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Me? Imagine Fred Snyder covering *Mad World*--- he/him I support LGBTQIA 🏳️‍🌈

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Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · Nov 12

Anyone else low key scared to delete their social media accounts for fear that they might be an AI reconstruction of some of Earth's last known records, and the end of the record means the end of the program?

Just me?

Cool...cool

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Andy Kindler @andykindler.bsky.social · 21h

People continue being fascist.

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Andy Kindler @andykindler.bsky.social · Aug 12

I will stop calling people fascists when they stop being fascist.

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msh'skeeta 🦇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · 1h

Call her out by her government name and stop with the cutesy nicknames.

Y'all ain't learned.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

trib.al

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Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 59m

On the flip side one night I was lying awake thinking about this and I considered if mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell then a powerful being would be flooded with them no?
Is this actually brilliant?

Naaaaa

Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 1h

I never did and it's where Star Wars began to die for me...

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Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear I mean Maga.
That series has been out.
And if all this cancel Netflix shit is because of that or stuff like it...

Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 1d

Ummmm... that's what this is all about?

Reaction time isn't their... umm thing is it?

a man wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket is sitting in the driver 's seat of a car .

Alt: Malcom laughing

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Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 1d

We're fast approaching the time when we become social media hermits only to have a knock on our door some year or so later..

👨‍💼"we notice you abruptly left all online services in March of 2026, why is that?"
theworld.org/stories/2017...

North Korea punishes insincere mourners - The World from PRX

South Korean paper reports North Korea is punishing mourners who did not shed genuine tears.

theworld.org

Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 1d

Muddy the waters til no one knows what's real or not and you don't have to manufacture bespoke lies.

For many of us we're there already.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

...but if you go check the video on TikTok (search the username visible on the screen and scroll through until you find the video) it also has an annotation that explains it's AI.

Screenshot that reads "contains AI-generated media"

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Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 1d

Film scores major points for offing Ryan Reynolds.

Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 1d

Stop trying to revive "The Black-Eyed Peas."

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brainfrog👩‍🦼🫁 @brainfrog.bsky.social · 3d

Pre-op done. Bc of my chronic respiratory failure, I'll likely remain intubated in the ICU for a bit after surgery. Also pretty high risk for rebound pulmonary emboli & hemorrhage. But! I need the surgery🤷‍♀️

At $4149/$6K with $1851 remaining. Surgery is Oct. 23rd. Any continued help is appreciated!

brainfrog👩‍🦼🫁 @brainfrog.bsky.social · Aug 28

Apologies, somehow the original was deleted. I'm undergoing my 3rd urgent, non-elective revision spinal fusion this Oct to replace & extend my hardware. I'd appreciate any help in achieving this goal to ensure I have the resources necessary to recover safely & fully.
www.gofundme.com/f/leeanns-3r...

Donate to Lee-Ann's 3rd Spine Surgery Survival Fund, organized by Lee-Ann SB

Hey folks, my name is Lee-Ann. I'm a thirtysomething living in Ontario, Canada… Lee-Ann SB needs your support for Lee-Ann's 3rd Spine Surgery Survival Fund

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Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 4d

Waterworld was ok...

But I remember leaving the theater feeling like I'd seen more thought provoking Saturday morning cartoons.

Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 5d

I just watched 2011 again last night... to give it another chance.

Just so many terrible decisions...

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 5d

I was exposed to George Floyd's murder played over and over on social media AND network TV.

that made the brutality plain and many folks—including liberals—*increased* their support of police.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 6d

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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Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 6d

So I'm 47 now... that happened today.

The people at work thought I was 30 something...lol

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Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 7d

Let's work on bigotry against people first.

I do not think for one second people will learn to treat each other better from robots. This way only introduces MORE windows to bigotry towards humans. People enacting fantasies with machines will be more likely to repeat them with humans.

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 11d

i’m completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron

Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 7d

Kate McKinnon was interviewed on "Hot Ones" and when she spoke of Lorne (a wonderful person that surrounds himself with the most intelligent people) it sounded tone-less, hollow, scripted even. And she is such an amazing performer it felt like a deliberate choice.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 7d

Again, as I and many people have noted, the pro-"AI" fucklechucks are happy to grant personhood to a chatbot while denying personhood to trans folks and Black folks and Indigenous folks (not to mention Black trans folks etc.).

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Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 7d

We do not have true AI

They have tried to tease out how we think working backwards from language.

Thinking is not words. There are huge gaps building AI this way.

They have built camouflage that gets mad if you tell it that it is not a tree.

Anyone furthering a "eugenics" argument must be corpo

Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 8d

Waiting for the nerds to come in and say they did migrate here because of the protocol. Because they believed in the ability to create new heads for the Hydra. As if one head is sick and the others won't feel it.

Stephen @tossingwaffles.bsky.social · 8d

Protest has never worked.

Nope....

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 9d

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

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Celia 🔜 Climax of Night @celialicious.bsky.social · 9d

Jay, you are running a social media service. You are running a community, not a protocol. You are accountable to the people who use your service.

The reason this site has a userbase at all isn't because we believe in the protocol, it's because X has no moderation, and we want moderation.

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