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Shamsa @shamsa.bsky.social · 26m

Or for watching a scary movie

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 6h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Shamsa @shamsa.bsky.social · 12h

We really can gather them and lock them all up before it's too late

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12d

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.

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Shamsa @shamsa.bsky.social · 16h

It was sincerely mesmerised i forgot to make a Buttons joke

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Shamsa @shamsa.bsky.social · 17h

I was just gazing at it an hour ago until down broke

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22h

I truly don’t get the appeal of podcasts having to be video now. Podcasts are at their very best when you’re doing something else, working out or playing videogames etc, and no good podcaster has ever been someone who should be shown on screen that’s just not how that works. It’s a goblin job.

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AUTOMATON WEST @automatonwest.bsky.social · 20h

Japanese game and comic platform DLsite launches its own payment alternative following Visa and Mastercard suspensions

The service will not be available outside of Japan

automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...

Japanese game and comic platform DLsite launches its own payment alternative following Visa and Mastercard suspensions - AUTOMATON WEST

Following suspensions of transactions via Visa and Mastercard, DLsite has launched a semi-in-house payment alternative.

automaton-media.com

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Shamsa @shamsa.bsky.social · 19h

My problem is that the bananas are raw while the cheese is melted. Looks unnatural
How did they even manage that

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 1d

lol it’s this guy

Tweet from 11/2/24 showing Harry Sisson and his 4 friends in a car that reads “we’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris”

Robert J O’Neill quotes it with

“You're not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.”

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 23h

If you or your family members or friends are feeling temptation to use that new fun looking Sora video app please let them know that you need a retinal scan to access it after you download the app and I'm guessing they'll use all your information for bad bad bad bad stuff

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Shamsa @shamsa.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

Today i ate half a lemon because i mistook it for a not yet ripe orange.
At some point i realised it was a bit too sour to be an orange. Did that stop me? No

Whitebeam (Tara) 🏴‍☠️🦄💜🤡 doing it for Rhysie! @whitebeam1.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

Cockles!

Specifically this Welsh brand or fresh from the sea with vinegar and lots of salt. Yes I’m aware this makes most people 🤮🤮

A jar of Parsons pickled cockles. There’s a yellow lid with green centre and a black label.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Can we please stop talking about Bari Weiss and just boycott CBS.
You all are working as free PR agents for her.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Shamsa @shamsa.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone laughed at him for cheating at games so now he's going to show them

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 1d

Look at what they have to face

Person dressed in a silly looking frog costume at a protest.

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Shamsa @shamsa.bsky.social · 1d

Best part of being an adult is going on social media and seeing randos trying to tell me how to live my life

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 1d

don’t be “in a fandom.”

grow up, get a hobby, make friends.

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Shamsa @shamsa.bsky.social · 1d

"You're not making art. You're making disgusting over-processed hotdogs out of the life of human beings"

I cant believe they sent her AI videos of her own father sooo gross

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

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

Suspending Erin Biba, a Jewish woman for this skeet is nasty work. Between this and intentionally misreading Link’s use of a meme as a threat, bsky mods are more than willing to ban based on the Spirit Of The Law for *some* posters but never Jesse Singal.

bsky.app/profile/aman...

"All the Jews have to die or convert to trigger the rapture. Then our dead bodies surround Jerusalem and they climb over us to reach Jesus, who will bring them to heaven. It's why they're all Zionists obsessed with Israel.
Cause they need Jews to go there so we can die"

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Shamsa @shamsa.bsky.social · 2d

Close enough. Welcome back Stede Bonnet

CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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Shamsa @shamsa.bsky.social · 2d

Oh that doesn't sound so bad

Reminds me of traditionally made local icecream. It contains mastic resin and made by getting the mortar and pestle treatment.
Gives it this melted cheese quality

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