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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 10h

There are more underemployed, debt-ridden 20-somethings living at their parents’ place on Staten Island than people realize.

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 17h

(an account calling itself "the Persian Jewess" sees a comedian portray an Italian-American with a cross necklace): this is anti-semitism

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 1d

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

if someone threw a shuriken at my head I would angle it so that it struck my hypothalamus and triggered a second puberty causing me to become taller and stronger

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merritt @merrittk.com · 2d

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent job on the saggy folded neck wattle Eli!

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 2d

The cops should be like the military: If they are to exist at all they must obey the will of the people as expressed through its chosen leadership. If they start trying to influence politics through this kind of cheap extortion they should be expelled and punished. The next batch will be loyal.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 3d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 2d

40 years ago today.

The opening panel of Watchmen, with an entry from Rorschach's journal dated October 12, 1985. "Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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

the problem isn't the money. it's the power. and also they used the money to get the power but that's not important

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 4d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 4d

Quick, someone poll the 4 things in this scary, scary agenda.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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merritt @merrittk.com · 4d

remember david pumpkins? that was like 10 years ago

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 4d

I never tire of executives who do absolutely nothing and contribute a sum total of zero to a company asking the actual workers to justify how they spend every minute of the day

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 4d

Republicans hate immigrants because immigrants exploit the USA’s secret free healthcare system that doesn’t exist.

pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 4d

uhhhh no one told me tony diterlizzi is on here

Tony DiTerlizzi @diterlizzi.bsky.social · 5d

Inktober, Day 9, "Heavy": This is the heaviest character I could think of. It is a revisit to one of the first color prints I offered way back in 1993 at my first Gen Con Art Show, on the heels of the release of the AD&D "Monstrous Manual". 🎨

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 6d

just gonna toss out this article for everyone to read, no reason theins.ru/en/history/2...

“Good Germans”: Resistance inside Nazi Germany

While Soviet and Hollywood narratives pay little attention to how Germans resisted Nazism, in reality, Hitler had millions of opponents both within and outside Germany, and anti-fascist Germans who em...

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 6d

well gee i wonder if spending two years bombarding gaza into ash and dust has contributed to israel's inability to locate their dead hostages

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 6d

I mean we do need to do something about social media poisoning everyone's brain but like cigarettes, alcohol, and nearly all drugs, I don't think simply "banning" it for people under a certain age is gonna do much, if anything. Like how does one propose to even enforce such a law?

CNN @cnn.com · 6d

Denmark will move to ban social media for children under 15, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, saying the online platforms are “stealing our children’s childhood.”

Denmark plans to ban social media for users under 15, as PM says platforms are ‘stealing childhood’ | CNN Business

Denmark will move to ban social media for children under 15, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Tuesday, saying the online platforms are “stealing our children’s childhood.”

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 7d

It's fascinating how every trial run of a government-run "give money to people whose problems can be solved by simply giving them money" scheme turns out to have a tremendous return on investment on TOP of benefiting the recipients, and still it's like "ohhhh we don't know about this!! scary!!!"

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 7d

sighing as i read my daily state-mandated 3,000 Yglesias essay about why, more than ever, we need to make bullying cool again

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merritt @merrittk.com · 7d

it is 2030. bari weiss is in charge of all major hollywood studios. movies are exclusively about brave truthtelling women who are universally lauded for their courage of convictions to say you should be allowed to kill brown children if you want

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 7d

Murph just gets hotter and hotter each year that goes by.

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pierce @inverarity.bsky.social · 7d

“actual residents of chicago”? fascist dipshits living in a fantasy world of magical enemies and even more imaginary supporters

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Rep. Riley Moore: "I think the actual residents of Washington DC are very happy with the outcome. And I think the actual residents of Chicago and our other great cities here in America would actually like to have safe streets and not people murdered every night."

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