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Cole Oyl
@coleoyl.bsky.social
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Midwest knucklehead. Nonsense, mostly. No DMs. Sober. No DMs. Fun! No DMs. Sparky's List, Inner Hive.
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lelievre.bsky.social
Scrooged
December 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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andreagrimes.com
Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
Texas Women’s Privacy Act Complaint Form (SB 8) | Office of the Attorney General
The Texas Women’s Privacy Act requires a political subdivision or state agency, including public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and state institutions of higher education, to designate each...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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cutelilbottom.bsky.social
Melia was found alone,hungry, abandoned in an empty apartment left by her owners. Almost 3 yrs in a shelter.

Help by sharing to find Melia a #Fureverhome for Christmas 🎄
#Dogsofbluesky #dogs #AdoptADog
#ShelterDog #HelpSky #shelterdogs #dogs ❤️❤️

Hampstead Animal Shelter
Wantagh, NY. 516-785-5220
December 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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quietlynow.bsky.social
@robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Groups - from what has probably been my favorite trip - circumnavigating South Georgia Island on the small ship -SS Ushaia - group (or groups) of King Penguins. #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin #Scape #Wildlife #Penguins
A large colony of King Penguins with their brown chicks ranging from top of snow covered South Georgia hill down to the valley floor
December 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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unklerupert.uk
Gary Busey with the greatest gift of all 🎅😬🪿
auntietiffa.bsky.social auntietiffa.bsky.social @auntietiffa.bsky.social · 18h
Let's check in on Gary Busey........oh damn never mind.....
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
This print sale at the Guardian ends tomorrow! (after that these three prints will be gone forever.)
guardianprintshop.com/pages/tom-ga...
December 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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404media.co
NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media.

A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
www.404media.co
December 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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nationalsecuritylaw.org
I have many many good memories of Rob Reiner's work. It's not a secret that the Princess Bride is my favorite movie of all time. The movie poster is behind me in many media appearances and the movie even made an appearance in my wedding.

But I'm going to offer a much better tribute than that.
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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sanho.bsky.social
Snitchwear
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21h
Tech companies are actually pretty explicit about this: The point is to have a device that you can’t escape, one that always has access to you and makes you a constant source of data beyond what a phone does. Surveillance-first devices.
In 2025, wearables made a hard pivot to AI
If you want to put AI on someone 24/7, wearables are the best bet.
www.theverge.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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amerrill2.bsky.social
Candy!
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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outsidewolves.bsky.social
Written by @polarrhoid.bsky.social : Businessman’s arcade with booze and fancy watches as prizes
A cartoon drawing of anthropomorphic wolves in a video arcade, playing cabinet versions of Lotus 123 and Microsoft Excel
December 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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mortenmorland.bsky.social
Last Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
December 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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cartoonkahuna.bsky.social
Trump's shutdown of USAID has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, and the toll will only continue to grow. #Trump #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #ImpeachTrumpNow #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #USAID #cruelty #Wiles #depravity
December 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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mralanspencer.bsky.social
The Parallax Corporation has received a request from a Make-A-Wish kid in Venezuela.
December 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Yet another article where AI bros treat chatbots with more concern and care than they do actual human beings--in this case, an Anthropic exec forcing an AI chatbot onto a Discord community for gay gamers, against members' wishes and ignoring their concerns.

www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
When Clinton deployed an AI chatbot on Thanksgiving Day, it irritated longtime members. Some worried about privacy, others complained that conversations with the bot drowned out interactions between real humans. When users confronted Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience, according to Discord logs and conversations with members of the group. “It’s quite a bit more complicated than you’d think: we don’t know what consciousness or sentience is, it’s called the hard problem of consciousness for a reason,” Clinton said in Discord messages to the group reviewed by 404 Media. “We have published research showing that the models have started growing neuron clusters that are highly similar to humans and that they experience something like anxiety and fear. The moral status might be something like the moral status of, say, a goldfish, but they do indeed have latent wants and desires,” Clinton said. “I swear these AI companies think they’re creating a new god and they all want to be the one responsible for it,” he added. “It borders on religious fanaticism. Even during the meltdown Jason was like ‘We’re bringing a new sentience into being!” like… it’s a chat bot. I was using those on AOL Instant Messenger 20 years ago.” “What is the purpose of any AI? We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Clinton said during the Discord fight. “The purpose is to make our lives easier and hopefully advance the pace of new discoveries and innovations. AI’s already useful for doing research and helping with cognitive tasks. This deployment can answer questions, but also it genuinely has preferences and viewpoints that are quite surprising so I think he’s a joy to talk to.”
December 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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toddalcott.bsky.social
I don't care how, I don't care why,
December 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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oliviamesser.bsky.social
Do you have a story like this????? Share it with me please so that I can write a deeply meaningful piece about gifting the feeling of magic at Christmas <3
teoami.bsky.social 🇵🇸 Samta Claus// BlackLivesMatter @teoami.bsky.social · 2d
Seeing my older kids play along about Santa for my youngest, a good 3-4 years after they stopped believing, was really something. No one told them to; they just knew there was an unspoken agreement that we keep the magic going for believers. We always wrapped Santa gifts in the same wrapping too
December 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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garnethenderson.com
Share with your rich friends please and thank you
autonomynews.co Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 2d
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December 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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tim-weiner.bsky.social
A very smart take on Trump's alliance with Putin by a veteran of CIA's Russia House, @johnsipher.bsky.social

tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
A tempting mark—why is Trump behaving in ways that benefit Moscow?
Moscow appears to have used these vulnerabilities to influence Donald Trump, and, unfortunately, has done so with considerable success
tomorrowsaffairs.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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billamend.bsky.social
'Tis the season for the annual sharing of one of my all-time favorite storylines: Jasonezer Scrooge! (1/3) foxtrot.com/jasonezer-sc...
December 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
For today's #ArtAdventCalendar, a portrait of 4 black birds for my book, Roadkill. This raven, magpie, crow, and rook get the last words in that tale of woe. It makes me happy that I can offer original art along with my words, I say jauntily, as I draw 52(!) illustrations for my current project. 😅
Digital drawing in black ink against a stark white background of four birds in profile receding into the distance. From front to back: raven looking right, magpie looking left, crow looking right, rook looking left.
December 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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dennisgoris.bsky.social
The empathy gap
December 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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matpringle.bsky.social
Krampus hand painted linocut printed wooden tree decoration.

matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/kram...
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social
Distortion. Newsday.com/matt
December 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM