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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 15h

To the extent that my relationship with the real is fully mediated by a large organ I can't control (lol), I can't provide evidence LA isn't a mass hallucination.

Alex @alexanotherone.bsky.social · 15h

The more you talk about Los Angeles the less sure I am it is a real place, and I have relatives who live there

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 15h

Idk it's always nice when men decide to label themselves as assholes before you accidentally end up on a bad date in River North

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

I love every update to this story because I did not know anything about Ned Fulmer before he became the face of wife guys (derogatory) and his failure spiral is truly incredible

Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 16h

Ned Fulmer is truly on the cutting edge of Divorced Technology

Ex-Try Guys Member Ned Fulmer Makes Bizarre Pro Wrestling Debut

In a bizarre turn of events, ex-Try Guys member Ned Fulmer is continuing his internet comeback with a career pivot to ... wrestling?

www.vice.com

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 22h

oh wow okay this company is IN TROUBLE in trouble

The Verge @theverge.com · 23h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 18h

Realizing now I got distracted on the train and never finished this thread and the rest of it is mostly dry legal analysis but this footnote sparked incredible joy

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 18h

All the Discourse™ around YA literature obscures the fact that YA books are, in fact, intended for children and teens.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 18h

The company people should be actually worried about is clearview

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19h

recurring gripe of mine: stop talking about these people like they’re fucking supervillains, Palmer Luckey is grifter bullshit artist who is going to steal a lot of public money in exchange for buggy vaporware, he’s not Lex Luthor. they get off when breathlessl hyperventilating about them like this.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War.

Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January.

This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey.

Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 21h

I've been trying to do less Politics Posting in general and I have no idea what's going on in the world anymore but I've become DEEPLY invested in this potato plant that sprung up when we stuck a sprouted potato in the dirt outside a couple weeks ago just to see what would happen

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 1d

Oh nice!! I'm a little further north but I know a bunch of people who live there and love it

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 1d

I actually live in Westchester now but I spent a ton of time in Dutchess County growing up. My grandmother's from Poughkeepsie originally but she and my grandfather moved up to Millbrook like 20 years ago and she's still in assisted living up there. I had to be talked out of a three hour commute lol

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to Obamacare health insurers can no longer refuse to sell you health insurance nor deny coverage for your illnesses discovered in the 2-3 years before you got insurance. But you can't wait until you're super sick to buy insurance. You have to buy in during open enrollment. Here's how to pick.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Oct 28

It's open enrollment time so here's a convenient peg to hang a little tutorial about how to choose your health insurance.

Most of the advice you get is bad. Most of your instincts are bad. I however used to work for a health insurance company and I do arithmetic for a living so I can help.

Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · Oct 28

Personally I think it's great that my company's HR sends out an official looking tool where they even ask you to pre-populate your healthcare providers and instead of being the actual insurance enrollment process it's just some bullshit checklist to try and convince me I actually don't want a PPO

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 1d

Median GS employee behavior:

“I was lonely so I designed 200,000 porn waifus and put them on NIPRnet”

Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 1d

Was in a decommissioned nuclear silo when @winkie.bsky.social turned to me and said: "Hey, have you read this report about the guy who uploaded 30 years worth of porn to a government computer?"

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

www.404media.co

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 1d

I want to say for a hot second there was a live action Teen Titans or something like that on the DCU streaming service but I could never actually find it anywhere and I wasn't willing to add another standalone streaming service

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 1d

This is Young Justice erasure!!

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 1d

That's a failure of imagination on the studio's part imo. People would watch the shit out of Batman doing CSI stuff, but everyone's too grimdark poisoned from The Killing Joke so you get a bunch of tedious action movies and STILL nobody is willing to murder Jason Todd again

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👻2007 Irish Outsider👻 @irishoutsider.bsky.social · 1d

X-Men is Marvel Anime and they need to fully embrace that identity.

The ‘97 series come close in accepting this.

Most, if not all, characters should only appear in animated features.

Logan, Professor, Magneto, Beast etc can hang out in MCU, but we don’t need to find ways to get more there.

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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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 1d

"no designer vagina under communism" is gonna live in my brain forever

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 1d

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
X.com
Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is terrible but their performance art nonsense isn't even WORKING. This admin is so repugnant they literally can't even get their own voters to come back to work for them after rearranging entire systems specifically to facilitate hiring those voters. This is farce.

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 1d

Next year for real I would like to host your crew

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

A thing I think doesn't get internalized enough in the discourse of the European subjugation of the Americas is that there was no way for contact between Europe and those continents to not end in abject disaster for indigenous Americans because of disease burden.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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Justin Fox @byjustinfox.bsky.social · 1d

Of the 25 countries that sent the most visitors to the US in 2024, 12 are sending more so far this year, and 13 fewer. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Table showing the change in visitors to the US so far this year from the 25 countries that sent the most visitors in 2024. Visits from Mexico are up by 1 million. Visits from Canada are down by 2.4 million.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

"If Biden really wanted to stop the slo-mo epidemic he would have put pressure on Ma-Ma like Dredd" I begin to type as the world begins to melt away. What's a computer? What is the internet? My buddy helps me up and begins to explain that I've been out for a while, I got hit by a beam and

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 1d

13 of 8000 is a really fucking funny number though

Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 1d

Everything they do is performative bullshit for their hateful propaganda campaigns.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

yeah i don't think i ever appreciate how well constrained Trump was during his first term and how everyone kinda assumed that would happen again without putting in any of the work

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

The siren call of electoral strategy and analysis partially crowded out work on things like law, organizational resistance, and protest. I blame myself, too

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