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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks for this! Surprised that there is this much variability between bikes in the same garage, never mind the satellite! Must drive their engineers nuts, if/when sharing notes. No wonder bike variables+physical rider variables+riding style variables=wildly variable results. 😆

Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 2h

“Sir, there’s a puddle of…something…forming under your chair, sir.”

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 4h

These are fantastic, thanks for posting! Mohawk storm will always be the best storm!

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 4h

Great content! My content!

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 5h

I think the White House press corp, and the corporate media in general, are hoping for the worst. I genuinely believe they are yearning for relevance and the traffic calamity brings.

"A Boston Massacre situation in Portland would really bring the f*#king ratings up!" - Bari Weiss, probably

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 5h

I remember all too well! I remember being cautiously optimistic at the beginning, but we probably all knew deep down inside that it was a cynical ploy. Decades on, they're just as evil as Microsoft, facebook, twitter, Palantir, etc, etc.

Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 10h

Wow this game looks gorgeous. Seems to be becoming the consensus that this is the best-looking game yet for the PS5/Pro. Can't afford it right now but can't wait to pick this one up after price drops/sales!

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 10h

404 Media has coverage and a pod out on this as well. Google made the same choice. These companies will not save us. They will happily feed as many of us into the chipper shredder as is necessary to keep themselves in the good graces of the regime.

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15h

Welcome to the era of “Kavanaugh Raids.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 12h

Irredeemable. There is no path to redemption for the people behind these acts of evil en masse.

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 14h

AI is a social and intellectual cancer. The people championing it as essential are free radicals working diligently to metastasize their cancer to the rest of us, so that it can feed on all of us until there's nothing left but malignant tumors.

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 14h

Then we should let it die.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 14h

None of that is "left". None of that is socialism, never mind communism. This is end stage capitalism and like any end stage addiction, it's ugly, brutal, completely deranged, and ultimately terminal.

Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 14h

The US has been decimated by anti-democratic corporatists, corrupt nihilists, and religious fundamentalists. We are a cannibalistic society where a shrinking upper class incessantly feeds on an ever-growing mass of poorer and poorer Americans. That situation is getting exponentially worse now.

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 14h

The idea that "the left" has ruined the US is criminally absurd. The US has been governed by far right, right, and center-right Executive, Legislative, and Judicial majorities since FDR. If you think either Obama or Biden was a leftist, you're a rube, or have no idea what "left" is.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 1d

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 1d

If it's hot out, I'll open the door to them despite being an unbeliever. I lead with, "I'm an atheist. I'm damned and totally fine with that. Do y'all want some water?" 😆

It gets dangerously hot here during the Summer.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17d

A woman with a speech bubble says “OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws”. A man opens a calendar to see ed Zitron, the smiling man

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 2d

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 1d

That's dictator/king/pharaoh talk. That is not elected official, rule of law talk. Plenary authority allows for public executions, permanent imprisonment without due process, and whatever else the sovereign's imagination inspires them to decree.

Down that road we will only find horrors.

Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 1d

The historically and civically illiterate "don't tread on me" set elected people who believe POTUS has plenary authority.

For those who don't know, "...plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations." (Wikipedia)

Stephen Miller Said the President Has "Plenary Authority," but What Does That Mean?

During an interview on CNN, Stephen Miller said that the president had plenary authority, which naturally led some to wonder what that means.

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 1d

My dad was born in Quebec. For unknown reasons, he decided not to teach my brother and I to speak French. So I took several years of (Parisian) French through school. Despite that, I could hardly keep up when he would speak with my grandparents, who preferred French.

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 1d

A little good news to help all the mayhem go down!

Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 1d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

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