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David L. Puga @davidlpuga.bsky.social · 9h

In the process of finding writers for a cyberpunk short story collection that takes place in the Texas plains. Figuring out the framework of the world stories will take place in has been fun! If anyone is interested, especially bipoc writers from Texas, hit me up!

#writers #worldbuilding #cyberpunk

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 17h

I like how the friendly rivalry between the US and the UK has manifested in a competition to see who could produce the most unfuckable crop of young conservatives.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

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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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 1d

My favorite Struzan story is that he was doing the poster for Indy at Disneyland, but they didn't have the rights to Ford's likeness. Fed up with working around the problem, Struzan just called Ford and was like, "hey, can I use your face for this," and Ford said, "if it's for you, absolutely."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i don’t do this often but some good folks are dealing with some serious medical bills and could use your support if you have a few dollars to spare. thank you!

Donate to Help a Beautiful Little Girl After a Traumatic Dog Attack, organized by Alfred McGuire

Help a Beautiful Little Girl Heal After a Traumatic Dog Attac… Alfred McGuire needs your support for Help a Beautiful Little Girl After a Traumatic Dog Attack

www.gofundme.com

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if the same payment systems banning sex workers will ban OpenAI.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 1d

This butch Chicana lesbian helped end LA’s ‘anti-masquerading’ law.

Arrested dozens of times in the 1940s and ’50s for wearing pants, Nancy Valverde fought back and opened a barbershop that became a queer safe haven.

This butch Chicana lesbian helped end LA's 'anti-masquerading' law

Arrested dozens of times in the 1940s and '50s for wearing pants, Nancy Valverde fought back and opened a barbershop that became a queer safe haven.

lapublicpress.org

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 1d

Trent and Ross are executive producers. They are the shills.

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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 2d

TNKKBBG (The Nice Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Guys)

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 1d

Man, that first seal must have been surprised as hell.

'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach

In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.

www.bbc.com

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah man, drop me an email.

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, my retirement plan.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 2d

Parasite smuggling: how frogmen hide cocaine in ships bound for Europe ⬇️

Divers in South America are using a brazen method that has brought Albanian traffickers in league with the mafia

Parasite smuggling: how frogmen hide cocaine in ships bound for Europe

www.thetimes.com

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 3d

Perfect posting from Tim Heidecker, 24 hours apart.

What an incredible experience, getting to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. I left feeling grateful and humbled by his majesty's generosity. I'll never forget this memorial experience and all the fun we had. Hope to do it again soon.

upon further reflection, there is a small part of me that feels I sent the wrong message, regarding the Riyahd Comedy Festival last night. While, I do think it's important for comedy to have the opportunity to thrive in all parts of the globe, there are some aspects of The Royal Highness, King Salmon and his leadership in the region that i don't agree with entirely, but it's a different culture when it comes to freedom and rights and I gotta respect that we are all different and have different values. My manager is now investigating the possibility of donating some of my fee to a charity for Vetrans of War.

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 2d

If you want a bit of a look at Ainu culture, the 2013 Japanese remake of Unforgiven is on SBS On Demand right now. It's set in Hokkaido.

The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 2d

In 2020, Ghost of Tsushima gave life to an oft-overlooked slice of Japanese history. But in the new Ghost of Yotei, familiar samurai action-adventure thrills don’t quite live up to its new setting.

Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity

Set in Ezo (modern-day Hokkaido), the highly anticipated samurai action-adventure game contains familiar thrills but subpar substance.

ebx.sh

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 2d

He still thinks he is, which is why I keep getting woken up by a body slam off the top rope.

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 3d

OneDrive is pretty much the only reason I keep an Office subscription.

Ah, well. See ya.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 3d

Tom the Dancing Bug.

Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 3d

Oh it's coming. And fast.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 3d

This week’s Forecast newsletter looks at the economics of bubbles and crashes, plus prediction markets headed to the mainstream.

What Would an AI Crash Look Like?

Plus: A prediction market recap, AI forecasters, drone walls and more.

bloom.bg

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 3d

It’s doubly embarrassing to be incapable of writing coherently on Watchmen when off your face on drugs given that Alan Moore is, in point of fact, routinely off his face on drugs.

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 3d

I am so sorry, man. Thinking of you.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 3d

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 3d

Majestical.

Fat fluffy orange cat in the foreground, tiny black and grey cat in the background.

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 4d

the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.

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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 4d

So many great moments but I'll never get over Hanks being so fucking exhausted he grabs *his own stretcher* and throws it in the back of the ambulance.

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