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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 20h

“So, we’ve run your algorithmically generated AI clone through a series of different enhanced interrogation simulations to create a regimen of effective, highly tailored torture solutions. Today we’ve got a great selection of chewing noises lined up for you, followed by a deep tissue manicure!”

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 16m

I believe that. Walkable cities isn’t gonna work if we keep designing cities around cars. 20 years of the constant noise and pollution has really worn me down to nothing tbh

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 2h

Its wild what feeling like you have a modicum of autonomy can do when you live like a lab rat most of the time

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 3h

Just took all of four days away from the city and I’ve already managed to get back into writing for the first time in a year, I need to get out of this place, it’s eating me, man.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 1d

Not to ruin anyone’s day, but if you take even a cursory glance at Gavin Newsom’s early life and privileges, and at the ways he made his money and his family connections to other prominent hated Democrats, the idea that he’s going to win over middle America is laughable. Completely ridiculous.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 1d

The reason the Catholic Church is going so hard in the name of immigrants being deported by ICE is that—though the media can never stop Islamaphobic fear mongering for ten seconds to acknowledge the fact—the vast majority of them are Catholic.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 21h

Folks, I need everyone to understand that the only governments that do shit like this are openly corrupt corporatist oligarchies. This is the synergy of capitalism and fascism. It leads here.

It’s nepo babies all the way up. The entire way. Don’t like it? Shut up yes you do, watch our slop.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 5h

👀

…or I guess👂👂

LRADs and Sound Cannons Are NOT Safe. Here's How To Minimize Their Effects.

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 1d

It is no surprise that Peter Thiel, Mister Antichrist, had positioned a Catholic into the VP position, in the hopes that it will provide plausible deniability when someone points out that the United States is systematically rounding up entire Catholic congregations.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 20h

I say this as someone who cannot name a single Bad Bunny song and doesn’t care about football: lol. Lmao even.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 20h

dying at rightwingers falling for what looks like an ai generated turning points USA half time show with special guest “measles”

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 11d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 20h

“So, we’ve run your algorithmically generated AI clone through a series of different enhanced interrogation simulations to create a regimen of effective, highly tailored torture solutions. Today we’ve got a great selection of chewing noises lined up for you, followed by a deep tissue manicure!”

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 21h

American journalists who’ve treated Al Jazera like it’s beneath them for the last twenty years are in for a shock when they start getting the exact same treatment for reporting on observable reality instead of the party line.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 21h

The silver lining is that between this and tiktok shop people will leave the platform, and I’ll never have to hear about it again.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 21h

Folks, I need everyone to understand that the only governments that do shit like this are openly corrupt corporatist oligarchies. This is the synergy of capitalism and fascism. It leads here.

It’s nepo babies all the way up. The entire way. Don’t like it? Shut up yes you do, watch our slop.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 21h

And like, weird as it may sound, I’m not surprised that it was random guys who work at the head shop who helped her, as opposed to the employees at the Shoppers Drugmart next door. I live in a better community because of lefty hooligans not corporations.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 22h

So I went into my local weed shop, and this woman came in to talk to the guy behind the counter like “I know this is crazy, but I really need help moving a piece of furniture, I live a few doors over” and then all of a sudden there are three dudes rolling their sleeves up to go help her.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 23h

Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · Aug 14

Pick your fighter:

- Jordan Peterson’s mold
- JK Rowling’s mold
- cockroach in Asmongold’s apartment
- RFK’s brain worms

onion person @junlper.beer · Aug 14

mold is starting to strategically target rightwingers

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 23h

Have we started noticing a pattern where the people with toxic mold and brain worms are the ones telling us how to live our lives?

Does anybody else find that shit interesting?

Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 1d

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home.

If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

Jordan Peterson diagnosed with chronic condition after exposure to mold

Peterson's daughter said her father has a "genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold."

www.newsweek.com

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like shit all the time, I have for years, I hate it here, if I don’t get out I think I’ll continue feeling sick forever. Idk what to do.

Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 1d

I have not been feeling well since I got back to the city, and I’m starting to think maybe using white noise to ease my auditory sensory issues 24/7 is like a shitty bandaid when I live in a dense city and the noise pollution never stops ever and my downstairs neighbour never turns off his TV??

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