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Oft-curious bluestocking.
A small but noticeable change in Thanksgiving shopping this year: typically local stores will give away free turkeys with a $75 purchase. This year, zero stores did that around here. They were 55-99¢/lb instead, no matter how much you spent.
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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#ProudBlue #Resist

Women, take a photo of this, then print it up & carry it with you. You might want to make postcards to send to legislators who speak out about women’s health issues as a reminder to STFU! Men are welcome to do the same & share it with friends & family. Let the whole world
know!
There have been many times when I wanted to use this message and didn't have it so perfectly presented. Now I do. Many of you will have uses for it as well. Thanks Kay Ensley Newman/Rachel Maddow fans/FB.
#ProudBlue
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Good morning and happy Monday to everyone. Imagine being 79 years old and thinking America needs fewer nurses.
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis.

In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."

futurism.com/artificial-i...
Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions
In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.
futurism.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Holiday feral hogs are baaaaack! From @dallasnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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There's an enormous cat who lives a few streets down. She somehow figured out a way to unlatch and open the screen door leading into our bedroom. Every night she breaks into our room, curls up on my chest and falls asleep. I've been adopted by a real-life Miyazaki character.
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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It's sadly 40k cosplay, which is even worse.
Things are going well over on Truth Social, where Trump just reposted AI Slop of himself as what I can only describe as imperial Lannister cosplay, with prominent Democrats kneeling at his feet
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Insignificant, yet annoying: a circular piece of debris has remained on the dotted line between 2 highway lanes since the summertime. Everyone wisely avoids it, but is there some hero with a fishing pole who could hook it up and off the road? Imagine.... 🎣🛞
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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beautiful essay
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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There were apparent burns with a soldering iron along the side of the unit's case.
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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"... Bolsonaro admitted attempts to remove his ankle monitor using a 'soldiering' iron," TV lady said over B-roll, hurting my brain.
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Him: where are all the coffee filters?

Me:
June 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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even if your family is terrible there are better ways to get out of hosting thanksgiving than burning down your house
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Mark Zuckerberg is profoundly evil. This has been incredibly obvious for a very long time
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Seriously wtf was this bsky.app/profile/atru...
WELKER: If tariffs help consumers, why is the administration rolling them back?

BESSENT: You know how much you weigh. You get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number and we look at everything. We try to push down the things we can control.
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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These people are deep into committing election fraud, so they assume everyone else is too

"Every accusation is a confession" remains undefeated
Austin Smith, a former Republican state representative and onetime leader within Turning Point Action—the political arm of Turning Point USA—pleaded guilty to forging signatures on nominating petitions for his 2024 reelection bid.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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This is the way
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Old folks will remember how much trouble John Lennon got into for such a statement.
Yesterday, “Grok did assert, in response to a question from an X user, that ‘Musk edges out’ Jesus Christ, son of God, as a role model for society.” 11/21/25 Gift link … 1/
Elon Musk Is Trying to Rewrite History
Why did Grok say he’s better than Jesus?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Eugenics
They want eugenics
They want a new race of “superior humans” which is called Nazi-ass level eugenics
Therapies using gene-editing technology are starting to appear. But these treatments have their challenges
Tech billionaires want to make gene-edited babies
Widespread bans don’t seem to be a hindrance
econ.st
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM