saying '6 7' and didn't get the reference so i searched for it on here and the first thing i saw was a picture of two buff furry wolfmen jacking off into a urinal. good night

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 23h

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 1d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 1d

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

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Haplo @haplo.bsky.social · 1d

regularly defrag your government

born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 10d

don’t just shut down the government. replace it completely. erase the existing government. perform a clean install of the government. run periodic scheduled scans of the government for any dumb motherfuckers and remove them immediately.

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Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 1d

the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them

we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Haplo @haplo.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the help getting past nerves! The results are so far promising 😅

Haplo @haplo.bsky.social · 1d

this is on @johnny1take.bsky.social and @gripesoda.bsky.social

A pile of hair trimmings in dark brown, gray, teal, and purple being swept across the floor of a barbershop.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

Alt text:
A collage of four tweets from Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) discussing concerns about artificial intelligence.

Top left tweet: Walsh warns that within a year or two, people will be able to create indistinguishable fake videos for defamation, and that nothing is being done to prevent this.
Bottom left tweet: He says AI will destroy jobs, art, reality, and civilization, yet no action is being taken to stop it.
Top right tweet: He criticizes AI-generated films as soulless and meaningless, saying art requires human expression and that AI will be the “death of art.”
Bottom right tweet: Walsh argues that if a robot paints a picture, the robot is the artist, not the person prompting it, because the robot lacks consciousness and meaning.

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Haplo @haplo.bsky.social · 2d

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 2d

It takes 67 Senators to impeach a SCOTUS justice but only 51 with sufficient will to add 6 more justices

Haplo @haplo.bsky.social · 2d

someone tell me to do The Thing so that if it goes badly and I regret it, I can blame you

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

*New England intensifies*

A quiet road photographed at a bend with trees on each side

A stone wall with a field beyond it. A tree hangs over the wall

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Haplo @haplo.bsky.social · 2d

as someone living in Boston, it's very odd to see such true statements coming from a European

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 2d

i am currently fomenting a never before seen ideology consisting chiefly of irish republicanism and anti-yankees vitriol. and i shall name it "being a denizen of Boston, MA"

meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 2d

COME OUT YE YANKEE FANS
COME OUT AND FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN
SHOW YOUR WIFE HOW YOU WON MEDALS
IN BOSTON AND CHICAAAAAGO
TELL HER HOW TORONTO BLUE JAYS
MADE YOU RUN LIKE HELL A WAY
FROM THE GREEN AND LOVELY FIELDS OF ROGERS CENTREEEE

meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 2d

anti-yankees cover of Come Out Ye Blacks And Tans

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Haplo @haplo.bsky.social · 2d

@anangryscientist.bsky.social Did you see??

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 2d

The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa.

Claude Rains in Casablanca, smirking impishly.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 2d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 3d

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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