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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 45m

Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 2h

"My intention has been to form a deliberate relationship with AI, as I might form a magical relationship with an angel or a demon", good LORD.

"Fall directly up their own ass" was a kindness.

Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 8h

Morrison invoking AI alike to "God" indicates a severe misunderstanding of how AI appropriates the work of thousands, including their own, and someone needs to rectify their understanding ASAP.

But also it's a severe disservice to their colleagues anyway to use it and justify it like this.

Reddit comment from comic writer Grant Morrison explaining why they use AI

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 2h

"Unlike her former new boss, Milne had experience in television news" fucking =savage=

CBS News loses standards and practices chief

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 3h

happy 10 year anniversary to one of the most prophetic tweets of all time @cavalorn.bsky.social

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 3h

I was a bit disappointed to click through and find out it wasn't actually called "This Big Fucker" 😂

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 3h

Legit about to go try some of Christopher Sebela's books entirely on the strength of "fall directly up their own ass", which is a just amazing turn of phrase.

Christopher Sebela @xtop.bsky.social · 4h

love to see a writer I loved become a cautionary example as they fall directly up their own ass. this is why i only stan my friends, that way i can call them when they're being fuckin idiots.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h

Car lobby putting a guy in charge that takes the bus to work

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4h

“Two sources say Weiss has said to others that she doesn’t own a television herself.”

Inside Bari Weiss’s First 10 Days as the Controversial Head of CBS News

After a softball Netanyahu interview, newsroom sources tell Zeteo the start of Weiss's tenure at CBS has been chaotic and has underscored her own pro-Israel biases.

zeteo.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h

The stupidest people you know were mad they were born stupid and then the media platformed a dating show co-host from MTV for her vaccine expertise and now this guy runs HHS. Media is on the hook for all of the science brain drain in healthcare and the war on academia.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 4h

I was pretty determined to not buy both of these Inhumans two packs, but that Triton is *cold*.

Robo! @robodontknow.bsky.social · 6h

The Hasbro Marvel Legends Inhumans Black Bolt and Triton two pack is up for pre-order at BigBadToyStore! tinyurl.com/bbtsmarvelle...

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 4h

"Ha ha, looks like the boot's on the other neck" is this anything?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

"ICE agents arrested a police officer Thursday morning in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park, accusing him of being an unlawful immigrant from Montenegro."

ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally | CNN Politics

The Department of Homeland Security says the officer, Radule Bojovic, overstayed a tourist visa that expired in 2015.

edition.cnn.com

Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 6h

a man in a captain america uniform is sitting in a room and saying `` i understand that reference . ''

Alt: A gif of Captain America from the first Avengers movie. He's looking back over his shoulder at Bruce Banner and Tony Stark and saying (CAPtion reads) "I understood that reference."

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 6h

It is the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Five and people are asking the nation responsible for Benny Hill if they think farts are funny.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 7h

While Celia Imrie's fart on last night's Celebrity Traitors might have sparked howls of laughter from the other contestants, do Britons think farts are a laughing matter?

Very/fairly funny: 44%
Not very/at all funny: 51%

Men
Funny: 51%
Not funny: 44%

Women
Funny: 38%
Not funny: 57%

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

“Kids”

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 7h

I am mourning the untimely death of the word deadass, which passed away the second Glenn Beck used it here

Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11h

Glenn Beck says that after he aired a show on Antifa, FBI agents acting on the behest of Kash Patel came to get tips. Here's who the segment targeted, largely through strained connections and guilt by association: www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/g...

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 7h

Thanks for clearing things up, I was wondering what had happened to make her suddenly grow a soul.

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 7h

Snorting cocaine *also* gives him pyrokinesis, which I feel like is a power they gave him to make it clear that he has actual metahuman abilities, because being real strong and real fast and ignoring pain is the same shit anybody can do with a couple-three rails in 'em.

Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 3d

And Snowflame, for those who came in late, gets super strength, speed, and invulnerability to pain when he snorts cocaine.

Comics in the '80s were WILD.

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 8h

It genuinely does feel like Instagram gets worse literally every single time I look at it, and I open insta like twice a day.

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 8h

Here's the truly wild thing, tho -- People ain't mad *enough*.

People are not even CLOSE to mad enough.

Screenshot of quote-skeet. The quoted skeet says -- "look i was recently talking to a septuagenarian life long dem (who shall remain nameless) and generic lib, and she was like “i just think there should be firing squads and they should sell tickets.”

The skeet quoting it adds -- "many conversations I have had with complete normie libs, the kind who have a tote bag from donating to NPR and shop at Whole Foods, involve the kind of rhetoric that under no circumstances should be put on the internet

"people are very mad"

I screenshotted to get both sentiments in this skeet, because skeet-skeets only go one skeet deep.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h

many conversations I have had with complete normie libs, the kind who have a tote bag from donating to NPR and shop at Whole Foods, involve the kind of rhetoric that under no circumstances should be put on the internet

people are very mad

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 9h

look i was recently talking to a septuagenarian life long dem (who shall remain nameless) and generic lib, and she was like “i just think there should be firing squads and they should sell tickets.”

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 8h

... I legit can't tell whether or not this is a joke.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 8h

This morning CNN announced that its "All Access" subscription tier will roll out on October 28. It's a lot like the product ESPN introduced over the summer: An easy, all-encompassing way to watch and read CNN's news coverage and other programming whether you have cable or not. Here's a bit more info

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 11h

On this day in 1968, Black Olympic medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos faced death threats and expulsion for protesting racial inequality.

Oct. 16, 1968 | Black Olympic Medalists Face Death Threats for Protesting Racial Inequality

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

calendar.eji.org

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 10h

And all this time we thought lead poisoning from spending a lot of time at shooting ranges was why cops are so fucked up.

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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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21h

lol some of us don’t have time to discern the (rumored) different flavors of conservatives. They all sit together anyway. Like. Be for serious.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21h

“Well, some conservatives are overtly racist, and some are politely covertly racist, and some only like to be around racists but it’s unclear whether they’re themselves racist” please geT A HOBBY

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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