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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 2d

Such an interesting marketing failure. Photogs can easily create a payment structure that involves a slightly higher base price for photos, then propose to pay the subject for the right to share on social media. Ppl priced out can consider saving money by opting in. Shows respect for your customers.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

TIL that photographers charge you more if you request that your photos aren’t used on their social media. Maybe I knew that? Or maybe it’s generally been included? Either way the price of 1980s privacy has definitely gone up

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 2d

If you are in Philadelphia, community legal services may be able to answer this question. clsphila.org/services/ssi...

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 2d

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 3d

RFK Jr: We're doing MAHA by reversing every American circumcision one at a time

Reporter: Wait -

RFK Jr: [gesturing at his van] I have two coolers full of foreskins in there

Reporter: How - wait -

RFK Jr: Scientists won't tell you this but you can just rehydrate them using nonpolar water

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 4d

So many excellent arguments. A favorite: "The implications of these realities beckon us not to picture our own thoughts in the mind of a mushroom, but to open our imagination to how other species might perceive the world in ways we cannot conceive."

Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 4d

Often in science, the benchmark for sentience is set exceptionally high, moving the goalposts to standards we don’t expect as evidence of other sensory systems. www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-all...

Why All Animals Are Sentient, and Machines Will Never Be

Even the smallest sea slug feels pain. That means we have a responsibility not to inflict it.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 8d

🎶Turn the AI off TURN THE AI OFF🎶

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 7d

It’s National Poetry Day.

The greatest poem in the English language.

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Katie Brennan @katiebrennan.bsky.social · 8d

Take it from me: You do NOT negotiate with abusers.

So if Trump wants to illegally take New Jersey’s funding, we have to fight back with everything we’ve got.

My idea? Eminent domain Trump’s golf course for affordable housing.

My debut in @nydailynews:
www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/04/t...

Trump took Gateway money, we must take his golf club

Take it from someone who’s spent years as a survivor advocate, working with people hurt by those in power: You do not negotiate with abusers.

www.nydailynews.com

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 9d

If someone says they're afraid, perhaps they are processing shame into something malignant, something more cruel and petty than you can ever imagine. Maybe they want blood to distract themselves from their own reflection.

tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 9d

It may seem obvious but how people process shame is vital to understanding them. I think our social discourse has involved taking people at their word. The credulity of modern society is damaging. Maybe you can lay the blame on news outlets for modeling this behavior but don't adopt it.

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 9d

Now the only way you can look yourself in the mirror is if you convince yourself that you are a victim. You are not just "afraid" of the other you wanted to harm with the law you were advocating, you are "afraid" of your neighbors who spoke out against it. Your fear is fake. You deserve disdain.

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 9d

Then of course the majority of people around them simply said "we don't want this" and now they're "afraid to speak out." No, hun, you are not afraid. The feeling you are experiencing is shame. You feel ashamed because everyone told you what you wanted was cruel, immoral, wrong.

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 9d

Specifically, they wanted a law that made them feel like their town was conforming to the ideological crusade that is fed to them by their echo chambers. Perhaps it convinced them that "the other" was a threat. Perhaps their fear was real in some sense, despite it being drummed up out of thin air.

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 9d

"I'm terrified for my children," and that is why we must pass a law that harms trans people, poor people, immigrants, etc. Then when they receive push back from the community it goes from "I'm scared of the other" to "I'm scared to speak out." They wanted a Republican law in a liberal town.

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 9d

Been kicking around some thoughts about shame. Not very well-read on psychoanalytic thinkers and possessing very little respect for the discipline, I can't say if this idea appears there or elsewhere. I sometimes see average people acting politically, claiming they are "afraid."

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 10d

inbox, from Democratic Assembly nominee Katie Brennan (LD-32, Jersey City/Hoboken): Brennan Calls for New Jersey to Withhold Federal Taxes, Seize Trump’s Bedminster Golf Course After Gateway Tunnel Funding Freeze

"This is not how the government is supposed to work. We pay federal taxes but get a President who sees us as the enemy and takes away our own money as retaliation.
This has to stop.
"Donald Trump has shown again and again that he is unfit to lead this country. When he's not too busy golfing, he's doing active harm, whether it's sending masked troops into cities or shutting down vital infrastructure projects like this.
"These funds were already approved. And if people can't cross the Hudson to get to work, it will literally destroy our economy.
"We have to show Trump that this isn't okay.
"Yes, New Jersey should sue the Trump administration, but we have to do more. We should be withholding federal taxes, dollar for dollar, to backfill funding that's illegally cut.
The state should also eminent domain
Trump's golf course in Bedminster and build some affordable housing there instead. If the federal government won't stand up for New Jersey, Trenton should."

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 11d

I do not love this for you. Doubt being a reply guy from all the way in NJ helps but here I am. Virtual hug.

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 12d

Courage is not a finite resource. It is a muscle you use or it will atrophy.

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 14d

Simply lie.

tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 16d

I came here to make the "I hate lamp" "do you really hate lamp, or are you just looking at a lamp?" Joke but you beat me to the punch

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 18d

OMG

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 18d

Yes the workers themselves. Even union electricians who are very aware of how Trump is fucking them over. They don't care. They are in the cult. It's a function of how powerful the MAGA identity has become.

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tempus fuck it @tempusfuckit.bsky.social · 18d

I don't know what to do about this but I think it's a reality we need to look closely at. We have an even bigger problem with the make up of law enforcement, but with that I feel there is no solution. You can't have leftwing cops. Antithetical. But maybe we can take back the trades.