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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 12h

Wayward son my carry on
Peace there'll be done you are when
Weary lay your rest to head
More you don't no cry

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, bringing about the destruction of western civilization by eating a food invented in (checks notes) Texas

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

Why it's almost as if people who want right-wing propaganda will just watch Fox News instead of a hollowed-out husk trying to be Fox News Lite. Great job, Paramount!

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

"I wasn't sure which number you wanted"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 1d

@washingtonpost.com May I suggest you change your masthead to "Democracy Dies In Groveling Sycophancy"?

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Kenza @kenzamaka.sheath.church · 27d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 4d

A summary of the current GOP plan on the shutdown:

1.) We are actually the stewards of healthcare (ignore your premiums, plez)

2.) If the democraps don't open government, we'll ruin our own voters lives.

3.) *vague heavy breathing sounds from Stephen Miller's office*

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 3d

They got in the plane and flew to the casino, of course

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 3d

I used to think my biological name was John, but I got a 23andme test and my DNA says I was born a Richard

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 4d

Also, my state has zero polling places, but we do have about 8 million mailboxes

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 4d

There are nearly 100,000 polling places in the US. He's gonna have to start recruiting

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 4d

Based on your choice of photo seems like the headline should be "Holy Shit Gas Is $1.13 Again"

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equaloppcynic.bsky.social @equaloppcynic.bsky.social · 4d

I love the tradition of living in a republic with a written constitution. But hey, I'm no Luddite, so let's give this newfangled "everyone bow to a insane dotard-emperor" system a shot and see if we like it.

What the hell is wrong with these media people?

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 4d

This isn't gonna make him give your funding back

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d

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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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 5d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 5d

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 5d

The media seems to be constitutionally incapable of dealing with politicians who are not acting in good faith

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve seen it all

Today somebody posted that kids these days don’t realize that in 1999 when The Matrix came out, it was no big deal and didn’t have a big impact at the time.

People will say anything. Charlie Brown had hoes. No he didn’t. That is not true.

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 5d

Bluesky: We're gonna be the alternative to Twitter!
People sick of Elon's bullshit: Hell yeah
Bluesky: No not like that

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Smapti @smaptimania.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, they openly talked after 9/11 about how they expected to have single-party rule for the next 40 years, so my money's on the latter

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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