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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 52m

President Very Awake is 100% ready to string this Habeas dude up by his ankles at Stephen Miller's say-so.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 1h

Apparently COVID isn't the only thing you can track by keeping a close eye on everybody's shit

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 4h

The story behind this is that the AP reported they knew the troops were arriving because a bunch of porta potties got delivered lol

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 1h

Nah, it's all just different words for the same thing (people who get run over in crosswalks)

🎀 Pimpcess Spooky 🎀 @mick-ee.bsky.social · 1h

I thought pedestrian meant old people… now what? Y’all gon disrespect me too???

Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 1h

The Big Robot Clown Shoe is gonna drop on an entire third of the stock market after a high-profile failure of some huge AI project launch or other. Whaddya think? Will "Sora 2" go into the history books? Or not quite yet?
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Sora 2 Has a Huge Financial Problem

How will OpenAI stop Sora 2 from burning through cash as users generate countless resource-intensive AI videos?

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 3h

They defined ICE agents as a vulnerable group

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 4h

Some people believe in moral obligations like they believe in dinosaurs—real, but extinct due to climate change.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 6h

I believe in moral obligations, but US corporations effectively stopped existing as independent entities on Jan. 20, 2025 when the 1A was repealed and political retribution was legalized. bsky.app/profile/stra...

Josh Maher @strategygame.bsky.social · 6h

You don’t believe it’s Apple’s obligation to the country that created it to stand up to attacks on said country?

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 4h

One of the most nefarious actions that actually takes place on a regular basis is that laws & rules meant to protect those historically violated by our status quo and the individuals upholding it are weaponized against us.

It's also why I think Ethics should be required continuing ed for lawyers.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 4h

Anyway, I bet LLMs are really good at understanding and communicating with children, the elderly and people in shock, so I'm sure nothing will fall through the cracks.

Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 4h

Uh-huh. Will the AI be deciding whether the call is an emergency? Or will that be determined by an overworked human with a strong motivation to throw as many calls to the AI as possible?

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 11h

For 911 calls of the future, AI is on the line

AI might answer your 911 calls

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

buff.ly

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 5h

I bet nobody else will use genAI for personalized crime inspo so one catastrophic fire aside this is probably fine

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 5h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Notorious P.I.G. (Your Halloween Hogmother) 🐽 @anotoriouspig.bsky.social · Dec 11

Aragorn: you have my sword

Legolas: and my bow

Gimli: and my axe

Me: and my cat

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 6h

yes this timeline is a rough route. yes there are waves of strife. but behind it all lies the inertia of all things which prompted fish to trot out of the ocean and humans to gather in commune. we are driven to fill the nothing with ourselves, with LOVE. its the unconquerable wind behind our sails

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 6h

Weirdly enough, I think this works. No one is more insecure than a new ICE agent. They want to be the blonde guy in DHS’s AI Nazi posting so badly. Instead, they’ll be guarding indistinguishable suburban warehouse #16361 while inflated frogs and dinosaurs thrust in their face all day every day.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 8h

Just for the avoidance of doubt, this is inexcusably racist and a sin against God.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 19h

I think these are useful concepts to help people connect with the experiences of others like them. It's not good to apply them to anyone else without their consent.

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 19h

Where the hell do people think online happens anyway

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 19h

As long as long COVID symptoms are forbidden to recognize and there's no accepted protocol for treatment, people suffering from a misery they can't identify or articulate are going to turn to anyone who says they can help.

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 19h

As I've said before, I expect issue like this will get a lot worse as access to medical care declines in the US, thanks to the Repubs.

Highlights:

🔹️"Well over half" of American adults take at least one supplement; folks are "buying and taking record amounts."

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements

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Jeffrey Sens @jeffreysens.bsky.social · 21h

For reference of Portland frog facing off ICE art being made.

Photograph at night of a 2-3 deep line of feds in tactical gear and sheilds outside the ICE building in Portland. Facing them alone is someone in a green and white belly frog outfit.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22h

Aside from shattering core state sovereignty, it's saying one state's Guard (TX) is somehow more loyal to the national authority than another's (IL). It's treating the latter as something bordering on hostile, or at least alien. One part of the country and its soldiers are more America than another.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 21h

Definitely not dementia.

CNN @cnn.com · 22h

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

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Kellaweena 🎃 @kellalena.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve never let an onion ring go to voicemail.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 1d

but everyone loves spam, i asked

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so sick of this piece of shit

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Bearcat Catbear @bearcat-catbear.bsky.social · 1d

Who cares if I "reject" Newsom? I'm not leading a recall effort. I'm not helping the FBI install a secret microphone in his tie. I'm saying he steals from the homeless and vetoes legislation to help trans people, and I think that's loser crap that makes Dems lose. I'm fine with him making Trump mad.

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