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D.C.: the Spooky Mom

@hobbiets.bsky.social

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Dungeon Master ordinaire. Masters in Sociology. Just wanna be an X-Wing pilot. Aspiring Magical Cat Girl Jedi Mechwarrior. Miniature painter. 🏳️‍⚧️NB (Any/All)

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D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · Oct 23

Looks like I've got some new followers, so I guess it's introduction time.

Hi, I'm Hobbie.

I'm a miniature painter, and I stream most of my painting sessions on Twitch
Twitch.tv/hobbiets

You can also find pictures of my work on IG
instagram.com/hobbiets

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D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · 8h

Painting stream is live

#battletech

Twitch.tv/hobbiets

Help support me on ko-fi

ko-fi.com/%20hobbiets

A Battletech Crusader miniature painted white, purple, and green

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Peter Hodgson @iheartguitar.bsky.social · 10h

‘You caught autism because your dick is neat’ is a sentence that wouldn’t have made sense just a few hours ago.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 10h

They are all salesmen at the same company and they know their place, they step aside for the big dogs, and they try not to get fired.

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 15h

Liberal politicians aren’t betraying you they are agents of fascism

If you believe they are your allies you will get fucked

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NPR @npr.org · 19h

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 10h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · 10h

Same. I watched it last year to see if it holds up, and it totally does

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 13h

That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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DEI speedwagon 🌹🇵🇸 @uhshanti.bsky.social · 14h

this guy is a good friend of Garry Tan (who calls him his “bat-friend”) and the Bay Area anti-homeless crowd which is why in addition to naming DSA he also named housing and homelessness NGOs as part of the alleged antifa fifth column

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 14h

We should never have let up with how unbelievably weird these motherfuckers are

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 14h

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social · 14h

New episode about evil piss trash.
youtu.be/vlKDQ3fwI5w?...

The Making Of Stephen Miller - SOME MORE NEWS

YouTube video by Some More News

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 1d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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D.C.: the Spooky Mom @hobbiets.bsky.social · 14h

Thaaaaaats what your pfp is from. I knew I recognized it, but couldn't place it

Gintama Gintoki GIF

Alt: Gintama Gintoki GIF

media.tenor.com

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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 18h

Capitalism in a nutshell:
Studies of UBI - positive effects, cheaper than government benefits, don't directly finance capital, so WE MUST STUDY MORE

Studies of LLMs - lots of harm, very expensive, directly finance major corporations & the wealthy, so we MUST IMPLEMENT BUT BETTER SOMEHOW

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h

Every day this administration serves up more and more evidence that the Epstein stuff is really really really bad and yet

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 23h

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 16h

“It’s here to stay.”
“It’s not going anywhere.”
“Get used to it.”

Notice the robotic repetitive propaganda that tech billionaires spit into the mouths of proponents like a mother bird feeding babies is never about ethics, always about force, while pretending the force is natural not man made.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 16h

I *really* want more reporting on this because the book was pretty heavily vetted by lawyers in advance of publication….

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 18h

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 23h

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 16h

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M. C. Flux PhD @fluxinflux.bsky.social · 1d

The world works this way because of you, Mr. Altman. You created a world of runaway digital body snatching and SpongeBob meth labs. Don’t blame human nature to remove your culpability.

Quote from today’s article in @theverge.com

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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."

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16h

White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President https://theonion.com/white-house-doctor-trump-has-far-more-bones-than-any-prior-president/

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 16h

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 18h

I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?

“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/tari...

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 16h

It's categorically impossible to be an ethical billionaire and I will die on that hill forever.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16h

Wolf being absolutely destroyed in Jeopardy by Andy Richter

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17h

A good example of Dems not adapting to MAGA war mindset is that they keep telling reporters they can't engage on Trump's military occupations because it's a "trap" to entice them into a losing debate about crime. That concedes too much up front and plays by old rules.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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