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John Bowe

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Creating dumb solutions to dumb problems.

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John Bowe @johnbowethejoker.bsky.social · Mar 10

I once worked a 3rd shift by myself because the dude who was supposed to be serving passed out from a coke binge.

A drunk girl and her drunk friends came in during the bar rush, and besides being cool as shit, she popped her tits out on the high bar so I'd make her hash browns with extra love.

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Pittsburgh graffiti @pghgraffiti.bsky.social · 3m

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 1h

I'm very sad to say that this event has to be cancelled!

Yesterday, I was among 8 arrested at an action demanding:

- The safe return of Freedom Flotilla members currently being detained in Israeli prisons, including Mskwaasin Agnew

- A two way arms embargo

- Immediate sanctions on Israel

Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 17d

Buffalo! I'll be in town to read at @gutterpopcomics.bsky.social on October 10, alongside @philmcandrew.bsky.social, Gia Ligammari and Max Weiss

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George @georgem.bsky.social · 57m

online in general is about the crucial authenticity of our whining and the sinister frivolity of everyone else's whining

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1h

Commenter today pretty much nailed it: "Online fandom seems to be build on believing your team will lose and being annoyed when the media says your team will lose."

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PSI @psiart.bsky.social · 11h

Heavy

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 50m

"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext"

www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Why I Withdrew From My Dream Job

At Texas A&M, politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in classrooms.

www.chronicle.com

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John Bowe @johnbowethejoker.bsky.social · 48m

They REALLY don't like Platner huh?

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 50m

BREAKING: Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins, AP sources say.

Maine Gov. Mills will announce challenge to Sen. Collins in key 2026 Senate contest, AP sources say

Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year.

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John Bowe @johnbowethejoker.bsky.social · 2h

@b0tster.yeag.gay

Pittsburgh graffiti @pghgraffiti.bsky.social · 3h

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 21h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Voting isn’t the solution unto itself, but it’s critically important at the local level.

There will be 52,000 elections held next month alone, and many will be determined purely by turnout.

You know what to do.

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · May 21

jazz!
@juhuachai
"optimal posting times" "stagger your posts" if you see me you see me. it's in gods hands and i am not praying
7:57 PM • 02 Mar 23

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John Bowe @johnbowethejoker.bsky.social · 14h

I like rice and vinegar. It's nice.

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 15h

The importance of this question cannot be overstated: Trump has been communicating directly with Bondi through Truth Social about indicting his enemies. How this question is resolved is critical.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

www.documentcloud.org

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CyberellaDraws - Commissions Open @cyberelladraws.bsky.social · 14h

Cloudward, Ho!

Episode 17 parody picture: Over the Garden Wall style!
I might draw the rest.

#cloudwardho #dimension20 #dimension20fanart #d20

Dimension 20: Cloudward, Ho! parody picture, based off of Over the Garden Wall style. Done in the style of a model sheet line up. In the lineup is:
Wealwell, winking with hands on his cane.
Maxwell, tugging at a glove on his close fist hand.
Montgomery looking a bit goofy off in the distance.
Van smiling as she holds Bert against her with her tentacle arm.
Daisuke and Comfrey with arms around one another.
Marya looking haunted with a wounded hand petting Kočka the Rat on her shoulder.
Olethra looking happily at Wisconsin P. Toad singing in her hands.

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G @jasky.bsky.social · 14h

why are there so few characters with orange outfits?

Elsa Bloodstone of marvel comics from multiple teams but the best being nextwave: agents of hate in a midcentury modern inspired retro pinup cartoon style with a redesigned outfit meant to look 60s carrying her iconic shotgun looking unimpressed at the viewer against an orange background

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17h

i’ll never get over this

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16h

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028.

Here's a link for $10 off premium.

edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Everybody is very casual with how they talk about Sam Altman’s theoretical promises of trillions of dollars of data center infrastructure, and I'm not sure anybody realizes how difficult even the very basics of this plan will be.
Nevertheless, everybody is happily publishing stories about how “Stargate Abilene Texas - OpenAI’s massive data center with Oracle - is open,” by which they mean two buildings, and I’m not even confident both of them are providing compute to OpenAI yet. There are six more of them that need to get built for this thing to start rocking at 1.2GW - even though it’s only 1.1GW according to my sources in Abilene.
But, hey, sorry - one minute - while we’re on that subject, did anybody visiting Abilene in the last week or so ever ask whether they’ll have enough power there?
Don’t worry, you don’t need to look - I’m sure you were just about to, and had simply been busy! - but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200 megawatts of power - a 200 megawatt substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350 Megawatt of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year in the event that one of the multiple construction firms involved . Said turbine is extremely expensive, featuring volatile pricing (for context, volatility fell in Q2 2025…to 69% annualized, meaning that if you had these prices across the entirety of a year you’d see swings of 69% up or down) and even more volatile environmental consequences, and is, while permitted for it (this will download the PDF of the permit), impractical and expensive to use long-term.
Analyst James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research recently said on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that these are “not the really good natural gas turbines” because the really good ones would take seven years to deliver due to a natural gas turbine shortage.
But th…

$Stargate Abilene does not have sufficient power to run at even half of its supposed IT load of 1.2GW, and at its present capacity - assuming that the gas turbines function at full power - can only hope to run 370MW to 460MW of IT load. I’ve seen article after article about the gas turbines and their use of fracked gas - a disgusting and wasteful act typical of OpenAI - but nobody appears to have asked “how much power does a 1.2GW data center require?” and then chased it with “how much power does Stargate Abilene have?” The answer is not enough, and the significance of said “not enough” is remarkable. Today, I’m going to tell you, at length, how impossible the future of generative AI is. Gigawatt data centers are a ridiculous pipe dream, one that runs face-first into the walls of reality. The world’s governments and media have been far too cavalier with the term “gigawatt,” casually breezing by the fact that Altman’s plans require 17 or more nuclear reactors’ worth of power, as if building power is quick and easy and cheap and just happens. I believe that many of you think that this is an issue of permitting - of simply throwing enough money at the problem - when we are in the midst of a shortage in the electrical grade steel and transformers required to expand America (and the world’s) power grid. I realize it’s easy to get blinded by the constant drumbeat of “gargoyle-like tycoon cabal builds 1 gigawatt data center” and feel that they will simply overwhelm the problem with money, but no, I’m afraid that isn’t the case at all, and all of this is so silly, so ridiculous, so cartoonishly bad that it threatens even the seemingly-infinite wealth of Elon Musk, with xAI burning over a billion dollars a month and planning to spend tens of billions of dollars building the Colossus 2 data center, dragging two billion dollars from SpaceX in his desperate quest to burn as much money as possible for no reason. This is the age of hubris - a time in which we are going to watc…$

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 16h

with zero notice given to anyone who had ever worked there, and who have now lost any of their work not already archived

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 16h

GameZone, a website dating back to 1994, has had its archives wiped:

aftermath.site/gamezone-video...

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Ravishing Rick Ruud van Nistelroy @astroscounty.bsky.social · 17h

Drake:

Hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it’s over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 18h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 18h

Perry: "I'm going to issue an oral ruling."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

i agree that this is an insane take

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 20h

wtaf are you talking about

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 18h

I try to keep my Mom's mind peaceful, but I had to tell her about this placenta comment.... because I know the MSM she watches probably won't cover it...

Going to keep her reply to myself lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 21h

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