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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 18h

what kind of people are on a pedal pub at 3 pm on a tuesday

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 21h

go start it then, officer

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 21h

yeah their benghazi reporting was stellar

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 21h

there was an adoptable puppy event going on nearby and i just took in so much puppy breath. and now i gotta go home to the same boring four dogs

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

new season of the neighborhood listen

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

liquid glass ios ugly as shit!

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 1d

AI imagery always makes me think of this 1999 story. theonion.com/computer-gen...

Computer-Generated Talking Cat On TV Delights Iowa Woman

OTTUMWA, IA—A computer-manipulated talking cat in a commercial for Fresh Step cat litter thoroughly delighted Ottumwa resident Sheila Dagenhardt Monday.

theonion.com

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · Dec 6

I thought she would be great to put on a base hiding behind a salamanders dreadnought but my poor scaling literacy left me unprepared for primaris grandma

big fuckin old lady next to a space marine

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

games workshop has once again provoked outrage among 40k fans with updated lore, this time explicitly stating that geneseed is just N.O.-Xplode

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

i’m not sure how you would even come up with a workable license. how would you control what people made? why would i give that permission?

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

also to do it now post-rollout because you think “better to ask forgiveness than permission” is a sound legal strategy. why would I as a multibillion dollar rightsholder not just take you to the cleaners

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

i think we are going to find out at some point these guys invented cocaine 2 and have been on it all along

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

OpenAI backtracked on their opt-out policy and now they say they’re gonna work it all out with “revenue sharing” with copyright holders. how much for a license from Disney to relinquish any control over its intellectual property

Sora, Not Sorry: OpenAI Backtracks on Opt-Out Copyright Policy

OpenAI, facing backlash, will now let rightsholders decide whether their characters appear in Sora 2, with revenue sharing for those who opt in.

copyrightlately.com

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

nice terrorism you got there. sure would be a shame if it got a little…stochastic

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

lol

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

lmao THAT guy

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · Aug 18

literally the same thing the last guy tried lol

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

how insane was it to say “we tortured some folks” and then not only not do anything about it but keep everyone involved in polite society. what did we think was going to happen after that

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

how many years did the Politics Experts spend lecturing against abolishing ICE and defunding the police and now we’re seeing the long predictable results of two parties building a police state our entire lives. this isn’t new in that it was always going to come to this

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

People going "America was always fascist" or "it's been like this since the 1980s" or making related claims don't seem to realize it, but they're telling everyone that nothing different is happening, nothing worse than usual, so if you weren't up in arms about eg 2013, you shouldn't be now either.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d

For diff reasons, there are people who say if u look at the grand scheme of American history, Trumpism isn’t all that divergent from what America is, and yes exactly that’s why it’s so titanically bad

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · Oct 9

in the final episode of gundam leg the masked char guy runs through the hero’s gundam with a beam sword before realizing far too late that the gundam’s cockpit is in the leg. the hero then delivers a powerful kick that winds up killing both of them in one of the series trademark bittersweet endings

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 3d

You know a lot of people are telling me, Mr. President the ribbon around your neck is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen but we never see you without it. They’re saying we need to know, we deserve to know what you look like without it. It’s true. But I’m not gonna take it off. Maybe I’ll take it off

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 3d

it is pretty funny to imagine dems having a spine on those issues but only so you can also imagine The Left being opposed to following through on them

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 3d

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4d

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 3d

this is the guy from billy madison?? no

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