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ladyemily.nebula.tv
Holy infant, tenders and mild
December 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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diplomatofnight.com
Put aside that it isn't actually all that horrible to say such a thing, he actually didn't say that. Why are people incapable of taking on someone's words as they actually exist?

Here's what he actually said on the right
Joel M. Petlin & @Joelmpetlin X.com Ta-Nehisi Coates wasn't just "critical of Israel." He claimed that if he lived in Gaza he would have joined the Hamas terrorists and participated in the October 7th massacre. But I guess that fact would not align with Glenn's narrative on the Joooos If I were 20 years old, born into Gaza, a giant open-air jail ... if my father is a fisherman and he goes too far out into the sea, he might get shot by somebody inside of Israeli boats ... if my mother picks the olive trees and she gets too close to the wall, she might be shot ... if my little sister has cancer and she needs treatment because there are no facilities to do that in Gaza and I don't get the right permit, she might die ... if I grow up under that oppression, and that poverty ... when the wall comes down lon October 7], am I also strong enough, or even constructed in such a way where I say: "This is too far"? I don't know that I am. I don't know that I am. I don't know that I am. I just wish we had room to work through that, you know what I mean? And to think about that and to talk about that.
December 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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godheadheavyindustries.life
so insanely fucking real for this
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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paletteswap.site
A local Blood on the Clocktower player with a needlessly complicated strategy to win swears they have this game solved.
paletteswap.site/dif...
A person holding the Slayer token from the game Blood on the Clocktower. HEADLINE: Slayer Bluffing as Undertaker Bluffing as Mayor Bluffing as Butler Role-swapping With Ravenkeeper Bluffing as Virgin Bluffing as Saint Bluffing as Soldier About to Crack This Clocktower Game Wide Open.
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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jamellebouie.net
honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
xirema.bsky.social
Boosting this video because it was on my mind (again...) and is just really good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...
For-Profit (Creative) Software
YouTube video by EndVertex
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October 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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mightofmerchants.bsky.social
In my spare time, I am working on a mapmaking tool #dnd
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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2damntrans.bsky.social
Luigi!!!
katelynburns.com Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · Oct 13
name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus
October 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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jacobgeller.com
"you are taking in the human centipede of content from the very end of the line" is such a good way of describing AI
chibdm.bsky.social Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · Oct 6
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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socksthewolf.com
Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.
October 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
xirema.bsky.social
God, remember when it seemed like Orihime was actually going to get a real character arc, and finally get to *do something*?

But then 297 happened...

(You could argue her Character Arc had already died a few dozen chapters earlier during the Grimmjow fight, but IMO 297 was the nail in the coffin)
princesmweekes.bsky.social Princess Weekes @princesmweekes.bsky.social · Sep 28
I love them still
orihime and ulquiorra in a panel on bleach inventing shipping. I love them so much god Bleach why are all the canon ships not good when there is potential in other places!!!
September 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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happyroadkill.bsky.social
this is their third or so tower
September 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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rcombs.me
daily reminder that AI is bullshit and avoiding it is rational
Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up
78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.
mikelovesrobots.substack.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz
happy labor day
September 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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jamellebouie.net
it is probably “find the river”
sophianyx.bsky.social Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · Sep 1
Without saying Losing My Religion, fav R.E.M. Song?
michael stipe in a black suit blue shirt bald five o clock shadow leaning into the side of a brown building with a zig zag design. hot. "We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago."
September 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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insertdisc5.com
this just in: im an abusive gamedev for (checks notes) making you feel things
negative steam review: Scripted death right in the beginning of the game, no way to avoid, no way to remove the 'achievement' stain from your play history when it happens And the game dev and their crony community call this 'a pivotal part of gameplay mechanics' and not what it actually is, a direct, coded betrayal of player trust. Why should I bother investing any further time in this title when the dev just seems comfortable arbitrarily killing you whenever with no recourse to fit their childish metaexamination of savegame mechanics? Life is too short to be a script kiddie's emotional punching bag. Even worse I have no idea how many more 'omg you died teehee' little moments and 'achievements' they've created to litter my profile with unerasable proof of failure. But since the art is pretty and it's about friends, everyone will just ignore how emotionally abusive insertdisc5 is and how casually they just dismiss all criticism Last and most bitter to me, the game is paced that you don't get the gutpunch till JUUUUST after the refund window. I kind of feel that was deliberate on the dev's part to even more severely punish people like me who don't enjoy being railroaded into character death. Toby Fox did the same motherloving thing with their ;uwu omg toriel scripted crit,; and the community defended his abusive actions then just as I expect insertdisc5's will do here. I am so motherloving tired of indie game devs being emotionally abusive and calling it cheeky fun
August 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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hannahvardit.bsky.social
hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder: Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up. Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.
August 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social
what do you mean 'normal tools'?
Single panel cartoon in the style of Gary Larson Far side. Hacker T. Dog, a dog puppet in a flashy shirt, pulls a goofy smile behind a table of 4 crudely made tools as his co-host, Lauren, puts her thumb and forefinger to her nose trying to stifle laughter. Caption reads "just normal tools."
June 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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notquiteapex.net
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:062d461b61fd056911ab346b526ebee0964884e0&dn=Asset%20Pack%20V2%20-%20The%20Unofficial%20Homestuck%20Collection.zip
August 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
xirema.bsky.social
No cheating, post your Lock Screen 🧐
A grayscale render of the mandelbrot set, rendered at <-423219590231537/562949953421312, 78797096950159/225179981368524>, rotated -64°.
July 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
We often conflate online discourse with leftism movements/action as a whole. Online left discourse - especially on corporate owned platforms - can be toxic, purity based & fractious. It’s why I highly encourage using online for education but push for IRL organizing and coalition building.
July 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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amyklassen.bsky.social
A poster with a rustic background and green leaves reads: "Finland didn’t end homelessness with magic. They just didn’t treat it like a business plan. You can still run a café. Start a band. Sell socks online. Capitalism still works in Finland. But they decided that housing people didn’t need to turn a profit. Because sometimes, the moral thing is the practical thing. And no one thrives when their neighbour is sleeping in a tent by the river. You can’t KPI your way out of a crisis. Sometimes, you just have to give a damn."
June 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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pavlovforgoths.com
Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.
amongussexgif ... Instead of being in settings its in the google app. Also, google, not chrome. Icon is a G, not the circle thing. Click on your pfp to open a menu From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's Al assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet. Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it. Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others Edit: thank you my friend @/teeth-kid for confirming that this also works on Motorola
June 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
xirema.bsky.social
The Democrats' argument makes sense if they've completed ceded that all swing/non voters are just ideologically aligned to "it's okay for the world to burn".

I'm not even sure they're wrong.

But a politicians job is to CHANGE that, not to just throw up their hands and say "well what can you do?"
innuendostudios.bsky.social Ian Bell Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · Jun 15
it's the circular logic of "we can't have better candidates, we need to focus on electability" and "well the shitty candidate WOULD be electable if you'd vote for them" that gets me
shaunvids.bsky.social shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · Jun 15
this sort of loathsome coward is crying for a world in which people hope & try & expect less. "you wouldn't have to march!" when the most recent democrat president helped to carry out a genocide. you're meant to be okay with that, comfortably not marching about that
June 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM