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stevemullis.net
Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
r/Minneapolis If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, that's it for me. I've spent the last week checking on my neighbors, engaging with my city, my local police, everyone. I've supported my friends and family, made sure they knew they weren't alone in their feelings of hopelessness, powerlessness. I've called and emailed my representatives, demanding answers, demanding action. I've just been overcome with this overwhelming, almost primal need to care for and support my community. If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, and soldiers take to our streets, then that tears it for me. My son just turned 1yr. I've done my best to be a helper, so that I can still be around to support him and spend time with him. But if I have to STAND OUTSIDE in the FREEZING COLD and get the SHIT KICKED OUT OF ME by the people who are supposed to be protecting me, if I have to do that to fight for goodness, and righteousness, and justice, then that's what I'm gonna fucking do. I'm going to do it because this is not the future I want for my son. If you've been out on the streets, and you're tired, and you're hurting, don't worry. Rest when you need to. Because I know my home and I know my neighbors. When you need to rest, two more will replace you. I will be one of them. This is my home. Minneapolis is not going to quit. Minnesota is not going to quit. And FUCK EVERYONE who tries to come in here and take from us the PRIDE, LOVE, and COMMUNITY we've built. As long as I can stand, I'm going to plant my two feet between the oppressors and the home I love. I love you all. L'etoile du Nord.
January 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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fourfiveandseven.bsky.social
gotta be some use for this at some point
ms rachel and mayor mamdani pantomiming crying
January 9, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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parismarx.com
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
July 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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joegross.bsky.social
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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johnxuandou.bsky.social
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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philmandelbaum.bsky.social
AI and Race Science: How plans for “racial hierarchy”, “genetic optimisation” and “population culling” are circulating inside the billionaire Epstein and Big Tech networks
How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
bylinetimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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barrydeutsch.bsky.social
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen. Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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blackwallmancer.bsky.social
Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.
October 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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numb.comfortab.ly
Murderbot is my aspiration bsky.app/profile/numb...
numb.comfortab.ly Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Oct 20
Some of the Murderbot quotes
All I wanted to do was watch media and not exist I am usually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are. I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break. I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones.
April 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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danrebellato.bsky.social
Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”
December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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dtmooreeditor.bsky.social
As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.

Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!

[BIG ASS THREAD]
a man reading a book to a young boy
Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy
media.tenor.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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alexpagliuca.bsky.social
Hey folks... I just thought of something and had to pause The Black Phone 2. If you read any pieces about Sinners this year that you felt were particularly good, I'd love a heads up (especially by writers of color). I'd like to put a list of them in my end of year piece. Back to my movie. Thanks!
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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artinsociety.bsky.social
19th century wooden “walking” doll with a wheel of eight legs ~ when costumed, the doll’s long dress would cover most of the leg mechanism, allowing the doll to “walk” when moving, while appearing to have only two legs at any one time www.theriaults.com/events/listi...
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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thomasfuchs.at
You will be visited by three spirits
The three pirate leaders in The Secret of Monkey Island
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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eblong.com
Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!

…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)

Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.

blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
Zork is now open source
Two years ago, I wrote: Microsoft-the-company does not care about Infocom. But a lot of people in Microsoft must care. Microsoft is heavily populated by greying GenX nerds just like me. Folks who grew...
blog.zarfhome.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Duck — Tlatilco workshop, ca. 1000 BCE
In shiny polished black clay figurine of a duck
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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numb.comfortab.ly
This is the ideal travel attire. You may not like it, but this is what peak passenger looks like.
Roger Stone in a top hat looking like Babadook.
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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larsthedude.bsky.social
Today contribution to r/redditgetsdrawn: grumpy(?) Chinchilla #art #sketches #doodles #reddit #cute
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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brutumfulmen.bsky.social
BEHOLD
A person holding a perfectly black chinchilla, labeled “behold”
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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tom.medsky.social
Bunny status report:

He still chomk
Asian male middle aged holding a very fluffy and fat brown lop eared bunny. The male is wearing plaid flannel and his left forearm is slightly exposed.
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
An illustration of the swedish chef but borgified, like the Star Trek borg; one half of his face is a robot as is one hand, which ends in whisks. SMORGAS'BORG RESISTANCE IS HERDY FLERPTY FLOOPIN
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
This is the only Bill Ackman I recognize
Bill the cat from Bloom County says “ack”
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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adampknave.com
How have I never heard of a fun horror movie that stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing AND Vincent Price? How did that escape my radar? I blame @virginiabarksdale.bsky.social personally, I think.
the poster to House of Long Shadows, an old comedy horror film
October 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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wigglebox.bsky.social
Suptober - Day 26 | Witchcraft
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#suptober26 #spnfanart #spnfandom #supernatural
An image depicting Rowena from Supernatural. She’s dressed in a plain white dress and levitating on a stand where public hangings would happen. There’s even a trap door beneath her. Her dress is floating around her as her brows are furrowed but she’s smiling with satisfaction. Purple lightning magic emits from her left hand as she extends it, directing a rope clearly meant to hang her to wrap itself around the neck of a 17th century man instead. He has a hat a beard and a cape that’s billowing around him as he staggers back in shock. On the hanging post are various sigils (made up ones that have no personal meaning but made up for the artwork)
October 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM