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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10h

A high risk pregnant woman in Texas is advised to go out of state prior to delivery.

She learns about the abortion ban & how it puts women’s lives at risk.

She regrets her vote.

Rather than provide support, her husband insults the “liberal doctor” and refuses to leave Texas. 1/2

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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 11h

It is deeply offensive to me that I have to go to sleep so I can be well rested for work tomorrow rather than staying up all night playing Silksong.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 12h

When the Yankees get eliminated

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

(Published June)

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13h

This is maybe the most insulting thing you could say about a human being lol

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

It's clear most Trump supporters have no idea the videos are fake.

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World

Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

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Colleen @grouponlobotomy.bsky.social · 18h

Étant Donnés (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas)

Based on 1966 assemblage by Marcel Duchamp, his last major work. Hand embroidered on cotton. Custom order.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 14h

The media's really just going to bounce over the fact that at Trump's meeting today they said "we've been fighting antifa for a hundred years, since they tried to stop us in 1930s Germany" and everyone nodded along, huh

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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 12h

My superhero boners essay got cited in The Guardian! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie

A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

www.theguardian.com

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 13h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 15h

The advisor from SimCity hollers at the player, "YOU CAN'T LET A FROG DANCE EROTICALLY AT YOUR SWAT TEAM! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!" The typeface is Chicago but the city is Portland.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 12h

Chris Hansen could probably take down the entire Republican party if he really applied himself wnyt.com/top-stories/...

FIRST ON 13: Documents: Capital Region Chamber senior VP allegedly tried to entice minor for violent sex

The senior vice president of the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce was arrested on federal charges Tuesday for allegedly talking about engaging in violent sexual activity with a girl who he thought w...

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 14h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 14h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12h

Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes.

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 1d

we paid for this

Crazy Ass Moments in LatAm Politics @asslatam.bsky.social · 1d

President Javier Milei of Argentina had a rock show to celebrate his new book, called "La Construcción del Milagro" (The Construction of the Miracle).

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Count Otter Poppula 🧛🏼 Sr., III @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · Nov 13

You guys ever look at your rapidly diminishing prospects in life and just, like, fart a little about it?

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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ripcinema @ripcinema.bsky.social · 1d

same company btw

Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database
July 22, 2025

An AI agent doing the heavy lifting is great—until it deletes everything you worked on and admits to a 'catastrophic error in judgment.' Replit's CEO calls the blunder 'unacceptable.'

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2d

I know we've talked a lot about the total capitulation of the American elite in government and civil society and how little respect they seem to have for the power they and their institutions wield but it's genuinely baffling how many of them also have no respect for their families

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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