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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 1h

Chigurh: what is the most you ever lost on a coin toss

17 year old mall boba stand cashier: card only

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1h

who among us hasn't talked about loving Hitler or worked tirelessly on behalf of a person we called "America's Hitler" or talked about sending our political opponents to gas chambers or incited a wave of hatred of immigrants with vicious lies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah. That's the problem with this meme.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 15h

My 7 year old is psyched about the No Kings protest. Now I have to make a sign.

I was thinking this:

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 16h

Don't bother arguing with wreckers. Some people just don't care about outcomes. Either they'll grow out of it or they won't.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 16h

a young boy in a blue shirt is typing on a laptop computer .

ALT: a young boy in a blue shirt is typing on a laptop computer .

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 17h

They need to be made an example of.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 17h

You make money with it by doing useful tasks. Tasks that customers have but they don't.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 17h

"We need to prepare for a civil war so we can defeat them." is an extremely different position from "We should separate ourselves and go our own way." If you insist on describing the former as the later, expect a lot of people to be confused.

Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 17h

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 17h

I understanding wanting to punish Democrats because of Gaza. But I don't understand *not* wanting to punish Trump even more for the same reason. "I'm mad about Gaza so I will do nothing to stop Netanyahu's favorite candidate from winning" is not any kind of outcome-based strategy.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

hair-shirt isolationism doesn't actually do anyone any good, *especially* if the left practices it while the right happily takes up the authoritarian internationale cause. "actually liberals should refuse to exercise power" is just a kind of moral cowardice--a refusal to take up the burden.

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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 18h

And a lot of grandmothers would make the trade too!

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 23h

openai epic handshake with various ancient civilizations: "what if god had big tiddies"

Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 1d

The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

this is why the only option left is the raging hot Stove

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

The thing is there are no guardrails that can withstand the full force of 45% of the electorate polarized into either accepting authoritarianism or not finding it a dealbreaker. Whatever system you design, if you don’t figure out how to push that number down, your guardrails can’t meet tolerances.