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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8m

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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Dashingclaire @dashingclaire.bsky.social · 19h

Assata Shakur 🖤✏️ #book

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 1d

It’s weird that he thinks that being concerned with climate change of all things is anti science and technical progress. Software eating VC brains.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

(Washington Post) -- Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are "legionnaires of the Antichrist" in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future, according to recordings reviewed by The Washington Post.
In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents "off-the-record," according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings.
"In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science," Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. "In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It's someone like Greta or Eliezer," he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry's approach to AI.

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Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

Cool photo. I like the composition.

Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 1d

You know the assignment 👍

It'd be a real shame if this photo of President Obama receiving his Nobel peace prize went viral today, for no particular reason

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 1d

Humans are responsible for 100% of the *increase* of atmospheric CO2 since the pre-Industrial era. It's increased by about 50% since then.

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Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

F**k me, that is going to cut costs! Too bad we rewind the video back to medieval times. NOBODY will get health care in the new regime, so why do they even have to know about it!?

Well ❤️‍🩹 that should be clear by now, it's so the can GET MAD 😡.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

Oh, you mean the courts 🏛️ are still open?
They better get the House 🏠 back in session. Or I will cringe 😬.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

Well, that is a problem. The creatives were actually afraid of a robot that could unload the dishwasher for you.
Even if it meant you could use AI to write a 📚. In the spare time it gave you.
Because walking, talking and working are *all* way harder than expressing yourself.

Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

Nope, no CDC. No FEMA. No health insurance. That should just normalize it for everyone, and end the #shutdown.

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Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

Well, of course not!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

Is that an ad for a brand of wine 🍷?

Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

I don't think antifa has any money. They are not an organization. They are actually just the people in frog 🐸 suits. What a shame 😔.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h

3 MAGA counterprotesters were arrested at ICE in Portland

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Colin Robinson @fermiparasocks.bsky.social · 1d

Sir well maybe they have a nobel prize for signing your name like pubic hair to financiers

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Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

They could have killed him 🪾. #TruckFump

Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

Well, they were told: if any crazed lunatic is running around school grounds with a gun 🔫, lock yourselves in the classrooms. We agreed. We consented. Now if masked fascists do it, they won't?

You are too charitable.

Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

Um, they make sure we do. Every shutdown.

Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

They have actually taken that power away. Analysts say that by now, it's Miller, Vance and probably one other person really in charge. And they're feeding him AI vids. And he's incompetent.

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Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

I've been paying attention. @reptedlieu.bsky.social has been scouring the capital looking for the Repubs. They are on vacay.

Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah they do. I remember the siege of Sarajevo. They thought no way they'd get trapped in a fishbowl 🐟 and shot, because 'this is f*cking Europe.' We're the same way. Or, in some contexts, worse.

We're for freedom, which is whatever we're doing. Ppl outside the US completely understand. We've lost.

Llewellyn 🇺🇦 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 16h

No, COVID was not a hoax. A whole lot of ppl died. Ppl were on respirators.