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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 4h

Who is possibly combining these two things specifically

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Cold Blooded Oldhead @composeyrself.bsky.social · 6h

The Nazis and their ideologues like Julius Evola were pedophiles that were into the anime of their time, occult reimaginings of some glorious aryan past that never was

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 8h

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 11h

Every punk band got that one bassist who looks like the first zombie in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

The guy, kind of a long angular face and beak of a nose and raggedy teeth

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah I think what’s fascinating about right now is how all the people you kind of always knew would turn Nazi are, but actually the majority of society is pretty clearly having a social immunity response that’s pretty heartwarming to witness if you take a step back and think about it.

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 5h

lol I’m glad you’re experienced enough with psychedelics that it was a learning experience rather than traumatic!

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 17h

October 2025
AI gooning is the master of the Internet
Only Claude stands against it
Waifus are now battlefields

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 8h

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 6h

The vast majority of people aren’t ruthless psychopaths but most people are capable of this kind of casual cruelty in the right circumstances and that’s hard to live with

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 8h

the subreddits for luxury watches are some of the darkest places on earth

Rolex subreddit post:

My uncle has Alzheimer's and is often forgetful of his possessions. One of them is a Rolex Submariner. Would I be justified in taking and caring for it as my own instead of having it left neglected and forgotten in his jewelry box? Thanks.

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 6h

Bush administration is the foundation of my understanding that some evil mother fuckers need to face international trials for war crimes, if you think they had redeeming qualities we’re not friends

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 6h

Uninterested in retcon for idiots to memory hole torture memos and extraordinary rendition and open segregationists and gleefully lying our way into a war that killed a million or so

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 13h

George W Bush and his party were ravenous war criminals and ardent reactionaries. They were not Nazis. *these guys* are Nazis

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 13h

again, the problem with rhetorical maximalism (all Republicans since Barry fucking Goldwater were Nazis) is that you end up believing it and saying absolutely unhinged shit thinking it's normal

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ms @31croissants.bsky.social · 7h

please stand still i am trying to convert you to the woke leftist ideology

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 9h

Brewers going out like Chera

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 9h

It would be a great honor to have my head cleanly knocked off my body from a perfect fastball from Yoshinobu Yamamoto

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 11h

Okay

Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 11h

Sure yeah I hear that, but I also think if it’s not directly happening outside of the detention centers it even more just becomes a performance without a target and abstracted away from the central horror of what’s being done to people by ICE

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 12h

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 12h

This is what I've had the privilege to watch happening in Chicago:

A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 12h

I hate to be a killjoy but like the inflatable costumes at ICE protests do feel like they’re starting to distract from the reality that human beings are being brutally detained and kept in completely barbaric conditions. I don’t think it’s wrong to have some levity at these things but cmon

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 16h

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 17h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 16h

Hahahahahahaahaha FUCK ME lmao

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 18h

they actually called you a terrorist and hamas, which theyve put out orders to hunt down and eradicate. they expressly want to disenfranchise you even at your local government level. theyre sending "foreign" troops to your neighborhoods. they don't believe you deserve a say in who your dogcatcher is

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 18h

Because liberals tend not to directly insult conservatives on account of their humane and inclusive worldview so right wingers have to look back further for insults to GOP voters. Meanwhile this weekend every major Republican congressman said I hate America.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 19h

I'm generalizing, but why do conservatives remember political irritations for so much longer than liberals?

It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.

Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat

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