DataShade
@datashade.bsky.social
I am not Bob the Angry Flower. I am not a content creator. I am a normie-adjacent weirdo with a lifelong lucky streak of falling into the social orbit of talented and amazing people.
Ok, fine: "reply guy"
Ok, fine: "reply guy"
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"You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone." -James Baldwin
Meanwhile, on threads, which actually is like what people on twitter think bluesky is like, a "teacher, author, poet" speaks...
February 18, 2026 at 9:22 PM
"You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone." -James Baldwin
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I was prepared for this Nick
February 19, 2026 at 1:30 AM
I was prepared for this Nick
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They were holding a bag of Funions just off camera
Everything about this makes me love @pattonoswalt.bsky.social even more. THOSE WB EYES!
February 19, 2026 at 1:10 AM
They were holding a bag of Funions just off camera
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It's a particular kind of suffering. Like what you get from your dominatrix. Or from winning a type of argument over the weekend that none of your coworkers will want to hear about when you go back to work.
this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit
you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table
you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from
you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table
you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
February 19, 2026 at 3:39 AM
It's a particular kind of suffering. Like what you get from your dominatrix. Or from winning a type of argument over the weekend that none of your coworkers will want to hear about when you go back to work.
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it is our utmost responsibility to make the Woke 2 of conservatives' nightmares real — and not just real, but brutally, decisively, bone-crushingly real
I think folks need to understand the level of dooming going on in anti-democracy circles right now. They see what's happening and they know what's coming (Woke 2).
Here's monarchist Curtis Yarvin, a close friend of JD Vance.
badfaithtimes.com/the-leading-...
Here's monarchist Curtis Yarvin, a close friend of JD Vance.
badfaithtimes.com/the-leading-...
February 19, 2026 at 1:39 AM
it is our utmost responsibility to make the Woke 2 of conservatives' nightmares real — and not just real, but brutally, decisively, bone-crushingly real
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Like ten minutes after the original "OMG LOOK AT THIS" post someone had already found the same references and made them yell about the Epstein Files during the fight and was like "dude this is a shitty tech demo stop lying to everyone" and yup
And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.
In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
February 19, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Like ten minutes after the original "OMG LOOK AT THIS" post someone had already found the same references and made them yell about the Epstein Files during the fight and was like "dude this is a shitty tech demo stop lying to everyone" and yup
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Seriously it's hilarious to me, the line on LLMs is "this is progress! you can't stop it!" from the same people who are trying to eliminate every gender transition surgery and, uh, the concept of the computer. Well, *you* think things can be de-invented! Let's de-invent the search engine that lies.
February 18, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Seriously it's hilarious to me, the line on LLMs is "this is progress! you can't stop it!" from the same people who are trying to eliminate every gender transition surgery and, uh, the concept of the computer. Well, *you* think things can be de-invented! Let's de-invent the search engine that lies.
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In this week’s post, Felker-Martin argues that people should not “recap things,” especially if they’re not getting paid. She warns the reader (somewhat ominously) that they should not put more recaps “into the world.” Can’t wait to see what’s in store for us next, but I’ll keep you all up-to-date!
For the love of god, don't recap things, especially not for free! Do not put more recaps of art into the world.
February 19, 2026 at 1:35 AM
In this week’s post, Felker-Martin argues that people should not “recap things,” especially if they’re not getting paid. She warns the reader (somewhat ominously) that they should not put more recaps “into the world.” Can’t wait to see what’s in store for us next, but I’ll keep you all up-to-date!
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Like it strikes me as borderline insane to be appalled by Trump being predatory towards teen girls and then go "And the solution is a different guy who's also predatory towards teen girls"
February 19, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Like it strikes me as borderline insane to be appalled by Trump being predatory towards teen girls and then go "And the solution is a different guy who's also predatory towards teen girls"
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I was going to college in SF when Gavin Newsom was mayor and it was an entire known THING that he'd cruise around in a limo to pick up 18-19 y/o girls to party with. It was a running joke amongst everyone I knew that "If we look hot enough tonight, the mayor might give us free coke"
Just saying
Just saying
February 19, 2026 at 1:17 AM
I was going to college in SF when Gavin Newsom was mayor and it was an entire known THING that he'd cruise around in a limo to pick up 18-19 y/o girls to party with. It was a running joke amongst everyone I knew that "If we look hot enough tonight, the mayor might give us free coke"
Just saying
Just saying
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Friendly reminder that some dudes, including Mr Taylor Swift, were rocking these shirts
February 19, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Friendly reminder that some dudes, including Mr Taylor Swift, were rocking these shirts
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Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up
February 19, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up
Panther frantically trying to distinguish itself from all the face-hungry leopards roaming around
The first assistant Chris Rufo hired in 2021 was a Pepe the frog loving fan of “groyper mom” Michelle Malkin. That guy worked for him for 3+ years before going to work for Russell Vought in the Trump administration last year. So Rufo can miss me with the “I’m shocked by Fuentes’s popularity.”
