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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 4m

odd shit

♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 4m

They could have done this on release easily but they wanted the virality that came with making copyrighted characters steal from target.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3h

All anyone wanted to do with OpenAI's new Sora 2 app was make clips of copyrighted characters. Now they can't, they're pissed. Literally what is the point of this app www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 18m

This is clearly an old money vs new money thing.

Guy was born richer than God, didn’t convince himself he’s smarter than God.

Adam Zones Out @theadamzone.xyz · 21m

He's the unicorn of very rich people who somehow maintained their soul

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 25m

The “renaming stuff by fiat” test should be so easy to not fail. And yet.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 38m

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

man.

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 3h

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2h

Congressional Democrats Find That Taking a Stand is Popular

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h

Tina Smith says Democrats are digging in: “If anything, we’re feeling more strong.”

“I think we've tapped into something that's really important to Americans.”

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1h

I think if it took you to October 5th, 2025 to realize that maybe this 1/6/21 business was maybe a big deal I think you shouldn't be allowed to comment on politics

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 43m

Also like.. having kids is a societal good and they're fuckin expensive

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3h

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 1h

👏 Vance interdict 👏

"Our Holy Father … is very personally concerned about these matters," El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who took part in the meeting, told Reuters. "He expressed his desire that the U.S. Bishops' Conference would speak strongly on this issue."
"It means a lot to all of us to know of his personal desire that we continue to speak out," said Seitz.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1h

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

look I am not his audience and know very little about Bad Bunny but an extremely cursory google search tells me that he is in fact one of the most popular entertainers in the world today

this statement only works if by "broader audience" you mean "conservative white people"

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 3h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Alexander Hamizdat @alexhammy209.bsky.social · 2h

yup we're going to find out it's the Trump files featuring Epstein instead of the other way around

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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ragnarokette.bsky.social @ragnarokette.bsky.social · 2h

Keeping the house out of session during what would be the longest government shutdown in history just to prevent a forced vote on release? Buddy they have got to be apocalyptic

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 15h

Consistent with the below, @jaketapper.bsky.social’s defense of why he knew and liked Bari Weiss in an interview with @timmiller.bsky.social today is that Weiss reached out and got his daughter an op-ed in the NYT.

Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 22h

Interesting stuff here:

‪Clay Risen‬@risenc.bsky.social‬
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Nice. If I may add 2 cents: The real reason BW quit the Times was that as soon as Katie Kingsbury took over from James Bennet, she told her she could no longer commission and edit articles. She could only write. But commissioning articles was key to her grift. I mean literally …
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Clay Risen‬@risenc.bsky.social‬
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She promoted herself among certain circles as the key to getting into the Times. Which is one reason why I and others blocked so many of her commissioned pieces (one reason: they were also terrible). She said it was our deep ideological bias against conservatives…
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Clay Risen‬ ‪@risenc.bsky.social‬
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What so many of us found offensive about that is that our esprit de corps was based on not being ideologically biased (to a fault, if anything — pobody’s nerfect). It was so obvious that it was all a grift, and that it would end badly, with her defenestrating all the people she had sucked up to …

‪Clay Risen‬ ‪@risenc.bsky.social‬
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along the way. When Katie K told her to pound sand, the next step was inevitable. My only surprise was how quickly she bounced back, and how much higher. I believe one of my colleagues said she “won.” Um, maybe…

Clay Risen@risenc.bsky.social‬
Anyway, Liz makes a lot of great points here and perhaps she’s right, but also, never underestimate a master at her craft.

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 2h

Jfc

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 15h

crazy umwelt. you're shooting through the sky doing somersault captures of moths while screaming, then all of a sudden one crinkles its genitals at you and you go dark. or one hits you with the echolatory equivalent of chaff and you bite away a wing tail instead.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 6h

There was a brief window where conservatives were happy that Leo replaced Francis because Leo wears more traditional Papal regalia and they thought that meant a return to more "traditional" conservatism, but LOL Francis was never 1% this directly engaged against schismatic American tradcaths.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 9h

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

www.reuters.com

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 4h

Wrong Rock! Wrong Rock!

(Also this person is insane and I can't believe so many people follow him, criminal charges WTF are you talking about man)

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 5h

the build quality of Teslas combined with their early market dominance really obscured this for a while but it’s starting to show.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 1d

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

Thinking for yourself, going against the grain, having principles are currently an enormous liability in every part of public life. The way to succeed is to be the kind of person who believes exactly what your boss tells you to believe, has no core ideology, and turns a blind eye to evil on command

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

We need to have solutions for the Collaborator Problem: the way the fascist takeover of all our institutions has led to the promotion of soulless, facile, subservient mediocrities filling vitally important roles across the breadth of our society

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