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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 20h

Treehouse Brewing 🏌️‍♂️⛳️🍻
📍Tewksbury, Massachusetts #Bskybeer

The spacious interior hall of Treehouse Brewing’s Tewksbury location.

Four glasses of beer in front of a window overlooking a golf course.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

doomscroll break

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sign up for our humor newsletter to get Daily Cartoons delivered to your inbox: nyer.cm/0EivDaD

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 3d

A very useful 🧵

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 3d

I’m tempted to dunk, but ok, let’s engage seriously.

Putting Japanese-Americans in concentration camps was a fascist activity.

(And I think that if you were Japanese-American at the time, you were experiencing the US as a fascist country.)

Does that mean the US was fascist?

Wrong question.

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 4d

So I guess the US was also a fascist country when FDR was putting Japanese Americans in internment camps, right?

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Clever Mia @readvesna.com · 4d

greta ily what an outfit

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 4d

I miss Reno’s old USL Championship team. The league sure has changed a lot since then.

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 4d

Me, checking the score of the Nevada game from a distance:

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 4d

No warrants, no probable cause, detaining citizens. Zip tying children, using flash bangs, repelling through people’s windows and destroying their homes at night.

This Administration is lawless and abhorrent to our Constitution.

We are the frogs in the boiling pot.

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 4d

This is a level of pettiness I hope to reach one day.

Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5d

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d

Beyond the fact that legal immigrants and tourists can attend the Super Bowl, I find it absolutely hilarious that they're gonna have ICE harassing a bunch of rich people. Tickets are almost $10k.

Please own the libs harder.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 5d

Elon Musk’s Twitter feed is the farthest-right, most hateful and disinformation-forward social media feed I’ve seen of any person who doesn’t openly identify as a member of a hate group. It’s toxic at a level that in any other era would have led to *anyone* in business ceasing all dealings with him.

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 5d

Abolishing ICE is the moderate position.

Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 5d

As @byleahjohnson.bsky.social has pointed out, book bans aren’t really about the books themselves. They’re about removing whole groups of people from public life, and telling those same people that their lives, their stories and their perspectives don’t matter. #bannedbooksweek #booksky

Black Student Says Having More Diverse Books Would've Made Her Feel 'More Comfortable' in Predominately White School

The new documentary 'The Librarians' exposes coordinated movements to fuel book bans, the criminalization of librarians and just how it affects youths nationwide.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5d

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6d

honestly it was pretty funny when the right was pretending that charlie kirk was a revolutionary civil rights leader when his whole deal was barely winning arguments with children

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Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 6d

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10.

Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.

AI is product poison.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6d

This regime can’t stand to be laughed at. They can’t stand to be the butt of a joke because the moment we’re able to laugh at them, their fragile ego begins to crumble.

@nowthisimpact.bsky.social

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 6d

If they lay so much as a pinky finger on Powell’s Books, then so help me… 😤👊

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 6d

Someday, we're gonna find out that the decisionmaking went like this:

Mamdani proposes city-run grocery stores. Conservatives say it'll never work. Mamdani supporters point out that DOD runs a bunch of grocery stores. Hegseth decides to close them to own the libs.

Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 6d

I know these guys are all dumber than a sack of hammers, but it is fascinating to see the military decide “logistics are gay” in real time

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 7d

“Too”…? 🤔

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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