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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎

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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · Apr 1

I got plenty of feedback on my last video and I want to be clear: I hear you, I am listening.

Many of you felt that the audio didn't match the tone of the Expanse.

After much consideration, I've updated the audio.

I think we can all agree it's much more in keeping with the themes of the show.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4h

people gotta treat this behavior the same as we treat shitting on the floor

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Say what, now?

A family member sent me an image of a baby dressed in an elf outfit. My baby. It was adorable—and unnerving.
My cousin took a photo from our group chat and uploaded it to Meta AI. While his heart was in the right place, my mind was spinning. What could Meta do with my son’s face? The privacy policy of Meta Platforms says the company can use these images to “improve AIs and related technology.”
In the age of AI, I can’t control where my—or my son’s—face ends up. Our likenesses are no longer our own.

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AccountingNightmare @accnightmare.bsky.social · 17h

A screen cap from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. A dozen characters are all chanting "Union! Union!"

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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 3h

Though when you think about it, "a bunch of people 'exit, pursued by a bear'" is an accurate description of Highlander.

Fang of the Sun Doug @seeyouspaceoomfie.bsky.social · 5h

I don't know what a Shakespeare is and I don't care to know when peak fiction (Highlander) has shown me what real storytelling looks like

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine a Good Friday Agreement announced but without any Irish representation

That’s what they’re calling Peace in the Middle East right now

Would you conclude that a GFA would last in such conditions?

No accountability = no end to the violence

It’s nowhere near over

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damned316 🎃 @dxmnkd316.bsky.social · 4h

Just a reminder that Trump & Musk have committed an atrocity, the effect of which won’t be seen for months.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

The tiny African nation of Lesotho had victories in its HIV fight. Then, the US aid cuts came. Now Lesotho’s care system is crumbling. Clinics shut down, workers were let go, and patients stopped treatment. Experts are sounding alarms.

In Lesotho, US aid cuts leave people living with HIV in limbo

Lesotho, once with the world’s second-highest HIV rate, faces a health crisis as U.S. aid cuts dismantle vital HIV treatment programs, leaving patients without care.

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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 4h

LMAO

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 5h

This one though

How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod?
People occasionally just flip mel off or whatever, but nobody's come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. Personally, it's kind of dumb.
It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is. [Editor's note: Taylor was arrested and convicted of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]
Wrap design by SS Customs

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SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 4h

b o a t s t u c k bsky.app/profile/drea...

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 5h

Interesting events on the Norwegian/Swedish border, where the Hagland Captain is still stuck next to the Svinesund Bridge having failed to successfully identify the wet bit that runs underneath it.

Photo of the unfortunate vessel, suspiciously close to the shore and even more suspiciously not moving...

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 4h

David Lynch's Dune (1984): Unused poster art by Drew Struzan

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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 4h

Vindicating too I guess. But God's if it doesn't make me feel like Cassandra.

Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 4h

I know I'm reskeeting this from a few days ago but this dichotomy continues to make me SO FUCKING MAD because we antizionist Jews fucking told everyone else that this was the score and to have the proof so starkly mask off on display is so profoundly... exhausting.

acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 1d

protesting genocide: we need to purge antisemitism from college campuses

praising hitler and gas chambers: boys will be boys, cancel culture is out of control

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 10h

The fact that there's an AI assistant button on a gaming console makes me utterly convinced that the "growth mindset" cult runs Microsoft and it's never getting better.

Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 22h

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

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Official Derptiles @derptiles.art · 14h

False water cobra! 🐍
It was one of the sticker club designs for last month~

Illustration of False water cobra staring into his reflection in the river

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 15h

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17h

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

Greetings, new Bluesky users.

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 15h

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 15h

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 16h

Jewish law & Bible scholarship don't think the word in the 10 Commandments for "steal" is about, like, shoplifting.

Look at eg Genesis 40:15, Exodus 21:16 , Deuteronomy 24:7--

the commandment is not to steal people. Don't kidnap.

Though you shouldn't need the Bible to teach you that. #AbolishICE

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 16h

We are very excited to announce:
HYPERBEAT releases October 22nd!

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Felix Colgrave @felixcolgrave.bsky.social · 16h

Advertisers clamber over each other to quickly make ads in cool new styles while they're still associated with cool new things, and not associated ads.

AI generated ads bravely buck that trend, by using the shit new style all consumers hate and associate with spam and propaganda

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Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 22h

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

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Sam Leader Standing By 🍉🕎 @rvengefulobster.bsky.social · 13h

The sacred Jedi texts!

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Maddie Aphra Vukorah @sskeermadness.bsky.social · 13h

Read Ronin by Emma Mieko Candon, an amazing philosophical exploration of what it means to be Sith or Jedi without any of the trappings of Star Wars canon. The one SW book I would consider literature.

Book cover of Ronin: a Visions Novel, depicting a traditional samurai looking Sith man with clear cybernetic implants.

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