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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 47m

Debatably the single most impactful military operation in human history. In terms of isolated incidents with the most knock on effect. You couldn't write that shit.

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 3h

when all is said and done it looks reasonably likely that bin laden will have taken down not just the us but the entire west

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 9h

I am constantly amazed by centerists unrivaled ability to always be so close to yet so far from getting it. Eternally straddling the event horizon of a consistent world view.

Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 11h

Dead ass the national guard is gonna be seriously undermanned if this is implemented broadly.

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 11h

They probably heard Moore hates AI (I don't know that he does, but also of course he does) and thus were compelled to take the opposite view.

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 11h

It is just always a funny joke.

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 11h

He is absolutely gonna be sabotaged. I'm sure he'll do some good but ultimately he's ice skating uphill. Every system exists to stop these things from happening and to keep him from building the kind of momentum that helps grow power. Other politicians won't be able to point to the stifled success.

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 11h

It was always heading in this direction.

Yes, they were not open Nazis and that is a significant change. It matters and has material consequences. It is also a pretty short jump from Republican racial and immigration policies to outright Nazism. They were proto-Nazis and always were.

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 11h

Disenfranchisement is not necessary to kill the Republican party. They rely on disenfranchisement. Stronger voter protections and fairer election policies would basically doom them. Equalize congressional districts by population and the Republican will never hold the house again.

Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 11h

She already belongs to a conservative party. Seems like overkill to have two.

Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 11h

Very serious people who I work for look at me like I have two heads when I calmly say I don't think OpenAI has a path to profitability because they have never come close to making a profit. These are directors and executives acting like I'm insane for applying basic financial analysis to my 401k.

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 11h

SU is one of those things I see people get so passionate about. They seem like they're really having fun. Absolutely incomprehensible to me, but good for them.

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 11h

There is no way to measure the rhetorical value of a solid zinger. It sticks in the brain better than a neutral statement. That's just how brains work. Obviously it helps to be right, but it's better to be right and memorable.

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 11h

"Republicans don't do this."

a man in a sheriff 's uniform is reading a newspaper in a diner .

ALT: a man in a sheriff 's uniform is reading a newspaper in a diner .

media.tenor.com

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 18h

I notice a trend in a lot of former conservatives that they want the kudos for leaving but don't want to ever feel shame in anything they participated in. Lots of everything was fine and then the minute it turned bad they abandoned their worldview.

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 1d

You are what you do, not what you feel secretly in your heart.

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of the way homophobia works is by preemptively attributing homophobia to others. "I would love to sell you this house because I'm not racist, but the neighbors would object."

If you're LGBT identity keeps you off the ticket, that's homophobia. it doesn't matter what was in Harris' heart. 1

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 22d

Seriously, if you actually believe (falsely) that @KamalaHarris is homophobic, as opposed to simply making a pure political calculation re: her analysis of the best running mate in order to optimize her chances of defeating Trump, just...WTF? bluevirginia.us/2025/09/tues... h/t @magi_jay

Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell it's really Oregon 'cuz it's raining.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 1d

I would pay exactly zero dollars to see that. Actually, I think I would require like twenty bucks if someone wanted me to see it just because then I'd have to watch season eight again. Negative twenty dollars seems like a fair price.

Half a trillion dollars you say? Oh, so far.

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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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, maybe the fact that the majority of people have wanted various good things for years or decades and they have never even come close to happening is an indicator of how democratic we actually are.

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 1d

Or we hear from them constantly posting their chat logs with blushy eggplant + water emojis.

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 1d

Any young conservative was either cooked in online spaces or naturally migrated to them when the entire rest of the internet became too hostile for their tastes.

It's a 4chan party, therefore *gestures at article*.

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 1d

No.

Glad I could help.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 2d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 1d

I assume that the same financial institutions that just tried to hold Steam hostage will respond similarly to this, yes?

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

ChatGPT will soon allow sexting with verified adults

• Erotica and 'mature conversations' will be permitted

• Change arrives in December alongside new age verification tools

(via Sama | TW)

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 2d

Transphobes suck dance!!!

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Yelling Jolteon @worldofcardboard.bsky.social · 2d

I think it might improve output but also gives false confidence in the output. It's a make shit up machine. If you don't want it to make shit up, why are use the make shit up machine? Just do normal research.

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