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Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 17h

More evidence for my crusade against cruises

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17h

The daughter of an elderly woman who died alone on a remote Australian island, criticizes a “failure of care and common sense” after the cruise ship her mother had been traveling on left her behind.

Elderly cruise passenger found dead after being abandoned on tropical island

Suzanne Rees didn't return to her cruise ship after a hiking excursion on the remote Lizard Island, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

oh just straight up gutter racism!

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."

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Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 1d

Glad Arteta rotated the team but you know he's losing his mind with how open they look in midfield and defense lol

Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 2d

I think it may have been a special situation? Maybe a particularly aggressive or friendly guy lol. I just saw an email he said their building sent them, a real bummer!

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Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 2d

They euthanized a gator near my little brothers apartment in Charleston which was really sad to hear! They usually just chill and are so cool to see in the "wild"

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Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 2d

Gators are so cool

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 3d

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

All the 36 year olds on the east coast are officially rooting for whichever team ends this so we can go to bed

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Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 3d

He keeps playing Beef Stew by Green Day and it kicks ass

Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 6d

Someone really should have told him to cut that crap out

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 6d

Down goes the last of our norms

PlayStation @playstation.com · 6d

Master Chief comes to PlayStation.

Halo: Campaign Evolved launches on PS5 next year, rebuilt and modernized with 2-player local co-op and 4-player online co-op: play.st/4oAYnr5

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Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 8d

a man is sitting in a car that says ' a & m ' on the side

ALT: a man is sitting in a car that says ' a & m ' on the side

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Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 8d

Incredible campaign, I can't wait to see what try next

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8d

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 9d

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 13d

Comedy is now legal

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13d

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says he has commuted sentence of former US Rep. George Santos in federal fraud case.

Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 14d

Incredible game by Flacco but I'm shocked that Rodgers still has the arm strength to launch a Hail Mary like that??!

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14d

Great piece here (and why AI regulation is one of my top three priorities). No surprise that Newsom caved to money, it’s why he should never be president.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14d

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete

The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 14d

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 14d

if you want AI to do everything for you then...what the fuck are you

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 18d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 17d

Not surprising but still devastating to learn all the same

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 17d

YouTube shorts has decided to bless me with the knowledge that Shoenice, the guy who used to chug vodka and eat stuff like handfuls of lit birthday candles in 2010, is now a hardcore maga guy. Very well

Shoenice live-streaming while holding a sign saying “MAGA RIP CHARLIE”

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Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 18d

What the heck was his problem??!

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Adam DuBard @adubs124.bsky.social · 20d

The funniest thing about this baseball game is that all the concessions stands close after the 7th inning so these fans are definitely sobering up.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 20d

RIBBIT CITY ☠️☠️☠️

Inflatable frog costume carrying a sign reading FROGS TOGETHER STRONG

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