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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 2h

Reimagining the Jetsons as a family from the 1930s and they’re called The Propellersons

Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 2h

Reimagining the Simpsons as sentient turd characters and its called The Shitsons

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 3h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 2h

[slipping DJ $20] Play the ice cream truck song

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 2h

Thinking about the social psychology of pet/animal names.

Most people would think “Solidarity” is a terrible name for a dog but a passable name for a horse. Gotta wonder why. Any experts in this field?

Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 6h

Goodnight. I love you all.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12h

Anyway, think about the last time you heard Madison Cawthorn's name since he got a little too close to blabbing about the cocaine sex parties.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12h

Mutual blackmail material has always been the backbone of elite solidarity. Aristocrats don't send their kids to boarding schools because the teachers are better; they send them to learn the group dynamic of being above the law. Whether you participate or only witness it, keep your mouth shut.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12h

The unspoken meaning of regular "If this gets leaked we're cooked lololol" jokes is to remind everyone that they're in a position to coerce or destroy anyone who gets out of line.

Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 12h

the chat logs leaked clearly show members are aware they’re posting compromising messages, they’re even talking about how cooked they be if it leaked

bc the social function of extremist rhetoric is that in-group members bond and attain status by transgressing with one another as witnesses

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 6h

Given that musk did a nazi salute and they still find a way to evade it…

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 19h

I assembled a list of short films you can watch right now for free this Halloween. Scary, strange, surreal, and sometimes funny, this list includes live action, stop motion, and animated films from around the world and from a few filmmakers you've never heard of before

Some Strange Things You Should Watch for Halloween

20 short weird, scary, funny, and surreal films you can watch right now.

buttondown.com

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 12h

"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 13h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 14h

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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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · Nov 15

(Having a sip of beer and DMing my chivalrous virtues chat) Courage is so goated dude (Having another sip and texting my squire) my Garb looked like shit today btw...

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 14h

One of my quotes:

"I know it's worth it because someday some young kid who's had everything about trans people censored all their life will happen across something I wrote and know they aren't alone. If I had it to do over, I'd do it all again and more."

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h

Whenever I see men complain about the male loneliness crisis or unique emotional/psychological issues faced by men, it’s very clear that they just don’t see women as full people capable of experiencing the exact same emotions they do

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

This is an intentional framing choice that can easily be avoided if one wants to avoid it!

maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 11h

really do genuinely feel that our local press needs to find a better word than clash for interactions between federal agents armed to the teeth with chemical munitions and actual guns and some neighbors who are yelling and maybe throwing found objects. not even delving into protests facing the same.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 11h

if you actually want to understand what the struggle for trans care looks like in a non-bourgois state, here's a paper on how Cuba came to offer full trans healthcare guaranteed by the state, and how it's become a world model for gender affirming care

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Abstract
In 2008, Cuba's minister of public health signed Resolution 126, an act that assured complete coverage for Cubans seeking sexual reassignment surgeries (also known as gender confirmation surgeries), the first of any country in Latin America to do so. Ten years later, Cuba is celebrated as having one of the most open and inclusive LGBTQ public health and education programs in the Americas. As illustrated throughout this article, the Cuban state approaches sexuality and sexual identity not as rights-based issues but rather as health-based challenges. Through the case study of Cuba's understanding of transsexuals' right to health, we argue that Cuba has provided an example of how the right to health for all moves toward breaking down the barriers of stigma by improving health outcomes for those with transsexual health needs.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 11h

what this appears to show is that something is going on specifically with plant-based and vegan protein powders, and in particular there are two that seem full-on dangerous

but there's very little to nothing wrong with any of the dairy- and meat-based ones www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 11h

Would it surprise you that the owner of Scientific American's parent company, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, invested $37 million in Inkitt, an AI firm?

What a SHOCK

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jenny Geist @jennygeist.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks for all the support and views on yesterday's video! Here's a bump if any of y'all haven't seen it yet. ❤️

Jenny Geist @jennygeist.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/yQsreZiBJ3c

Did you know that Disney World used to have an Israel attraction? No, I'm not talking about the scrapped World Showcase plans from the 80s'. Between 1999-2001, Epcot had not just an exhibit for the country, but a full ride. Let's explore this bizarre propagandist lost media!

Mickey Mouse looking at the Israeli flag with a shocked expression, on a backdrop of the Millenium Village map from Disney World's Epcot

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 11h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

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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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 11h

particle of light just reaching earth from a distant star in a terrible mood as it had come all this way to see dinosaurs and now it has to go all the way to the other dinosaur planet

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 12h

Forgive the cobbled-together feel of this, but eat up!

Nine stories in this TropiWeird combo - including two stories never before seen! As they say in PR: buen provecho!

kyr-1066.itch.io/a-series-of-...

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