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Avant Farte @avantfarte.bsky.social · 16h

Glad I sprang for the print add-on with my wired subscription

Collage poem on red/orange/yellow background

Title: ANTHROPIC

Collage poem on red/orange/yellow background

AI ARE REALLY
HUMAN CODERS PROGRAMMING
THE END OF THE WORLD

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Avant Farte @avantfarte.bsky.social · 1d

Finally got the memo

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

when you equate body type and morality you are reiterating fascists’ own ideas

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Excuse me? www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

MEDPAGETODAY®
Public Health & Policy > Health Policy
Many With Obesity 'Don't Respect the Temple of Their
Soul,' Dr. Oz Says
— "The only thing they think they control in their life is the fork at the end of their arm"
by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today
October 7, 2025 • 5 min read

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Avant Farte @avantfarte.bsky.social · 1d

if anyone comes near me with these on I will go full Nelson on their Milhouse asses

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Avant Farte @avantfarte.bsky.social · 1d

he is the perfect angel baby!!

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Avant Farte @avantfarte.bsky.social · 1d

Someone on reddit suggested that the vandalism on these ads is an astroturfing campaign, maybe I’m delusional but I refuse to believe it

NYC subway print advertisement for the “friend” AI device. Graffiti on the ad says “You really THIS lonely?”

NYC subway print advertisement for the “friend” AI device. Graffiti features a frowny face and calls it a “loser device”

NYC subway print advertisement for the “friend” AI device. Someone has scratched out and written “NO” over the friend.com URL

Avant Farte @avantfarte.bsky.social · 1d

I am simply obsessed with him

A senior (12 years old!!) pembroke welsh corgi

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 2d

Should've used this photo

Guy in a frog costume facing ICE/police in Portland with the caption "analysis: what is the insurrection act"

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Winchell's
Donut Hors
Open
Winchell's
Donut House
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 2d

lol this entire era of politics has proven to me that rules are indeed fake

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
20m
From Create Mode
••
Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Avant Farte @avantfarte.bsky.social · 3d

✊🐸

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

Avant Farte @avantfarte.bsky.social · 3d

Dude I love comrade keroppi

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 3d

"Nothing really happened... just a little pepper taste... I'm Mexican, what do you expect?"

Why the outfit? "I like frogs!"

Legend.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡

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Avant Farte @avantfarte.bsky.social · 3d

I really want to make everyone I know read this

The danger of COVID is its inherent danger, yes, but it’s also its relentlessness. It’s that when you get away with your 5th infection it’s coming right back for you a 6th time. A 6th time in year 6? And you’re a 6-year-old child? Is it really such a mystery that teachers are complaining that “COVID babies” can’t say their names or tie their shoes coming into kindergarten? We’ve been serially infecting children with a virus that damages their brains. We know it does this. And we just…. keep doing it?

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Avant Farte @avantfarte.bsky.social · 4d

Out: vibes coding
In: vibes collaging

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Avant Farte @avantfarte.bsky.social · 4d

started messing around with diptychs and may have uncorked something

Paper collage diptych with bright orange, red, blue, and purple abstract textures

Paper collage diptych with bright red and pink textures and light gray accents

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 4d

I seriously hope Biden saying “Welcome Home” and inviting Trump to sit by the fire is never forgotten.

One of the most singularly insane moments in the history of human civilization.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 4d

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

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The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · 10d

Yeah, everyone hates the AI subway ads as much as you do nygroove.nyc/ai-subway-ads/

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Avant Farte @avantfarte.bsky.social · 8d

The very best

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 9d

The split in the Democratic Party—between those who can name and respond to what is happening and those who cannot—is growing into a chasm.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9d

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10d

of all the dumb shit that sucks these days, the dumbest and pettiest shit that sucks is the way people fetishize debate. i would like to revert to the old roughly agreed-upon cultural understanding that debate club is for boring friendless nerds

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10d

Remember that we’re being lied to whenever we’re told that we can’t afford something that benefits families. Just a couple of weeks ago Congressional Republicans voted to make ICE richer than most of world’s militaries.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10d

The $170 billion in funding going to Miller’s agenda could build more than 7,000 new elementary schools, pay for more than 1.5 million young Americans to attend an in-state public college for four years, or fund the Head Start program for nearly 14 years: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

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