February 19, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Panther frantically trying to distinguish itself from all the face-hungry leopards roaming around
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the president of my alma mater canceled all the diversity scholarships bc of this and I showed up at a fancy event he had in Georgetown and got in his face about it and told him this is how it would end up
pretty sure he just wanted to do it anyway
pretty sure he just wanted to do it anyway
February 19, 2026 at 12:23 AM
the president of my alma mater canceled all the diversity scholarships bc of this and I showed up at a fancy event he had in Georgetown and got in his face about it and told him this is how it would end up
pretty sure he just wanted to do it anyway
pretty sure he just wanted to do it anyway
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Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities
Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...
www.mprnews.org
February 19, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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AI is your Facebook MAGA aunt. Whatever she sees online is absolutely the truth and she's gonna tell everyone else about it. This is really really bad news man
I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website*
I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...
I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...
I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.
www.bbc.com
February 18, 2026 at 8:58 PM
AI is your Facebook MAGA aunt. Whatever she sees online is absolutely the truth and she's gonna tell everyone else about it. This is really really bad news man
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blue prince is a marvel and a labor of love. creator tonda ros, though, harbors no delusions that he can do it again -- at least, not at the pace he did it the first time
![There’s a reason Ros wasn’t able to include absolutely everything he’d mapped out in Blue Prince’s release version: He was already working himself to the bone.
"I was working, I think, 80 hours a week for eight years straight," he said.
Whatever comes after, he added, will necessarily dial things back at least a bit in terms of ambition.
"Blue Prince will likely be the most ambitious game I ever make, because I don't think I physically can do this again,” Ros said. “It was an incredibly long journey, so it might take as much time [to make my next game], but I certainly won't be working as hard. ... That's just not sustainable now. It's a young man's game."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreib6d4in3uszbw6r6sksulogenzicdq4ktr7cs6eexfagnnjgybz3y@jpeg)
February 18, 2026 at 9:02 PM
blue prince is a marvel and a labor of love. creator tonda ros, though, harbors no delusions that he can do it again -- at least, not at the pace he did it the first time
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Battinson
Batfleck
Patrick Batman
Batfleck
Patrick Batman
February 18, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Battinson
Batfleck
Patrick Batman
Batfleck
Patrick Batman
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The Rise of Skywalker is the single most "hope you fuckers like slop" thing I've ever seen
February 18, 2026 at 9:43 PM
The Rise of Skywalker is the single most "hope you fuckers like slop" thing I've ever seen
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Also you want to USE these types of voters. You do not want to DEPEND on them.
100% correct. “Gettable” Trump voters are not moderates/conservatives.
They are low-info, hate the status quo, and don’t have (the luxury of) ideological consistency.
They are mad at the way things are, want someone to smash things, and don’t care if that smashing is from the right or left.
They are low-info, hate the status quo, and don’t have (the luxury of) ideological consistency.
They are mad at the way things are, want someone to smash things, and don’t care if that smashing is from the right or left.
Donald Trump won in 2016 and 2024 because anti-system voters flocked to him.
Democrats need a strategy for competing with anti-system voters in 2028.
This is, in some ways, a very strong case for nominating someone like AOC over Newsom.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/meet-ameri...
Democrats need a strategy for competing with anti-system voters in 2028.
This is, in some ways, a very strong case for nominating someone like AOC over Newsom.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/meet-ameri...
February 18, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Also you want to USE these types of voters. You do not want to DEPEND on them.
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i scrolled twitter for the first time in like 100 years last night and that place is genuinely radioactive. people who spend a couple hours or more a week on there are gonna need reeducation camps or something. it's pure ragebait
February 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM
i scrolled twitter for the first time in like 100 years last night and that place is genuinely radioactive. people who spend a couple hours or more a week on there are gonna need reeducation camps or something. it's pure ragebait
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If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so
Meanwhile, on threads, which actually is like what people on twitter think bluesky is like, a "teacher, author, poet" speaks...
February 18, 2026 at 9:00 PM
If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so
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A very detailed explanation of how FBI bamboozled a magistrate into authorizing a raid on Fulton County’s election offices by omitting critical information that would have totally undermined any probable cause claim. Pretty clear-cut case of calculated deception of the courts.
Fulton Co elections expert: “In all 5 areas identified by ... the [search warrant] affidavit, there are a multitude of false or misleading statements or omissions. ... Once ... corrected, the affidavit loses any basis in reality.”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 18, 2026 at 4:00 AM
A very detailed explanation of how FBI bamboozled a magistrate into authorizing a raid on Fulton County’s election offices by omitting critical information that would have totally undermined any probable cause claim. Pretty clear-cut case of calculated deception of the courts.
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literally everyone you're mad at got here years before you. you're the invader, queen
WTF is going on with Bluesky? I've easily seen half a dozen posts trashing Kamala Harris from alleged progressives. Are the bots from Twitter never to be known as X invading us?
February 17, 2026 at 9:33 PM
literally everyone you're mad at got here years before you. you're the invader, queen