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Hisstopher Bones

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 21d

Josette Plimons consumes the dead, walks among the living, and burns in the spaces between. "Ash Eater" is a short horror story written by me, accompanied by a stunning illustration by Naomi Butterfield, and is absolutely free to read. I hope you like it! buttondown.com/ChrisMJones/...

Ash Eater

illustration by Naomi Butterfield Just as an object takes fire and is consumed, so is the world of desires consumed and destroyed after death […] It might...

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 8h

web application informed me I've been struggling mentally. this is why we need the internet

Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 11h

if you did the poster for The Thing *and* for The Phantom Menace *and* for Back to the Future *and* for A fucking Muppet Christmas Carol you go to heaven no matter what else you may or may not have done in this life

Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 16h

It was so smart and good of you to post this,

Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 18h

I think fewer harmless famous people should die in bulk and other, much obviously worse and more powerful individuals should die in bulk instead

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 19h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 20h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 18h

I can't contribute much about D'Angelo but he seemed really cool and one of my favorite remixes ever is of one of his hits music.youtube.com/watch?v=EI9S...

D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel?) [L-Vis 1990's Own Way Edit]

YouTube video by nuhmate

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 1d

asking rhetorically bc at this point it would be weirder if you didn't

Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 1d

u ever be waking up w a general dread of "whats gonna happen" in a historical sense

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geoff (a ghost) @geoffaghost.cardiosoles.com · 1d

Hey @extralife4kids.bsky.social & everyone else! We’re a hair under $149 for $10k lifetime raised for the ole #GhostnolaIndustries #ExtraLife #CardioSoles Nov 8 marathon!

If we hit it early then there is an additional milestone @chuuurls.bsky.social & @ryyudo.bsky.social can confirm cromulency of.

Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 1d

When he made everything cost more everyone had to pay more money to get those things. Graphs show this

Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, I mean like..........yeah

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

U.S. consumers are already shouldering as much as 55% of costs due to Trump’s unprecedented gambit to impose sizable tariffs on imports, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs analysts.

U.S. consumers bearing more than half the cost of tariffs so far, Goldman Sachs says

The findings suggest U.S. consumers will continue to struggle with high prices — something Trump had promised to address in the run-up to his re-election.

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 1d

I've been at work all day, I have a case brief to write, and I've looked at the news. Things are dire and I need some well seasoned slop to sustain me

Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 1d

If I do not get to play some of that middling Lord of the Rings game from 2017 the second I get home I will die of sadness

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like it's "taking the piss" at this point, as an Englishman might say

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chuuurls @chuuurls.bsky.social · 1d

playing chess until Chess dot com crashes my computer. JOIN ME at www.twitch.tv/chuuurls

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 1d

Shutdowns been going on for a bit

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 1d

Finna play "World of Echo" at the desk and have myself a Work Weep

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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.
"
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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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

Well, think we’re gonna be 3D printing a bunch more Aztec death whistles

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry but everyone interviewed for this story is a tremendously embarrassing imbecile and also British www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 2d

well never let it be said you're not easy to please, I guess

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 2d

[me taking the biggest bong rip you've ever seen in your life and me getting this word out while I'm hacking and wheezing so much you're thinking about calling an ambulance] totally,

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

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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Hisstopher Bones @cjiswingingit.bsky.social · 2d

cool

Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 2d

"Since the wealthiest 10 per cent of the population own 85 per cent of US stocks, they enjoy the largest wealth effect when they go up... the latest data shows America’s consumer economy rests largely on ...[the spending of the] top 10 per cent" #AI #irrationalexuberance www.ft.com/content/6cc8...