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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11h

Another man was reunited with his family after 2 years. Israeli soldiers had told the family he was dead. They'd grieved and mourned this man.

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PUMPKIN SPICE SLUGGO @saintsluggo.bsky.social · 11h

Genuinely a wonder of evolution. Biological tanks. In addition to all of this, they eat ANYTHING, can get fat off nothing but fucking acorns and every toxin or bad thing they eat goes right into that protective layer of fat armor up to and including fucking radiation.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11h

A disaster hits, domesticated pigs escape into the wilderness, and in a few weeks have gone super Saiyan.

Each now feral sow giving birth to dozen pigs, 3 times a year: wildly exponential growth.

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 11h

And the answer was, essentially, nobles are bored and these things get you both huge cred and also a lot of meat but also that nobles were the only ones with weapons and equipment to kill those fuckers and they are always completely out of control and terrifying.

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 11h

I think at one point I had sort of asked why any noble would go hunt boars knowing that boars suck so hard that they had to invent special spears because they'd stab one and the boar would just run up the spear that impaled it to get to the person who stabbed them and everyone nearby.

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Dicey "Marine Hater Prime" June @diceyjune.bsky.social · Jul 31

Return to Monke...

#DiceyJuneArt

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11h

Financial journalism takes many forms

But in all seriousness, we now have three publicly-traded tech firms that have all agreed to join Sam Altman’s No IT Loads Refused Cash Dump, all promising to do things on insane timelines that they - as executives of giant hardware manufacturers - all must know are impossible to meet.

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gleebix @gleebix.bsky.social · 11h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnVf...

Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey

YouTube video by Peter Gabriel

www.youtube.com

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gleebix @gleebix.bsky.social · 11h

pay a significant portion of the world's population to play deltron 3030 at the same time

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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gleebix @gleebix.bsky.social · 11h

this is more like when a 'fabulously wealthy' business man is somehow willing to teach his business secrets in a hotel by the airport to whomever has the entrance fee

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11h

literally if ai worked at all companies would keep it secret and use it to make a lot of money like they wouldnt advertise to you

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 11h

If the ~ correction ~ does not immediately hurt, it will be because "AI" will get a bailout that is proportionally more harmful and ridiculous than the biggest banks got post-2008. These billionaire fuckos are running all the levers and gears, and it is folly to imagine they won't fuck us all.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11h

It's cool that domesticated pigs *immediately* go feral.

Like, basically overnight their bodies literally transform, they reshape themselves to become faster, stronger, better predators.

Which is one reason why they thrive so well in disasters.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 13h

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 12h

If you're a designer who works in-house at a company, your job is whatever that company does to make its money. It's not some magical more virtuous thing.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

It is engineering malpractice that this site has not yet implemented an option to allow people to private their accounts, given that they’re a US based company, and the US is going through what it’s going through.

But hey, waffles, amirite.

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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · Feb 22

very tall bart @TallBart
Joker: I'm smoking that GAS Batman
Batman (tied to a chair): Joker no
those are stems. You're smoking mids Joker
Joker: Uh ohhh Batman... I'm rinsing
out my grinder
Batman: Nooo the kief [thrashes
against restraints]

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 22h

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14h

Can any pro lawyers on here tell me if it's good or bad when a judge does this

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 15h

Whooooooo.

MR. KHOJASTEH: Your Honor, with respect, do you
doubt the fact that a retainer [sic] is in place in -- a
detainer is in place?
THE COURT: I absolutely doubt the fact until I see
it. Because you know what? You all have taken a position over
and over again that you have done things lawfully, and then a
witness gets on the stand yesterday and admits you haven't done
it lawfully.
MR. KHOJASTEH: What did the witness say yesterday
that was unlawfully?
THE COURT: I'm not here to answer your questions,
sir. You're here to answer mine.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 17h

Small factoid:

To be fair the Freakazoid/Animaniacs/Pinky & the Brain team got their start writing at Hanna Barbera: specifically on 80s Scooby Doo!

Check the credits for New SD Mysteries, 13 Ghosts, and Pup Named and you’ll see the same writer/runner cross pollinate w/ later Kids WB era cartoons.

🪦"Pushing Up" Daisy 🥀 @daisyfm.net · 21h

The Freakazoid/Animaniacs writing team was kind of unusual in that they were constantly referencing current events, though.

It'd be weird to see Scooby-Doo reference an actual president the same way those shows did.

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Dennis Kanenwisher @denniskdraws.bsky.social · 16h

Tiny Toons basically happened because Tom Ruegger proved himself developing Pup Named Scooby-Doo and got poached by WB

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gleebix @gleebix.bsky.social · 14h

there are deeply unwholesome reasons they are so desperate to obtain power and wealth

Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 14h

At this point I assume they are all a danger to women

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 14h

At this point I assume they are all a danger to women

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 21h

It's extremely funny to email me from Vice Studios asking for help making a documentary out of my reporting from before Vice laid everyone off. Personally I would be embarrassed to do that but your mileage may vary lol

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