VectorSpecter, Local Folk Legend
@vectorspecter.bsky.social
He/Him. Aroace. Coffee & yoga enthusiast, but not at the same time. Halfwit developer by day, half-ass FGC guy/commentator/competitor/TO/loudmouth by night. Got a haircut?
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If you are going to Knox-Out and want to commentate, please hit me up! We are missing commentators on a few games to help make our list complete (Good opportunity for 2XKO comms, especially if you're in or near East Tennessee! BBCF, XRD and +R are also needed)
www.start.gg/tournament/k...
www.start.gg/tournament/k...
KNOX-OUT '25
The best place for KNOX-OUT '25 brackets, streams, standings and schedules all in one place!
www.start.gg
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you are going to Knox-Out and want to commentate, please hit me up! We are missing commentators on a few games to help make our list complete (Good opportunity for 2XKO comms, especially if you're in or near East Tennessee! BBCF, XRD and +R are also needed)
www.start.gg/tournament/k...
www.start.gg/tournament/k...
Of course my internet begins to get spotty like an hour before brackets start.
I’m fucking cursed, y’all.
I’m fucking cursed, y’all.
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Of course my internet begins to get spotty like an hour before brackets start.
I’m fucking cursed, y’all.
I’m fucking cursed, y’all.
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The vote capitulation was all about protecting Black Friday and the stock portfolios of people with money.
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The vote capitulation was all about protecting Black Friday and the stock portfolios of people with money.
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Protesters lay outside the #COP30 climate summit in Brazil covered in white sheets, to call attention to the deaths of activists and journalists killed while "defending land, territories and natural resources."
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Protesters lay outside the #COP30 climate summit in Brazil covered in white sheets, to call attention to the deaths of activists and journalists killed while "defending land, territories and natural resources."
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This is the best thing I’ve read on this whole mess, and not just because I agree with it
I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
The Shutdown Surrender
I just... I mean... Whatever.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is the best thing I’ve read on this whole mess, and not just because I agree with it
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The Trump administration is setting a dangerous precedent.
The world is watching this administration's attempts to limit our constitutional and human rights.
The world is watching this administration's attempts to limit our constitutional and human rights.
US skips human rights review by UN body as countries appeal for its return next year
The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member countries, on orders of the Trump administration — which has turned its back on the Human Rights Council.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The Trump administration is setting a dangerous precedent.
The world is watching this administration's attempts to limit our constitutional and human rights.
The world is watching this administration's attempts to limit our constitutional and human rights.
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My column this week. When Alabama lawmakers want to give money to corporations or punish transgender people, nothing can stop them.
When 726,000 Alabamians face hunger, the laws they are empowered to write suddenly become impossible barriers.
When 726,000 Alabamians face hunger, the laws they are empowered to write suddenly become impossible barriers.
Hunger doesn't seem to be an emergency for Alabama leaders | Alabama Reflector
When Alabama leaders see an emergency, they act fast. Which makes their passivity as 726,000 Alabamians face hunger more striking.
ow.ly
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My column this week. When Alabama lawmakers want to give money to corporations or punish transgender people, nothing can stop them.
When 726,000 Alabamians face hunger, the laws they are empowered to write suddenly become impossible barriers.
When 726,000 Alabamians face hunger, the laws they are empowered to write suddenly become impossible barriers.
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Editor Brian Lyman writes that Alabama leaders have been notably passive in helping 726,000 Alabamians avoid hunger, particularly when one remembers how quickly they move to give money to corporations and punish transgender people. https://ow.ly/nxjB50Xo2Qj
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Editor Brian Lyman writes that Alabama leaders have been notably passive in helping 726,000 Alabamians avoid hunger, particularly when one remembers how quickly they move to give money to corporations and punish transgender people. https://ow.ly/nxjB50Xo2Qj
The Virtua Fighter amigos are getting our usual Monday meetups going tonight, and giving some thought to streaming and putting my commentary hat back on.
Now I just gotta see if it still fits. 😂
Now I just gotta see if it still fits. 😂
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Virtua Fighter amigos are getting our usual Monday meetups going tonight, and giving some thought to streaming and putting my commentary hat back on.
Now I just gotta see if it still fits. 😂
Now I just gotta see if it still fits. 😂
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Brazilian coup-plotters: charged 🇧🇷
American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸
American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Brazilian coup-plotters: charged 🇧🇷
American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸
American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸
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The corruption never ends
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The corruption never ends
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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BERNIE ON THE *DEAL* with Centrist Dems: “That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
BERNIE ON THE *DEAL* with Centrist Dems: “That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.”
If you see this, reskeet with a Sentai team that is not Power Rangers or Super Sentai
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
If you see this, reskeet with a Sentai team that is not Power Rangers or Super Sentai
Drop something ORANGE 🥲
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Drop something ORANGE 🥲
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I can't support this sentiment louy enough...
November 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I can't support this sentiment louy enough...
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The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for all Americans.
Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people
The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for all Americans.
n.pr
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for all Americans.
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This is great. Now we just need a hundred other Dem politicians to speak this bluntly.
November 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is great. Now we just need a hundred other Dem politicians to speak this bluntly.
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Millennials haven’t had easy lives but at least we’ll always have this beat drop at 3:07
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Millennials haven’t had easy lives but at least we’ll always have this beat drop at 3:07
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Russian agents turned out to be Russian agents. The era of the most obvious discoveries continues.
AfD is russian funded neonazi party🤦♀️
AfD is russian funded neonazi party🤦♀️
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Russian agents turned out to be Russian agents. The era of the most obvious discoveries continues.
AfD is russian funded neonazi party🤦♀️
AfD is russian funded neonazi party🤦♀️
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arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI
Meta estimates that users across its apps in total encounter 15 billion “high risk” scam ads a day. That’s on top of 22 billion organic scam attempts that Meta users are exposed to daily.
Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI
Meta estimates that users across its apps in total encounter 15 billion “high risk” scam ads a day. That’s on top of 22 billion organic scam attempts that Meta users are exposed to daily.
Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI
Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.
arstechnica.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI
Meta estimates that users across its apps in total encounter 15 billion “high risk” scam ads a day. That’s on top of 22 billion organic scam attempts that Meta users are exposed to daily.
Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI
Meta estimates that users across its apps in total encounter 15 billion “high risk” scam ads a day. That’s on top of 22 billion organic scam attempts that Meta users are exposed to daily.
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.