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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 4h

guy who is soft on crime because he has a fondness for the trickster archetype

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 6h

how times have changed

chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 14h

i watched 'battle of persian gulf 2' a michael bay inspired cgi epic by an iranian auteur about defeating the usa in a fictional battle with cool weapons, and this is one of my favorite ridiculous moments

chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 1d

rare earth minerals implies if we keep digging we'll find epic and legendary minerals

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 1d

there is an anxiety ill never be able to get rid of until all my friends that cannot find jobs are gainfully employed

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 1d

incredibly relatable experience

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 2d

the zelda breath of the wild piano really worked well for one battle after another

chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 2d

calling me a clown cant hurt me, i have big arlecchino energy

chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 3d

would be good for discourse everywhere if there was a better way to distinguish socialists who just want more worker ownership from socialists that want a necessary transition to communism

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 3d

squirting grapefruit juice in your eye is a problem we left in the 90s

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 4d

had to disown a friend today for calling my venetian brothers 'swamp italians'

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 4d

one battle after another successfully delivers the experience of ceaseless paranoia and the madness of reality that only pynchon can

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 4d

lesson in irony: the guy calling me a pedophile because i said endlessly begging bluesky staff to ban people is dumb got banned instead, rip bozo

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 4d

genuine question - how much of the recent increase in energy prices is from ai data centers and how much is from trumps policies?

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 5d

ive seen the history and i understand why people hate him but as of right now i am not seeing where they changed TOS for him, genuinely asking

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 5d

i keep hearing that he broke TOS and they changed rules for him but i havent seen solid evidence yet, do you have a link perchance

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 5d

yeah thats the fediverse... youre comparing apples and oranges here. by all means leave bluesky if the leadership doesnt match your principles. but your expectations are not reasonable for a small private company like them.

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 5d

there is no other website that meets the standard youre describing, so i dont know why you're expecting it here. if you can think of one, please tell me. i dont think you fully understand how impossible what you're saying is once you reach millions of users.

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 5d

yes there are lgbt scams too, you just see way more palestine ones because its the main news cycle, and because they're more lucrative for the operators.

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 5d

the fear of a potential injustice is not a reason to err on the side of not banning bots that post gofundme scams, im sorry

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 5d

this isnt a court of law this is a social media platform in 2025 where you can create a bot swarm in mere minutes for pennies, the hypothetical platform you are describing would be unusable

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 5d

palestine bot accounts are more common due to the news cycle and how much money they can make for the owners, i am sure some are real, but the majority are not

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 5d

banning accounts without 'absolute certainty' they are not bots/scammers is a completely unrealistic standard that does not exist on any social media platform at scale in the age of automation and ai, you wont be able to point to another that has a better solution, let along one with <40 employees

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 5d

unhinged lol

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chris / vbm @strutheo.bsky.social · 5d

this is silly. makes sense why the staff is ignoring the mob demanding they ban anyone deemed a nazi when in the next breath those people are calling everyone they dont like nazis.

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