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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 1h

Someone should probably do something about the Zuckerbot

therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 1h

It’s gonna be so funny when one of these groyper twerps tries something in a stand your ground state and gets their shit blown away by a real life BFG

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 1h

God is dead and the computer killed him

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 1h

Guy at work started a call with the line “so I asked Grok, do you know grok” and in that moment my final shred of hope for humanity died.

This was a man in charge of keeping your grandma alive

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 1h

I feel like the more these guys say stupid shit like “no kings equals no paychecks” and “terrorists are wearing frog costumes” the more they lose their grasp on the average American. These are patently absurd statements that only the most diehard trumper could possibly think is true

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 1h

The Streisand effect is so funny now 50 million additional people who didn’t know about this have heard it and to them it just sounds like the government is saying “if you hate monarchy you hate America”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Scalise refers to No Kings as the "Hate America Rally"

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 2h

Half of the attendees of these protests are old white ladies who still think Hillary would have made a good president who do they think they’re fooling

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve never been worried that his type will inherit the world. I’m more worried about what they’ll do when they realize nobody likes them.

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 2h

IDK why America and China hate each other so much, they have so much in common

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

“The most common is “Chinese woman follows her African partner home and has a bad time.” These videos universally depict Africa (never a specific country) as desperately poor, socially backward, and rife with physical and sexual violence.”

foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/15/c...

Racist AI Fantasies Are Spreading on China’s Internet

Anti-Black videos speak to popular prejudices.

foreignpolicy.com

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 2h

We spent a decade telling people “there’s nasty worms under the logs” only to be called stupid and hysterical and then when one of them flipped the log and found nasty worms under it they freaked out as if we didn’t tell them this already

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 2h

Twitch should immediately ban the Rat King for endorsing political violence.

Buuuut it’s run by Jeff Bezos so that’ll never happen

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 2h

I can’t believe we just caught influential young people in politics calling for the mass murder of democrats and the response from mainstream democrats is STILL “well maybe we should build bridges and see if we can help them”

How long till we just admit these people are broken and lost forever

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 3h

Normal people don’t just wake up one day and decide they’re pro-Holocaust. There was something clearly wrong with these kids and the kids who came before them. I mean, that MAGA guy who shot up a Mormon church was a “young republican” at some point.

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 3h

“They haven’t always been this way” well it sure wasn’t very difficult for them to get to the point where they idolize fucking HITLER so maybe these people really were always rotten and just needed a tiny push to embrace their true selves.

These guys were caught advocating for fucking mass murder

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 3h

Instagram and Facebook are flooded with AI slop, Twitter is KiwiFarms 2, I’m pretty sure Reddit is straight up dying. I think we’re living in the end of social media

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 3h

Over here everyone sort of forgot about it but on Twitter, post-The Kirkening they’ve been practically begging for someone to get killed. I’m amazed so many people insist on staying there.

If bluesky falls too it’s time for normal people to just abandon social media

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 3h

Also going back to Twitter is completely off the table, Elon personally unbanned an account that had received a ban for doxxing people. Twitter is pro-doxxing and if you’re a high profile individual you are putting your personal safety at risk posting there. They’ve been pretty bloodthirsty lately

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 4h

Living in the age of extremely convincing AI has made it impossible to tell which leaks are real and which are fake. I keep seeing this alleged Mega Starmie leak and it looks so stupid I refuse to believe it’s actually real. Someone went into sora and told it to make starmie but with legs

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like the recent trend of 15 year olds getting addicted to Nazi forums and shooting up their schools can partially be attributed to microplastics fucking up their brains. Kids are already dumb and impressionable, now imagine what a bunch of tiny plastic beads can do to their neurons

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 5h

I’m a state employee and my dental insurance DOUBLED

therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 7h

If I had a nickel for every time the legend of Zelda had a fish lady fall in love with a twink I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 18h

It’s one of the best IMO.

Spring Mario is the worse one. Absolute dogshit powerup

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 20h

I’m too distracted by bowser’s caked up dumpy to be mad that he just called Bee Mario the worst Mario powerup

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 20h

In 2028 there will be government mandated 12 hour rolling blackouts but it’s all worth it to redirect all that electricity to ChatGPT and Grok so I can make them pretend to be the hot grandma from Dandadan sitting on my face

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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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 20h

What if they bring him back in season 4 and he just looks like that now

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