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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 24m

Multipolarity is just a return to great power rivalry.

We need true internationalism — all of humanity working together towards shared goals.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 28m

Just saw sometime trying to argue that multipolarity is decolonization 🤮

Multipolarity is associated with *higher* levels of colonization, because you have multiple factions vying against each other for resources.

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stellz @piss.beauty · 52m

leave sluts out of this

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 11h

How did I not know this exists?!?!

Based on my favorite prog metal album everrrrrr

Novel based on Dream Theater's Metropolis Pt. 2

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 12h

Giving "Nyaight of the Living Cat" a try, an anime parody of zombie horror where getting affection from a cat turns you into a cat, and the world is increasingly filled with cats desperate for cuddles

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 13h

me, a week ago: I'll just use Coolify to replace Vercel and Render

me, now: seems like you can run an IPFS node in a Docker container, so why SHOULDN'T I host one that way?

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 15h

"unprecedented restructuring", wake up, guys, a new newspeak euphemism for the liquidation of article I powers just dropped

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

President Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen, giving his budget office rare authority to pick who gets paid or fired, which programs are cut or survive — in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.

Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other

President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen. The White House's budget office headed by Russ Vought is deciding who gets paid or fired in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 13h

This pissed off a lot of people who are VERY SURE they are extremely pure and righteous and could never do anything wrong

Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 1d

The anti-AI crowd is never beating the "just wants an excuse to bully marginalized people" allegations

These people do nothing to actually challenge power and take out all of their rage on queer technologists and tinkerers

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 2d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 14h

There's a Splinter Cell animated TV series written by the John Wick guy that just came out and no one told me?!

I thought that IP was so dead. Been 12 years since the last game.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 14h

Yes!! I was kind of excited to see that when I recruited him just now.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 14h

I like that the new version of FFT has Cloud's FF7R VA for the voice acting. The voice acting in general is great, but that's a nice added touch.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 14h

getting the weirdest fucking bot spam in my Twitter DMs

hili, i m thinking abt becoming a professional chocolate
eater but i m not sure yet, what do u think abt it?

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 16h

I guess if you don't really understand how AI works, it must seem profound

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 16h

Pretty unforgivable that linear algebra isn't required by 100% of engineering programs and is taught poorly in most of them. So much of "AI in STEM" stuff is braindead just from that impasse

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 16h

Saw a temporary sign saying “Steel Plates Ahead”

Oh, honey, this is Atlanta, of course there are, that’s just to be assumed, because why fix potholes when you can just bandaid the problem?

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 17h

I have a decent amount installed on my MacBook Pro

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 18h

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 18h

For over a year now, everything I'm relying on either runs macOS/iOS/etc. or Linux

The only thing I miss about Windows is being able to play all of my Steam library, just what a nightmare of an OS

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 18h

"We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil" is an all-timer. Thank you Mr President, we appreciate your insights.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need to purchase it from China.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 18h

MARTA not immune to the Windows 10 apocalypse

MARTA sign that has a command window and the start menu open over the data it's supposed to display

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 19h

Oh, you like AI?

Have you considered an ancient model from before ChatGPT was even released couldn’t unpixelate a photo of Obama?

Checkmate, tech bro

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The Verge @theverge.com · 23h

"If queer and trans folks are going to survive, we’ll need to once again embrace the underground, and learn when to be visible and when to shut the fuck up."

Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 21h

Context now that I'm blocked

Bandit Heeler Energy defending bullying even small-time queer technologists for using AI

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stellz @piss.beauty · 22h

oh do you like coffee? you are like a little baby. have a fucking energy drink instead peasant

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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