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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · Mar 28

If you value any thing over any person, I don't understand you.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 19h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

The only SecUnits in entertainment media were rogues, out to kill all humans because they forgot who built the repair cubicles, I guess.

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 2d

all atangle

a soundly sleeping fluffy white and gray tabby cat with her limbs all poking out every which way

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 3d

Libertarians fundamentally lack the foresight and accountability that would ever allow them to be better then a junior dev or pm.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 3d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 4d

Everything is easier if you *actually* say what you mean, **AND** mean what you say.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 4d

Good evening. "Jerry Chen" was a 27-month sociological experiment studying Poster's Madness conducted by Quinnipiac University. We are now complete with our study; thank you for your time.

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 4d

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Find friends with a moral code, not friends who are selfish in the same way.

Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 4d

the underlying lesson here is that if you don’t have friends you trust to tell you if you’re on some bullshit

and/or if they don’t trust you to listen if they tell you

you‘re gonna wreck yourself

if you select for groupthink all it’s gonna do is pour accelerant on your crash & burn

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 4d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 4d

You know you're fine when you you investigate a block list you're added to, and the creator of that list is on block lists in *multiple* languages (5+).

Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 4d

Maybe "Sunless Sea"?

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Loose Leaf Queer @genderqueerwolf.bsky.social · 4d

There's no such thing as an ethical tech CEO.
But if they tell you they can't be bullied into doing the right thing, they're lying.

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💛🤍🖤💜Enby of Eternities @seriema-sami.bsky.social · 5d

Screenshot of a tumblr post from "cyberpunkcatgirl": "gender is a construct and baby I get +1/+1 for each artifact I control"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 5d

"I got abused by my employer, here's how you can too!"

Fortune @fortune.com · 5d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 5d

It’s been a while, so here she is.

Extreme close up of a long haired calico cat’s face. (Orange, black, and white.) She looks both jaded and disappointed.

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 5d

Last year I tried to apply, and they said they had no interest in a community integrity engineer 🤷‍♀️

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Dougie @dougiethreelegs.bsky.social · 6d

Mumy ams sings me littol songs,, so ime not afrade of the Bigly Wimdy !!!!

Dougie, the black and white three-legged none tail cat, is fast asleep leaning against his Mummy's legs on the couch

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 6d

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Screenshot from X:

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
@SecWar
...
Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike, and no U.S. forces were harmed in the operation. The strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics - headed to America to poison our people.
Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics, the people onboard were narco-terrorists, and they were operating on a known narco- trafficking transit route. These strikes will continue until the attacks on the American people are over!!!!

Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 6d

Obviously I mean the image, not the quoted post itself.

Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 6d

Is it just me, or does this read like the NYT version of ELI5?

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 6d

These techbro douches are shit terrible at their jobs, & at being nerds. They misunderstand the media they claim to love, & they're terrible at building things— because they are, at base, incurious, & lazy. They should be snubbed every time they enter a room & anyone who fêtes them, viciously mocked

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

“‘We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure,’ the memo says.”

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems ...

www.yahoo.com

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 7d

If you politely mute when you aren't talking, it doesn't even matter if someone is scream meowing in the background of your zoom

an orange cat is on the floor on a towel with all his paws curled up. He isn’t screaming. But if he was, this wouldn’t affect you if you mute when you aren’t talking

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