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Pot Smoke Phoenix @potsmokephoenix.bsky.social · 17h

Everything is unnecessarily stupid and it‘s picking up speed and getting stupider like a Katamari Dumbassy and it would be funny if it were happening to someone else

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 19h

Not even joking anymore. Trump is slashing IRS employees. Just stop fucking paying Federal taxes. Fill out a new W-4 with your employer saying you want no taxes withheld from your pay. Since they're not going to use your money to help you, use YOUR money to help you.

shopgirl2694.bsky.social @shopgirl2694.bsky.social · 20h

We should all stop paying taxes

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vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 19h

I mean, yeah. That's always been the plan.

vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 19h

Not that any of them ACTUALLY GIVE A FUCK about us people down here on the ground or anything...

vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 19h

Hey @kamalaharris.com @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov it would be cool if y'all ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING about this. Speaking out against it is meaningless. DO SOMETHING.

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21h

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21h

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 22h

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

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vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 20h

Just in case you thought your cult leader wouldn't get the vaccines that RFK is saying are dangerous...

Trump receives COVID vaccine and flu shot during visit to doctor

President Donald Trump receives COVID vaccine and flu shot at Walter Reed Medical Center. His physician notes excellent overall health.

www.wishtv.com

vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 21h

@supergreatfriend.bsky.social is the best Lets Player ever and it's time for his annual 24hr stream of a terrible game.

Sane Retry 🍉 セイン・リトライ @saneretry.bsky.social · 6d

This Saturday is @supergreatfriend.bsky.social 's yearly Penance Stream! This year, it will be Condemned 2: Bloodshot, at 7pm Eastern Time, October 11th. Hope to see you there!
www.twitch.tv/supergreatfr...

A 3D render depicts a man with a red tv for a head and a green monochrome face made of dots on the screen crawling on his hands and knees in a desert. He wears dark pants and a light collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up. This is Supergreatfriend. His right arm arcs over his head like a swimmer doing a freestyle stroke. His left arm is bent under him and his left hand holds an XBOX controller. In front of him is a monitor with Ethan Thomas, the main character of Condemned 2: Bloodshot, on it. Ethan looks pale and his dark hair hangs down in his face. He looks like an edgy, angry man. There is a subtitle below him that reads, "Alt-rock playing in background." Behind the monitor on a sand dune stands Superman, specifically his low-poly model from Superman 64. He holds a pitcher of water with ice cubes in it and condensation on the outside of the glass. Behind Superman near his feet are human bones jutting out from the sand. Supergreatfriend has a speech bubble which reads, "Superman... Stop this crazy test! Let me have that water or I'll die!" Superman has a speech bubble responding that reads, "Sorry, Supergreatfriend! You've got to beat the Dark, Edgy Sequel to your favorite game NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT HURTS!" In the bottom right corner is a curled piece of paper sticking out of the sand. It is a poster advertising the Penance Stream. It reads: "Supergreatfriend Presents The Penance Stream 2025. Condemned 2: Bloodshot. All Night Long. (Or at least until credits roll.) Saturday October 11th, 7:00 PM Eastern Time) In the bottom right corner, very small, is my artist's signature. It reads Sane Retry 2025, written in katakana.

vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 21h

The "Kamala would have kept supporting the genocide in Gaza so I'm voting for Trump" crowd literally needs to be put to death.

Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 21h

The far-left "Kamala would be have been no better than Trump" crowd really needs to fuck off forever.

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 21h

Guarantee the "mainstream media" won't say fucking shit about this. And me reposting this won't fucking matter either.
THIS IS THE "LAND OF THE FREE"

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 22h

Overheard at the bar, and I'm stealing it:
"What in the Great Value is that?"

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Youngman @youngman.bsky.social · 1d

Presidential aide Stephen Miller, 40, has died of autoerotic asphyxiation after his wife Katie failed to honk the big air horn and cut the noose off immediately after he climaxed.

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vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 1d

Their accusations are ALWAYS confessions.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 1d

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Bride of Funkenstein @malicew.bsky.social · 10d

vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking hell, THIS is what we need from the Democratic Party.
Primary every Democrat from the left that won't stand up for trans rights.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 1d

Fight AI slop by watching videos made by actual humans, like this one!

How the Golden Gate Bridge Works

YouTube video by Animagraffs

www.youtube.com

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🦌 @olmewe.com · 1d

lots of ppl talking about the windows 10 support cycle ending and thus being a good time to switch to linux. i do wanna say that if you don't wanna jump ship, the IoT Enterprise LTSC version of windows 10 will be supported until 2032, and you can grab an official iso of it at massgrave.dev

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vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 1d

Be a wild and an untamed thing

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" turns 50: "Don't dream it, be it"

YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning

www.youtube.com

vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 1d

Go read the 🧵

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 2d

LLMs and machine learning can be useful tools, but not in the way people trust AI now. I cannot stress enough how much they just make shit up that sounds correct. (This is why "vibe coding" is bad.)

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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vortmax @vortmax81.bsky.social · 2d

Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon?

Great food, but no atmosphere.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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