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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 10h

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sixpenceee none the richer @kagredon.bsky.social · 14h

turn on your monitor

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

LLMs are sort of a One Ring situation where they make everyone dumber but they make people who were already dumb WAY dumber

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 1d

A four panel comic of Calvin’s Dad talking to Calvin.
Panel 1: All bands and musical acts can be classified as either Joy Division or New Order

Panel 2: Nirvana? Joy Division
The Strokes? New Order
Charli XCX? Joy Division
Taylor Swift? New Order

Panel 3: here's the thing... New Order? Joy Division, then New Order

Panel 4: Calvin lies awake in bed, looking completely confused

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Kevin the Pikachu @kap3692.bsky.social · 2d

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

its a minor thing, but it does bother me whenever someone is described as “talking like sephiroth” when they’re actually “talking like martin prince.”

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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · Feb 17

did you know? Tommy Pickles is on Medicare. feel old? you shouldn't. he's on Medicare because he lost his leg in Iraq

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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 2d

creating a social media platform called cluub, going crazy after I get everyone on it and they leave

when that migration platform they're on goes down the drain, they'll all go back to the cluub

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2d

Surely next time Taylor Swift will release an album about how she’s the exact type of leftist I am

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 2d

“Newly added on the criterion channel” graphic and its one of the alien skeleton people from They Live

It’s just a funny juxtaposition even though They Live obviously deserves to be there. Great movie, great channel

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 2d

I think of the wise old tree a lot

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sixpenceee none the richer @kagredon.bsky.social · 2d

this guy

john sublime from grant morrison’s new x-men run, the guy who turned himself into drugs for evil reasons

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Me: *pays 140 dollars*

Tim Meadows: get away Dewey! don’t eat that Panda Express Orange Chicken! you don’t want any of that shit! It’s delicious!

Me: *delighted* *pays 140 dollars*

Meadows: Dewey get out of here! Don’t eat the rangoons! You don’t want any of that shit!

Me: *delighted* *pays 140

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 2d

Empath: Ooh, look at me, I’m Emma Frost and I looooove recreational drugs and premarital sex.
Emma Frost: Excuse me, I love professional drugs and postmartial sex.
Roulette: With other people’s husbands, right?
Emma Frost: I believe that that goes without saying, Jennifer, yes.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 2d

So Hulk Hogan, why are you a great candidate for the Administrative Assistant position?

Hulk Hogan:

An app icon of a printer/scanner combo and the app name "brother iPrint&Scan"

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

it's remarkable how the wunderwaffe, pieces of propaganda intended to keep up morale for germans amid a deteriorating war situation, has found a found a new audience among the guileless rubes of silicon valley

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 2d

An offhand comment by a VC moron apparently

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · Jul 22

personally i recommend not succumbing to a tormented obsession with the sinister italian glassmakers’ merchant or the uncannily lifelike automaton which was assembled with the aid of his fiendish artifices

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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POWERFUL CRAB FART🦀 @powerful.crabf.art · 3d

The year is 2025. There are three social networks remaining. They are run by Dweeb Lowtax, Tweaker Lowtax, and Girlboss Lowtax. You have to pick at least one.

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sixpenceee none the richer @kagredon.bsky.social · 3d

damn what a king

But he never could count bricks. This, it turns out, is a myth.

Donald explained how it had come about only after we’d been talking for some time. It had begun with a chance encounter more than 60 years ago outside his father’s law office, where some fellow high-school students, aware of his reputation as a math whiz, challenged him to count the bricks in the county courthouse across the street. Maybe they were picking on him a little; maybe they were just seeking entertainment. Regardless, Donald says he glanced quickly at the building and tossed out a large number at random. Apparently the other kids bought it on the spot, because the story would be told and retold over the years, with the setting eventually shifting from courthouse to school building—a captivating local legend never, apparently, fact-checked.

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 4d

Honestly my biggest argument against AI sapience/personhood is that if it WAS something we could easily recognize as a fellow sapient being with emotions, needs, and possibly rights, every tech oligarch in the AI sphere would be trying their BEST to convince us otherwise so they could have slaves

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