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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23h

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

Felicity!!! @felicityflex.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait for all banks and payment processors to stop supporting any transactions around anything involving chat gpt. No? Just when it's actual queer artists making it? Oh ok cool

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

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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cunt orlok @t4tcisphobe.hellstar.plus · 2d

i need to hand slay each and every brain worm in her head with surgical precision

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 2d

what did she call us | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE and one other person are handcuffed on a platform over a big cylindrical vat full of glowing liquid. Behind them, TWO ARMED TROOPERS stand. One is shouting, next to a big lever.
TROOPER: You have all been charged with sexual deviance under the new statutes!
TROOPER: You are hereby sentenced…

PANEL 2: Closer in on MATTIE and the person next to her.
TROOPER (VO): …To being dropped into a big vat of acid, thus dissolving your perverted bodies!
MATTIE: I sure did prefer life before we were overrun by fascist stormtroopers.

PANEL 3: The TROOPERS look at each other.
TROOPER 2: Sorry…What did she-he call us?
TROOPER 1: NOT Cool…

PANEL 4: The other TROOPER from panel 3. He's crying, and pulls the lever. Some acid splashes into the frame.
TROOPER: STOP BULLYING ME!
SFX: CLUNK
SFX: SPLASH

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 2d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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cunt orlok @t4tcisphobe.hellstar.plus · 3d

driving this gender while texting

mortal juniperil 🏳️‍⚧️ @blahaj.rodeo · 19d

driving this gender like i stole it

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Felicity!!! @felicityflex.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my god the gun shoots him thru time

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 3d

je suis le wokisme

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rock robster @plounce.bsky.social · 3d

#crumb

a small simple drawing of a cat winking and giving two thumbs up, saying "me-wow!"

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Mel Stone @melstone.xyz · 13d

why is my therapist so obsessed with my dad 🙄 she won't stop talking about him every session and how still chasing his love affects every relationship and every decision i make 🙄🙄🙄 do you think he loves her more than he loves me

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Maddy "Boo!" Hare @mbhare.bsky.social · 3d

the best part of Tron Ares was when he said "TRON APETIT" and Trond all over those guys.

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 4d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Stupid Twink @stupidtwink.bsky.social · 3d

a four panel comic of a guy saying to a lesbian:

SHE LET YOU HIT ON THE FIRST DATE?
WHAT A WHORE!
OR I GUESS YOU'RE
THE WHORE?
SLUT SHAMING
LESBIANS IS
CONFUSING

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · Aug 4

eggs will shower often and far too hot because it always feels like there is a thin sheen of sweat or oil over their skin that they can only get rid of temporarily

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 4d

Incredibly refreshing to see a uk politician just say yes a woman can have a penis and can you be normal about trans people if you dont want them to have a dick fund their transition awesome love this guy

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Nov 11

squad goals

newspaper clipping from Friday August 9th 1985 reading

Naked Witches
Salem, Ore.
police say about 150 nude women fondled each other and joined in a ceremony involving the display of symbols associated with satanism at a state part, but no laws were broken.
associated press

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Felicity!!! @felicityflex.bsky.social · 4d

I looked it up and I owned a Nerf Wrist Blitzer and I got my brother with it constantly.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 5d

Hi there, and welcome to #FridayFucksorSucks, a weekly game with simple rules: guns fuck, or they suck.

This week, we have the Sedgley Mk 2. Also called the OSS 38, it is a single shot, smooth bore, .38 special pistol designed by Naval Intelligence specifically to commit perfidy (a war crime) with.

The gun, which looks like a mechanism strapped to the back of a normal work glove because, well, that's what it is for the most part.

The patent that demonstrates the firing mechanism as well as how it's expected to be used as a punch kill weapon.

The break open action swung open showing how to load a round.

The most famous use of one is in fiction, this is the gun that was highlighted by Inglorious Bastards. It should be noted that that was a work of fiction and there is zero evidence of one ever having been fired in the field.

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Felicity!!! @felicityflex.bsky.social · 4d

I had a nerf gun version of this, and simply for that reason alone this gets a fucks from me

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 4d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 5d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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