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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 5h

They're the fuckin best.

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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 5h

If I did, I'd probably be sitting in a Discord room too and just yell at @seraphsix.com 😂

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 9h

Philadelphia International Airport has joined other airports around the country in refusing to play a video from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that blames Democrats for the federal government shutdown.

Philly International Airport refusing to play Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for shutdown

The city's Department of Aviation, which owns and operates Philadelphia International Airport, "does not accept or display materials that are political in nature in its facilities," the agency said.

www.inquirer.com

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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 8h

A social media site that I would then refuse to use myself.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 8h

a cartoon character says giant woman in front of a giant lion

Alt: a cartoon character says giant woman in front of a giant lion

media.tenor.com

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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 8h

Awwww yeaaaah! They're here!

All the components to my new PC are here and I'll be building it in like 2 weeks.

I'm HIGHLY tempted to stream it like I did with my previous PC build *does math* 9(!!!) years ago on the 26th.

pcpartpicker.com/list/qNBpC8

PC parts https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qNBpC8

From top clockwise:
- WD Black SN850X 2TB m.2 SSD
- Corsair White Vengeance DDR5-6000 CL36 RAM
- Corsair White Vengeance RAM Light Kit
- AMD Ryzen 7 9700X CPU
- Gigabyte X870 AORUS Stealth Ice AM5 mobo
- Corsair White 3500X iCUE Link ATX tower
- Corsair RX140 RGB iCUE white fan
- Corsair Titan 360 RX RGB white AIO cooler
- Corsair RM1000x Shift White PSU
- ASRock Steel Legend white AMD Radeon RX 9070 CT GPU
- Corsair RX120 RGB iCUE white fan

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radley #1 jace fan @robotrad.bsky.social · 9h

magic community should post less about The News and start posting more about which characters you want to see in Various Scenarios

jay! @pogona.space · 10h

We need to steer magic community online into a fandom. What do you mean its been months and theres not a single fanfic on ao3 with alpharael and his hole. Hes a white boy talking about his hole any fandom would have taken that and ran

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 9h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 9h

The money pit that claims to be the solution to all our problems still isn't making money after countless billions dumped into it.

Spoilers: it's just a big fire at the bottom of the pit incinerating the money.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 10h

Hahahaha!

Thanks to ya'll here on Bluesky I found out my doctor was doing something illegal. Went to report it and found out that the agency where you report it to is permanently closed.

So that's cool and fun and the government is functioning perfectly, no notes.

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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 9h

What the what

Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 9h

They're so desperate to martyr him so they can accelerate their running of the 1930s Nazi playbook..

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 10h

I understand the broader context, but it continues to just cave my brain in that they're declaring it thoughtcrime to criticize a dead podcaster. Like, he wasn't even a government official or religious leader or something actually important, he was just some prick with a webcam

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Department of State v
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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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1st Viscount Craigavon @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 10h

I beg people who use the phrase "a few bad apples" in this manner to recall the end of the saying about "one bad apple"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 10h

We need to go Shaxs on their asses

Fighting fascism is a full time job screenshot from Star Trek Lower Decks

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ceej @ceej.online · 10h

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 10h

Free speech is when you are punished for criticizing the President’s favorite podcaster.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 11h

The Donald Trump administration has revoked the visas of citizens from Argentina, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, and Paraguay for comments about Charlie Kirk.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 11h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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President Barbie @presidentbarbie.bsky.social · 10h

When this ICE stuff started happening I started writing a fictional story about it and the first chapter had the scenario of ICE detaining a parent in the car school pickup line and now it’s happening in real life. I stopped writing the story after two chapters because it made me feel sick.

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 10h

Counterpoint: The disparity isn't shocking.

The "k shaped economy" and "vibecession" has been in the zeitgeist since 2022 at the latest.

There's a shocking disparity between how high-income and low-income earners feel about the economy

New JPMorgan data shows how Americans in different income brackets perceive the economy.

www.cnbc.com

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Dix @dixonij.bsky.social · 11h

The memorials will continue until the forced martyrdom sticks.

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 13h

ralph lauren 👑

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