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Wanly Made Mailman
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John WM Thompson. CO->OR->Bronx. Shirley Jackson Award nom’d editor of “Mooncalves” @ NO Press. No subversion, only vandalism. https://www.no-press.org for books!
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 1h
amazing opening
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You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor. I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor. Who would it be? David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist. Thank you for the correction. Very welcome.
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merritt @merrittk.com · 3m
not now, kitten. daddy ate an egg that fell on the ground and a street-smart white blood cell and a by-the-book cold pill are currently fighting a virus voiced by laurence fishburne inside his body
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 2h
The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job
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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 1h
Who up deathing they loop
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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · Jul 20
Washed
An article about “Best Kicks in Video Games” that does not mention Deathloop
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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · Jul 20
Washed
An article about “Best Kicks in Video Games” that does not mention Deathloop
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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 2h
"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad!

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 2h
This is absolutely the case with books on Goodreads. By and large the further you stray from a 3.5/5 average, the less interesting the work is
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 4d
My grand theory is that 6.5 is the ideal rating on IMDb for an interesting movie because it means it alienated idiots. If you’d like proof: Almost every Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie is rated between 6.3-6.9.
The IMDb for Pulse, rated 6.5 The IMDb for bright future, rated 6.7 The IMDb for license to live, rated 6.9 The IMDb for cloud, rated 6.4
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 2h
Palestine is everywhere
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2h
Earlier today I was listening to one of the hosts from Here and Now repeatedly ask a resident from Southeast Chicago whether throwing rocks at ICE was justified. And finally she just said, "They invaded our community. They have machine guns."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h
Wow. New Economist poll finds only 34% of Americans say ICE's use of force has been justified, vs 51% who say it's been excessive. And they oppose agents wearing masks by 52-35.

Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:
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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 2h
Which of these two options does “we have to live with each other” amount to? Asking for a major newspaper
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h
You cannot compromise with this. You can either submit to it or defeat it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
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Mike P aka “Mr. Fall” 🎃🍁🍂 @pattenpending.bsky.social · 2h
Oh no he escaped.
Empty Hellboy case at da movies. Look at that beautiful carpet.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 4h
I’m going to say again that any strategy of a takedown that relies on republicans to admit how wrong they are and go away to fix it is not going to work.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies
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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 3h
Men are from Mars. Women don't like the Vehicle
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4h
Buncha MOOC bros are still influential education writers. I feel like once you’ve written “the end of college” you don’t get to keep writing about college when it doesn’t happen.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 9h
Remember the Year of the MOOC from a decade ago? The one where tech bros predicted the end of all but 3-4 universities because who needs campuses when everyone can just take MOOCs and learn everything? Hits a little different now after pandemic pedagogy, huh? The tech hype cycle is a helluva drug.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4h
Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
The CSIS report declares, “Radicals will argue that peaceful politics will inevitably fail and that only violence will make a difference,” but I have no idea who these radicals are because in my 40 years around direct action organizing, I’ve only encountered theoretical enthusiasm for violence from the sidelines and the occasional young hothead (almost always white and male) in movements whose vast majority and leadership are committed to nonviolence. I do know someone who was part of a violent group in the early ’70s and then became wanted fugitive; he’s since become an ardent advocate of nonviolence. What too often gets described as left-wing violence at protests is property destruction, which can be dangerous and intimidating and is usually opposed by protest organizers, but should be regarded as distinct from harming human life. For example, at the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, the Black Bloc, a small cadre among the 50,000 protesters smashed a lot of shop windows quite spectacularly. But there are no reports of activists harming human beings. Police, on the other hand, used tear gas; pepper spray; rubber, plastic, and wooden bullets; concussion grenades; and armored vehicles against protesters bystanders resulting in many injuries. Nonetheless, for years afterward, mainstream media outlets portrayed this event as an occasion of shocking activist violence.
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basicchunnel.bsky.social
Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 4h
Saying “women don’t like the vehicle” when I get rejected until a woman sees through this body to my radiant soul
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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 4h
We are the Adult Children of Immature Parents. They don’t wanna go
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4h
man i’d call this stuff elder abuse if the elders in question weren’t so gleeful about inflicting crimes against humanity until the day they drop dead at their desks
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 5h
83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4h
man i’d call this stuff elder abuse if the elders in question weren’t so gleeful about inflicting crimes against humanity until the day they drop dead at their desks
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 5h
83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE
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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 4h
I often wonder if a buddy system would be a good idea. If it’s a bad / dispiriting meeting then you can go out and lift ur spirits with the friend.
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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 4h
When I first saw the quote I did not know it referred to a cybertruck and even though I might have guessed, my first thought was that it was a weirdly mystic way of saying “women think I’m ugly but this is only the vessel for my true soul”
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A K (Bone Coloring, Silian Rail Font) @aklingus.bsky.social · 4h
"Women don't like the vehicle" is one of those rare phrases that is either poignantly stupid or stupidly poignant, whichever you prefer
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A K (Bone Coloring, Silian Rail Font) @aklingus.bsky.social · 4h
"Women don't like the vehicle" is one of those rare phrases that is either poignantly stupid or stupidly poignant, whichever you prefer
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 4h
“Varmints! … You’re all just a bunch of cheatin’ varmints!”
“Varmints! … You’re all just a bunch of cheatin’ varmints!”
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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 4h
Take my Alan Wake PLEASE
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𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social · 4h
I don't think console gamers know how many free games you can get for PC, and I don't mean via piracy. zillion dollar corporations will just throw them at you in hopes you will vaguely associate their brand with "gaming." that will not happen even one time on the nintendo switch.
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Maddy "Boo!" Hare @mbhare.bsky.social · 4h
silent hill f
wint (with a picture of fox mask from Silent Hill F) Food $200 Crests $150 Rent $800 Candles $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this my family is dying craig (replaced with an image of Shu Iwai) @dril spend less on candles dril @craigus12 no.
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Rob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social · 5h
steal your face right off your head
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 5h
if you want a picture of the future, imagine your own face staring back at you from the chumbox, forever nymag.com/intelligence...
Virtual try-ons are actually showing up all over the place in retail — you'll find them on both luxury-brand apps and Shein — and they tend to suffer from the same issues, given that they're essentially mashing images together: The clothes don't fit quite right; the lighting is always strange; generations can take a little while; body types are approximated but rarely nailed. But they might be good enough to help rule something out or consider something new, and they're certainly good enough to be compelling and occasionally fun to use. The temptation to merge virtual try-ons with ads — to follow users around the internet not just with evidence that you know a lot about them but with actual photos of themselves using new products — is surely massive but is currently constrained by two things. First, generating such images or videos is computationally and literally expensive. And second, putting users' faces in, say, a branded Instagram Reel would probably feel to many like a violation. (For now, Google's explainer about its virtual try-on feature marks a boundary far more conservative than that, emphasizing that the feature won't currently show up on sponsored products.) 凸 One of those constraints will probably go away as AI models become more efficient. The other is a matter of expectations and norms around privacy, which, if the last two decades are any guide, have a tendency to either erode or get bulldozed. Given the hunger for return on AI investment and the close relationship between the advertising industry and AI - Google and Meta, for example, are advertising and AI giants, and it's hard to imagine the latter holding out too long on a new technology that might improve ad performance — it's probably a matter of time before someone breaks the seal and starts using customers to market to themselves at scale. Small companies are already trying something weird and uncomfortable. The bigger ones probably aren't far behind.
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