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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 9h

The "people don't suffer" option was "win the 2024 election". There is no option without suffering now. People can either suffer in vain or suffer for the reconstruction of American democracy.

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 8h

It’s ok though, they make sure to send all their dms in public where anyone with a camera can snap a pic over their shoulder.

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 8h

Always surprising to learn he’s still alive. Though I suppose he is younger than my grandma who has had a picture of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers in a prominent place in her house my entire life

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 13h

2028 will finally be the year of Linux on the desktop!

moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 17h

This is why he’s had to fire half the Eastern District of Virginia US Attorney’s office

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 18h

Democrats are mom, Republicans are dad

spooky dio @satyronmars.bsky.social · 21h

im being so serious when i say the reason so many young men are becoming conservatives is that they think being a democrat is gay

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lena @lenazun.bsky.social · 1d

why are you fighting so hard for your right to be mean to computers? just be nice to all objects it’s a better way to live.

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 20h

That said

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 20h

The thing is that Johnson is such a pathetic worm that id believe he’d do the exact same thing if the files contain only information we already know. One of Trump’s superpowers is to get awful people to debase themselves spectacularly for him and for no discernible purpose

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 20h

Also Belichick the coach was always much better than Belichick the GM

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 21h

This is a very old kind of guy, the rich failson who styles as an intellectual but never quite finishes any of their degrees

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 23h

“It’s not a clearly established right to not get shot in the head by a pepperball from the roof when you’re offering eternal salvation”

moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 1d

The alternative is the site shuts down.

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 1d

WHY WOULD YOU PUT IN A JUG WITH A POUR LIP IF YOU DONT WANT TO POUR IT????

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 1d

what a terrible day to know how to read lol

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 1d

but also, even if none of that were true, it’s just so unseemly. why would you want to do this? what is it doing for you, to in the best case say slur-like things? so you’re not hurting anyone, but still, why? and why get so upset when other people say it seems wrong?

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1d

the fact that being anti-slur is the ??? "right wing" position on AI on bluesky right now is insane to me

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 1d

if you find yourself developing an elaborate moral framework where you get to say slurs, take a step back and look at how you got here. Why are you so eager to say slurs???? “Oh, its ok cause they’re not people” hmmmm how could this possible go wrong???????

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

*taps microphone, reverb* Don't use slurs. Using slurs is bad.

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 1d

wtf? do people not go camping in their backyards ever?

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 1d

it is exactly akin to using a slur, which is why it is cringe!

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 1d

theres just a huge difference between cursing out a computer in a moment of frustration and coming up with a version of the n-word for the computer.

why is it so important for you that you get to use a slur for the computer? are you just happy to have found a target for slurs that can’t fight back?

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Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains · 1d

“the metaphysics of a slur” damn this is what analytic philosophy be doing to mfs huh

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 1d

you shouldn‘t be trying to find excuses to use slurs-shaped language. why are you doing this? what is it doing for you? “Oh, if its not human, then it doesn’t count as a hate speech. it’s fine.” do you not see how this can go very very very bad very quickly????

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moose @wood-mousse.bsky.social · 1d

the discourse is about whether you should be using slurs at all, which feels like a question that answers itself, but what the fuck do I know

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