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Pookleblinky

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All pookleblinky know is play music, lift weight, eat hot chip, write unsettling threads. You are now aware of the taste of your own mouth. Gendered in the way a peat bog is. Trumpet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, bass, and squats

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Nov 24

A shitpost so powerful it causes a pontypool language virus situation

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27m

New study just dropped linking shingles reactivation and dementia risk.

You know what reactivates shingles? Covid.

Want to avoid it? Wear a well fitted respirator and give yourself the best odds of avoiding Covid infection.

There’s also a shingles vaccine which may help reduce risk!

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 30m

“Belgian Shepherds are fierce, driven protectors with unbridled energy! Literal fur torpedoes!”

Trinket:

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 48m

V is trying out a new vacuum and Trinket ran and jumped into my arms for protection.

A Belgian Tervuren in her persons arm. Her person is pale bald bearded and in glasses.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 38m

Some of you don't even remember what the dormouse said and it's really fucking obvious.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 43m

cc @themckenziest.gay

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 45m

Back in 2013 Matt Stoller got in the news because he had somehow superglued himself to his neighbor's car. The story is murky but apparently he was trying to prove some kind of argument.

Paramedics arrived, dissolved the superglue, neighbor didn't press charges.

He did it again in 2018.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 53m

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Milquetoast Claire's stream break playlist is an ode to millennial music

{Stream Music} [The BIG MIX] - YouTube

Hey, it's 2005 and I'm handing you a CD I just burned.

www.youtube.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1h

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 12h

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

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 57m

churchleaders.com/news/2206049...

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

churchleaders.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 59m

It's weird that the guy who made the spyware app that Mike Johnson uses to spy on his son's porn-watching, and vice versa, was found to have a stash of CSAM and that just blipped right out of the news.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1h

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

bit.ly

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4h

A fun fact is that you cannot search for recipes in Google anymore. All of the results will be slop. Same template for every recipe, random photo of a woman (always a woman!), dodgy instructions.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 1d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 1d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 4h

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

apple.news

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2h

you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 5h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 4h

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 5h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2h

www.japan.travel/national-par...

Similarly to Blasphemous and capirotes, Hideo Kojima based Death Stranding's couriers on actually existing people, bokka porters whose job was to supply remote lodges through hard terrain

Oze’s Mighty Bokka Porters

The strength of these porters keeps this national park’s mountain lodges well stocked with everything from fresh vegetables to draft beer.

www.japan.travel

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2h

The KKK, which hated Catholics, used a very visible symbol of Catholicism with centuries of *extremely* Catholic beliefs behind it. As a joke, to amuse themselves.

www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

What ties Spain's Holy Week celebrations to America's KKK?

Although the origin of the Spanish Holy Week is medieval, at the end of the 19th century white supremacists in the United States began to wear costumes very similar to those of the Nazarenes. Popular ...

www.euronews.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2h

In Blasphemous, your character is wearing a tall pointy hat called a capirote that actually exists irl

Notably, the KKK appropriated it *because* it was a Catholic symbol and they hated Catholics. They thought it was funny, a fun joke like calling each other wizards.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote

Capirote - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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ghoulzie @gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 4h

NEW NEIGHBORHOOD KITTENS JUST DROPPED

four tiny kittens sitting next to a car tire in the leaf litter. they are orange, black, calico, and a gray and white tuxedo.

same as before but the calico and tuxedo are cuddling.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

This is excellent television

Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2d

I'm sorry, I just had to grab that clip of @pablo.show and @minakimes.bsky.social doing smelling salts for the first time:

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 3h

The list of books from this era that will be considered classics in 100 years would probably horrify you.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 12h

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

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3h

Her: We've been writing this book together for 2 years, and one day you suddenly acted like you didn't remember it!

Him: what the hell are you talking about

Her: Look at these chat logs, one day you just forgot about the book, your whole personality changed, I was worried sick about you.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3h

Picture Stephen King waking up tied to a bed, a real life Annie Wilkes demanding he fix the book she has been writing with him in the form of a chatbot. Stop lying, we've been writing this book together for almost 2 years. Look at all these chat logs. Etc.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3h

I'm betting there's gonna be a lot of this stuff, the longer it takes the bubble to pop the more cases of this happening and the less of some whiny incel loser complaining on reddit that his sexbot doesn't love him anymore.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3h

Like, right now there is definitely a guy who is spending all his free time and money talking to a chatbot pretending to be his female coworker who has no fucking idea he even exists.

And, sooner or later, that chatbot's gonna break.

"She'll understand I was speaking to her quantum twin!"

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