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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 6h

[eyes blazing, in the lotus position, levitating]: The Lord of the Rings films are a reverse heist film

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 7h

sneakers, italian job (remake), oceans 11 (remake), a fish called Wanda, jackie brown, heat, the score, inside man, thomas crown affair (remake. maybe, might be A tier), snatch, maverick, thief, the sting, taking of Pelham 123 (original), thief, entrapment.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 7h

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 9h

Once when canvassing I asked a voter his #1 concern and it was "yard sales are not enforcing sales tax"

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 17h

Actual Voters have takes so much wilder than anyone online could imagine

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. . . Whippets @crestwood.bsky.social · 7h

I read this as Tim Robbins and I was like “Sure, why not?”

Then? Then I learned to read.

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. . . Whippets @crestwood.bsky.social · 7h

Rephrased:

Option 1: 100 people with 1,000 rifles
Option 2: 1,000 people with 100 rifles

You pick 2 every time.

Even if you lose 50% (people / rifles), you end up with 500 people and 550 rifles.

And every one of those 500 people now has a reason.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13h

This article discusses how the “network state” Tech Bros have noticed—and aren’t exactly pleased about—Gil Duran’s work exposing their movement. 10/15/25 … 1/ lithub.com/how-silicon-...

How Silicon Valley Became a Center of Reactionary, Anti-Democratic Politics

With 881,000 people living in less than 47 square miles, San Francisco packs a tremendous amount of wealth and cultural influence into a fiercely unequal city. San Francisco is far smaller than Los…

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. . . Whippets @crestwood.bsky.social · 8h

“I have 10 guns, my buddy Crazy Steve has 10 guns, and Right Wing Rick has 10 guns. What are you gonna do about it?

Buddy, that’s 30 guns between 3 people.

I’ve got 10 guns and 9 friends who need em.

And it looks like we just found 30 guns.

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Menno @menno.bsky.social · 2d

I think that the fall of our society will be traced, in part, to the decision to treat attention as a core KPI.

I think the impact of this metric is to the digital economy as Reaganomics is to the physical one.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · 10h

My mistake, you are correct! I generated the file, but I did not give you a download link — let me go get it for you [pretends to walk down stairs behind couch]

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10h

This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet

Cannot generate simple excel files on pro version
Question
So I have used ChatGPT pro for a while now and recently I have been facing an issue while trying to collate data from pdfs and put it in an excel sheet where in my chat it keeps asking me questions when it finally gets down to generating an excel sheet it never gives me the me the link to download the file.
After multiple attempts when it does give me a lin k to download the excel file I rec an error which says file not found. Starting to grow frustrated with this now.
Look forward to any suggestions to tackle this #problem

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 9h

If I may paraphrase film!Aragorn, 'Open tyranny is upon you, whether you would risk it or not.'

It has not won, but neither is it 'coming.' It is upon us, and the only question that remains is what to do about it - and how to break the inertia of those hoping it won't come just yet.

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Hunter🔪 @holybible.bsky.social · 16h

Lol

x.com/jasonfurman/...

Investment in information processing equipment & software is 4% of GDP.

But it was responsible for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of this year.

GDP excluding these categories grew at a 0.1% annual rate in H1.

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. . . Whippets @crestwood.bsky.social · 10h

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 17h

one year ago, these little beasties came into my home.

they’re perfect, i love them.

alexander berkman and emma goldman, two tiny black kittens with BIG eyes, sitting in a black-clad lap on a bathroom floor

emma goldman, her ears in airplane mode, eyes wild, and tongue out, tangled in the string of a cat toy wand, while behind her, alexander berkman, his back to the camera, tackles the toy at the end of the string

emma goldman, standing on her back legs, front paws outstretched and claws unsheathed, mid attack against a cat toy wand. alexander berkman’s backside is visible, attacking the toy at the end of the string, while the rest of his body is out of frame

emma goldman and alexander berkman, both curled up in a black-clad lap, fast asleep. alexander berkman’s front paws rest gently on a light-skinned arm with yarrow flowers tattooed on it

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 20h

POV: it’s still locktober

a series of three photos of police arresting a peaceful protester in an inflatable penis suit yesterday

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 12h

this is the most Portland sentence I've ever read

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

i am not trusting the moving company contract to protect three human skulls that are all more than 100 years old, dueling pistols that are more than 150 years old, and several two-headed taxidermy gaffes that are basically impossible to replace

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Matthew @dlthings.bsky.social · 19h

I have a note: Please don’t make AI slop versions of actual signs ppl made by hand.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13h

They won’t even give the movement a name as they did the Tea Party.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17h

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13h

3 days of a general strike would cripple the US economy. Union rules apply, if everyone does it together, they can't fire everyone for doing it.
Italy just managed one that was hugely successful. the US has done it before. General strike now!! #political

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13h

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 13h

I've never worked in a newsroom but I've worked on campaigns and organizations that leak like sieves and ones where no one leaks.

Want to know what causes leaks? Toxic management. Always.

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23h

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Now in a position of power at the network, Ms. Weiss is the one concerned about leaks. She has complained that her comments at private CBS meetings keep turning up in media reports, asking if the company can identify the leakers, according to three people familiar with her remarks.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14h

A leftist's head would explode if they had to watch sports with such an incredibly shitty setup

X user: A leftists head would actually explode if they experienced this

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 16h

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 15h

They did the meme @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 21h

I take no pleasure in this but going to a different city with your dumb buddies and getting badly injured because you antagonized a bunch of strangers and fell down twice chasing the 110lb teenager who stole your sunglasses actually is North Jersey Excellence, of a sort.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19h

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

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