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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 3h

Then it should die and make room.

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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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 8h

That's the ideal ❤️

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 8h

Trump trying to enact the reductio ad absurdum scenario used to argue his immunity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 8h

It will be in their nightmares

Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 8h

I am not a higher authority of any kind in antifa.

Just a lowly super-soldier.

I know how to hurl a sub sandwich at twenty yards and can artfully arc a milkshake to target.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 8h

MAGA is the AI slop of politics.

Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 8h

This is what you get with diversity - cultural remix, exchange, new riffs - this is the polar opposite of AI slop which is instead an empty, navel-gazing self consumption of bland same-ness. Clearly one is awesome. And it ain't AI.

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

The Hu - This Is Mongol, 2023, Mongolia! #TheTwen2ie5 day 7

What I love about folk metal is that almost everyone has something new to bring to it. In this case Mongolian instruments: morin khuur, tovshuur, and of course, throat singing. Folk metal really feels like a thriving, growing subgenre.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 8h

Donald is thousands of "one weird tricks" in a human suit.

Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 8h

It's the prayer to the god of capitalism to be assumed up into the 1% and it requires tithing.

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 3d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 9h

"I heard you can bury a person on a golf course on your property and get yourself designated a cemetery and get a tax break!"

"I'm not so sure..."

(threatening)"I think they don't have to be dead before uou bury them..."

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 9h

"Plennemy?"
"Plenary"
"Plemmemmy."
"Plen-a-ry"
"Plenty-y?"
"Good enough sir. You get plenty-y authority."

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17h

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social · 14h

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 11h

I'm surprised "FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY" isn't in bold text on top of every page.

Phone psychics would be more ethical and reliable.

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Uzair Rashid @uzairrashid.bsky.social · 23h

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 12h

*Pam Bondi and Stephen Miller like Luciille Ball and Ethyl at the assembly line, frantically smashing civil rights as fast as they come down the line*

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 12h

It's gonna be anyone with a milkshake or sub sandwich at this rate.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 13h

He has to tear others down because he always feels inferior.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 13h

Bexar.

You won't know if you're not from the county.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 13h

This is the glinner path of doubling and tripling down until one is up one's own ass and lost in an onanistic ourobouros.

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Gritmonger 🔵 @gritmonger.bsky.social · 13h

Ah. It has spawned an extradimensional rift to a frog dimension of some kind.

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