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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 2h

Ahh thanks !!

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4h

go ahead and pedant me to death abotu "who we truly are" ( agree anyway) but i simply do not believe the american myth and self conception is "i relate best to the boot standing on the neck" - i still think we consider ourselves freedom loving individualists

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4h

i wonder if a sufficient number of viable democrats have it in them to effectively counter a narrative of "i am tanking the economy, firing everyone i can, and sending soldiers to push you around if i dont like the way you think, and also lee greenwood is the only music allowed"

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 2h

A big group of middle aged people with phds are getting together, now in this post poptimism enemy world where we will die, to discuss the political ramifications of gogurt

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 7h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 3h

Fascist tech made by fascists to discipline mankind, a dream of a bourgeoisie without a proletariat, and the only individual use cases for people is inducing psychosis

David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 3h

In July 2024, five months before he allegedly set the fire, Mr Rinderknecht asked ChatGPT to create an image of a "dystopian painting" that included a burning forest and a crowd of people running away from a fire. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pacific Palisades fire suspect snared by ChatGPT image, say investigators

Investigators say evidence collected from the 29-year-old's devices showed an AI image of a burning city.

www.bbc.com

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a cuyrated experience @solidarity.pizza · 3h

riyadh noise festival, for all those cancelled power electronics artists

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 5h

Phone just showed me a pic Sarah took of me smoking a cigarette by the window in a ryokan on enoshima

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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 20h

The second episode of 31 Murders To Midnight, the series when I review 31 horror movies (and some other stuff) for 31 minutes each in October 2025, is now live for subscribers to the patreon patreon.com/sfultra

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 5h

The combination of the brutal horrible subject matter and the image kinda floored me ffs, yeah

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 6h

Met some hos
Met some girls
Get a tour that took me all around the world
Get a tour that took me all around the worrrrrlllllddd

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 11h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 6h

I think this was recommended to me bc I was watching videos about the Tibetan steppe? Blehhh

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 6h

I think like 3 out of 5 people who put stuff on YouTube should be executed. Going by thumbnails alone I’m not clicking on this shit

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 6h

No other possible end state in an economic system that has always encouraged business models that relied on underpaying for labor. Paying at all is now a sucker's game.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 15h

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 16h

The one redeeming thing about tulipmania are the tulips.

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La Femme Makita @eworcharas.bsky.social · 17h

Silent Hill: 𝑓aildaughter

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Out of the Past @filmclassics.bsky.social · 17h

The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)
DoP: Harold Rosson

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 17h

Anyway my posts aren't funny anymore bc I'm usually mad about my brutal evil country all the time when I look at this app but reminder that I have an art account and post artwork there

Ａ．Ｄｅｇｅｎ　Ａｒｔ @adegenart.bsky.social · 19h

Working on it

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 17h

The only future is abolition. Of ice, of policing, and the things they exist to protect. And we will win. Because we have to. Because this death cult wants to murder suicide the world.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 17h

Okay I made it one minute thirty in and I’m saving this, for when I am most desperate, when I have strayed too far from the light and I need something to bring me back,

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 17h

We had endless footage of cops shooting/brutalizing unarmed and peaceful protestors, journalists, people of all races and ages for as long as I’ve been alive but we also had like 6 months of it happening tens of thousands of times daily in 2020 and an incoming opposition party tripled down on cops.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 17h

A lot of things could’ve been prevented from happening if every architect of the Iraq war was publicly executed in 2008, with frum being buried at Cheney’s feet like some pharaoh’s third favorite cat.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 18h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 17h

I love when that came out the press was like “based on the popular stand up routine Jerry Seinfeld does about poptarts”, which we all know and have been going wild for as long as I can remember

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