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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 19h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

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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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 23h

I have a special place of hatred in my heart for all the supposedly left wing people who spent 2020-2024 saying 'I miss Trump, god he was so funny'

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 1d

Other way round

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 2d

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 2d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 1d

NHS prices to skyrocket because Starmer caved to Trump

Sensing the man's weakness, Donald Trump and big pharma have ganged up on Keir Starmer and the NHS - bad news for us all, writes @willem-moore.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

NHS prices to skyrocket because Starmer caved to Trump

Sensing the man's weakness, Donald Trump and big pharma have ganged up on Keir Starmer and the NHS - bad news for us all

www.thecanary.co

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 2d

Weird how we were all pronouncing Mount Everest wrong the whole time and now it's not even called that anymore.

Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 2d

I don't usually give much store to the "we live in a simulation" theory but Shakira was born in 1977 there is no way she can still look like that

Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously you can't own a chord progression, but the one from Where Is My Mind by The Pixies is so distinctive and memorable that it's very weird for Taylor Swift to lift it wholesale without credit www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEg...

Taylor Swift - Actually Romantic (Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Taylor Swift

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 3d

How did they breed pheasants to crave death

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 3d

This ad is backfiring hard these are the coolest animals I've ever seen

"It looks just as stupid when you do it" images of farmyard animals smoking

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 3d

PSA to everyone- you don't need a hobbies section on your CV that's just something weird a teacher told you once.

Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 4d

No disrespect to Nick Hoult who is handsome and brilliant

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 4d

There simply aren't enough young, lantern-jawed, burly, heavyset men in Hollywood anymore. They once tried to make an X-Men movie and Hank McCoy had to be played by a particularly lanky twink.

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 4d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 4d

Trump is openly gearing up the military to attack members of the Dem party. The judge who ruled against Trump last week was firebombed today... but American news sites are more likely to mention the UK mosque attack on their front pages than these opening salvos of the second American civil war.

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 6d

There's something interesting going on here and I feel I could unpack it if I could think about for more than 10 seconds without dry heaving

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 7d

Highly recommend this for anyone who thinks fantasy revolutionary fiction sounds like fun. Worth it alone for the art by the incredible Joe Currie

2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 7d

The vampiric Baroness DeSilva is dug up from her final resting place - just in time to wreck havoc on alien invaders, giant robots, and more!

The insanity of "Silver" is available for pre-order now: 2000ad.com/news/pre-ord...

Pre-Order Now: Silver Volume 1 is Unearthed this December! | 2000 AD

“Something disturbing and gnarly and wholly shocking is coming your way.” – The Beat “Joe Currie is a major new talent.” Chris Weston Earth, the year 2001. A group of armed survivors sought out the re...

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 7d

It shows how far we've sunk into the fascist mindset that for our governments, life clearly no longer has inherent value.

Under fascism, a human life only has value in relation to the state. Even Israel's US victims are abandoned by the US, because in order to have value, you must serve the state.

Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 7d

If we could determine the value of a human life, surely it would be measured by how much people are willing to sacrifice to preserve one.

Love and solidarity to the flotilla heroes in Israeli custody today. They are the soul of humanity.

Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 7d

If we could determine the value of a human life, surely it would be measured by how much people are willing to sacrifice to preserve one.

Love and solidarity to the flotilla heroes in Israeli custody today. They are the soul of humanity.

Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 7d

The genocide has devalued human life to such an extent that British armed response units are instinctively adopting the Samson strategy.

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 8d

Wait hold up how was the Joker able to sit in his car and walk around before he pulled that pistol with the very long barrel out of his trouser leg to shoot the Bat-Wing?

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 9d

This is a perfect score IMO. Any film where the audience reaction looks like this is a must-see.

Distribution of 5 star reviews, with nearly all reviews being either 5 or 1 star, the number of 5 and 1 star reviews being roughly equal.

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 11d

An owl sized moth or 200 moth sized owls?

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Awe whey towel @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 14d

Keir Starmer dismantling the bulwarks of liberal democracy, unleashing a surge ethnonationalism and handing the country over to fascists as a desperate hail mary to achieve the Labour party's only true ideological goal: all citizens to carry biometric paperwork at all times or go to jail

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