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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 6h

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 6h

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

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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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 5d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 6d

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

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jade 🫀 comms closed @yellghoul.bsky.social · 7d

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illustration of a girl walking through a forest fire with a giant wolf made of smoke

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 6d

this is your fucking job that you're being paid to do. Imagine asking your plumber to stop your dishwasher from flooding your apartment and he's like "well what exactly do you want me to do?" The specifics are your part dog idk!

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 6d

"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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James F'n X 💗💜💙 @thecleanupstep.com · 6d

theyre turning the gays frog

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Hexistential Dread @hexsharpe.bsky.social · 6d

One of my favorite things about @dropout.tv is that even the art and post production and tech teams get to "yes, and" the bits and they do so gleefully

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Hexistential Dread @hexsharpe.bsky.social · 6d

Eat the rich

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 13d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7d

i’ll never get over this

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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 8d

Lil duckling ✨
Original painting

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Artist holding painting of black duckling among ferns and water.

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Jesse Goes to Hell @killgoldfish.bsky.social · 8d

Load-bearing illegality, a common trait of new tech companies. Do something blatantly illegal, like copyright infringement or unlicensed hotels or taxis, get a trillion dollars invested in it, then clutch your pearls that following the law would KILL the business

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 8d

you don't get to count on votes from people you are letting get exterminated. if you let a fox kill the chickens, should you still expect eggs in the morning?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 9d

"well what if he was the democratic nominee?" uh what if he wasn't? is everyone else on earth dead? find a better guy

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Hexistential Dread @hexsharpe.bsky.social · 10d

Oh GOOD yes I'm glad you're on it!

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Hexistential Dread @hexsharpe.bsky.social · 10d

It's got Chef from Galavant in it and he's still 100% adorable

Hexistential Dread @hexsharpe.bsky.social · 10d

David "are we the baddies?" Mitchell is a cute li'l guy who just wants to make logic puzzles and then aw dang he's gotta solve some murders

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Hexistential Dread @hexsharpe.bsky.social · 10d

Yelling at everyone I know to watch Ludwig

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Hexistential Dread @hexsharpe.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah cuz it'll hit you right in the face when Brennan does something like "Mintgomery"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10d

this is probably fine

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Hexistential Dread @hexsharpe.bsky.social · 11d

My special interest is anything that might be weird for someone else to hear about

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Hexistential Dread @hexsharpe.bsky.social · 11d

Anyway following joshreads.com is a great way to have interests that make no sense to anyone around you

The Comics Curmudgeon

* nondescript Rex Morgan secondary character ** some guys who have not been given backstories or even names as far as I can recall *** being a cover act in a dive bar

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Hexistential Dread @hexsharpe.bsky.social · 11d

A friend of mine made a joke about a hot air balloon so now I'm explaining the recent Mary Worth storyline about the balloon crash and the psychic teen using her powers to contact dogs for help. I'm normal and great to be friends with

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