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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 1h

Honestly a couple of these I WAS going to move over to an email account that's not Gmail (I'm weaning off that service for more reasons than I care to detail) but giving me homework makes me say nope, fuck off.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 1h

Why does my decluttering need to be your metrics collection activity?

I just want to unsubscribe from this email list that I may or may not have intentionally signed up for. Why do I now owe you a survey answer?

Fuck you. Pay me.

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

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,
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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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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 1d

I have questions about how they went about this poll because I feel like everyone I know is in the 3% range on both phones and a computer most of the time.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 3d

Would you prefer I went with an owlbear?

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody:

Me: If you cook and serve a chimera, isn't that just a fantasy turducken?

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 3d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 4d

To be fair, I just saw this very deep cut and I’m here for it

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t hate that idea

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 4d

Sign me up immediately!

Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 4d

I’m in this meme and I don’t like it

Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 4d

me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis

my brain: not u though

me: not me though

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 4d

help.

Sisyphus carrying a giant stone uphill with text that says "folding the laundry"

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 4d

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 4d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 4d

All of this sounds amazing and while I didn’t have that, I did learn there’s a restaurant in Poland called Obi Wan Pierogi.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 5d

I’m 90% sure I saw you all walk by but the tent was chaos at that point and I didn’t register until it was too late to yell out.

Hope you had fun.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 5d

a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and are above him

Alt: Fry from Futurama shoving a bunch of bills out shouting “Shut up and take my money!”

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 5d

Seriously though there were 57 pies submitted, judged, and sold by the slice for charity.

Way to go ALX

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 5d

Same as snowmobile but not ParkMobile.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 5d

Made it to Art on the Avenue but only for a short time at the end because we were helping with the pie tent (mostly my wife but it became a family affair at 3).

Saw some good stuff though and always happy to visit.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 6d

It bears repeatin'

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

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Alexandria Library @alexlibraryva.bsky.social · 8d

Hello world! This is the official Bluesky account of the Alexandria Library in Virginia.

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Eric Schiller @triplee.bsky.social · 9d

I can hear this GIF.

Goodbye.

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 9d

Today was the last day AOl Dial Up functioned

Rest well king

a screenshot of the america online website with a connected message

ALT: a screenshot of the america online website with a connected message

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 9d

Republicans control the White House, Senate, and the House. This government shutdown is failed Republican leadership on full display.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 9d

If you think this is US-only, it's not.

If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't.

If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is.

If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can.

If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.

michael veale @michae.lv · 9d

Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

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