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Metaphysician

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Writer | SCP (http://scp-wiki.net/metaphysician), creator of Sarkicism and Alagadda | Neglectful Blogger (http://nevermeant.blog) | https://www.patreon.com/Metaphysician | PFP by @cutesweetcorgo.bsky.social

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柳葉魚/Capelin🦁🐟🏳️‍🌈 @capelin356.bsky.social · 1d

Cute

Illustration of a masked woman wearing a dress and giving a thumbs-up
親指を立てている仮面とドレスを身につけた女性の絵

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 9h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Metaphysician @metaphysician.bsky.social · 11h

"Emotional hollowing" has always been my biggest fear of this but the hardest to explain.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 22h

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 13h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Metaphysician @metaphysician.bsky.social · 1d

He gets such a weird look when he's about to do something bad. Tell him to stop and he makes a face like he just tasted something bitter then gallons off again

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🔥💀LA MANTIA!💀🔥 @lamantia.bsky.social · 1d

Never hit save image so fast.

Frankenstein's creature checking himself out in a full-length mirror wearing a garter belt, fishnet stockings, and stilettos, word bubble reads "¡Bel...lo!"

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Metaphysician @metaphysician.bsky.social · 1d

I stand with the New England league.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Metaphysician @metaphysician.bsky.social · 1d

Some sort of weird egg.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Metaphysician @metaphysician.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, that really sucks. Is the goal to ruin bluesky and get rich by selling it off to another nazi billionaire just like Twitter?

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13d

They should call the attorney general Pam Blondi since she’s basically Hitler’s dog

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coma @doomedsarcoma.bsky.social · 1d

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Metaphysician @metaphysician.bsky.social · 1d

This guy reeks of weaknsss.

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 1d

H.R. Giger, Death in a Mousetrap

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Metaphysician @metaphysician.bsky.social · 1d

As long as Trump is spreading misery, he's happy. The suffering of others is the only thing to make this ghoul feel alive.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Metaphysician @metaphysician.bsky.social · 1d

"We need to allow bigots to harass those who were willing to support blue sky when it was nothing"

Being craven is a choice.

Metaphysician @metaphysician.bsky.social · 1d

The Beast, moments before attacking.

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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · 2d

as a reminder, i wrote a book that came out this year and you can read it!! people say it's pretty ding dang good!!

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Metaphysician @metaphysician.bsky.social · 2d

I miss these characters but it seems most of the actors became busy with other projects with bigger roles.