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NethaEndaFendr @nethaendafendr.bsky.social · 3h

Stop using automated detectors and start paying & treating your real organic human staff better, YouTube.

YouTube has launched a 'likeness detector'

This allow creators to be notified when AI deepfakes or other lookalikes of them have been detected on the platform

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pbsimpulse9.bsky.social @pbsimpulse9.bsky.social · 7h

“We all had a N*zi phase, am I right?”

My brother, no WE did not.

Speak for yourself, weirdo.

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lou-ellen @louceph.com · 11h

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 2h

Yep, nothing for it - sorry/not sorry, but I actually like this better than The Twin Sequels.

And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 3h

Y'all motherfuckers need Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngers.

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 4h

I'm guessing the play-within-our-movie isn't real (a) because the only references to it I can find lead back here, & (b) because it's too perfect. "If I could be reborn, even though it violate the will of God himself..." Oh, honey, give it 30-odd years. Maybe jump one dimension over.

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 4h

"So drama is the best medicine..." No, I think strong tranqs might still be in order, Doc.

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 4h

Ok, got a cycle to complete. Time for Ring 0: Birthday.

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Warren Frey @freyburg.bsky.social · 12h

Please, Museum of Television, I can’t handle pornography of this intensity

A West German tv cabinet with radio and turntable from 1957

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 6h

I've been working 10-hour customer service shifts for 3 years running & even I don't have as low of an opinion of my fellow Americans as that. Sweet Kansan Jesus.

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 6h

No real leftist would so despise the working class that they'd imagine you can't find working class people by the dozens who never flirted with Naziism.

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 6h

I remember when Jamelle Bouie got yelled at by everyone on here because he was the only NYT employee we had access to who wasn't a complete turd. Imagine thinking you - a podcaster - could possibly step to someone who endured all that & is still here. Poster's hubris, that is.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 7h

this was supposed to say "shitty candidate" but for once autocorrect found an actual sensible replacement

Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 12h

Lotta "must defend shifty candidate / potential candidate before the election is even an issue" going around.

Rock of the Living Dead 💀 @ricosblues.bsky.social · 12h

Wait, the Maine senate election is in November of next year?!?

Why is anyone twisting themselves into knots over this guy? Dump him and get someone else. There’s plenty of time.

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 8h

This is my favorite genre of poster right now

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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 18h

The NY Times can go fuck itself. This fallacy has done nothing but drag the Democrats further right with every election cycle. The magic "moderate" vote has always been a goddamn myth.

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 1d

My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.

The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.

Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.

data4democracy.substack.com

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Aubrey Wood - BANG BANG BODHISATTVA paperback and audio out now! @briewoodfiction.bsky.social · 9h

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 9h

whomst amongst us

2 panel comic

Panel 1: Smug Orange Man says “Let he who has NOT had a Nazi phase cast the first stone”

Panel 2: Orange man shits his pants as he is simultaneously pelted with a shitload of stones

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 10h

I'll be your corner man. & sell popcorn out of one of those rolling carts.

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 11h

Electric State is back on my feed for the first time since it came out, lol. I knew I watched it, knew I reviewed it, but have no memory of it or of writing this | boxd.it/9gvzZ7

A ★½ review of The Electric State (2025)

The Russos have directed two movies since Endgame and I've ignored them because consensus says they were the definition of “mediocre.” And now I see why. I saw this movie before when it was good and c...

boxd.it

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And You Thought It Was Safe(?) @aytiws.bsky.social · 11h

Not a revolution worth having at the very least.

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Visions of Hope @visions-of-hope.bsky.social · 12h

Just come out of One Battle After Another.

It’s good. I enjoyed it.

Reminds you that if it doesn’t make you intensely horny… is it even a revolution?

a picture of a man and woman kissing with #onebattleafteranother written on the bottom

ALT: a picture of a man and woman kissing with #onebattleafteranother written on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 14h

Not sure Red White and Black is the color combo you should be trying out today boss lol.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 15h

If we want to defeat Susan Collins, we need to try something new. The same old tired playbook will not work.

A graphic with a quote from: “We need to try something new. I fear going with the same playbook that we’ve used before — we may fail to unseat Susan Collins again.”

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Fantasy Football Draft Dodger @liberationnow.bsky.social · 1d

People are more upset about the demolition of the East Wing of the White House than they are about the demolition of the majority of buildings in Gaza.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 13h

Ok let's see here, I have an economy dependent on consumer spending, and where everyone is leveraged to the gills. Should I make everything more expensive for no apparent reason and see how it goes?

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Icky Kinicki @lolakinicki.bsky.social · 12h

Looks like this needs to be said again today.

White t-shirt with the Dead Kennedys song Nazi Punks Fuck Off scrawled in black marker on the front.

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Visions of Hope @visions-of-hope.bsky.social · 11h

[1/3] Thinking about the Riyadh Comedy Festival has made me realise just how much I hate this Shameless Piece of Shit Industrial Complex we seem to have now.

Time was when a celebrity said something racist or transphobic they had to at least PRETEND to be sorry.

You’d have to watch them-

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