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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 4h

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

youtu.be

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ceej @ceej.online · 3h

for a henchman, there’s nothing better after a long day of guarding a small chest than standing with your back to a field of waving grass just tall enough to hide a crouching human being

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dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 3h

i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 8h

Happy National Pierogi Day to all who celebrate.

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Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 14h

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 11h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 11h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 11h

Right now, Donald Trump, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, and other officials are participating in a panel about "Antifa," threatening to "destroy the entire organization [sic] from top to bottom."

This is a good time to revisit our guide to preparing for repression:

crimethinc.com/Safeguarding

President Trump Participates in a Roundtable on Antifa

President Trump holds a roundtable meeting on Antifa.

www.c-span.org

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

a friend just texted me to say she’d found our favorite piece of journalism of the 2010s in the Gawker archives and I must reiterate - as I have said on here before - that I do believe this is where the internet peaked on March 20 2014 and it has all been downhill from there

The Best Restaurant in New York Is The American Girl Café

There are a bunch of restaurants in the world, including some in New York City. But in a city of over 24,000 restaurants, how do you find the best? You begin your search in places that are already pop...

www.gawkerarchives.com

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Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 13h

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”

The President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics spoke out at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con.

comicbookclublive.com

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🦇👻scaryfairy🎃🦇 @sairyfairy.bsky.social · 10h

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SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13h

labour/democrats/whoever are not losing because they’re discussing supporting trans people. they’re losing because they agreed, by engaging in the argument at all, with the premise that some minority groups can be blamed for social problems.

it’s only ever going to be a question of who is blamed.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13h

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 13h

cbs story (image 1): www.cbsnews.com/amp/losangel...

latimes story (image 2): www.latimes.com/california/s...

Palisades Fire arrest made; suspect allegedly set earlier blaze that later ignited Jan. 7 LA inferno, officials say

29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht "maliciously" started the Lachman Fire on Jan. 1, which later became the devastating Palisades Fire, prosecutors said.

www.cbsnews.com

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 13h

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 14h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

now this is fascinating (check the age breakdown)

Canadians Overwhelmingly Say They'd Never Vote To Join The US
"I would never vote for Canada to become part of the United States"

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 15h

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

doomscroll break

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 23h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 23h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 23h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21h

- Grim that media barons are buying up mainstream media and making them fascism-enabling propaganda engines

- ULTAGRIM that so many of the big-name journalists escaping that fire are voluntarily leaping directly into a completely separate newsletter website trap set by the same fascists