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Danielle Radford @danielleradford.bsky.social · 9h

So glad we’re all in on this technology

A Google AI overview reading:

The Seattle Mariners have zero games left in the 2025 season because they were eliminated from the playoffs after losing to the Detroit Tigers in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series. Their season is over, but they will have a full 162-game regular season schedule in 2026.
Regular Season: All MLB teams play a 162-game regular season, with each team having played 162 games by the end of the 2025 season.
Postseason: The Mariners' 2025 postseason run ended in the American League Championship Series after losing to the Detroit Tigers in Game 5.

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 8h

Large cloud the size of a small cloud

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 8h

Twigmalion

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 10h

Frank Churchill, one hopes

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 11h

A Michelle Yeoh-case

(Sorry)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14h

I’m really frustrated so here is an Eggsy appreciation post. Look how easy he is to appreciate

My orange creamsicle cat eggsy rolling around on the floor

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 13h

Someday I will get it through my thick skull that Christopher Walken was not in either RESERVOIR DOGS or THE USUAL SUSPECTS

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 18h

just tremendous.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 19h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 28d

Go 🦅
Fuck 🧊
Free 🇵🇸

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 20h

I don’t know if it’s about being born perfect, but at what point of their history were conservatives of all ages about racial and gender inclusion and respect for marginalized people? Their entire history is being against rights for non-white people and women. Where was the confusion?

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

I know people are eager to claim they were born perfect and never had to learn and change, unlike losers like me.

So congrats! You were born knowing conservatives are inherently racist. Eat your cookie rewards.

But remember: Telling people they aren't allowed to grow and change hurts us.

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 22h

Anything I’m meant to see will make its way to Instagram, as god intended

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 23h

I have never and will never download TikTok

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1d

i have never, not once, listened to a song on spotify unless it was playing at somebody else's place

what are you a luddite about

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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 1d

It really drives home the intrinsic amorality and creative bankruptcy of AI-generated slop that its biggest selling points are "want to see an oft-abused Hollywood icon be forced into something she wouldn't have consented to when she was alive?"

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

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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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 1d

One thing that’s probably getting overlooked here is: these folks are serious about this stuff.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 1d

And a nearby parking lot, I’m in

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 1d

Mood

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 1d

And at this point I’m too afraid to ask

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Amy (in her Jeff the Land Shark era) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 1d

Two things can be true at once:

-Netanyahu's administration is fucking evil
-Blaming every bad thing in politics on Israel and AIPAC whether it relates or not is textbook antisemitism

Not acknowledging (2) makes it harder to make the (very valid!) argument for (1).

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 1d

Job getting fairy dust

tinkerbell is flying through the air surrounded by sparkly stars

Alt: tinkerbell is flying through the air surrounded by sparkly stars

media.tenor.com

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 1d

Fine as in “extremely attractive” as well

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking of the importance of context lol (sincerely, thank you for letting me know!)

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 1d

I am always here to listen to it, though!

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve never read his stuff, but the context of a work is crucial to understanding it regardless! Do I get every etiquette nicety in Wharton or Austen? No. Do I understand they’re writing about very regimented societies? Yes.

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 1d

So sad that you can’t annotate books or anything (also you don’t need to understand absolutely everything in a story to enjoy or get value from it)

John Scalzi• @scalzi.com • 5h
Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

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trickster and demimondaine @combledore.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure whether I should be proud or embarrassed that I’m undefeated in the Reality TV ML (and have only missed one question)

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