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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 8h

We're somewhere between days and a few years away from a mod that adds a hole where the gas tank would be for your Tesla to suck you off.

Ineffable Jeff @ineffablejeff.bsky.social · 15h

Shot + chaser

And are you married?

I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it?

Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.

Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 8h

It's very funny to see the DOJ prosecute some rich assholes from doing what Trump does every day.

DOJ accuses real estate executives of fraud in homeless funding

Federal prosecutors charged two real estate executives with defrauding California's Homekey program, allegedly misappropriating millions meant for homeless housing

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 11h

I think it's bad that the president constantly and brazenly lies to our face about everything.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 11h

Hey will you consider a trade for a PS5 and a bunch of games

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 23h

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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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 15h

Wow!

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 16h

Excellent condition, has spent most of the last half century bricked in a tunnel for insubordination.

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 16h

"Serious inquiries only" sir you are trying to sell a locomotive on Facebook marketplace.

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 16h

This is the funniest Facebook marketplace ad I have ever seen.

Wolfsboro 250 Steam Engine (Non-Running), $150,000

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 16h

This is a funny picture but aversive reinforcement just encourages aggression and mistrust of humans in your ghouls.

Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · Aug 17

I filled an old windex bottle with holy water and spray my ghouls with it anytime they misbehave

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haunted mentions @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 19h

the what. the family’s what

According to Mikhaila's account, Peterson's health crisis began this summer after he cleaned out his late father's basement and recorded episodes of their call-in show together. "We don't have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks," she said in the video. She also revealed that the family's infant, Audrey, was
hospitalized twice this summer, including once for near heart failure, all happening, Mikhaila noted, after those call-in show recordings.

ed.: the family’s infant??

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 19h

Did you have shufflepuck cafe? I always wanted shufflepuck cafe.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

HYPOTHESIS: repeat exposure to the LessWrong discussion boards is functionally indistinguishable from mercury poisoning.

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 1d

I'm taking imaginative liberties.

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 1d

More or less

It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.
For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said, 'I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle,' a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of a frightful interstellar battle.

The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time.

A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl'hurgs, resplendent in his black jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G'Gugvuntt leader squatting opposite him in a cloud of green sweet-smelling steam, and, with a million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his mother.

The creature stirred in his sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the words, 'I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle' drifted across the conference table.

Unfortunately, in the Vl'hurg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries.

Eventually, of course, after their galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realised that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own galaxy---now positively identified as the source of the offending remark.

For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across---which happened to be Earth---where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't this what happens in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if Nicolas and Erika Christakis ever look on with pride at the world they've created

Headline about how some Congressman with a nazi flag pretends it isn't his.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

newrepublic.com

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus christ

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

important note from libcrusher:

Reactivating temporarily to send a warning.
Since I got doxxed, it appears the same doxxing ring has targeted several other users. I learned that they were banned this week, only for Elon to, apparently, personally unban them. I feel obliged to warn everyone about my experience.

It wasn't just my personal information that got published. Someone, somewhere, got my passwords too. For my banking accounts, brokerage accounts, venmo, etc.
Most of which had different and unique passwords. All these attempts started the day i got doxxed, and have sporadically continued since.

If you know anyone who's been doxxed by this group, you need to have them change all their passwords on every website immediately. Ensure 2FA and any other security measures are in place everywhere.
And, wherever possible, document and report it. Frankly, if you're a lefty of any note, do it now too

If anyone was also a victim of this or knows someone who was, there are ways to reach me. I wish I could go into more details right now. But until that time comes, protect yourself.

I will be deactivating in 20 minutes.
Hopefully, that's enough time for the warning to get out.

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 1d

Vance downplays group chat messages: 'Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.'

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 1d

Compare this to their description of the thirteen year old they abducted in Everett.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

a swastika? in a republicans office? of the republican party who all explicitely endorse fascism? no way this could have been predicted

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 1d

Eh it's worth a shot

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Rip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 1d

Switch in the Matrix saying "not like this"

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