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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · Jul 6

hi! 😃 i couldn't help but notice that scrolling is sapping your will to live! may i offer u a video essay in these trying times?
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be your own algorithm

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 13h

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 4d

finally some cool news

portland frog is back after getting “pepper sprayed in the ass”

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · Apr 17

hey sorry, can’t. busy.

Image with the photographer holding a cigrette and a pint of beer. Across the table is Snoopy also holding a cigarette but drinking root beer. It’s night time on a city street and there’s a bright McDonald’s sign across the way

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 7d

he wasn't wrong!! emotionally AND sonically

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 7d

and ofc i've got the canonical version on my website, which has an RSS feed you can subscribe to, etc etc: pagemelt.zone/rss.xml

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 7d

i'm getting weirder, maybe
open.substack.com/pub/pagemelt...

Music is a thing you can hold in your hands

DIY sigilism with compact discs

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No Context Achewood @achewoodnc.bsky.social · 8d

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 8d

tarot is great because it's never pretending to be something it's not. the cards are just prisms to look at your life through, but YOU are doing the work

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 8d

no judgment, no irony: if you're one of these people who's started using chatgpt for quasi-therapy, you should look into tarot reading. a friend gave me a great reading last week, and it felt like flossing

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 9d

they're back baybeee, the kids love em

mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 9d

everybody loves to denigrate BookTok books but when a 19-year-old covered in cybersigiglism tattoos comes across my FYP holding up a paperback 9 times out of 10 it's East of Eden. I'm not joking. And if it's not that it's Lonesome Dove

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 10d

>:(

mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 10d

having a paranoid delusion about everybody posting in a way that is designed to annoy me specifically

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 13d

a tragedy!!!!!

mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 13d

nevertheless I bravely soldier on

mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 13d

crashing out at Kroger because the security alarm has been screeching for several minutes and Blue Diamond apparently doesn't make their sweet Thai chili flavored almonds anymore

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pretty bug @inyourculture.bsky.social · 15d

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 15d

Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming

You've heard of defensive driving — driving practices to help you stay safe on the road, like reducing your speed in bad weather or signaling before switching lanes. But what about defensive walking and cycling?

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 16d

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 16d

my sources are telling me that caleb hammer—the personal finance podcaster who berates and humiliates his guests before recirculating their stories to a bloodthirsty audience on tiktok for clout—is a huge jerk, and i am shocked, shOCKEd, i tell u

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 16d

this is really what it all boils down to, huh?

You have chosen to write a book about liberalism at a time when liberalism is under threat without really talking about what those threats are. It’s more of a positive case for liberalism. Why did you decide to write this particular book?
Partly it’s temperamental. Probably that’s the fundamental answer. To say that there are these people and they have names and they are doing and saying awful things would be, for me, unpleasant.

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 16d

ahhh what a beautiful compliment, thank you so much!

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 19d

got the high score on the centipede machine at the arcade :) then messed up entering my name :(

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 19d

aw hell yeah, love this movie. stoked to read this later

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 20d

hahaha yeah, RSS is THE main thing that people have reached out to me about, and rightly so!