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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 1h

I can't find the one where it said "in case you get super revenge" =(

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 1h

All of the variations I've seen on this are good

wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 2h

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 1h

"You could be more enthusiastic selling people on the job"
I sure could

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 2h

Deep in the article, there are quotes from young liberal staffers too. There is a problem with inflammatory rhetoric on both sides.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 2h

The job involves working on this: github.com/firebase/fir...

GitHub - firebase/firebase-js-sdk: Firebase Javascript SDK

Firebase Javascript SDK. Contribute to firebase/firebase-js-sdk development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 2h

If you know me personally you can say somewhere on the application that you know me and then they will send me a questionnaire asking if I know you and how well but I think they just ignore it if I don't say "we worked together at a job"

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 2h

Well if anyone wants to work with me, and I don't blame you if you don't, I guess my team is hiring. This is a listing but the way Google hiring works is that like 5 random people I don't know interview you and if you pass, you get put in a pool and can talk to me www.google.com/about/career...

Software Engineer III, Google Cloud Platforms — Google Careers

www.google.com

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 2h

Footnote: My son tells me his teacher put it up by her desk as an example. This tells me that he was lying about these being the minimum requirements

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 3h

I was looking through Revolutionary War flags and most of them are variants on the Betsy Ross flag and there's the Gadsden flag but I think this one's my favorite. He's WATCHING you

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 3h

I'm just asking questions. I'm investigating, I haven't drawn any conclusions. Why don't you want me to even investigate? Afraid of the answers? Thank you, now if you don't mind I have some raccoons to photoshop

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 3h

If it got big enough you could even get better than the hyperfixation, you could get a guy that was like "oh I live down the street from that pit, would you like me to get you a picture?"

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 3h

This is really pushing Betteridge's law. Do raccoons secretly control the UN? Are teens across the country embracing haruspicy? Do the souls of the four presidents inhabit their likenesses on Mount Rushmore, begging to be freed from their eternal prison?

Patrick Bet-David. But could he possibly be eliciting the thirst of young lefty women? Over several weeks, I traced this rumor across TikTok and Tumblr. I watched fancam edits, mapped accounts, and interviewed a dozen people in their twenties and early thirties, both people who'd made posts about Fuentes and those whose fandom was more private.

There is a dedicated and TikTok-native Fuentes fandom, but searching through the misspellings and alternate tags that users reference him with (to avoid the filter TikTok uses to suppress content about him), only a few prolific editors dominate the results. The rest is noise-ephemeral accounts spun up around attention spikes.

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a
question mark can be answered by the word no." It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 4h

I want to say "in Soviet Russia, you save God" but I'm afraid people will interpret it as some tiresome Putin conspiracy meme instead of a tiresome Yakov Smirnoff meme

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 4h

"This technology opens up infinite possibilities limited only by your imagination. You could uh put yourself in the Avengers as a new superhero. You could be uh Cool Man. Also Richard Nixon could be there" wait sorry that's too imaginative, make that "also Harry Potter could be there"

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 5h

Why is it whenever some article is like "imagine what AI could do" it's always something boring and awful. Like it's not even a limitation of AI itself it's purely on the writer. They could have come up with any idea they wanted and the best they had was, what if an actor was in a different show

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 6h

It seems that I and most of the other people answering this don't share the same understanding of the word "unhinged"

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 6h

Everybody is like Jeff Bezos doesn't care if it's hemorrhaging money, he's got other goals and they're coming along nicely and sure, but probably at least some people in the new management or who signed on to the new mission thought being against woke would actually help and are caught off guard

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 22h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 6h

I think the worst excuse for using AI is "but I'm making anti-Trump resistance memes with it". Oh my god I'm so sorry I didn't realize, carry on

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Tilde~ (Beebsoup Sweetie Moosh) @coombutt.bsky.social · 16h

Two images of harry dubois, in one he has fat tits

Text reading "designed with gamers in mind" (placed above the titty pic) and "designed with activists in mind" (placed above the regular pic)

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 14h

four shifts, four lights. it rhymes. it's like poetry

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 17h

Off topic but I have to say Jellico is one of the most unique characters I have ever seen in a popular sci fi or, hell, fictional show of any kind. In 99% of stories he would be secretly evil, or have some personal problem that makes him not get along with them, but no, just not a good culture fit

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 17h

I asked my dad once, "so they made a musical, about cats? for adults?" and he said "well it's not just about cats. I think they probably symbolize different kinds of people or something" but I think it is just about cats.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 18h

I guess I never recovered from the disappointment that The Waste Land wasn't in any way about a post-apocalyptic irradiated landscape navigated by a party of intrepid Desert Rangers. Like nuclear fission hadn't even been invented when he wrote it? He should have waited. What's the rush

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 19h

I still don't really know what that poem was about except that the line was supposed to be funny and he did it on purpose and not on accident and that's all part of why it's a good poem, whatever it's about. Job well done, high school English education

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 19h

It grows cold, it grows cold
I shall wear my trousers rolled
down

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