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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 45m

Who could have predicted that the company run by a weird auton, who released a child grooming AI, would also release the up-skirting-creeper spy glasses?

Why are we not casting all these debased billionaire weirdos in to a volcano instead of worshipping them as tech wunderkinds?

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 13h

Actual safety notice from my alma mater:

Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses being used exactly as everyone expected

The techbros are not okay (it’s a completely open campus…not all the buildings, obviously)

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Office of Public Safety

Crime Safety Advisory:
Suspicious Occurrence Reported

Dear USF Community,

We want to make you aware of recent reports of a suspicious occurrence on and around campus. Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions. Reports indicate that this individual may be attempting to post these interactions online under the account name "pickuplines.pov" on TikTok, Instagram, and possibly other social media platforms.

While no threats or acts of violence have been reported, we want our community to stay informed and take steps to support one another.
If you encounter this individual or any suspicious activity:

Take immediate action to report the incident at the time it occurs by calling Public Safety Dispatch.
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Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 10h

If you showed this to Anakin Skywalker he'd become Darth Vader there and then.

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 10h

Obviously this is a particular left-wing species of it, but I think this is a reflection of a very real Online trend found all over the political spectrum where people don't understand some aspect of the world and so assume their ignorance must reflect a conspiracy by The Powers That Be

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Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 10h

Deserts are liveable which is why all the oldest and largest human habitats all revolve around WATER

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Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 11h

I would like to wake up and see that the country has improved for the better

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Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 11h

If they are staffers then surely you must have seen at least a few at the Capitol. Will you confront one directly?

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11h

This is some vile stuff. And these aren't teenagers. Many are Republican staffers. At least one works for Trump.

"Epithets like “faggot,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined."

Politico @politico.com · 15h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 12h

Really is not discussed enough how England have, for a long time now, been an absolute machine in qualifying. This is not nothing! Very big teams have scares in qualifying! Italy have missed the last two world cups! We don’t even notice qualifying is happening because England never break a sweat!

Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 12h

I'm a fair-weather fan of the England national side but the transformation from 2002-era "tabloid-appointed World Cup Winners who hate one another oh fuck we've gone out in the last 16" to "some nice role-models who make you feel disappointed for losing in the semis" isn't a terrible trajectory.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 12h

I'm a fair-weather fan of the England national side but the transformation from 2002-era "tabloid-appointed World Cup Winners who hate one another oh fuck we've gone out in the last 16" to "some nice role-models who make you feel disappointed for losing in the semis" isn't a terrible trajectory.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 13h

The world lost a genial man, a genius communicator and a supreme artist. I lost a friend - beloved Drew.

Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.social · 16h

Rest in Peace, Drew Struzan

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 13h

Of course Starmer's No.10 have decided to react to the CoE warning them their transphobic policy direction violates longstanding ECtHR judgements by implicitly threatening to join the far right in wanting to leave it

Geri Scott
@Geri E_L_Scott
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This has gone down *badly* with some in govt, amid push to reform the ECHR from the inside.
Shabana Mahmood especially is said to take a "dim view" of arguments made and her allies say issue of trans rights after the Supreme Court's judgement is "beyond reproach".
Govt source says "it doesn't help sustain public confidence in the European Convention when the Council is seen to intervene in domestic politics and national security".
(f) Steven Swinford @ @Steven Swinford • 5h
Breaking:
The government's treatment of trans people in the UK could breach the European Convention on Human Rights, Europe's human rights watchdog has claimed...

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Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 13h

So who was going to tell me that the Peruvian President "2% Approval" Boluarte got impeached and removed.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeach...

Impeachment of Dina Boluarte - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 13h

Charles Xavier is a good man despite his flaws and the fact everyone else still has the free will to claim otherwise proves it.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 13h

Jean should have either stayed dead or not died in the first place (the original idea being she gets depowered at the end of Dark Phoenix).

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Fresno Freddie's Dead @fresnofred.bsky.social · 13h

Magneto is a zionist and that's what actually makes him interesting as a villain and antihero.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14h

it's deeply sad that certain parts of the Pro-Pali Left would rather lie and smear the second-most openly pro-Palastinian prominent elected political figure after Rashida Tlaib than concede an inch rhetorically.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 13h

he was one of the only America politicians to even mention Palestinian detainees in his statement about the ceasefire and big accounts on the other place are openly lying and saying he didn't mention Palestinian prisoners just Israeli hostages

Gabriel S. Pumpkins 🎃 @gsjphd.bsky.social · 13h

the man posted a 10/7 statement amounting to "the terrorist attack was terrible and we gotta bring the hostages home, also what Israel has done is inhumane beyond belief and the violence and oppression need to end yesterday" and people lost their gotdang mind about him being a Zionist sellout or w/e

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Nathan🌹 @nathanwylabour.bsky.social · 2d

I've written my first ever essay on Labour politics, entitled 'Intellectually adrift, where does Labour's revisionist wing go from here?'

I'd be very interested to hear what you think of it!
acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

Adobe Acrobat

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John Kohn III @unnecessaryneon.bsky.social · 9d

I think we've discovered a wiki editor who knows the actual definition of "petard" and has made it their life's mission to spread this information to as many people as possible.

God speed, nameless hero.

Kiyone @kiyonescarlet.bsky.social · 10d

lol

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 6d

The Hammersmith Flyover, which slices through Hammersmith town centre, could be buried in a road tunnel if a plan by Hammersmith and Fulham Council goes ahead.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ham...

Hammersmith Flyover could be buried in new road tunnel under council plans

The Hammersmith Flyover, which slices through Hammersmith town centre, could be buried in a road tunnel if a plan by Hammersmith and Fulham Council goes ahead.

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 2d

I’m having a bad morning so I’m taking all y’all with me

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 2d

regret to inform you all that we have another one

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Check out this 3 bedroom flat for sale on Rightmove

3 bedroom flat for sale in Dolphin House, Smugglers Way, London, SW18 for £1,750,000. Marketed by Knight Frank, Battersea

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Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 14h

Wait? The Bari Weiss channel too? Man, everyone hates Hegseth.

Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 14h

Even *Lachlan Murdoch*'s Fox News is saying nope.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14h

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined other media organizations in refusing to sign onto the Pentagon’s new press requirements.

"Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon's new requirements, which would restrict journalists' ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues. The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protections.
We will continue to cover the U.S. military as each of our organizations has done for many decades, upholding the principles of a free and independent press."
- Joint statement from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, FOX News Media, NBC News

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14h

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined other media organizations in refusing to sign onto the Pentagon’s new press requirements.

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Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 15h

Has there been any attempt to see if members of the general public even know that Reform is different from UKIP? How does one commission a YouGov poll?

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 19h

Brief moment of surprise that UKIP still exists as a thing (and I say that as someone who wrote a book on them once). Then once that passes, remembering that this person is likely not even in the top 5 oddest post Farage UKIP leaders...

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

UKIP have been taken over by the COO of the UK branch of St Charlie's Turning Point

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Ali-John Mirsepassi @ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 15h

So I think I know why Corbyn did not join the Greens. It makes sense. But why did Sultana not? It can't just be the NATO thing.

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