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metsfan @metsfan.bsky.social · 28m

Welp I'm not voting for him. (I live in California)

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metsfan @metsfan.bsky.social · 1h

How would Adams even know? He doesn't live there.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3h

Yes. Facebook has been used for genocide. Twitter/X is a half-dozen heartbeats away from becoming the US's Radio Rwanda.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5h

Thing in my head now on how America and racism have messed us up for this moment….

We keep hearing the comparisons to Nazi Germany

Why don’t we hear any comparisons to Rwanda

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4h

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

Joe Gebbia is the billionaire co-founder of AirBnB, a close friend of Elon Musk, and worked to gut the federal government with DOGE.

And he just gave the single largest donation to Cuomo’s super PAC since the primary.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h

It is, and remains, the policy of the United States that information marked TOP SECRET//SI//[redacted] [redacted]//HCS//NF should only be properly handled through correct channels inside of a SCIF or alternatively shared via Signal in the group chat with the editor in chief of Atlantic magazine

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kylie, themeny of the state (pumpkin),,, @kylie.hater.club · 4h

they have actual fucking nazis in the white house, i don't give a shit if he calls himself a communist lmao

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 13h

this doesn’t seem great!

‘I got older and became a communist’: Deleted posts show Maine Senate hopeful’s raw views on politics, war, and police | CNN Politics

Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer, now disavows posts he made years ago, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online.

www.cnn.com

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metsfan @metsfan.bsky.social · 4h

a grasshopper says " are you saying that i 'm stupid " next to a plant

GIF by Tenor.

media.tenor.com

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Ken Fang -- Very Asian @fangsbites.bsky.social · 4h

Hasn’t America suffered enough?

Ken Fang -- Very Asian @fangsbites.bsky.social · 8h

Stephen A. Smith to guest-host ‘Good Morning America’

In case you find yourself feeling like you don’t have enough opportunities to watch Stephen A. Smith, he’ll be hosting Good Morning America on Friday. Smith hosted First Take Thursday morning as they await Shae Cornette to officially take over the full-time role previously held by Molly Qerim beginning Nov. 3. And Smith will be Read more... The post Stephen A. Smith to guest-host ‘Good Morning America’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.

dlvr.it

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5h

Sooooooo we’re all pretty sure these comments were surfaced by the Dem establishment right?

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 7h

Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.

Graham Platner’s Honeymoon Is Over

Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.

nymag.com

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 5h

Roberts readying that shadow docket like Alfred filling upthe Batmobile

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

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metsfan @metsfan.bsky.social · 6h

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metsfan @metsfan.bsky.social · 6h

And yet, people will continue to listen to the people who were wrong about this and call the people who were right hysterical about whatever the next thing is.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

The con worked, until it didn’t?

ROGAN: “I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals… I really thought there was enough gang members.”

ME: He still doesn’t get it. That’s what Trump wanted everyone to believe. They’re not even trying to go after “the criminals”.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 7h

I feel like regulating data centers' energy grid impacts is such a layup for state legislators. These costs should be borne by tech companies, who can then pass them on to their users. There is no reason why local residents should be paying increased energy bills.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone

www.nytimes.com

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 7h

Milhouse's dad pointing to his race car bed, but instead it's a cybertruck. The caption says "her name is aura"

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Christ, what nonsense.

Their whole theory hinges on how you define intelligence. And defining in intelligence is, y’know, REALLY FUCKING COMPLICATED.

Their solution? Just make up a simple definition and hope no one notices.

IF ANYONE BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES
In our view, intelligence is about two fundamental types of work: the work of predicting the world, and the work of steering it.

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This viewpoint is backed up by some theory that we discuss in the online

resources. Ultimately, we won't get too hung up on definitions. If a lightning

strike sets the forest around you ablaze, you can't save yourself by cleverly defin-

ing "fire" to include only man-made infernos; you've just got to run.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7h

The likelihood that the DSCC was involved in this hit piece being published is not zero, which I say as someone who worked comms for a non-establishment Democratic congressional candidate and had to resign because the DCCC planted a similar hit piece on me in our local paper to hurt the candidate.

CNN
@cnn.com
A Marine veteran turned oyster farmer who is now a rising
Democratic Senate candidate once called himself a
"communist," dismissed "all" police as bastards, and said rural White Americans "actually are" racist and stupid, according to deleted social media posts seen by CNN. cnn.it/47sXon6
[photo of Graham Platner]

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

I know this ship has sailed so far it's halfway around the world at this point, but White House press secretary is not exempt from the Hatch Act. This is not within the legitimate scope of her taxpayer-funded job.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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metsfan @metsfan.bsky.social · 8h

Just vote harder!

metsfan @metsfan.bsky.social · 8h

Currently running Fedora on the desktop and laptop. I think Debian for headless VMs/containers.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 9h

14yo Black kid who got murdered for existing!? "No angel"! Justified! for some reason!!😡

22 yo white rapist? "promising! young! man!"

35 yo neonazi? "an iddy biddy baby!"

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metsfan @metsfan.bsky.social · 9h

I switched (back) to Linux a while back and it seems like that was probably a good idea. It's nice to actually have control over what my computer does.

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 9h

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer. @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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