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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 22h

haha ok go off, my liege

You will not get any automated email henceforth.

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phylan @phylan.website · 2h

dumb as dogshit and cowardly too, thanks for this

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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phylan @phylan.website · 2h

i think Trump is making noise about the Earhart thing because someone in his admin knows that there is a planned expedition to what is probably the wreckage of the plane leaving next month and if they do this now he can take credit for finding it www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ame...

Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane likely located in lagoon, expedition team claims, citing "very strong" evidence

Researchers say they believe an object in a South Pacific island's lagoon is the wreck of Amelia Earhart's lost plane.

www.cbsnews.com

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Clayton Ashley @claytonashley.bsky.social · 3h

tumblr post by barackinaroundthechristmastree which reads:
please. stop praying for my grandpa!!!! you are making him too strong. he broke out of the hosptial and the cops cant get him. he's too powerful

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phylan @phylan.website · 3h

"all of my Republican friends are just off screen, preparing a sudden surge of courage and integrity"

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4h

👀👀👀👀

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phylan @phylan.website · 4h

probably not if you eat like a six year old

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phylan @phylan.website · 4h

[national guardsman smashing a protestor's face with the butt of his rifle] I hate doing this. I could be running a food bank rn 😔😔

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Davis Bevil Biv Devoe @hx77.bsky.social · 4h

Aaron Nola ready to go this evening

ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 4h

The piss tank on the ISS is now 70% full.

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 1d

screenshot of gonzo as narrator of the muppets christmas carol (1992), being implied to have said the quoted post

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phylan @phylan.website · 12h

he actually zeroed out your funding specifically

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phylan @phylan.website · 12h

all opinion sections are being converted into palliative care for old people with beach houses whose brains are crusted over with asbestos fibers and lead dust

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 14h

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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phylan @phylan.website · 12h

can everybody involved in Philly sports stop being a complete moron please

Nick Sirianni wearing a hoodie that says "Quinyonamo Bay Correctional Facility"

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gretchen @boxofmillipedes.bsky.social · 15h

quaaludes rancheros

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phylan @phylan.website · 15h

ah fuck. that was pretty cool

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 15h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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phylan @phylan.website · 18h

asking chatgpt how to short NVIDIA

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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phylan @phylan.website · 18h

what is with these fuckin prepper grift TV ads

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phylan @phylan.website · 18h

if Nixon had been a rapper instead of President we probably would have, at minimum, a permanent lunar presence and possibly a Mars program, and Elon Musk might just be the CEO of a failed car company

Todd Radom @toddradom.bsky.social · 18h

From 1990!

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phylan @phylan.website · 18h

if you tell investors it's just a bunch of math they'll get bored

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phylan @phylan.website · 18h

they have to pretend there is some spooky magic we don't understand occurring in an LLM because that means money might eventually fall out of it unexpectedly

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 23h

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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phylan @phylan.website · 18h

"we don't really understand how it works" == "I don't understand how it works"

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phylan @phylan.website · 18h

personally it doesn't bother me that you guys always open with a land acknowledgement

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