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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 11d

Bubble Bobble and Puzzle Bobble are different games both starring Bub and Bob. Bust-A-Move is the western name for Puzzle Bobble, but is not to be confused with Bust-A-Groove, which is the western name for Bust-A-Move: Dance & Rhythm Action, which was changed in the west for legal reason.

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austin @ustin.bsky.social · 8d

for some reason in my dream last night i had to come up with food-related puns for LoTR characters. got through FroYo Baggins, Sandwich Gamgee, and Slider (Strider), but got stumped on Gollum/Smeagol

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Christ Cooper is God’s Favorite @christcooper.bsky.social · 13d

i think this gets covered in “poverty for profit” by anne kim about the cyclical nature of walmart and snap benefits and how much money they make off poor people if anyone wants to get more mad about it lol

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13d

They pay less taxes for employing people with SNAP.

They pay those people so little they have to stay on SNAP.

And then because they've destroyed local grocery stores, they are the biggest beneficiaries of SNAP dollars.

Nice racket, IMHO.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13d

This should be seen as what it is: a huge step towards ending free and fair elections.

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 13d

Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey

WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...

www.justice.gov

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austin @ustin.bsky.social · 14d

isn't this why God made business schools

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14d

you can’t really call this anything other than cowardice

All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 14d

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social asks Rep. Hakeem Jeffries who he plans to vote for in the NYC mayoral election.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17d

About 100 Palestinians killed since ceasefire entered into effect on October 10, according to Gaza officials.

Israel continues deadly Gaza truce breaches as US seeks to strengthen deal

About 100 Palestinians killed since ceasefire entered into effect on October 10, according to Gaza officials.

bit.ly

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austin @ustin.bsky.social · 17d

voting for Trump in 2024(!) and now(?) regretting it is too funny. how do these people manage to find their way out of their own house in the morning

Tony Serrata 🇺🇦 @serrata.org · 17d

@walshfreedom.bsky.social I thought you'd want to see this. People are waking up. I hope it's more numerous than that. But it looks like we're seeing people starting to wake up.

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austin @ustin.bsky.social · 17d

Fantasy novel: "they were nigh on ten leagues from Mount Gerblin"

Me (no idea what a league is): damn. That's far

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 21d

Trial shows that ICE agents lied, concealed evidence in an illegal effort to convict the "libtard" who filmed them.

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austin @ustin.bsky.social · 22d

This headline is how I learn it's pronounced Newsie not Nuzzy

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 27d

Ms. Rachel coming for Obama 👏

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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austin @ustin.bsky.social · 28d

It's simply good hygiene

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austin @ustin.bsky.social · 29d

This drove me crazy for literally a year-plus until I figured it out

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austin @ustin.bsky.social · 29d

@davidjroth.bsky.social I know exactly what Blake Snell looks like: youtu.be/wTqsV3q7rRU?...

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · Oct 7

ICE: The Kicker

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · Oct 7

don’t want that hilarious game-winning drive to overshadow that harrison butker booting the ball out of bounds set the whole thing up

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austin @ustin.bsky.social · Oct 3

I believe 100% they would have won if the ticket were flipped

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austin @ustin.bsky.social · Sep 28

"I thought about me" is what this all comes down to. These guys thought they were immune from this country

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Sep 28

This isn’t a description of a “memetic cycle,” Ezra, it’s a list of right-wing and nihilistic terror.

I'll go one step further on this.
One thing I wrote about in that piece that I do worry about is — I worry we are already in a cycle of political violence, of mimetic violence. I think about Pelosi. I think about Shapiro. I think about the near assassination of Trump.
After that happened, I thought about me, I thought about you. I thought about all kinds

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onion person @junlper.beer · Sep 28

yeah i think he fell for ai lol

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austin @ustin.bsky.social · Sep 27

I'm so sorry. ♥️

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · Sep 20

I love being incredibly tired and that’s why I do it every day

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austin @ustin.bsky.social · Sep 17

you and they are not talking about the same type of "protest"

Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · Sep 16

The “don’t sign up for protests” thing is just an outgrowth of the Online tendency to one-up other people on how much you care. Oh, they’re protesting and signing people up for it? I’ll show them by claiming that’s wrong and you can care more by not signing up.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Sep 17

if you have infinite monkeys typing on infinite typewriters one of them will eventually produce the entire works of shakespeare. but you don't have that kind of start up capital. start with 10 monkeys writing steven king's Christine. soon you'll be turning a profit and can start scaling your monkeys

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Sep 16

pondering it I think this almost has to be true. for an LLM the really valuable text is going to be textbooks, technical literature, abstract philosophy, sophisticated nonfiction, ie stuff that doesn't sell a million copies

post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · Sep 15

not my wheelhouse but I think it's actually the other way around- the more unique a book's informational content is the more valuable it is to the corpus, and less-popular books are going to be less duplicated, c.p.

Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · Sep 15

ANYWAY, Anthropic did indeed scrape my book.

My book also did not really sell!

And I don't buy this argument.

I think that OpEd is not taking seriously what companies like Anthropic are doing with our words, our creativity, our expertise.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · Sep 16

i'm tired of people telling me that the houston texans aren't real. obviously they are not real in the literal sense. i don't think anyone is saying they are. but they impart lessons that have a lot of truth to them. god never intended them to be taken at face value

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