Derek Otto
@dot0.bsky.social
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
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Join us tonight for this haunting film.
Tonight! For #FolkHorrorFriday we will be watching the 2019 Guatemalan film LA LLORONA! The movie is free to stream on Tubi. Please join us at 9pm ET and post along using the hashtag.
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Join us tonight for this haunting film.
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the camera just pulled up to give a full view down michigan ave and i gasped. that’s the art institute circled in red on the top left. people continue to pour out of grant park
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
the camera just pulled up to give a full view down michigan ave and i gasped. that’s the art institute circled in red on the top left. people continue to pour out of grant park
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here’s a current chopper view of the chicago protests. the crowd moved north from grant park up michigan avenue; chicago pd has blocked the bridge across the river to trump tower and are routing everyone west down wacker drive
October 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
here’s a current chopper view of the chicago protests. the crowd moved north from grant park up michigan avenue; chicago pd has blocked the bridge across the river to trump tower and are routing everyone west down wacker drive
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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sherman, for the love of god!
October 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
sherman, for the love of god!
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Imagine getting owned this hard by Hakeem Jeffries
September 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Imagine getting owned this hard by Hakeem Jeffries
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John's calves burned with each step, and a sharp pain pierced his abdomen. As he neared the safety of daylight, the sound of webbed feet slapping concrete grew louder. He risked a look over his shoulder, and found himself staring directly into the beady eyes of fate. He screamed.
September 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
John's calves burned with each step, and a sharp pain pierced his abdomen. As he neared the safety of daylight, the sound of webbed feet slapping concrete grew louder. He risked a look over his shoulder, and found himself staring directly into the beady eyes of fate. He screamed.
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As someone who thinks Harris would have been a pretty great president overall, it has never been more obvious how ”courage“ and “willingness to take a risk” are values, beliefs largely absent from the democratic leadership
Kamala Harris explaining in her book why not a single Palestinian or Arab American was allowed to speak at the DNC.
September 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
As someone who thinks Harris would have been a pretty great president overall, it has never been more obvious how ”courage“ and “willingness to take a risk” are values, beliefs largely absent from the democratic leadership
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"Polyamory is right coded" comes around every few years and then all the tradwives start fucking each other, leave their husbands, and are marching in Pride that summer.
To save you hunting context as I did, a columnist on here is composing a list of things that “used to be cool but are now right-coded” which includes polyamory, fantasy novels, and, for some reason, sourdough.
September 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Polyamory is right coded" comes around every few years and then all the tradwives start fucking each other, leave their husbands, and are marching in Pride that summer.
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Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️
archive.org/details/walt...
archive.org/details/walt...
Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC (1947) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC
archive.org
September 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️
archive.org/details/walt...
archive.org/details/walt...
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It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.
Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.
September 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.
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"There is no inherent virtue in caring about your own children; that is the bare minimum requirement for effective parenting. Virtue lies in caring about the safety and well-being of children you don’t know."
This is an award-worthy piece of writing. Bravo, @espiers.bsky.social.
This is an award-worthy piece of writing. Bravo, @espiers.bsky.social.
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"There is no inherent virtue in caring about your own children; that is the bare minimum requirement for effective parenting. Virtue lies in caring about the safety and well-being of children you don’t know."
This is an award-worthy piece of writing. Bravo, @espiers.bsky.social.
This is an award-worthy piece of writing. Bravo, @espiers.bsky.social.
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Quite the headline here in the @houstonchronicle.com And why won’t Patrick let this rest? Because his political consultants’ lobby clients want a total ban on hemp-based THC — a great explainer on this dynamic>> www.texasscorecard.co/how-a-consul...
www.chron.com/politics/art...
www.chron.com/politics/art...
Texas' Dan Patrick loses it over new THC rules
Dan Patrick finally responds to Greg Abbott's THC executive order.
www.chron.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Quite the headline here in the @houstonchronicle.com And why won’t Patrick let this rest? Because his political consultants’ lobby clients want a total ban on hemp-based THC — a great explainer on this dynamic>> www.texasscorecard.co/how-a-consul...
www.chron.com/politics/art...
www.chron.com/politics/art...
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last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"
anyways, great news! (1/X)
anyways, great news! (1/X)
September 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"
anyways, great news! (1/X)
anyways, great news! (1/X)
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Wrote a little essay about Chicago and some other things. Shout out to Philly 😎 Rest of it is here: open.substack.com/pub/sarajben...
September 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Wrote a little essay about Chicago and some other things. Shout out to Philly 😎 Rest of it is here: open.substack.com/pub/sarajben...
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Lodge 49
If you could get just one more season of any cancelled show, which would you pick?
September 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Lodge 49
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Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.
September 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.
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August 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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as funny as it is to imagine a scenario where Trump just randomly keels over and dies because he is an unhealthy senile 80 year old, it's important to keep in mind that the scenario where he has a stroke or heart attack and is merely severely incapicitated but remains alive is MUCH FUNNIER
January 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
as funny as it is to imagine a scenario where Trump just randomly keels over and dies because he is an unhealthy senile 80 year old, it's important to keep in mind that the scenario where he has a stroke or heart attack and is merely severely incapicitated but remains alive is MUCH FUNNIER
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It's my birthday and I've scored a bottle of my favorite expensive whisky, so if it's gonna happen, let it be soon.
August 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
It's my birthday and I've scored a bottle of my favorite expensive whisky, so if it's gonna happen, let it be soon.