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Jay

@synoisia.bsky.social

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He/him. Student of the strange, advertising professional, tech hobbyist.

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Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 13d

In Democracy you've got to be a player.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 11h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?

Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture

SteveIsDamaged @steveisdamages.bsky.social · 13h

Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.

It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.

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Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 16h

Me, drained and mentally checked out, about to hop on a sales call.

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Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 16h

The 2nd Amendment should allow us to own MANPADS.

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 17h

Went outside to touch grass and a loud black helicopter was circling over me, nose down.

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 17h

Normal day in the neighborhood...

Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 18h

This is such a generational thing. I can't remember the paper topic but for me it was a pot of coffee, 12 cans of Dr. Thunder, and half a pack of Winstons.

Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 20h

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Shayne Mathis @metalshayne.bsky.social · 20h

Stephen Miller and JD Vance definitly have Trump sitting in front of a computer watching AI videos all day and then wheeling him out in front of cameras to say “Antifa have Gundams now and they’re tearing up the beautiful city of Portland. I’ve seen the devastation myself!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Trina's Technobabble @trinastechnobabble.bsky.social · 20h

On the top of the picture there is a picture of a package of pretzels with the label in the middle that reads "Patriotic Red, White & Blue Pretzel Twists" and in the bottom half of the picture is an anime girl standing in front a trans flag saluting

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Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 20h

Do you have a job, sir?

Virgil the cat, a brown mackerel tabby sitting on the back of a chair in the sun.

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Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 21h

Folks I regret to inform you that I just don't wanna today.

I had a dream that I was running a "3d marathon" last night on some giant college campus that involved normal running but also a lot of stairs and I was unfamiliar with the course and went the wrong way several times and I'm tired.

Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 21h

Why wouldn't they?

Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 21h

This is what Terrance McKenna was talking about.

Pierre eM @pirmk.bsky.social · 23h

Le monde a besoin de plus de Portland Frog. @4nikkolas.bsky.social

Une peinture représentant Portland Frog face à une muraille de forces de "l'ordre"

Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 22h

I feel that.

Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 22h

You're the second person I've seen post this tactic and I think it's really really smart and I'm gonna grab a pack just to have on me with my regular 'what if something bad happens?" stuff.

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Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 22h

I am. Good luck. Dating is hard.

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Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 23h

Patrick Kindlon of Drug Church

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 4d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 1d

OK. Got you.

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heaven or los alamos & the hungry ghost @ghostlips.bsky.social · 1d

you bring your LLMs and i'll bring Oblique Strategies and we'll sort all this shit out

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Jay @synoisia.bsky.social · 1d

Every accusation is an admission.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson is himself a sexual predator and pedophile. The proud Christian Nationalist has every reason to obstruct the Epstein Files’ release.

Johnson has admitted to circumventing the adoption process and simply “taking custody” of a 14-year-old Black boy, when Johnson was a single law student.