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Fizzy Ramen Stock @mellopanther.bsky.social · 1h

Quote from the movie Zombieland: "Look, you ever read that book, 'She's Just Not That Into You'?"

Fizzy Ramen Stock @mellopanther.bsky.social · 1h

If someone put that on a PPT I think I am legally obligated to hit them with silly objects in public.

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infinite brians @infinitebrians.neocities.org · 2h

haze deadlock's memorable quotes

#deadlock

a pixel art drawing of the character haze from the game deadlock. she has a smokey head with orange eyes, she has an orange top with black gloves and pants and is firing two silenced submachine guns while saying "I CAN GO SHOPPING" in an evil dark voice.

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Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East @bobchipman.bsky.social · 7h

Like ironically the answer to "Why does Disney keep making 'TRON?'" is the same as "Why is VR, crypto and AI forced into everything?"

Only about 1000 guys in 1982 ever *loved* 'TRON' ...but 990 of them now have influential movie, tech, music and media-executive jobs 🤷‍♂️

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

I know the whole “every accusation is a confession” thing but it’s pretty clear this is the most elitist government that’s existed in decades. It’s just 12 billionaires in a group chat sharing banned Reddit memes

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Fizzy Ramen Stock @mellopanther.bsky.social · 8h

If I didn't know better, I'd think that people are trying to turn Gaza into a "woke"-shaped cudgel to justify their garbage behavior.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 19h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 9h

The greatest trick the GOP pulled is making liberals and leftists each other’s enemies.

It’s incredibly stupid, btw.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21h

It really feels like Sam Altman promised a lot of Very Serious Old People he was going to create capitalist blowjob jesus based off a tech demo, and now that the bottom’s falling out he’s throwing whatever he can think of at the wall to avoid getting disappeared because he wasted all their money.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 18h

Then those states should freeze federal income tax. Oops.

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 22h

Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump admin is freezing or cancelling billions of dollars in funding for projects in Democratic areas.

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 11h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

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Fizzy Ramen Stock @mellopanther.bsky.social · 1d

This makes that one Menswear Guy comeback of "sorry about my lowly upbringing" even funnier imo.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

The unspoken meaning of regular "If this gets leaked we're cooked lololol" jokes is to remind everyone that they're in a position to coerce or destroy anyone who gets out of line.

Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 1d

the chat logs leaked clearly show members are aware they’re posting compromising messages, they’re even talking about how cooked they be if it leaked

bc the social function of extremist rhetoric is that in-group members bond and attain status by transgressing with one another as witnesses

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Fizzy Ramen Stock @mellopanther.bsky.social · 1d

Is Ai Yazawa too on the nose?

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" that, shall we say, resonates today

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Fizzy Ramen Stock @mellopanther.bsky.social · 2d

How can someone have such time and energy to harbor this much hate?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Fizzy Ramen Stock @mellopanther.bsky.social · 2d

My parents live by a farm that's big enough to have its own grocery store (and ice cream parlor!) onsite and they sell breaded chicken breasts that were supposedly formulated for air fryers.

I believe them because they were *divine*

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