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@ecksearoh.bsky.social

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I game, I hack my electronicles with dodgy firmware, and I read books digital and papyrus. Oligarchia delet memoriam, littera scripta manet.

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Xerø @ecksearoh.bsky.social · Dec 15

I am an atheist and an anti-fascist anarchist, I despise MAGA and the oligarchy. I also believe ACAB. I will automatically block crypto bros, AI spammers, sex pests, antivaxxers and raw milk advocates. No shamans, gurus, holy rollers, reply guys, fintech marketers. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

The Founders counted on Congress being interested in protecting its own powers vis a vis the executive. They certainly didn't foresee a speaker like Mike Johnson. www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism

Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 12m

Pentagon journalists vacate workspace as new restrictions take effect reut.rs/4ni9W5O

Pentagon journalists vacate workspace as new restrictions take effect

Dozens of journalists who cover the U.S. Defense Department vacated their offices in the Pentagon and returned their credentials on Wednesday as new restrictions on press access took effect.

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vashito @vashperado.bsky.social · 1h

watched a really great movie today

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 4h

"‘Prince Andrew believed having sex w me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at hands of #Epstein, Maxwell & the King’s brother

..‘apex predator’ recruited her from MAL at 16; trafficked to succession powerful men, everyone knew what was going on" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22m

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 2h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 2h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Xerø @ecksearoh.bsky.social · 8m

Tiny Girl Big Show

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I can’t believe I said that 😳 #comedy #circus #funny #unicycle

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🌹Karina🌹 @karinamorenoart.bsky.social · 3h

Continuing with OC-tober: This is my very first DnD character!! I’ve never played before 🫣 Nettle is my creepy warlock doll! We are playing a version called Crooked Moon which is all spooky and her kind are all circusy. I am so excited to play!
#dndcharacter #dndcharacterdesign #originalcharacter

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Xerø @ecksearoh.bsky.social · 3h

Rescuing the Past: Lost Media Discoveries (Thunderbirds, Space: 1999, Silent Movies and MORE)

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Rescuing the Past: Lost Media Discoveries (Thunderbirds, Space: 1999, Silent Movies and MORE)

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G.Grimmsbery @grimmsbery.bsky.social · 16d

Witch and familiar
#grimmsbery #witchart #cartoonart #art #witch #illustration #bookartist #artist #fantasy #happy #halloween

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Xerø @ecksearoh.bsky.social · 9h

Remember boys, you all came out of huge cunts.

Xerø @ecksearoh.bsky.social · 9h

I literally thought my latest exchange with that dude was two days ago. Time stretches when you're in the Long Now.

Xerø @ecksearoh.bsky.social · 9h

Okay I wouldn't shit on someone who decided to roleplay the nonconsenting cuckhold in a throuple. Thug is a slur often used against black folk like myself, and cunts are incredibly powerful.

So I understand and support the message what you were trying to convey, but all your wordplay is flawed.

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 9h

The Department of Homeland Security relayed a message on social media Tuesday from its official X account: a single word that critics say is a blatant call for ethnic cleansing.

Trump admin slammed for using ethnic cleansing euphemism: ‘Wannabe Nazis’

The Department of Homeland Security relayed a message on social media Tuesday from its official X account: a single word that critics say is a blatant call for ethnic cleansing.“Remigrate,” the post reads, a term that first saw prominence in Europe in the mid-20th century as a call to reverse migrat...

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Inna Vjuzhanina 🇺🇦 @innavjuzhanina.bsky.social · 10h

Hello #PortfolioDay

I'm Inna, a fantasy artist from Ukraine and I love painting women with attitude 🔥

🌙 www.innavjuzhanina.com
🌙 [email protected]

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Xerø @ecksearoh.bsky.social · 9h

Martin, du und ich, wir sind mit dem Reden fertig. Wir waren eigentlich schon vor zwei Tagen fertig, also ist es mir eigentlich egal, was du über irgendetwas denkst.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 18h

Book Cover of the Day:

Ed Gorey cover:
Nineteenth Century German Tales
Edited by Angel Flores
A Doubleday Anchor Original
Illustration of spider in flames with scrubby landscape and cliffside in background.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 22h

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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Colin Oreilly @colin0reilly.bsky.social · 20h

Venezuela is 3,000 miles away and this boat had a range of 250 these were likely fisherman or a family killed to appease our Pedophile dictator who is mad that a Venezuelan got a prize he is way too stupid and evil to ever be qualified for. Pedophiles are always pathetic.

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US kills 6 people in strike on boat accused of carrying drugs near Venezuela, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 18h

U.S. Military Kills 6 People in Boat Attack Near Venezuela, Trump Says

"The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects."
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U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 1d

There's no need for slander here. Porn is a perfectly acceptable, long-standing human tradition, unlike AI slop.

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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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Xerø @ecksearoh.bsky.social · 16h

Earlier in the 21st century.

"Save the cheerleader, save the world."

In the Long Now.

"Kill a rainforest, wank the nerds!"

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 1d

Oh god just saw this OpenAI generated video someone posted to Reddit of ‘A girl knocks on your door at 3am’ and this may be the least mentally healthy product on the planet it not most terrifying

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 21h

How it started:
"Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return." (Introducing OpenAI blog post, 2015)

How it's going:

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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