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Tristan Palmgren

@tristanpalmgren.bsky.social

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Author of Marvel Prose Novels (Domino: Strays, Outlaw: Relentless, Siege of X-41), and Quietus and Terminus, science fiction novels set during the Black Death. Newest: Twilight Imperium: Voice of One, out now! Somehow on Bluesky now. They/them.

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 13m

Every scammer knows that fear makes you irrational and likelier to turn off your judgment.

Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 4h

This whole galaxy smacks of gender, I holler as I overturn my galactic empire and turn Life Day into the life of shit

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 4h

Fucking elitist ankle. Stupid gatekeeping lower back.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 18h

Be careful out there.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

This is AI.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 20h

Total War: Warhammer 3 is like all Warhammer, a game about toys doing terrible things to other toys.

Skeletons riding a gigantic ancient Egyptian-themed scorpion construct stomp on other skeletons.

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 1d

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 1d

developer: put it down. we don't need another one

concept artist: (clutching tighter) no. this is my emotional support sky whale

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WhimsickleSquirrel @whimsicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 23h

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

*chuckling nervously after every market crash close, wondering if this will be It*

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

(unsecured roof tent flying by my head) tactical gear is my passion

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

Today i ran into the other woman who fell & she is OK, still protesting too. Btw I guess cops think they’re gonna spend so much time on this roof, on a MUCH bigger building rumored to be new ICE facility possibly, that they bought a tent. It blew away halfway through the morning.

A tent on top of a building next to the ice facility in Broadview Illinois. There are cops in the foreground and next to the tent on the roof.

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

We're not even a third of the way through kinktober, for crying out loud!

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 1d

to be clear i would be much less stressed out if we actually existed in the world where LLMs were glorified markov chains/autocomplete and we understood exactly how they worked

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

The kids are calling it Nurgleposting.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

It’s just example # 486 of “reasonable nuanced critique of liberalism gets flattened to meaninglessness through a game of telephone”. Cogent critiques of aspects of respectability politics get turned into “it makes you a brave revolutionary to be the biggest asshole possible to everyone”

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

note that since mid-2010s you can always get a standing ovation in blue social media by denouncing the idea of civility or politeness more broadly. the experiment in how this has worked out keeps on yielding predictably unpleasant results

Ed @ed3d.net · 3d

I lack the words to describe what is wrong with these people.

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

My WMD slop doesn't perform well in real world conditions because it's been overfitted to pass all the popular mortality benchmarks.

Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

Vibe warfare. WMD slop. Mortality benchmaxxing.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d

“In September, scientists at Stanford reported they had used A.I. to design a virus for the first time.”

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

Considering wearing my Starfleet uniform so nobody takes me seriously

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25d

people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

Starting the tantrum by once again crashing the markets with tariffs, I see

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

Can't even virus grenade Orks anymore, because of woke

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Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

If the media speculation covered it like this, I would be thrilled, but the headlines I saw yesterday were treating it as a sporting event.

Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

It won't go horribly wrong, I promise. Students will *probably* all get their inoculations.

Tristan Palmgren @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social · 1d

Could you at least make the Paradox research time machine available for field trips?