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Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 3h

Donald- So I just admit that I was wrong and I get to go into heaven?

Jesus- Yes my child. I paid the price for your sins when I died on the cross

Donald- But I have to admit I was wrong?

Jesus- Yes my child.

Donald- I like messiahs who weren't crucified.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 14h

The "you wouldn't download a car" screen but it reads "you wouldn't scrape all the art ever made and use it to create an Anime titty generator"

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 13h

I get really riled up about how people treat what amounts to a next-gen spellcheck.

Don't worship it or sell out the economy and environment for it.

Don't treat it like the antichrist and/or Hitler 2.0.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 14h

It was good. Fuck the haters.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 16h

Agree with everything but "a lot of money to be made." Maybe eventually, but the opposite is true now.

AI desperately needs rules and guardrails and data centers need to be tied to renewables. People should be careful about all of this, but bitching about every funny AI-generated image is stupid.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 16h

Lol yeah we've been using lazy ways to make fun images for a long time.

The knee jerk "AI evil" impulse around here just gets frustrating. LLMs and gen AI are tools. Don't fall in love with them or worship them, but don't pretend that they can't be used for useful tasks.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 16h

Sharing an image made by gen AI is not fascist or pro-oligarchy. It's just sharing an image. Relax.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 16h

It's fine.

ChatGPT images aren't inherently evil. It's a tool that can be useful in limited ways. In this case, we now have an awesome frog poster. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps my greatest work?

My version of the predator meme but with Kermit and Fozzy’s arms clasped.

“Fozzy, you son of a bitch!”

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1d

Deer’s Call, Liu Chunjie, 1993.

Deer in white and blue tree-like scene, painting.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

The sweatbands worked!

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

This shit is making my spidey-sense tingle. I'm really tempted to pull my investments from S&P-indexed mutual funds into something less dependent on the stock market.

Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

He's got this.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah that's one of the worst calls I've seen. Umps, in spite of their reputation, generally don't miss easy calls.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, the integrated (on/beneath seat) bidet doesn't require me to stick my hand into the splash zone.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the beautiful story and the closure of a definitive ending.

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 1d

Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled 8-17, 2001
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136912

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

I'm always wary of decades-later sequels. Been burned too many times. So I've avoided Doctor Sleep. With this recommendation, perhaps I should reconsider.

I fucking love The Shining and worry about diminishing that love with the sequel, so I'm still on the fence.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

My dork-ass D&D brain immediately thought of this.

(I know it's an ancient legend, but D&D is my basis for mythology, sorry.)

Cover of book for AD&D module The Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga. It shows a bizarre monstrous wooden hut with bird legs and a troll's head. Two adventurers are preparing to fight it.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, it's good advice for apple picking, too.

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Sean Parker @seanforfive.bsky.social · 1d

Ever wonder what happened to George Lincoln Rockwell’s body?

Me neither who gives a shit about a dead nazi

But man @socialistdogmom.bsky.social is a hell of a story teller and the WLG pod is the best history pod out there. Check it out

Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 3d

When the commander of the American Nazi Party died, he left instructions with his successor. He wanted the military funeral he was entitled to as an American veteran. It didn't go well.

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

There are a couple of food categories that won't ever release their death grip on big covid-era price jumps. Coca-Cola brand drinks and Lays snacks are two of them.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

True. Also:

Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

Some real "rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic" energy here, because inflation is the real story, buried at the bottom.

Screenshot of text from a news story. Text reads:

Big picture: Lay’s generates about 60% of PepsiCo’s annual sales but has seen sales slip every quarter for the last three years. Consumers in every income bracket have been ditching classic snack brands amid rising prices.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 1d

it was alarming in the past few days to figure out that this world was just hanging on by a Dolly Parton

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