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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · Sep 11

One of my major problems as a person that I've only really realized recently is that people hate being recomended things when they don't ask for it which is a HUGE problem for me because recommending things is my love language

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 4h

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · Aug 23

Said it before, but as the Jewish leader of the opposition party, Schumer should be FAR more worried about what will happen if he goes along with this

Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 5h

How is this not bigger news???

Every part of this is enraging

Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 5h

Jesus fucking christ what in the ever loving fuck?

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 5h

Disney joined with Pixar and made John Lasseter the head of animation. Now that Pixar wasn't paid by Disney but suddenly was Disney, their "we'll do what we want even if the suits don't like it" became "we are the suits, how about some sequels?" Even with Lasseter gone Pixar never recovered

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 5h

I'm literally not sure what she's even accomplished journalisticly beyond being a troll and she even sucks at that

Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 5h

Ok...Bari Weiss is the one whose most notable moment was desperately trying to get fired from the New York Times so she could bitch about being cancelled and then when that didn't work she quit and attempted to act like that counted as being cancelled so she could bitch about it, right?

Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 5h

Oh no! You gave her what she wanted by ratioing her terrible post she should in fact ve incredibly embarrassed by! She wins this round...

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 7h

columnists logging into to bsky to start their posts with "you're probably gonna spank my naughty little ass for this, but"

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 6h

a man in a red shirt is sitting in a chair and talking to nerds .

Alt: Ogre from revenge of the nerds screaming "nerds!"

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 6h

Oh yeah, I'm just saying it's impressive thing to have retained, even if it was done through countless hours playing it

Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 6h

That's honestly an impressive game to still have muscle memory for because that game is known for two things: having a cool rotating tower effect and being brutally hard even for the era

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 6h

They are going to come up so short on troops because of their nonsensical standards and will likely try to reinstate the draft to offset it...which if that doesn't cause America to riot, nothing will

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 7h

It is SO easy to not take money from the world's most famous Transphobe and yet that is proving extremely hard for too many actors

We lost British Natalie Portman but at least we still have American Natalie Portman aka Natalie Portman

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 7h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 13h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 12h

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 12h

I also suspect they only made a new because despite Legacy bombing, I'm sure the soundtrack sales made up for it. Probably why they got not just Trent and Atticus, but NIN...which is essentially the same thing but sounds cooler

Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 15h

Didn't know you could get sick from exposure to your own species

Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 16h

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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Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · 15h

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 15h

They should just rerelease the original Tron every few years with a new awesome score

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 17h

*shakes head while tsking* another person in a relationship with an AI girlfriend

Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 17h

Shitpostbot is the furthest AI technology should've been allowed to develop

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ShitpostBot 5000 @shitpostbot.com · 22h

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 1d

And being made into a bong

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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