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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8h

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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cassidy cypress @cypress.city · 1d

it's time to finish what he started

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 1d

Window Screen

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4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady "privacy" formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states.
It included illegal immigrants and handed
Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it.
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Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

"the AI bubble will collapse because the technology has plateaued and cannot improve"

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"we are on the verge of superintelligence"

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

both the mainstream pro- and anti-AI arguments are entirely various types of cope

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scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 3d

James Webb Looked Too Deep Into Space... What It Found Is Disturbing

Tell web to keep looking until it finds the EPSTINE FILES.

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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 2d

slither.io followed you and liked your post: "slither.io got me stroking my shit heavy"

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Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 2d

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ちゃこり @tyako089.bsky.social · 3d

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yoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 3d

Egyptian history: I will found a modest dynasty to last 2,000 years. might fuck my sister

greek history: no seriously. I have some ideas about what demons are made of, and music

Roman history: im Gaius maximus and I'm going to rise from obscurity to make everyones lives worse

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phantasmAgaric 🦑 @lalonde.bsky.social · 4d

the first layer of ordo amoris is your cat. the second layer is every transsexual on earth. and *then* you get to your family

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 5d

List of discontinued merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)

"discontinued merit badges (boy scouts of America)" wikipedia page shows "nut culture", 1928-1954

stalker merit badge 1910-1922, stalking merit badge 1911-1952

invention merit badge 1911-1917. only 10 scouts achieved it, required that they obtained a federal patent

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Grace @gracekind.net · 7d

But how can I prevent someone I’ve blocked from talking to other people that I’ve also blocked?

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Eric @edavis.dev · 5d

genuinely fascinated by people who watched the Twitter implosion up close say "enough about your protocol, we want that exact same power dynamic replicated on Bluesky"

if all you want is "Twitter 2" you guarantee what happened to Twitter 1 will happen again

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Mat! @matttgfx.posts.art · 5d

this lore drop is very cool though

rosalina saying "By the way, I am transgender."

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Grimbles Cursed Emporium @grimblesdgrumbles.bsky.social · 5d

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 5d

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

A model of the first level from Mario 64.

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cassidy cypress @cypress.city · 6d

Every American politician with no personality is currently trying to recreate 2016-era Trump in a vacuum

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 6d

Weeks after Charlamagne tha God mocked Hakeem Jeffries calling him “AIPAC Shakur,” Jeffries responds with his own nickname: “Charlatan the Fraud”

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 6d

I watched a video of a Ukrainian woman with catgirl ears on her helmet along with a trans pride flag patch drop an artillery strike on an ruf position and blow up a dozen guys