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Brienne of Snark.

@brienneofsnark.bsky.social

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Face of a Greek goddess, body of a Greek yogurt. 🏳️‍🌈

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Brienne of Snark. @brienneofsnark.bsky.social · Sep 3

Running list:

😡 Invaded Los Angeles

😡 Murdered 11 boaters he accused of being drug dealing gang members

😡 Oversaw the biggest data heist in American history

😡 Extorted lawyers for free work

😡 Extorted Intel for a 10% stake

😡 Kidnapped American citizens who “looked” undocumented

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 7m

Storm Decimates 2 Alaskan Villages And Drives More Than 1,500 People From Their Homes

www.huffpost.com

Storm Decimates 2 Alaskan Villages And Drives More Than 1,500 People From Their Homes

twp.ai

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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 6h

I heard the initial story, but the story is advancing and getting quite interesting!

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Politico @politico.com · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 8h

I will go out of my way to make sure I never hire someone who worked for ICE in this administration. I hope others do the same.

They deserve prison and I hope that happens to them. But I can do my part regardless.

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Brienne of Snark. @brienneofsnark.bsky.social · 13m

Trump Pedophile Syndrome - where an inordinate amount of white guy magas are pedophiles.

Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 6h

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 6h

Once agin I am asking why Democratic Mayors don't seem to have any control over their police forces? Or, are specifically directing them to commit violence against protesters?

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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 8h

I love this so much.
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Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 10h

A man named Nicky Crawford transformed a school bus into a mobile laundry service for the homeless called “Flowing with Blessings” He teamed up with Georgia Tech engineering students and created the bus, which provides free laundry, showers, haircuts & meals for the homelessness

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 8h

Charlie Kirk was the leader of these racist hateful goons.

He was the start of a movement across campuses empowering young white men to talk and think like this.

And 98 Dems voted to honor that ridiculous ASSHOLE!

And we want to act shocked that this is what TPUSA was pumping out?

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10h

There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 16h

"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?

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Brienne of Snark. @brienneofsnark.bsky.social · 53m

Porn is the only way it can become profitable.

Billions of dollars for a jack off machine

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 16h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 8h

Javier Milei's absolute trainwreck of an Argentine economy is glaring evidence that slash-and-burn governmental policies don't right the fiscal ship.

They sink it.

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 6h

DOGE dismantling our entire government was TREASON. That is the FIRST thing that happened beginning in January & we have plunged ever deeper into authoritarianism since. That FIRST act has NEVER, EVER even been discussed.
DOGE is ILLEGAL & UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
I hope to see EACH traitor get their due.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Donald Trump thinks he’s all powerful. It’s up to us to remind him on October 18th that he’s not.

We will show him who really has the power in this country — and we will do it peacefully. nokings.org

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5h

The real reason they’re doing this is that in the phantasmagoric moral landscape of social media and far-right news, “drug trafficker” codes semantically as a kind of degenerate villainous mook, someone for the hero to gun down without thinking too much, like a stormtrooper in Star Wars

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 14h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Brienne of Snark. @brienneofsnark.bsky.social · 1h

An LLM like Chat GPT is a prediction machine. As you talk to it tries to predict what YOU want to hear.

Particularly, in a personal context.

So, wanking off to it is really just masturbation.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 7h

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Jeffries: "If Donald Trump can find $20b to bail out his right-wing dictator friend in Argentina, it's extraordinary to me that Republicans are unwilling to even have a discussion about how we address the healthcare crisis that they've created."

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The Kimberly Krautter @kimberlykrautter.bsky.social · 6h

@laffyu.bsky.social So sad that Atlanta Mayor Dickens doesn’t have the same stuff as the Mayors of LA, Chicago, and Portland… www.ajc.com/news/2025/10...

Atlanta ‘No Kings’ protesters vow to march — city permit or not

Atlanta 'No Kings' demonstrators decry city's refusal to deny them a permit to march.

www.ajc.com

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FiveToePhil @fivetoephil.bsky.social · 5h

Like #Chicago, RESIST!!!

PROTEST PEACEFULLY EVERYWHERE ON 10/18!

THERE ARE NO KINGS IN AMERICA

STOP THE ICE SECRET POLICE PRIVATE ARMY

NO MILITARY IN OUR CITIES

RESIST the #MadKing and his brutal brownshirts.

We MUST win the 2026 midterms!

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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NutBallCop @nutballcop.bsky.social · 3h

#Frog #Portland #Chicago #LA #Boston #NoKings #protest #protests

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 4h

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 6h

I feel like a government shutdown should trigger an automatic snap election for every federal elected office where no incumbent is allowed to run.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 4h

What really pisses me off about the Dem gerontocracy more than anything is that it's a shitty personal value system. Whenever I used to hold petty party offices when I lived in California, I was always looking for good replacements because I knew I wasn't going to be in that position forever. 1/x

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15h

This is the most important politics story in a long time. Twitter has radicalized the young GOP into overt Nazism and white supremacy and the news has spent years pretending not to see.

It’s a gleefully racist and antisemitic party now. Stop pretending otherwise www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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