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Mario Mangione

@mario-mangione.blackskycomra.de

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Anon because I don't give a shit about politeness politics, but this dumbass world still does & rent is expensive. AuDHD PDX Local ACAB Anti-Cap Fartzilla

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Mario Mangione @mario-mangione.blackskycomra.de · Sep 10

This is honestly a fantastic and workable idea.

The money doesn't go to that Joanne twat, and you're getting rid of at least some of the physical circulation.

I'm gonna start doing this too - for the books and merch, anytime I see it secondhand, I'm buying and burning.

Amy Walker - Trans-Scribe @amazingamyw.bsky.social · Sep 10

I buy up copies from charity shops so that they get cash to help out their cases, then I destroy the books. Would rather spend my money getting some copies out of circulation as it might prevent a new Potter fan or two.

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Andrew McRae @andrewmcrae.bsky.social · 1d

Editor: You get those photos of Steven Spielberg and E.T.?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Editor: what

An erotically tinged promotional photo of E.T. embracing Steven Spielberg from behind, their fingers intertwined

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🅱️️ig Sandwich [11110001] @siltyloam.bsky.social · 2d

o-oh… 😳🥵

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

I'm just so proud of all of us who came together to start For The People Leftist Library. We punch so much above our weight. We have no money and yet we have done sooooo much by being creative and by relying on each other. I am grateful and also determined to keep pushing for the next 2 years.

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Mario Mangione @mario-mangione.blackskycomra.de · 2d

Thanks for clarifying, though I'm still just not understanding what is principled or nuanced about Biden's actions as a declarative statement, but that's probably a nitpick.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

The average American television program segment on MENA is actually extremely painful and without substance.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

I know it's sort of a cold take but your perspective on US foreign policy dramatically improves once you consistently read or watch non US media

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2d

people who are always wrong. wrong about Biden, wrong about Newsom, wrong about Gaza, wrong about Democratic complacency in 2025, wrong about trans rights, wrong about Mamdani

all the same assholes. always wrong.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2d

essentially no one looks worse in all this than Biden, followed closely by the tiresome, morally bankrupt blue wave scolds who shouted at all of us about how Biden couldn’t do anything

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 2d

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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WhimsickleSquirrel @whimsicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 2d

They let Trump take credit for 'saving' Gaza and let him take credit for 'saving' TikTok. Wildly different stakes of course but both such baffling own goals, before we get to the moral catastrophe of the former.

Just historically inept politics from a historically inept party.

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 2d

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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dog on the spectrum @sponcon.bsky.social · 2d

Biden’s vision for Israel was so much more apocalyptic and violent than just about anyone else in the democratic party, it’s really insane and demoralizing that democrats still aren’t willing to make a clean break from that worldview

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 2d

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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Mario Mangione @mario-mangione.blackskycomra.de · 2d

... Funding a genocide is a principled and nuanced position? Really?

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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 3d

Among the endless fire hose of news, there was an interesting nugget buried in Mayor Keith Wilson's statement today.

The city of Portland is considering taking over the lease of the ICE facility and the city said it has no intention of being ICE's landlord.

Portland weighs taking over lease at ICE facility

The ramifications of the city taking over the federal facility lease were not immediately clear Wednesday.

www.opb.org

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Mario Mangione @mario-mangione.blackskycomra.de · 2d

I don't remember that, but sure, that's another valid reason.

The term definitely gained widespread use in relation to Palestine.

Mario Mangione @mario-mangione.blackskycomra.de · 2d

Why would you call me out like this on a Thursday, fuck

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

Just to be clear:

Trans people are the working class. Black people are the working class. Immigrants are the working class. Pregnant people are the working class. Brown people are the working class. Asian people are the working class. Disabled people are the working class.

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The Pumpkin Dipshit @pumpkinpal.bsky.social · 2d

step 1: Arm a genocide

step 2: refuse a peace deal

step 3: let vile warmongering imbecile donald trump take credit for that same peace deal a year later

some real fuckin 5d chess going on in the biden administration

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

what do you even say. what do you even say.

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New England Drake Mayetriots 🇭🇹🇩🇴 @nathanthethird.bsky.social · 2d

Every day I thank God that Joe won’t live long enough to launder his reputation the way Carter did.

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

what do you even say. what do you even say.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

It will be fascinating in the years to come to see some Americans refuse to grapple with what even Israelis admit to be true about the previous administration.

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Mario Mangione @mario-mangione.blackskycomra.de · 2d

And this is why we call that fucker Genocide Joe

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

what do you even say. what do you even say.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.
Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.
Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.
This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.
Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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阿兰 🍉 🇵🇸 @esunaproxy.bsky.social · 2d

⭕️ *Breaking* | Artillery shelling northwest of Al-Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip despite ceasefire coming into effect.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 2d

the epstein files aren’t dropping & this isn’t a distraction from them.

this is a fascist setting up the field to eliminate every point of friction that might impede an attempt to seize absolute power.

quippy posts about epstein are delaying your realization of, & motivation to fight, that fact.

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 2d

Tonight’s TV news went on about how Hamas needs to obey the ceasefire while not mentioning another round of Israel bombing Gaza this afternoon. Infuriating.

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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