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lousy smarch weather @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 5h

Made a batch of Mapo tofu for the first time in a while 👍

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 11h

Warranted or not, the perception is that this is the Scold Website. If you actually want anyone to be here, you're gonna have to get a little cooler about people understandably having to navigate the declining number of social spaces

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largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · 11h

please direct me to the people who are interested in thinking about movies. it seems there are still way more of them over there

largest rodent @capybaroness.bsky.social · 2d

i got a little galaxy brained about Magellan

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lousy smarch weather @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 10h

One of the biggest obstacles to coming over here is that there’s just no built-in user base of people who already like talking about movies. It makes this place feel dead!

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lousy smarch weather @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 11h

It’s embarrassing to admit this but I’m old enough to remember when Twitter was like an actual living, vibrant, relevant thing. And now it’s not even really safe to use unless you’re a groyper or a bot. Or both.

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lousy smarch weather @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 11h

A Circles feature would cement this place as an actual Good Twitter Alternative

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 12h

If Bluesky wants to kick twitter’s ass, they gotta grab Circles. Everyone wants Circles

Tim (bluesky edition) @timybarrett.bsky.social · 13h

Their stock would skyrocket if they did their own version of circles too

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 1d

Four chapters about him saying in that horrible voice, "Olivia, I want to suck on your big chin"

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

romney campaigned with trump and arpaio and made his whole message about how obama was the “other,” down to birther jokes and an entirely shameless, racist attack lying about welfare reform. is that not hitler-y enough for the hitler club

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

here’s how much the obama campaign—which drove the majority of romney’s bad press—held back: his church that banned black people until the 70s baptized obama’s dead mom and they didn’t say shit

Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 1d

The media smeared Mitt Romney as Hitler. Then Republicans thought, well we might as well run Hitler.

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chris @yrpalchris.bsky.social · 1d

what the mic sees when John Darnielle kicks off This Year

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lousy smarch weather @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t watch baseball but I think it’s cool that baseball has guys that look like this

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lousy smarch weather @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 1d

This take would cause so many conniptions among the deranged X-Men loving zoomers that still populate Twitter lol

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Evil Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 1d

My other one is mutant powers are most closely analogous to inherited wealth. They even got their own island nation come on.

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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lousy smarch weather @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 1d

The global economy is gonna collapse because the people with all the money did too much coke and placed their bets on SmarterChild That You Can Jack Off To

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lousy smarch weather @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 1d

This is the fakest fucking economy in human history. Tulip speculation was more dignified than this.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

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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lousy smarch weather @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 1d

You just know the employees at her local Starbucks think about keying that thing whenever it’s in the parking lot.

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lousy smarch weather @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 1d

A rear window sticker that’s only available to women who can be described as Barista Menacers

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lousy smarch weather @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 1d

Many of my problems with the X-Men can be boiled down to “cocaine is a helluva drug.”

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lousy smarch weather @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 1d

Cyclops eye beams are heat vision, not “concussive blasts” from another dimension or whatever!!

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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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm generalizing, but why do conservatives remember political irritations for so much longer than liberals?

It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.

Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine caring about Kaepernick in the year of our lord 2025

Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

"We're saving God from Colin Kaepernik" is a pretty good distillation of Republican thought

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lousy smarch weather @craigrangoon.bsky.social · 1d

Every Caladan Brood song sound is two seconds away from turning into the score for a LucasArts adventure game (complementary?)

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 1d

Mass market paperbacks were the very best book form humanity has ever invented and it’s a travesty and a crime against the book-reading public that they have disappeared.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

This is a wild graphic lol my word

Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 4d

I'm LIVE on Twitch: twitch.tv/donlemon

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

The Red Scare girls openly describe themselves as groypers and fundraise for Republicans, meanwhile the Democratic Party is paying Pakman to describe them as "the extreme left"

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Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · Jan 6

Crossover between Jake from Brooklyn Nine Nine and Jess from New Girl.

Jake: I'm a Star Trek fan.

Jess: Name the chief concern of 700 different episodes.

Jake: Rick Berman's boner.

Jess: That's on my, I set the bar too low.

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