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👻 Cassie 🎃 @cassiefacie.bsky.social · 1d

Black Mirror stopped hitting so hard a few years ago because reality became more dystopian than anything the writers could think of

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

I am straight-up going to have nightmares about this

In the video Smith posted online, he said Neuralink engineers had started using language models including ChatGPT and Grok to serve up a selection of relevant replies to questions, as well as options for things he could say in conversations going on around him. One example that he outlined: “My friend asked me for ideas for his girlfriend who loves horses. I chose the option that told him in my voice to get her a bouquet of carrots. What a creative and funny idea.”

These aren’t really his thoughts, but they will do—since brain-clicking once in a menu of choices is much faster than typing out a complete answer, which can take minutes.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 1d

We will hold every last ICE agent accountable.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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👻 Cassie 🎃 @cassiefacie.bsky.social · 1d

I love sports time because I do not follow sports, but I can tell a sports time is happening because I follow people that follow sports and my timeline becomes incomprehensible. It's like hearing one end of a very weird phone call

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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👻 Cassie 🎃 @cassiefacie.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe I will drive all the way across the country for it and then go see Mothman again

👻 Cassie 🎃 @cassiefacie.bsky.social · 2d

I am one thousand percent going to figure out how to get to New York for this ballroom Cats. I love Cats. I love weird versions of Cats. I do not love big cities but it's fine because Cats

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 3d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 4d

This is him as well.

Not all Christians are right wing MAGA - some of them actually live out Christ’s teachings.

Image of a pastor getting pepper sprayed

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👻 Cassie 🎃 @cassiefacie.bsky.social · 3d

I found the only reason I would be willing to go to New York City

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

A version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's loved-and-loathed musical “Cats,” will transfer to Broadway this spring. The reimagined “Jellicle Ball” is set in the underground ballroom scene, a queer subculture built around dance competitions.

‘Cats’ Is Returning to Broadway, This Time With Heels Instead of Paws

The reimagined “Jellicle Ball” version of the musical is set in the ballroom scene — the queer subculture built around dance competitions.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8d

idk man, if you’re getting to the point where you’re accusing prosecutors, judges, and metro police of being the enemy, i am skeptical you have achieved the kind of consolidation you need for this kind of a project

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 8d

Stephen Miller again lashes out at the judiciary, suggesting federal judges are aiding and abetting domestic terrorism:

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👻 Cassie 🎃 @cassiefacie.bsky.social · 9d

100% should look at the glowing rectangle of horrors for an hour straight and then go to bed. Very relaxing experience

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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 10d

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Dylan @drhspoliticalcafe.bsky.social · 10d

A lot of us know what this is, but for the average person on here: circa 2015 the Alt Right (the explicitly NeoNazi wing especially) appropriated the obscure McDonald’s mascot from the 80s, and made it into a NeoNazi ridden meme.

So yes, this is straight NeoNazism being posted.

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👻 Cassie 🎃 @cassiefacie.bsky.social · 10d

The temperature consistently being above average is not helping me believe that it's October

👻 Cassie 🎃 @cassiefacie.bsky.social · 10d

How is it October

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 11d

Be the Mothman you wish to see in the world

an illustration that shows a caterpillar, then a moth, then The Mothman

text: GIVE YOURSELF TIMEA

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 Montana National Guard preparing to provide support to ICE at state capital of Helena, source tells me.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11d

Adding "feds fucking choking a man in broad daylight" to the list.

Absolute terror across Chicago today. Begging for national attention that matches the level of crisis on the ground here feels like screaming underwater at this point.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 11d

HAPPENING NOW — Video obtained by The TRiiBE shows a federal agent with his hands around the neck of a Black man following an apparent car crash on the West Side near California Avenue and Congress Parkway.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/vide...

Video shows feds ‘choking’ a Black man in East Garfield Park • The TRiiBE

“Why is you choking him, man? Why is he choking him, man?” a man says at the scene.

thetriibe.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 12d

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

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👻 Cassie 🎃 @cassiefacie.bsky.social · 12d

Eggnog and Dr Pepper is the best drink I've ever had and it cuts the thickness of the eggnog a lot, if that's why you didn't like it

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12d

Oh yes, this is clearly now.

A post on X by Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan
) expresses frustration, asking how anyone can read a definition of fascism and not be alarmed, emphasizing that it is happening now. The post includes a quote from Cody Johnston (@drmistercody
) from one day ago, defining fascism as a form of political behavior marked by an obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, and compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity. The definition describes a mass-based party of nationalist militants working with traditional elites, abandoning democratic liberties, and pursuing redemptive violence for internal cleansing and external expansion without ethical or legal restraints.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 13d

starting to think that an increasingly senile trump is being shown a different reality by his aides by making ai videos of shit and telling him it’s real news

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👻 Cassie 🎃 @cassiefacie.bsky.social · 13d

I finished Farscape and now I don't know what to do with my life