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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 45m

All ICE has to do to make nice with the cops is not fuck with the cops themselves and what do they go and do?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

amphibiomorphic surely

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

You post like a robot. Do you respond to replies?

Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell this is reality and not a science fiction novel because you can't fuck the chatbot.

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

I know the headline everyone's running with is "erotica" but "we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues" and "we are putting personality back in ChatGPT so it will act like a friend" are diametrically opposed statements

that's the cause of most of the mental health issues

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

Is... is the dog taking a poop?

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 2d

It's just so uncanny 😂

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 2d

Is this real? Please say yes, I want to believe

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 2d

This is far too unkind to Michael Scott, I shan't have it. Michael Scott has experience with paper. The only bomb Heggseth ever dropped was made of Jager.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

I frequently say you don't need to protest. You don't! There are a thousand other ways to push back on fascism if protesting doesn't feel comfortable or safe for you!

But if you CAN go, this 10/18 #NoKings thing is really a key protest to participate in. Be part of it, friends.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

nokings.org

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 2d

Picked up my NE Regional ticket to DC for the 18th. Usually I prefer local stuff but I lived in DC for 12 years and it's a protest on the National Mall. Feels like I need to be there. Now for the sign and frog hat.

Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 2d

And honestly if that's your jam fine! Live your best life! Mandatory screening for potential English majors in the entire population is a little much for me.

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 2d

It has some real Tumblr vibes tbh and I'm kind of here for it. Waffle Advocate is more tolerable if you imagine them as a Tumblr Teen.

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 3d

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 2d

Never been in an out-and-out street fight but I've seen video of myself in judo tournaments and... yeah. Not pretty. And judo is SUPPOSED to look good on TV, the rules are optimized around the Olympic viewing experience.

Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 2d

Seconded, but for bipolar. Also congrats on grabbing a sweet domain name

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 2d

Bias alert, I skipped as many English classes as possible to go read in the school library.

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 2d

English teachers do more to discourage the love of reading than all the video media on the internet put together. English classes teach the kids who don't read that reading is a tedious interpretive exercise and teach the kids who do read that they're not reading right.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 3d

Every memory I have of the Black Cat is terrible but how dare they

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 3d

How hard does a Constitution have to fail at it's most basic goals before we decide we need a new one? We tested this one. It didn't work. There's no going back to a pre-Trump executive without a symbolic and legal reset. Otherwise we just see the ratchet tick toward tyranny a little further

Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 3d

I don't want to hear about court packing. I want these people impeached, replaced with real judges, and ideally sentenced. Accountability that skips a rogue court is missing half the ledger.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 3d

What do you (or David, idk if David runs this account) plan to do differently from Smiley when it comes to protecting people from ICE? No question that the EO is inadequate, but what steps are you willing to take that he isn't?

Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic article. It worries me today that even as a politically engaged person I'm hard pressed to name leaders with the strategic acumen and courage of the Civil Rights Movement leadership. There are good progressive leaders, but who has the profile to set national strategy?

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 3d

This genuinely tweaked me for a minute. Sick burn from Guy of course, but my inner pedant doesn't want to cede the premise to this pseudogrammarian twerp.

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Jack Curtis @jackvcurtis.bsky.social · 3d

Can I highlight the absurdity of $30 for a "decent quality silk" shirt? This is the fabric knowledge of a man who wears nothing but t-shirts. Silk is like grass to him, he's never touched it in his life

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