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KD. Foul-mouthed curmudgeon and post producer. Punching bullies since 1970. Dog stan. #TeamCap Alt-text makes Bluesky accessible to all. Use your words. 🤨 🌐 Lebanon KS

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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · Aug 14

Pretty sure I have convinced myself this is my path.

scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · Aug 14

Seriously, maybe I will just go buy a quaint little chateau in a smallish French village somewhere in the Loire Valley, and open a little place for people to come hangout and stay when they want to. I cannot tell you how appealing that sounds.

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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 14m

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 17m

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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 27m

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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 30m

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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 37m

Easiest Connections ever

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 17h

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 10h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Luka Grafera @grafera.zone · 8h

Mass Defense Hotline can help with support and advocacy when you call from jail in Portland— but only if you have the number handy! Here's a little reminder to write it somewhere discreet on your skin whenever you're risking arrest. Download and distribute ↓

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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 4h

Someone tell me whose genius fucking idea it was at Samsung to slide out the volume display every fucking time you execute a screenshot, so I may keel heem.

A screenshot of my phone screen with the volume display over it, because Samsung are a bunch of assholes.

scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 4h

Don't forget Anne "Annie" KayKaty (who seems to be a NY high school counselor, as well) and Rachel Hope.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 15h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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alison says reinstate Link! @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 6h

A long piece of silver tinsel just came out of my couch, and I would like to know how many years (decades) it has been holding onto it.

I have owned this hand-me-down couch since 2010. It is as old as me and was in my parents' house before I got it.

... and I've never had silver tinsel in my home.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 4h

That said, that packaging looks nothing like Smucker's packaging. In fact, it looks a lot better, and the sandwiches are obviously square. Smucker's is high.

scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 4h

They actually do sell the big name brands, they are just rebranded with TJ labels. So they could very well be the Smuckers product lawfully purchased by TJ's for resale by the exact same company that manufactures the same product for Smuckers. Smuckers should probably sue THAT company.

scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 4h

Because we all know they're useless. I prefer to be positive and call out when one of them actually does something good.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6h

Look, I don't trust Hochul, but she's canny enough to know how to call these fucking bigots what they are, and I appreciate that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 5h

Like, I could probably do that now. But as an 18yo kid trying to get into SMU's theatre arts program? No.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

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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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 5h

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · 6h

It's the time of the year when Arctic sea ice growth out does Antarctic sea ice loss.

It's on a knife edge...

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 15h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 5h

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D’Angelo, Neo-Soul Pioneer and ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel)’ Singer, Dies at 51

Legendary R&B singer D'Angelo, who released three albums throughout his career, has died. He was 51.

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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 5h

You guys, I WAS IN AN IMPROV TROUPE. I did stand-up. I supported myself doing live theatre for 8 frigging years. Not once have I ever needed to improvise in iambic pentameter. And they didn't want comedy, noooooo. Frigging drama. I will never not be salty about that.

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