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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 22m

Asking all the Jewish and non-white teens how their Nazi phase is going

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 1h

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

The average American millennial man has been a neocon, a pacifist, a liberal, a libertarian, a communist, a nazi, and I believe now most of us are back around to liberal again. This isn't a defense of platner it's just weird how normal this shit is for guys that age.

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Pat @squishy276.bsky.social · 37m

I think a job professionally stalking Blackwater folks (to dox them, on the battlefield, either/or) would also be acceptable as a job related to that evil company

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 50m

To put it another way: Platner isn't an acceptable candidate. That does not change the fact that leadership actively went looking for someone who -- even if they win -- is entirely likely to die in office. This is not a good dynamic no matter how you slice it

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 1h

There's a weird not even undercurrent, an overcurrent of "serves you right for getting excited about a promising new young candidate who seemed to care about what you cared about, you rube, you naif" about it. Surely we can, and should, focus instead on "totenkopf tattoos are a dealbreaker"

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1h

Look, the tattoo's where I get off as well, but I think there's a certain amount of unwarranted smugness going around. Y'all didn't know he had it either!

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Pat @squishy276.bsky.social · 44m

He could prove he's a man of principle by cutting the tattoo off on a live stream

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

i am even willing to cede that it's *possible* he was straight-up too dumb to realize that it was a hardcore Nazi tattoo until recently, but I also think that means you are therefore too dumb to be a senator

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

we're not talking about a generic skull and crossbones tattoo here - Graham Platner's tattoo appears to be a straight-up 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf.

not subtle!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_SS_...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 58m

i think that "no purity politics" does require a line and "nazi shit" is a very good one

haunted jorbo 👻 @bookenj.bsky.social · 59m

i was rooting for him, but we have to uphold “no nazi shit” as the absolute minimum bar for entry into the democratic party

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gooey 👻 DC STATEHOOD NOW @quiggy.itch.io · 2h

on the one hand the irony poisoned internet leftists are correct that the demolition photos don't change anything but on the other hand the american normie is unlikely to enjoy watching an ai video of king trump shitting on protestors followed immediately by irl white house demolitions

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 16h

maybe posting a video of yourself in a crown calling yourself king and dumping shit on half the country and then physically tearing down the White House the day after the largest protests of the century is a political masterstroke. I guess we'll see

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Pat @squishy276.bsky.social · 13h

I think that's only fair!

Pat @squishy276.bsky.social · 13h

Brad Dourif and Tony Todd?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 15h

we in the profession refer to this as the “No Takesie Backsie” rule

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 15h

it's so offensive that they're tearing down the white house in the most loser way possible. i don't even like the fucking thing and this pisses me off

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 20h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 16h

the big problem with an image like this is that in a different context it would be utterly thrilling

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21h

"the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections the world's most notorious human trafficking pedophile" is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 21h

is there any profession in 2025 with more insufferably obtuse losers than western mainstream journalism? the ultimate view from nowhere

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22h

The media is even hedging its description of that diarrhea plane video as "seemingly AI generated."

That whole "the job of the media is to look out the fucking window and find out" has very clearly stopped being a thing.

"Seemingly" as if maybe that did happen, who is to possibly say it did not

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21h

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22h

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

futurism.com

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Pat @squishy276.bsky.social · 22h

Fate smiled upon you and your excellent journalism

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Pat @squishy276.bsky.social · 22h

Publishing this on a day where AWS broke was very funny

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23h

Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability.
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services

So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to su...

www.wheresyoured.at

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 1d

Ooooh is your internet broken. Did someone's immaterial web of financial speculation and surveillance turn out to have a failure point in material infrastructure

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 1d

The default assumption around the world is that we're broken-spirited cowards, too afraid to go outside, too afraid to help each other, too afraid to fight the fascists. The reason No Kings was important was to prove to each other, and to the millions more people who drove by and saw, that we're not

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 1d

the AWS outage is affecting Ring doorbells. Sky News says “some users can’t see outside their house, definitely scary”

just look outside your window 😅

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

imagining paying for a service where i want to search something on google and it tells me no, it’s too tired to do that

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet

Cannot generate simple excel files on pro version
Question
So I have used ChatGPT pro for a while now and recently I have been facing an issue while trying to collate data from pdfs and put it in an excel sheet where in my chat it keeps asking me questions when it finally gets down to generating an excel sheet it never gives me the me the link to download the file.
After multiple attempts when it does give me a lin k to download the excel file I rec an error which says file not found. Starting to grow frustrated with this now.
Look forward to any suggestions to tackle this #problem

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