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Josh Shaffer @joshshaffer.bsky.social · 18h

Jim Lee gets it.

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 20h

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”

The President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics spoke out at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Jeff Cannata @jeffcannata.bsky.social · 21h

There is no hate like Christian love.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

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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Josh Shaffer @joshshaffer.bsky.social · 23h

The beginning feels rough, because they are immediately trying to "reset" everything, and that feels clunky.
But that second season ends up going places...

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Josh Shaffer @joshshaffer.bsky.social · 1d

Apple's spell check has gotten so bad recently that I constantly feel like I am having a stroke. It's telling me that correctly spelled words are wrong.

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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 1d

Republican Congressman offers bold statement defending the government shutdown.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Winchell's
Donut Hors
Open
Winchell's
Donut House
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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Josh Shaffer @joshshaffer.bsky.social · 2d

This seems really really bad

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 2d

2 years into the war, Americans’ skepticism of Israel’s military operation against Hamas and the Israeli government has grown:

39% now say Israel is going too far in its military operation against Hamas
59% now hold an unfavorable opinion of the Israeli government

www.pewresearch.org/...

Chart shows 2 years into its military operation against Hamas, a growing share of Americans say Israel is ‘going too far’

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Josh Shaffer @joshshaffer.bsky.social · 3d

Such a good show.

Josh Shaffer @joshshaffer.bsky.social · 3d

I know this isn't a hot take, but I honestly still cannot get over just how ugly iOS 26 is.

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 3d

Meme of three girls in a classroom sitting at desks, with the girl in the middle cheating on a quiz by copying the paper of the girl in front, and the girl in the back cheating by copying the girl in the middle. The front girl is labeled "Cops, lying". The girl behind her is labeled "local media". The girl in the back is labeled "national media".

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Josh Shaffer @joshshaffer.bsky.social · 5d

#fujixseries #fujifilm #fujifilm_xseries
#fujifilmxt5 #xt5 #fujifilmphotography #photography

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 6d

They’re literally socially constructing gender out of sand and metal after a decade of tut-tutting about women being adult human females ONLY

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 6d

Can we stop calling an artificial representation of a person by a human-coded name? "She" does not exist. "She" is a reflection of someone's ingenue dreams, but "she" is pixels and code.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7d

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 7d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Josh Shaffer @joshshaffer.bsky.social · 6d

#fujixseries #fujifilm #fujifilm_xseries
#fujifilmxt5 #xt5 #fujifilmphotography #photography

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 7d

A Nazi really ran into a class, calling them slurs & other Nazi nonsense, got chased by the entire class then when he was caught complained they were rude to him. Lmao. Nazis are whiny babies.

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 7d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 7d

The Merriam-Webster social team deserves a raise.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Josh Shaffer @joshshaffer.bsky.social · 7d

#fujixseries #fujifilm #fujifilm_xseries
#fujifilmxt5 #xt5 #fujifilmphotography #photography

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Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 8d

At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem
Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”