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"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 1h

My dad's told me about the new BBQ place that opened near him the last 3 times I spoke to him on the phone and spent a huge portion of the our 20 minute phone call today just describing the menu.

"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah I think when he is tacitly approving active hostility to his user-base it's really hard to say he wants to run a functional social media company.

"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 2h

I like that it was apparently like "ownership approves of efforts to ruin users lives" that did it.

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"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 2h

This has never happened to me.

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"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · Aug 4

If I saw the Deadlights from Stephen King's novel It I would simply retain my sanity.

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"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 3h

[Guy being annoying] and the other thing is, stop annoying me.

"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 17h

There's a reason that no one pays every schmuck on the street for movie ideas it's basically because they don't have any good ones.

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"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 17h

Thing I keep coming back to is that even if this shit is viable the novelty would be gone after charitably like one afternoon of prompting, "Dr. Spider-Man" or "Karate Obama" or whatever.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Michael Scally @fizzvstheworld.bsky.social · 18h

Billionaires: "News media is too liberal these days! There needs to be more op-eds from Young Republicans!"

Literally everyone else after the Young Republicans Telegram leaks:

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"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 18h

There's great interior artwork, it's the panel of luffy activating Gear 2 for the first time, that immediately gets covered up forever when you stick a planner in here haha.

"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 18h

Wife got my the One Piece hobonichi cover for Journaling next year I'm insanely geeked on this thing dude.

ONE piece hobonichi cover luffy is punching a rock to bits

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"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 2d

I bought a PS5 like two years ago and have played like 7 games on it I couldn't have played elsewhere.

VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 2d

Both PS6 and the next Xbox are planned for a 2027 release, according to separate reports.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps6-and...

PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC

Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…

www.videogameschronicle.com

"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 2d

Corpos across the board just kinda moving food around on their plates these days.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao 🫡

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"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 6d

How I'm tryna be

Pac Man, standing, smiling. Text below him reads "Normal".

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"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 2d

Got a big finale planned where I stack up some wooden blocks then knock them over.

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"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 2d

Putting on an alternate halftime show for the right-wingers pissed off about bad bunny it's a Facebook live of me jangling my keys.

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"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely this is like end-of-life talk, yeah?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 3d

The only "Sora" I care about is right here.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

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"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 4d

ASK ME ABOUT MY WIENERRRRR haha you guys remember that? From the commercial for the movie accepted?

"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 4d

Started playing the gex trilogy and my wife snorted with laughter when she saw a human woman on the cover of gex 3.

"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 5d

Simply a bonus that at the beginning of this people were broadly sort of conceptually neutral on "tariff" and now it's completely a dirty word that everyone hates hearing and he's doing more of them.

"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 5d

Hell yeah dude, I mean, whatever.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5d

oh no

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"Mr. Pope" @shademan.bsky.social · 7d

Me texting any family member over the last few months: "Yeah so pretty much just waiting to find out if my life is ruined haha"

Them: 🤞

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