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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 10h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 16h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 12h

Indeed. The issue is not "Jews are white and Palestinians are brown" the issue is the state of Israel, defined constitutionally as a Jewish state in its political, legal, and social character is as a result explicitly exclusionary and creates 2nd and 3rd tiers of life. It is racial, just arbitrary.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 12h

What it means is quite literally that you can, in fact, find people of physical traits you wouldn't expect in almost every ethnic group in the world. There are Saudis who are natural blondes and Finns whose grandparents were all born there who are remarkably swarthy. It just happens.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 1d

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

Which is why the man who greeted her inside the pub – polite, pleasant but oddly flat – felt like a stranger. Gone was the quickfire wit and playful rhythm she’d come to expect from their exchanges. Over pints he stumbled through small talk, checked his phone a little too often, and seemed to wilt under the pressure of her questions. “I felt like I was sitting opposite someone I’d never even spoken to,” she says. “I tried to have the same sort of conversation as we’d been having online, but it was like, ‘Knock, knock, is anyone home?’ – like he knew basically nothing about me. That’s when I suspected he’d been using AI.”

Rachel gave her date the benefit of the doubt. “I thought maybe he was nervous,” she says. But she’d been “Chatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

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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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

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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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 1d

THE BEST OF
THE OUTBURSTS
OF EVERETT TRUE 1907

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

I think this guy is actually president imo

Trump is a doddering old man, barely aware of his own surroundings, getting worked over by underlings.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

Hey I tried to whip up a moral panic against you and now people are being mean to me. Can you please accept total responsibility for the behavior of a bunch of strangers and also admit it's your fault I'm being yelled at?

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 2d

I wish my party had the balls John Thune imagines. It would be pretty great.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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storygrrl @storygrrl.bsky.social · 2d

Melania admits she is, and has been, a Russian agent. Melania speaks to her handler, Putin, regularly.

But, why is she telling us this?

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 2d

You can't say the Trump Administration doesn't innovate.

They're always finding new ways to break the law.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 3d

I think there's a lot of efficacy in repeating that Donald Trump seems to be exhibiting profound dementia, and we should be told who is actually running the Executive Branch.

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VoidBurger 𝑓 (AKA Jess) @voidburger.com · 3d

My legacy continues to take bizarre twists

Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 3d

The medical journal where RFK learned that circumcision causes autism.

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msmeiriona.bsky.social @msmeiriona.bsky.social · 3d

And that comes with a responsibility. You are no longer allowed to move.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

Whilst we're on the subject of shocking living things, did you know police departments routinely shock human beings with tasers until they die and chalk up their deaths to a fake medical condition they call "excited delirium" that was invented by taser companies to absolve themselves of liability?

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

This is actually what is going to happen.

That’s already what’s happening in Lebanon. Israel kills regularly, violates the ceasefire agreement on an hourly basis.

It’s just not on the news anymore.

This is why pressure against Israel mustn’t just continue, but increase.

The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

theonion.com

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tenneseemom.bsky.social @tenneseemom.bsky.social · 4d

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5d

I know invoking Latin terms can be a bit esoteric, and "dementia" is fine and accurate, but I think there's real merit in zeroing in on the relevant legal concept: he is non compos mentis. Not just that he's a batty old man, he is debilitated in a concrete legal sense, fit for conservatorship.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · May 16

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck.

Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.

"She probably doesn't mean me"

I do.

sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · May 15

I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this;

most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!

well, we do. so fuck off.

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · May 19

I'm going to be turning off replies, quotes, and muting notifs for this now, as the AI dorks have found the post, but I do just want to state on the record, to those saying "you're not better than us for NOT using AI" --

yes I am 💅

you're all losers

end of discussion

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msmeiriona.bsky.social @msmeiriona.bsky.social · 5d

This! Get the right voice and you're far more than halfway there.

msmeiriona.bsky.social @msmeiriona.bsky.social · 5d

I trust Del Toro will figure it out.

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 5d

Ian Curtis? In what world was Ian Curtis an incel?

Dude was married and fucking around on his wife. Not a celibate of any kind, much less "involuntary."

Incel does not mean "Shy awkward guy." It means "misogynist who blames women for his inability to get laid when the real problem is himself."

Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 5d

Incels were ruined by gaming. We need to go back to art, music, and humanities. Today’s gamer incels have nothing compared to Nick Drake, Daniel Johnston, Van Gogh, Hans Christian Anderson, Beethoven, Kant, Ian Curtis… incels who created great and interesting art

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