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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 1h

I’m going to miss my in-house editor as I take a role where I am doing a lot more editing. 🙃

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 3h

Serif has stopped purchases for #Affinity apps in preparation for a "big announcement" and are responding to user concerns about subscriptions or genai with meaningless doublespeak. Feels bad!!

affinity.serif.com/en-us/

Creative Freedom Is Coming - Affinity

Creative Freedom Is Coming. October 30

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 3h

I have Vineland on my shelf from when I bought it in college trying to look smart but I’ve never read it. Is it a bad starting point for his work?

(I could Google this question but why should I?)

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 3h

Please do not make me start paying dues again

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3h

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

They created a fairy tale land for one grandpa and he's having the time of his life. His entire reality is like that thing where the brain releases a bunch of euphoric chemicals when it's dying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 4h

At least once a week I delete Facebook because it only acts as a rage and ad factory only to download it a few days later because I want to look for something on Marketplace.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 8h

Met my wife because my friend tagged photos of her on FB and put a bunch of funny stuff she said in her favorite quotes section

My whole career in marketing is because I slid into someone’s Twitter DMs asking for an unpaid internship

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 21h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 10h

in the Bible it says to help people only if they have papers and a Cigna plan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10h

I was working an entire essay on this very notion this summer and this is reminding me I should pick it back up. TL;DR - every price is someone else's income and whether prices going down on something is "good" depends a whole lot on what you do for a living.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Pádraig 🍉 (He/Him) @cosmictrickster.bsky.social · 13h

Tony Khan when interviewers ask if AEW is a left-leaning company: Oh geez I couldn't say? 🤷‍♂️

Tony Khan directing his TV show:

#AEW 🤼‍♂️

TDE Wrestling @tdewrestling.com · 1d

🤠 #AEWDynamite

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 10h

Aftermath’s Top Prime Day Deals: leave your house and go to the store and buy yourself something nice, sweetie.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 11h

I’m first to die so I hope it’s a good one

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 12h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 13h

Despotism is un-American and unaffordable.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 14h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 14h

“Let Republicans have the literal blood of American citizens on their hands—and make that the central issue of the shutdown. Otherwise, enjoy having your health care subsidy debate in the gulags these people would happily send us all to. I hear that poll-tests great.”

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 22h

clearsky.app

ClearSky

ClearSky - Bringing information closer to you

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 22h

I mean I’m definitely in the first camp but the second one? lol what?

I’m apparently on an AI haters list as well as one that thinks I’m a Nazi who wants to groom people? I guess.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 23h

this rules so much

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s 61st home run with a fan

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 23h

I’m legitimately good at my job as is evident by the fact that I just got AGGRESSIVELY pursued by an agency that’s giving me an absurd raise and everything else I want to make the leap.

Jeremy @floregonian.com · 1d

I’m going to hold my breath until you tell me something you like about yourself

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · 1d

Probably Sin City or Watchmen, actual movie quality aside. I absolutely fell in love with the instrumental version of “Cells” by The Servant and watched it at least 30 times 🤷‍♂️

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Sin City (2005) Official DVD Trailer - Bruce Willis, Clive Owen Crime Thriller

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

i deactivated twitter today. it's becoming pretty obvious they're feeding personal information to bad actors and when i flew back into LAX from France a week or so ago i saw an agent going through a US person's phone. it's just not safe to use

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