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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 11h

I'm overdue for a kitten update. Great news, Harrow is able to eat small amounts of her own and she's gonna make it, folks!

Look at this shitty little Halloween colored fuck. She's lucky she's cute.
🖤🧡🤍

Harrow, Carmine's calico foster kitten, posed playfully on a cat tree. She's still a shit-ass little bitch.

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 11h

C’mon, man, what the fuck are we even- we’re gonna destroy the planet and the economy for this bullshit?!? Pay a fucking sex worker! There are like thousands of them right on this site who’ll sext you.

The Verge @theverge.com · 15h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 17h

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

www.latimes.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13h

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

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 14h

All things considered, I would love to see what happens when the AI companies start actually charging the simps the rate they’d need to charge to be profitable

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 14h

So many things. First, of course, “growing pains?” The fuck?

And who wants Marilyn Monroe in GOT? What does that even mean? The idea is pointless. And even if you wanted to see that, are you gonna watch more than 10 seconds of it? And how much are you willing to pay? Because it can’t be free.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

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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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 16h

Sigh…people shouldn’t just be allowed to use words…

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 22h

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
X.com
Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16h

Eric Trump is legally prohibited from operating a charity in the state of New York because he stole money from children with cancer

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 16h

Hey everybody, look at this STUNNING art!

Helen Mask 🔜 Seattle oddities🔜Pdx oddities 🔜kumoricon @hemask.bsky.social · 16h

Hello #PortfolioDay I'm Helen, A freelance Illustrator inspired by art nouveau. I love mythology and folklore, dark creepy things, and Queer love.

I'd love to work on more TTRPG, Book covers/comic book covers, Posters, packaging illustration

Portfolio: helenmask.com
📧 [email protected]

Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 17h

We’re saving God by making sure Budweiser isn’t woke…

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17h

"We're saving God," huh?

I dunno, maybe I'm just too conservative for these radical times, but I prefer the good old-fashioned "Jesus saves."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 18h

It was one kiss and it was a long time ago, so how does she keep finding her way into my head?

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19h

Important to note that this isn’t a problem for the billionaire buying media properties. If they make them into successful rightwing propaganda? Cool more money. If it fails? Cool they’ve destroyed one of the few outlets with the resources to investigate them. Either way they achieved their goal

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 21h

Hi #PortfolioDay - I am Kim Hu
Freelance Illustrator & Concept Artist

Looking for cool new projects to work on in 2026 💫

Portfolio: kim-hu.com
✉️ [email protected]

Cover of Killtopia Comic Anthology, featuring a despairing man in a tech helmet.

The cover to Blister City
In the background in orange and pink tones sits a massive city, behind which orange mountains rise into a dusty orange sky
In the foreground 3 punks perch on the edge of a building, surrounded by litter and soda cans. The punk on the left wears a blue jacket that says die young on the back.

The text Blister City can be seen in the sky above the city.

Illustration of Clippy the Paperclip in a Mad Max style truck, blasting through the wasteland; Done for Autonocast.com

Photo of a shirt, showing a girl with a nailbat on top of a smashed robot, holding up its severed head. The text says: Destroy AI; Done for Aftermath
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#kimgakaku

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 19h

I thought I’d like Superman more than I did. Maybe I was in the wrong mood…

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 20h

Hot Take of the Day: I don’t care for Kid Rock’s music.

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 20h

Much Ado About Nothing was the one I saw live that did it for me. Learning it in school doesn’t even come close.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20h

Plays are (generally) meant to be performed in front of an audience and are (generally) written with that in mind, so absolutely seeing it performed by competent actors, live and with others around you, makes a huge difference. Most theatrical films assume an communal audience as well.

Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 20h

We saw Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe, and it’s crazy how much more sense it made with a live audience and the Shakespearean actors. I don’t remember laughing ever while reading the play, but we laughed a lot and had a lot of fun even though it was a tragedy

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, I love him, and I use that all the time, probably thanks to him.

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 20h

Does Aya Cash get enough love in this world? I submit she does not.

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21h

I've watched this movie a buncha times and it's more of a delight every damn time. Good for horror folks, but also a good book for writers -- it speaks to some central anxieties of what it is to be a storyteller.

Josh Ruben @joshruben.bsky.social · 21h

Reminder to check out my firstborn

collider.com/scare-me-hor...

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 1d

The internet was a mistake example #2234522…

I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · Mar 6

This might be one of the most baffling and tone deaf takes I’ve seen on bluesky- enjoying Harry Potter is not comparable to a person’s sexuality

Rookie Yawaru: Nope, what people like is similar to their sexuality in that you don't decide what you like, you do for the reasons you do.
Also, when it comes to relationships and your partner gives you an ultimatum, you don't choose them.

Dr. Hazel: are you doing a bit

Rookie Yawaru: No, I'm serious. I don't tell people they can't love who they love or what they love. It's a consistent position and if you disagree, please explain why.

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah…I don’t know if this makes me bi, or just human, but he could have me any time he wanted.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man