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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

had never before considered that the inflatable costumes offer pepper ball protection

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 6h

This also 💯 has the vibes of those Facebook ad t-shirts that say stuff like

“MY WIFE IS A MAMA BEAR WITH A HUSBAND (WHO IS ME) AND SHE MIGHT BE A LITTLE CRAZY BUT SO AM I AND IF SHE EATS YOU THEY WILL NEVER FIND YOUR BONES I LOVE THAT B-WORD AND GOD IN THAT ORDER IT’S A DOUG THING TRY TO KEEP UP.”

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 7h

this weekend, a friend of mine said "Metallica was right about Napster" and my brain absolutely exploded because holy shit, we owe those guys an apology

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 7h

1.) Ted Cruz is amazingly passionate about things that have nothing to do with Texas and couldn't care less about things happening in his own state

2.) You can download Wikipedia. All of it. You can download the entire thing and save a local copy of it. The text-only version is only like 30GB

WIRED @wired.com · 1d

In a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Cruz accused the beloved online resource of being too liberal. www.wired.com/story/ted-cr...

Ted Cruz Targets Wikipedia Over ‘Ideological Bias’

In a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Cruz accused the beloved online resource of being too liberal.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 14h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 7h

1.) what pensions 2.) y'all will literally do anything except tax billionaires

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 7h

ok so I have been alive for half a century and I can tell you with 100% certainty that prices never, ever go down - ESPECIALLY when a lot of people lose their jobs.

This is a lie rich people make up to keep the rest of us from dragging them into the streets

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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"fart" @jonhendren.com · 15h

in retrospect i think the "zombie" tv/movie craze that encouraged everyone to fantasize about how theyd murk all their neighbors, hole up in their house and eventually run into the woods , was a mistake

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 8h

ah yes 82 year old Lee Greenwood who hasn't had a hit in 40 years will appeal to the children, masterful gambit sir

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 9h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2d

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 1d

You: Rush is a unique band because of their legendary musical prowess

Me: Rush is a unique band because they toured together for 50 years and were still best friends

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 1d

So Rush is going on tour with a new drummer, and old rock dudes are furious because she’s a woman

I’m furious because I want Geddy and Alex to retire and enjoy their lives, they’ve been grinding for over 50 years, it’s enough. Yes you’re talented but you deserve a break my dudes

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 1d

get someone in your life who loves you the way Trump loves not paying people

Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1d

A leaked memo shows Trump is trying to deny furloughed federal employees the backpay they are legally entitled to after the government shutdown ends. This won’t be allowed to stand. And it’s because of a law he signed!

Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims

Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 2d

there is a theme with people who love AI, which is that they hate consent. Same type of person who would not hesitate to send Zelda Williams fake videos of her dead father is the same person who creates a fake girlfriend on their computer because in both situations, the other person can't say no

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 2d

yeah I know, it's almost like you need to win those people over to win elections

Dan Przygoda @dprzygoda.bsky.social · 2d

And let’s not forget how we got here: people who didn’t vote for Kamala or sat out the election/were “uncommitted” feel this is an appropriate way to “punish the Dems” but all it’s doing is hurting extremely vulnerable people.

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 2d

no usher?

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 2d

I'm currently taking college classes to learn more about AI, and everything I've learned 1.) makes me dislike it even more and 2.) makes me radically supportive of strict AI regulation.

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 2d

Pt2🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "Global Samud Flotilla are not heroes. Our mistreatment by Israel is not the story. We need more than humanitarian aid to Gaza, we need to stop the decades-long siege. The violence of 'business as usual.' Genocides fueled by our own governments."

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 2d

Pt1 🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "There's a live-streamed Genocide in front of our eyes in Gaza. No one will be able to say they didn't know this was happening. The Global Samud Flotilla only existed because our leaders failed. Our international systems are betraying Palestinians."

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 2d

"...and end our complicity; to use our privileges, our platforms, to take a stance against this, that this is in every way unjustifiable."

I love that she was just released from an Israeli prison and the first thing she did was put every leader of every country on blast for enabling this shit

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 2d

2:10: (someone calls her a hero) "No, wait, no. Not heroes. No, we are doing the bare minimum. What we are doing is not in any way- no one has to come to the rescue of Palestinian people. What we are doing is hearing and acting upon their calls for all over the world to take action..."

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3d

Amazed at the number of guys who are willing to give interviews about how since they didn’t find love with women they found love with the computer that’s poisoning people in black neighborhoods

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3d

by no accident, you can also say this of Mamdani (and Lander of course, too), an official democratic party candidate that both minority leaders have similarly refused to endorse

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3d

It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that a random woman in a sports skirt recorded on a random instagram reel in chicago has done more to directly confront the human rights abuses of ICE than both standing minority leaders

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Hex Ramone 🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 3d

It cannot be overstated that these men are clowns who have no idea what they are doing and are completely out of their depth

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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