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Jon Potter

@rettopnoj.bsky.social

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Australia, UK and USA politics. Mostly bollocks sorry. I killed my Xitter account and you can too.

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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 8h

No one's ever said no to Trump before, so I guess why wouldn't they assume that?

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 1d

We need a NNACCACC

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 1d

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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', just so 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'. AI 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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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully you won't do it again

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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 2d

Those who've never tasted fascism directly appear to be welcoming it with open arms.

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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 2d

When it comes to Trump there must be something more to it than simply not comprehending. It has to be wilful blindness, probably partisan, that enables them to ignore absolutely everything we know about him and hear him say every single day.

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 2d

So Albanese told a bald-faced lie when he denied that Australia supplied weapons to Israel.

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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 3d

Some people just crave adoration. Extreme example - all the money in the world doesn't stop Musk from crying because people think he's a dweeb.

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 3d

A National Socialist, I guess?

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 3d

Even the King of England is only on one side of the coins. Are you going to stop pretending this is normal any time soon?

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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 4d

I've always wanted to visit Papua New Caleonia. I love French culture.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 5d

My latest article in The Shot

"The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club"

#pffft
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot

There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

theshot.net.au

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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 4d

Someone needs to play the Imperial March stat

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 4d

His belief in a republic vanished just like his supposed beliefs about Palestine. Albanese proves to be nothing more than a damp rag, flapping in the political wind. Not a leader.

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 4d

It's hard to imagine what test Albanese would set for batshit crazy if this doesn't already meet it.

Dropping a nuke in New York City to own the libs, maybe?

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 4d

If the military's ever gonna do a coup they better hurry up while there's still anyone left.

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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 4d

It's almost like they're paying us!

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 5d

Probably gets disposed of, you might be able to pay to have it returned but I doubt they'd do it for free.

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 5d

Tay-tay's got another new album out?!

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 5d

Well that's a blow

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 5d

Because they're British don't you know!

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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 6d

I assume he his talking about an extreme right party currently topping all the polls.

Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 7d

I predict Grokipedia is going to be a direct ripoff of Wikipedia with every single article subtly rewritten by the plagiarism machine to (attempt to) put a right-wing bias on it.

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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 7d

It'd be a good opportunity to declare martial law, something they're clearly itching to do.

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