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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 12m

Joe Alwyn and Hunter Schafer is a first ballot Hall of Fame perfect coupling and I’m sure people will be very normal about it.

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 1h

Milhouse's dad pointing to his race car bed, but instead it's a cybertruck. The caption says "her name is aura"

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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 3h

Potential funniest game of the year right here

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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 45m

ok nevermind he’s got the juice

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 5h

lmaoooo www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/p...

In another post in 2010, Platner took aim at musician Ted Nugent, a conservative activist.

“As a combat veteran, that m*therf**ker makes me want to puke when he spews his warmongering macho bullshit. Suck a d*ck, Ted.”

“To be fair,” Platner told CNN. “I’m not really regretful of that one.”

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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 1h

Women don’t like the vehicle.

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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 15h

OpenAI making an app that’s just the interdimensional cable episode of Rick & Morty is fun, even though it will likely be used as a fascist regime to persecute its enemies.

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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 15h

Medium-warm take: The AI bubble should have already popped but for some reason Wall Street doesn’t realize Google has already won.

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dilith 🎃 @flurrys.nekoweb.org · 18h

i mean idk man I feel like being on a more boring site beats this

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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 15h

You know what gets me about all of it? EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN KNOWS THIS IS FUCKED UP.

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 16h

wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social • 1d
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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Or, maybe let that stuff go. The person who hurt you has moved on. You are eating the poison hoping the other person dies. Move on and stop allowing that person and his/her actions to rent space in your head. Don't dig any graves. Just be light and polite if you see them in public.

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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 16h

I was prepared to be the one guy who defends [redacted] but now having seen it I think everyone involved should go directly to jail.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Republican officials have spent years psy-oping themselves into thinking that there are no sincere, good faith liberals or progressives anywhere in America. So no wonder they're totally unequipped to deal with a large crowd of normal people waving American flags.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things that our political class refuses to admit even though it's obviously true is that Twitter is very obviously radicalizing many American elites into full-bore white supremacy

Steve Smith @edmlawyersteve.bsky.social · 2d

It actually seems like Twitter made Vance into a Nazi.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

ya honestly a pretty good visual depiction of how america's fallen since trump became president

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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss is a Hannah Horvath who pulled a JD Vance.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

If I send you this, know I’ve lost my shit

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 2d

LGBTQIA+ is rebranding as LGBTQIA MAX

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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 3d

Not to be a pervert on main but I think women should keep doing Vigilante cosplay because the 70s serial killer glasses are kind of a look.

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Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 3d

Tim Robinson playing Nate Silver in a movie about how getting dunked on by Twitter boiled his brain.

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 3d

Love that the nickname was an inside job

Raleigh's Big Dumper nickname, referring to his large butt, was popularized by former teammate Jarred Kelenic, who started using it in 2020[2] and tweeted it in 2021 when Raleigh was promoted to the Mariners.[97] Raleigh's mother said she thinks the nickname "stinks" but appreciates fans' support for her son.[98]

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

genuinely trumps funniest bit ever for him to admit that he knows he’s a grifting piece of shit who’s going to hell lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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