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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 15h

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 9h

Lenny from the simpsons putting up a sign that says 0 days without an impeachable offense

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 12h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Apollo Armando @apolloarmando.bsky.social · 18h

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 2d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 2d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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Apollo Armando @apolloarmando.bsky.social · 1d

I keep grabbing a jacket as I leave the house, then removing it as soon as I get to the car. Immature ass weather better stop playing with me

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2d

🔊TURN DOWN THE VOLUME

Californians don't want to hear commercials at a volume any louder than what they were previously enjoying their program at.

I just signed legislation enforcing this regulation across streaming platforms.

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Apollo Armando @apolloarmando.bsky.social · 2d

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wrong play! @wrongplay.vip · 3d

the best part of this shop project by far has been learning that Equi-Tussin is an actual product and way funnier than anything I could have come up with on my own

it's always the first thing i point out when someone talks to me about my shirts and i have yet to get any less excited about it

a bottle of equi-tussin, cough syrup for horses

agnes tachyon is offering you a delightful purple beverage, in her other hand is a bottle of equi-tussin

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Apollo Armando @apolloarmando.bsky.social · 3d

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 5d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Apollo Armando @apolloarmando.bsky.social · 5d

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Apollo Armando @apolloarmando.bsky.social · 6d

Hearing a cute anime girl fumble over Japanese tongue twisters does not move my soul

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 7d

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Apollo Armando @apolloarmando.bsky.social · 6d

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 6d

Privatizing commissaries is the quintessential GOP policy idea: even in a fantasy world in which they're somehow more efficient (they're not), every penny of that (plus more for profit) will be taken out of the pockets of military families, effectively lowering military pay to benefit Wal-Mart.

Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 7d

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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Apollo Armando @apolloarmando.bsky.social · 7d

Audiences absolutely can and will say no to this bullshit.

As if we don't have thousands of hours of entertainment being uploaded for free every day. Why would audiences pay for something worse?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’

The birth of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers

www.theguardian.com

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wrong play! @wrongplay.vip · 8d

happy hispanic heritage month from your favorite no sabo!

el condor pasa enters the ring next week!

#umamusume

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Apollo Armando @apolloarmando.bsky.social · 7d

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.

I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

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