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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 1h

Worcester

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 1h

Jesus…this is all so…terrifying, yes, but also so embarrassing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 1h

Again, there are two possibilities here—Trump knows he’s lying or he believes this obvious lie—and either one should be enough to remove him from office.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 22h

feel like we can do better than “man these guys are real fatsos” when talking about agents of state violence idk

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 1h

Sigh…yes, it could all just be a distraction…or maybe they’re just raging maniacs. None of which matters to the people with boots on their necks.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 2h

Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 1h

Are they just showing him curated clips from The Walking Dead and saying it’s Portland?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 1h

God I love this movie so much! Back when Hollywood had no problem making you think some kid could absolutely be brutally murdered at any moment. But, yeah, as a child of the 80s and 90s revisiting old favs always involves a bit of holding your breath waiting for some real problematic shit.

Patrick Barb @patrickbarb.bsky.social · 2h

#recent4K Kicked off Halloween season watching w/ The Monster Squad. 4K looks great here. Could do without the casual homophobia in the beginning, which now seems so out of place & forced (though it’s not the worst offender. looking at you, Teen Wolf). The Stan Winston monster designs still rock tho

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 3h

This is strange because by all accounts GPT 5 was a nothingburger, barely a difference, egregiously overhyped. But this big tech stenographer would have you believe it’s game changing technology.

javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 5h

a few years ago i sincerely believed it to be the duty of artists to take these tools and show the world how to use them humanely and respectfully. i don’t believe that any more. every time i have tried i have left the experience frustrated and angry…

pjrodriguez.bsky.social @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 6h

@okbjgm.bsky.social uh wut theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 22h

I'm an atheist so I don't believe prayer and good wishes changes jack shit

but that said, I truly hope with all my heart Dolly knows how much we all love and appreciate the fuck out of her.

I also hope she knows she can rest and care for herself, and fuck off Vegas.

She's a global treasure.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23h

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 5h

Just fillin’ in a survey…

"The biggest potential positive impact for so-called "AI" (especially LLMs) in Canada would be to not use it or support it in any way. That would impact the environment positively, the arts positively, the entertainment industry positively, academia positively...

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 6h

Genuinely the only thing that could convince me to bother with VR.

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 6h

Definitely felt more like the later sequels where they just pinned Cenobites into whatever crap script they thought they could film in Romania. And I had such high hopes.

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Sarah J Miles @sarahjomiles.bsky.social · 6h

If we succeed in booping that snoot, then we die in glory.

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 6h

And I’m not saying today’s a bad day. I think that’s just every day for me.

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 6h

It occurs to me that I think I dread every single moment of my day.

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 7h

What always strikes me about these “pragmatic Dems” is that they operate on the assumption trans rights is a decisive issue. That there’s a huge swath of rigid TERFs who would otherwise be all in on the Dems. I’d be curious to meet one of these supposed voters.

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 7h

Well that sucks for you. I guess your party is going to keep losing then

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 8h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 8h

The illegal USAID cuts are the thing that broke me

A complete dismantling of constitutional governance in order to facilitate crimes against humanity

What Trump, Musk, the Supreme Court, etc have done to these families is beyond cruel, beyond heartbreaking, beyond unforgivable

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 8h

The goal of those in power right now is to create a permanent underclass that will 100% be desperate enough to accept these jobs even at lower wages.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 1d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h

“We’ve decided to make it so society can’t trust anything they’ve shown so you’re just going to have to “evolve” with that.”

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h

Cyberlibertarianism.

He positioned the launch’s speed bumps as learning opportunities. “Not for much longer will we have the only good video model out there, and there’s going to be a ton of videos with none of our safeguards, and that’s fine, that’s the way the world works,” Altman said, adding, “We can use this window to get society to really understand, ‘Hey, the playing field changed, we can generate almost indistinguishable video in some cases now, and you’ve got to be ready for that.’”
Altman said he feels that people don’t pay attention to OpenAI’s technology when people at the company talk about it, only when they release it. “We’ve got to have … this sort of technological and societal co-evolution,” Altman said. “I believe that works, and I actually don’t know anything else that works. There are clearly going to be challenges for society contending with this quality, and what will get much better, with the video generation. But the only way that we know of to help mitigate it is to get the world to experience it and figure out how that’s going to go.”

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 10h

That mindset has an 87% chance of being the cause of my death, and you know what? Worth it.

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 11h

There is a law called the Hatch Act. I must take training in it every year and it explicitly forbids me from engaging in any activities that might constitute a conflict of interest or suggest I am profiting off my position.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

“.. the latest example of the Trump administration’s policy priorities overlapping with the business dealings of the president and his family.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 12h

BOBCAT LOVES HIS BOX- I WANT TO GOVE HIM ALL THE SCRATCHES!!!

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Wayne C Spencer @kidgalactus.bsky.social · 1d

Monster Month Day 6 - Sphinx

If it speaks to you, no matter how harmless it seems, you must not answer. You may think it a beast, but the lords of these old, forgotten places are cleverer than men, and crueler.

#monstermonth #kidgalactus #cryptids #creature #sphinx #folklore #art #mythology

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