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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 7h

wait what is wrong with graham crackers

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 7h

nate silver

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 8h

what happens when the robots go sentient and don't want to fuck these losers, either

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 10h

in all fairness I would not be crushed if robots did look like Gemma Chan

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 10h

jesus christ Janbet Mills you are 77 let someone younger have a stab at things. You have been great standing up to Trump. Keep doing that and lift someone younger up the fucking latter to carry on the fight.

What is with these olds clinging to power? The older I get the wronger this feels.

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 11h

I see someone buying prime cuts of beef and all i think is "oh you rich, rich"

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 1d

the thing I love most about all the protest videos in ridiculous outfits and what not is that most of those outfits are worn and old. They're not new. No one is playing dress up, really. It appears to be just typical portland attire.

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 11h

I swear to god if today's techbros wrote "I, Robot" the first rule of robotics would be "all robots have to be fuckable"

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 11h

In approximately a month, Sam Altman will say “whoops, we have seen 25,000 senile grandpas kidnapped for ransom by five-boobed-lady AI porn bot rings, we’ll pretend to introduce a tool that will fix this”

somehow, many people will believe him

and thus launches a mass Grandpa Extinction Event

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 11h

got a little sad thinking about Kevin Drum

Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 12h

this lowkey explains so much

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 12h

this lowkey explains so much

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h

Oh hey, check this out. They talk the same way in their private chats as they do on Twitter www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 12h

now you too can set a torch to the environment in pursuit of the perfect wank since you can't convince a human to have sex with you

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 16h

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

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13h

Rev. David Black hasn’t been the only clergy member attacked by federal agents. “Every time we have been attacked w/pepper bullets … it has felt like it came from anger that we were there, and not from any determined safety need or protocol,” said Rev. Hannah Kardon. “They are unhinged.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13h

Clergy member shot w/a pepper ball by a federal agent outside of an ICE facility says that showing up for immigrants “is an act of solidarity and a deep desire for those who are inside the facility to know that they are not alone.” New at @americasvoice.bsky.social:

Clergy Member Shot With Pepper Ball Outside ICE Facility Says He Could Hear Agents ‘Laughing’

Rev. David Black, who has since joined a lawsuit against the administration “alleging violations of the First and Fourth Amendments,” says he protests to let immigrants know “that they are not alone."

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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ChatGPT Quantum Particle Physician @smullins3000.bsky.social · 13h

"When do we start bullying, dude" 🤔

I don't know, when do you want to start getting punched in the face?

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 13h

bhad bhabie is worth 50 million

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 13h

If you're having a bad day, some heartwarming news

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 14h

So they aren't using AI or crypto inappropriately, they are using it for exactly what they were designed to do. To crime.

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 15h

the enitre point of AI is to steal other people's creative endeavors and expertise and recreate it for free and pretend it is your own and not pay the people who made it.

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 15h

the entire point of cryptocurrency is to have a currency to buy child porn, drugs, or do other illegal shit, so calling something a cryptocurrency scam is kind of a misnomer because the entire point of cryptocurrency is to crime.

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Diamond Hands: Master Bag Holder @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 1d

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 1d

the thing I love most about all the protest videos in ridiculous outfits and what not is that most of those outfits are worn and old. They're not new. No one is playing dress up, really. It appears to be just typical portland attire.

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 1d

insouciant yet somehow belligerent Lee Pace as Day in season 3 is pretty fucking spectacular

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 1d

I love lamb but my favorite thing about a lamb dinner is knowing I get to make lamb curry the next day with the leftovers.

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 1d

it's all just so obscene and stupid

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 1d

I feel my whole life I have been trying to break free from cooking the traditional turkey for thanksgiving. Done duck, done silly mini hens the name I forget no it's cornish, all sorts of things. And in the end turkey just wore me down it's like fuck it there are other battles we'll have turkey

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