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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 1h

Oh there’s some quality shithead quotes in here

Vince Guerrieri @vinceguerrieri.com · 1h

Jim Nantz was in the tank for him too! It was astounding! www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2...

Marla Ridenour: CBS’s Jim Nantz criticizes media critics of Browns’ Mike Lombardi

When it comes to the polarizing Browns’ hire of Mike Lombardi as vice president of player personnel, the voice of CBS Sports believes the Northeast Ohio media is “picking on the wrong guy.” Jim Nan…

www.beaconjournal.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2h

Did not know this about Old Bay

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1h

Work harder and die

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Aaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 5h

Maybe now we're just going to do makeup calls all drive until the Patriots score?

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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 5h

Zactly

Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 6h

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

Red state government declaring open war on blue city governments in Florida.

This is the MAGA model: using every tool of the state to punish political opponents, without even a pretense that you are governing "for everyone."

Doge-ish comes to Florida: a DeSantis loyalist is going after ‘waste’ in Democratic cities

Blaise Ingoglia was handpicked by the Republican Florida governor to lead an assault on municipal spending

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 6h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 7h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 5h

I hate how accurate this is

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 5h

The Dear Leader is a true mirror of His people and his brilliance is a beacon unto all the nations

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 5h

Resilience targeting

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5h

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects.

In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ! You took the wrong 79 year old!

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 23h

Talk to your children about undefeated Indiana

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

as enjoyable as it is to dunk on vibe coders, this is just the nature of cloud services. they’re really expensive and they can easily cost you shocking amounts of money really fast even if you know what you’re doing! if you don’t know what you’re doing, messing with them is just asking for trouble!

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d
Join
Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
Debt & Money
Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

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According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

the joy of tik tok

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 10d

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia

It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

www.thenation.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

"Who could have imagined nine years ago that the US would be zapping vessels suspected of drug-running, vast distances from American soil?
...Who said it was OK to fire at civilians who are not firing back?"

"Trickle down immunity" is now a big problem for the US military. And so for everyone else.

Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 1d

With Yale Law School military justice expert Eugene Fidell and former JAG Maj. General Steven J. Lepper on the biggest civil/military crisis since the Civil War.

Trump Wants to Use American Cities as a “Training Ground.” It’s Becoming Clear Why.

MAGA cries “Insurrection!”, setting up a dangerous standoff between the American people and the military.

slate.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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