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this account will prefer to be shitposting rather than whining until further notice. used to run a nuclear reactor underwater. following based on {funny/articulate} posts. if you're not posting I'm probably not following back. 📍 MD, USA

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oom_rl @outofmemory.bsky.social · Oct 10

but I wish it were that simple.
It's not just war around the globe, but current-gen policing in America, and basic "how do we treat each other".

Best way I can put it is how Patrick Skinner (@SkinnerPm) who is a cop but ex-USCG+CIA puts it on Twitter: "All of us matter, or none of us do."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

When the output of the highest court in the land wouldn't pass muster coming from first-year law students, it discredits the institutional legitimacy of the entire legal system. Nobody can pretend they are at the apex of the profession, intellectually credible even when you disagree with them.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 4d

It's just my life.

Keep_You_Warm @yarngirl-mug.bsky.social · 4d

@killermartinis.bsky.social I know we’ve not interacted, but I’ve followed you for years on the bad place and now you here.

Watching the Billy Joel documentary, and thinking of all of your Billy Joel tweets/posts over the years. ❤️

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oom_rl @outofmemory.bsky.social · 10h

Again, LLMs have amazing capability to predict the next thing they should output in response to a prompt based on their corpus - but a corpus is NOT understanding.

The LLM has no freaking idea whether we have 4, 5, or 6 fingers because it INTERPRETS and does not understand nor have cognition.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 18h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · Sep 15

INTERESTING AUSTRALIA TRIVIA: Every Australian has a kangaroo suit hanging in their closet for use in an emergency.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 20h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 10h

There’s an eluded life within

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely this.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 11h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 11h

Not just Catholics, I was raised high church Episcopalian - full smells and bells - before I left the church and am now effectively apostate as I convert to Judaism. And this still touches something deep from my childhood.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

This is a really, really good act of protest that uses a protest language that has a chance of reaching people who would otherwise dismiss the issue. You can tell by how many former Catholics are seeing it here and having like entire full-body shudders despite having left the church decades ago.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 11h

Shane Black movies work because of casting. Gibson/Glover, Kilmer/Downey, Crowe/Gosling. Lakeith Stanfield is a perfect fit, but Marky Mark hasn’t carried a movie since PTA gave him a prosthetic dick

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monkeyrotica @monkeyrotica.bsky.social · 11h

Chicken curry katsu with macaroni and pickled daikon from Fukoma at the Fresh World food court. A steal at $15. The deep fried gyoza also a mouth burning hit. 🍽️

Chicken curry katsu with macaroni salad and pickled daikon.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 10h

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 12h

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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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 14h

WILL BATTEN DOWN YOUR HATCHES FOR SOUP

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 13h

Today is Primidi the 21st of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate hemp.#JacobinDay

More information on hemp

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 15h

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13h

If James visits the home regularly then it is available to her for personal use, which means it is not a “rental investment property” as defined by the mortgage rider…and therefore negates the central claim of the indictment

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Letitia James
Indictment
Read the Indictment
Timeline of Conflict
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But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 13h

Theeey will not foooorce us

They will stop degraaaading us

They will not controoool us

We will be victooooorious

David Knickerbocker @itsgorain.bsky.social · 13h

open.spotify.com/track/4VqPOr...

Uprising

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oom_rl @outofmemory.bsky.social · 10h

uh...no, haven't seen it, and yeah it's annoying but I have Hall and Oates songs I hate SO MUCH MORE.

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Uribe Down - Trash Flavored Trash @saveourfarms.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, okay, having finished the video and read some comments I’m a little heartened. “They are talking about two wildly different experiences and expectations. The difference is Coates knows they are having different discussions, and Klein has no idea.” Yep.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

Eucharistic adoration is a form of meditation and reflection. It was common in medieval times for priests to bear the monstrance through the streets regularly so people could have the opportunity to adore the sacrament, but that kind of processional is uncommon today.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

It's been really, really nice seeing the Catholic social justice tradition in the US feel like it's empowered to spread its wings again without risking censure after a long time of being suppressed by US Catholic leadership, and it's exactly what I was hoping for from Pope Bob.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

Because boy, howdy, nobody knows ritual and symbolism like the Catholic Church, and having it turned squarely back on the Very Bad Catholics who have been the public standard-bearers of wielding it for evil for so long is really good to see.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 22h

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

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