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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 22m

Send your feedback that we don’t want ICE commercials on AEW Collision.

Sending mine now.

HANGMAN PAGE @hangmanpage.bsky.social · 9d

fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know:

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 27m

“Free speech curfew” is one of the most authoritarian and dystopian terms I think I have ever heard.

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Johnny @johnnyzcz.bsky.social · 1h

Pritzker's pretty handily destroying his chances of being president by letting state and local goons beat protestors so the federal goons don't have to

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 2h

let's see paul allen's labubu

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isobel @isobel.top · 2h

the above two posts, followed by a completely unrelated one of an old white guy apparently pissing into a golf club

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jessica.industries @jessica.industries · Jun 6

Tutorial for my pride brick purse!

Been crazy watching this idea go viral the last couple days.
I’ve seen like a dozen different flags already.

Hope this helps more people make their own!
(And discourages people from selling them…)

If you make one or see one send me pics plz!
Happy pride, bbs!

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · Jun 29

Every day it becomes more and more clear that Sylvia Rivera was right, we never should have settled for Pride when we could have had Power.

Sylvia Rivera in the early 1970s, holding a sign that says "GAY POWER"

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 3d

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 5d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Johnny @johnnyzcz.bsky.social · 9h

You'd think decades of US consumerism would have done a better job at teaching all of us when cell phones, cars, and other products are absolutely not real products. That's usually the telltale sign for me

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 9h

As I said, after the AI crash, we’ll have to give remedial education to so many young people.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jan 18

So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other.

Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾

screenshot of a Tumblr post from user ecofear yelling "what is HAPPENING" in response to a screenshot of a quotetweet from user @Ovichknox reading "this is so scary to me. i recommended a book to a friend recently and she came back to me a day later saying it was really good and i asked if she finished it already and she said "yeah i got chatgpt to summarise each chapter into 3 paragraphs to it was easy to read"
which is replying to a tweet from @alz_zyd reading "Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x as fast as a translation, and felt l got the main gist of things. idk does the pain incurred…"

Followed by a a reblog from tumblr use moonglade-poetess reading "Hey guys, with so much love, and as someone with an actual English degree:

Please just use Sparknotes if you're going to do this. I get it. I do. But chatgpt or other genAl shit doesn't actually know what's important for you to know, and in some cases it might fully make shit up. Use sparknotes. Failing that, talk to someone who did read it. I'm begging.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 9h

My biggest thing about this is how do reconcile knowledge with fun?

We have been taught that we deserve a constant stream of fun, and anything that makes us feel bad is bad

What happens when you're a bread a circus baby, and now there's neither bread nor circus?

That crash out will be

Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 9h

As I said, after the AI crash, we’ll have to give remedial education to so many young people.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jan 18

So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other.

Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾

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Johnny @johnnyzcz.bsky.social · 9h

"bread and circus baby" is real good. Depressing! But good phrasing

Johnny @johnnyzcz.bsky.social · 9h

This is the way. Like, this is the only way forward. This is what we need from leaders. It's not purity testing to demand this level of active, affirmative support.

This should be basic among Dems seeking to hold office.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 10h

I’m really worried about people. People are not okay. Please keep people in your prayers today.

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Johnny @johnnyzcz.bsky.social · 9h

Besides, this story in the AIgen video shows issues that aren't in the real situation:
Local cops
No ICE around
Race issues
No bystander attention/intervention
More in-town/downtown streets
Actively reporting, on camera, journo not print

Almost **every element** is escalated in the fake story

Johnny @johnnyzcz.bsky.social · 9h

2 truths and a lie is a challenging game because it's hard to parse what's true

The boy who cried wolf is a good fable because the lesson that people don't believe liars even when they tell the truth is timeless and universal

Don't spread misinformation
Correct misinformation
Stop disinformation

Johnny @johnnyzcz.bsky.social · 9h

This is literally the same thing JD Vance said when called out for lying about Haitian immigrants, that making up a story highlighted an underlying real story.

It UNDERMINES the real story of journos getting arrested if you copy the other side's DISinformation tactics to try to spread true info 🙃

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 12h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Johnny @johnnyzcz.bsky.social · 9h

This is literally the same thing JD Vance said when called out for lying about Haitian immigrants, that making up a story highlighted an underlying real story.

It UNDERMINES the real story of journos getting arrested if you copy the other side's DISinformation tactics to try to spread true info 🙃

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 12h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 10h

Future historians: As their computers ate and destroyed all their languages we can only assume that what happened was magic became real and that's how they defeated global genocidal fascism

On the left, the German Mud Wizard in their druid cloak pushes a German riot cops who is already stuck in the mud. On the left are 3 Portland Antifa frogs in green inflatable cartoonish costumes and one black frog with white frog bones on him like the antifa frog skeleton.

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Johnny @johnnyzcz.bsky.social · 9h

These fuckos GOTTA GO

Starry Nights @starrynightmoon.bsky.social · 10h

This young person just posted that her Pell grant went from $7k to $700 as of yesterday due to the federal cuts.

What is a student support to do with this?

Buy the books and teach themselves?

a woman wearing hoop earrings and a t-shirt is sitting in a living room .

ALT: a woman wearing hoop earrings and a t-shirt is sitting in a living room .

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Johnny @johnnyzcz.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not sure $700 even covers the books anymore 🥲

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Johnny @johnnyzcz.bsky.social · 10h

Hip hip hooray!

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