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Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · 1d

opposite of no nut november is poundhogs day

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 5d

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

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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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 9d

lol it’s this guy

Tweet from 11/2/24 showing Harry Sisson and his 4 friends in a car that reads “we’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris”

Robert J O’Neill quotes it with

“You're not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.”

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 10d

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 12d

terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 14d

Vincenzo Latronico has won the inaugural @airmail.news Tom Wolfe Prize for Fiction. Congrats Vincenzo and the translator of his novel, Perfection, Sophie Hughes!

Vincenzo will be doing an event at McNally Jackson Seaport (4 Fulton St., NYC) with @tonytula.com on 10/16. Starts at 7pm.

The AIR MAIL Tom Wolfe Prizes for Fiction & Reportage, Presented by Montblanc

Two of the most promising young authors of 2025 will each get an honorarium of $10,000 and a celebratory dinner at the Waverly Inn.

airmail.news

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15d

Reminder that the federal government was once the largest employer of Black women in the country.

DOGE fired so many Black women that it massively spiked their unemployment rate.

The government shutdown was already here, just not equally distributed.

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Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · 23d

same exact game with 5 more types

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Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · 24d

going purely by hours played, yes

Giant Bomb @giantbomb.bsky.social · 24d

Is Monster Train 2 really the sleeper hit GOTY contender some claim? Mike is ready climb onboard! CHOO CHOOO MUTHA MONSTASSSSS www.twitch.tv/giantbomb

GiantBomb - Twitch

Monster Train 2 | M.E.G.A.M.A.N.

www.twitch.tv

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 29d

UN Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

We welcome this report and call for an immediate escalation in pressure on states to impose sanctions on Israel now. Join our #DisruptComplicity Global Weekend of Action, 18 - 21 September.

loom.ly/gnUoYQY

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Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · Sep 6

oh so we're not oasis fans anymore

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Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · Sep 6

🎵 all we know is that we don't
know how it's gonna be
please brother let it be,
life on the other hand
won't make you understand,

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Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · Sep 6

actually experiencing some inadequacy knowing I could never write bait this good

ideaspace.bsky.social @ideaspace.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you hate ai, congrats you now understand racists. The parallels are deep. "But AI isn't human; alive; doesn't have a soul" Yeah, that's what people have been saying about other races since the beginning of time.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · Aug 27

They don't feel shame, but they care deeply about status.

Wanting to be liked--or at least envied--is their Achilles heel. We can use that against them:it's cheap, non-violent & effective.

Social shunning of elites supporting Pinochet helped bring down the Chilean dictator: it can work here too.

The Independent @the-independent.com · Aug 27

Sean Hannity says he left New York City because he got too many mean looks from people at restaurants

Sean Hannity says he left NYC because of mean looks from people at restaurants

www.independent.co.uk

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Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · Aug 22

jackin it to AI porn call it clanking my cog

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Aug 18

once you've decided to make yourself ok with an atrocity, the main task is finding an excuse to not give a shit, and once you've decided to not give a shit, you don't really give a shit what the excuse is; once you've decided not to perceive atrocity, you also cannot perceive an atrocious excuse

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 18

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All
12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.
A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments.
By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova
08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

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Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · Aug 16

tony tulabubuthimutte

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Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · Aug 15

this reminds me of that horse Clever Hans who could count by stamping his hoof but he was really just looking for cues in his owner's posture when he hit the correct number

Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · Aug 15

Still remember one study where they had "AI" look at photos to diagnose cancer and it had like a 98% or 99% accuracy...

...except all the photos of actual tumors had a ruler next to them for scale. And the algorithm just got really good at spotting rulers in a photograph.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Aug 15

Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

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Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · Aug 14

complicating it

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Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com · Aug 14

in the same New Yorker crossword as lolcats and Paris Review lmao

yash-o-lantern @yashwinacanter.bsky.social · Aug 13

what is @tonytula.com doing in my crossword

Aug 11 New Yorker crossword - 55 across is “author of Rejection (2024)” and the answer is my friend tony tulathimutte!

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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · Aug 13

oh weird it was just a ruse to illegally access and steal people's information for ice and god knows fucking what other disgraces

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 13

“.. DOGE increasingly looks like a giant joke as the initiative winds up saving essentially zero dollars for US taxpayers .”

- Vital Knowledge

@politico.com 🇺🇸
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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