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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 12h

Independent of this statement, a good way of describing a huge chunk of the internet is “rapists running content and bot farms to make their pet issues seem more important”, that’s basically half the traffic on X at this point.

Peter Fobian @peterfobian.bsky.social · 12h

Notably the 3 people leading the charge on this are a guy who spends all his time trying to sue and deplatform pro-palestinian creators and 2 rapists who all run content farms of out of context clips but y'know maybe this time it's not a cynical attempt to get rid of their self-proclaimed #1 op.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13h

I can't believe we're still talking about this

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 13h

Minneapolis after dark

view down Marquette avenue downtown with yellow and pink lights in the rain, west streets, someone walking

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 14h

Thinking about taking an actual run at Armored Core 6, but the smooth-brained cathartic enjoyment that a replay of the last couple of Wolfenstein games might be getting in the way.

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 17h

You know what? You're right. I do!

Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 17h

Saw someone on here building and customizing the Psycho Gundam mkII MG and I was just blown away by it. Feel like I'd need to move into a bigger place just to have space to work on it.

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks! I really like doing UC builds so a lot of these are perfect for me. Plus, the Eypon is such a great design.

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 18h

this sucks and I hate it. Why would you choose to interact with fiction in a way that's so weirdly limiting? Closer to Product and Content than Art.

✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Buy Go-Man! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 1d

I was once on a panel of authors at a convention and we were all asked to introduce our books by listing the tropes and it was the most "i am in the wrong place" moment of my life, and I refused to do it but in turn I think I came across as an asshole.

Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 1d

i really hate when we talk about books like they're shopping lists of tropes

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Chewbacca But A Wolf Man @jason1749.bsky.social · 19h

In THE ETERNALS, Jack Kirby introduced the concept of "MadWeary" for when immortals go insane after too long a life. What I am positing is "MadComfy" which is when the wife and I have a crazy good weekend doing jack shit on the couch.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 20h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 20h

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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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 21h

Good to know! Any newer RG you’d recommend?

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 21h

I need to step out of my comfort zone and give an RG a shot. Everything I've built has been HG

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 21h

More or less.

Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 21h

Both great choices.

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 21h

Wish I could remember who published the story on how pretty much every press was backed up when she did the massive push for midnights and it put a ton of smaller acts back in the queue.

NPR @npr.org · 21h

The Life of a Showgirl isn't just a streaming success — it has moved a massive number of vinyl LPs. How massive? Let's do some math. n.pr/48qM5Nr

How big a deal are Taylor Swift's vinyl sales, really?

The Life of a Showgirl isn't just a streaming success — it has moved a massive number of vinyl LPs. How massive? Let's do some math.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22h

This is a sidebar but this is a form of manufactured consent of a more broader variety.

What is happening here is that elites enjoy finding everyday actions of the peons (you and me) that we insist a right to enjoy and, instead of taking a serious account of fault, find basis to ridicule.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 22h

I’m also a fan of one of his biggest fans. So that helps.

A chris Brookes Instagram story post where he posted a picture of him and Takeshita after his big win. Chris is sporting a nine inch nails shirt while Takeshita shows off his new IWGP World Heavyweight Championship

Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 22h

Takeshita is The Man. He delivers every time I’ve seen him regardless of promotion or his spot on the card. Happy to see him get his moment.

Fightful Wrestling @fightful.com · 22h

Konosuke Takeshita: I'm Triple Contracted, But Not Exclusive. I Can Be On Any Tour I'm Called For

Konosuke Takeshita: I'm Triple Contracted, But Not Exclusive. I Can Be On Any Tour I'm Called For - Fightful | WWE News, AEW News, Pro Wrestling Backstage News

New IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Konosuke Takeshita says he will create an IWGP legacy that only he can define.

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 22h

He’s got the little beetle phone and everything

A Leorio phone stand. He’s sitting on some rubble with his legs crossed while talking on his beetle phone

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 22h

And I love that for him, honestly. I have a little leorio phone stand a friend gifted me when I started my office job. It's a delight.

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 22h

This absolutely tracks

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 22h

I went from reading a hardcover I got at the library to a Mass Market trade I borrowed from a friend and it's not even comparable how much better of a reading experience it is.

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 22h

I'm honestly just kind of impressed at the scale. That's... a lot of filth

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 22h

Those are fine! I want my shitty little book that travels well and doesn't feel weirdly precious.

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 23h

They have since reprinted these signs and put them in new/more places.

Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · Sep 6

Something terrible took place in this gas station

A piece of paper posted on the window of the door of a gas station that reads “no more than 3 party bus customers on the store at a time, thank you. Store policy”

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 23h

My incredibly hinged book take is that Mass Market Trade Paperbacks are the best format for reading and they should make a huge comeback

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