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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 10h

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 15h

there’s something so beautifully American about our democracy’s last line of defense being coronary artery disease

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 13h

Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a guy throwing a printer at a horse

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman eight months pregnant—she is an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School—and she is saying 'eff Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta."

gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-compl...

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Not that jay @notthatjay.myatproto.social · 16h

The words "Someone showed me a TikTok" should never be said in a cabinet meeting.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Never reveal links to any Jeffrey or Jefferies www.ft.com/content/8d47...

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 2d

I can't stop thinking about this. We're pursuing zero fire risk in multifam, while tolerating much more in single-fam. People respond by building and living in single-fam, where they're exposed to not only one of the highest fire death risks in the developed world, but also TONS more car crash risk

Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 2d

Love this new report on buildings' relative fire safety from @alexhrwtz.bsky.social and Pew colleagues.

www.pew.org/en/research-...

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 2d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

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A few yards away from Schiffman, Finn Cervino of Queens was defacing a poster with a Sharpie. He included a web address for a website predicting the future of AI and wrote “This is not science fiction. This is reality.”

“We’re living in a world where you got friends that are computers — that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Cervino said. “They’re destroying the world for the dumbest invention I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Folks, it's happening.

We're releasing Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile this Thursday at 7 p.m.

Mark your calendars. Get excited to know even less about Jeffrey Epstein.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2d

it takes a windmill 27.7 hours to generate one transgender athlete

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 2d

I'm the guy who steps on the back of your shoe on purpose. You convinced yourself that i don't exist. "It was probably just an accident." It's not. I do it on purpose

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 2d

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 2d

Another Burbank (IL) McMansion with every style of roof imaginable

Huge McMansion of brick and stone with at least six gable roofs, a couple of hipped roofs, a jerkinhead, and who knows what else. It's ridiculous.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 3d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 3d

Tron gives an inaccurate impression of how many guys live in your computer. It makes it seem like thousands of guys are in there. In reality only about 10 guys live in your computer and less than half of them ride motorcycles

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Logging On @logonlog.bsky.social · 3d

logging on

Mark Corrigan from Peep Show. He's thinking "Am I evil? I don't feel evil."

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 3d

AGAIN, the word "Shota" will be trending because he is a famous baseball pitcher playing today, DO NOT CLICK ON THE "SHOTA" TRENDING TOPIC ON TWITTER OR THE OTHER TWITTER CLONES, IT TURNS OUT IT ALSO MEANS SOMETHING ELSE THANK YOU

Chicago Cubs @cubs00.bsky.social · 4d

Cubs has announced that shota imanag is the game 2 starter

#ChicagoCubs #CubsNation #FlyTheW

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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 3d

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago:

Houston
Dallas
Lubbock
Amarillo
San Antonio
Corpus Christi

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

Choose your fighter:

WaPo: Why America should legalize horse slaughter

The Onion: I Have a Dream: To Eat a Kentucky Derby-Winning Horse

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 4d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Spock's Brian @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 4d

Actually mom the Nintendo switch is a sentient being and you telling me to turn it off is eugenics

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