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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 11h

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 18h

sanker has been just utterly fucking owned twice tonight (three times if you count how he got beat twice last play)

Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 18h

Newspaper headline suggestion: Saints Fail Sanker Swim Moment

eke @eke.bsky.social · 21h

these are the kind of small civil society groups integral to any republic

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 21h

the note that none of the films were banned or even offensive really made me laugh.

not samizdat, just french guys drinking and watching popular movies underground

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 22h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 21h

one of those things a priest in elden ring holds up then next thing you know you're covered in burning blood

Beta @betapositive.bsky.social · 1d

They look menacing too! They look like the kind of thing you'd take to fight demons because of the prayer didn't work the fact it's 20 lbs and covered in spikes probably will

A Monstrance, a giant gold thing covered in spikes and edges with a cross on top

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Because boy, howdy, nobody knows ritual and symbolism like the Catholic Church, and having it turned squarely back on the Very Bad Catholics who have been the public standard-bearers of wielding it for evil for so long is really good to see.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

It's been really, really nice seeing the Catholic social justice tradition in the US feel like it's empowered to spread its wings again without risking censure after a long time of being suppressed by US Catholic leadership, and it's exactly what I was hoping for from Pope Bob.

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 22h

let people who write code have them for work, they seem to like it

eke @eke.bsky.social · 22h

we have to kill all LLMs, sorry

The Verge @theverge.com · 22h

Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank

The AI #homelessmanprank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement.

buff.ly

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 1d

all of the above apparently

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump has died

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

reut.rs

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate how "prosecute" is appearing more and more

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d

don't want EYES? too bad

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d

we should've stopped with DeepDream, a perfectly good AI that took your picture and filled it with fractals full of eyes

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

yes, just like the earlier versions of Midjourney from like 2022 actually produced some pretty interesting surreal images, while the more recent versions largely just produce profoundly boring smooth-edges clip art slop

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d

can't violate the injunction against arresting journalists without probable cause if you just lie about how they're all actually doing crimes

eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d

hell at this point they'll be lucky to have a show of force in a few major cities unless they get started on hiring more national guards

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d

they're calling it the Trump Doctrine, we're guarantors of the financial stability of anywhere in the hemisphere — stay away, European powers, we're doing all the bailouts now!

Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

It’s not the UNITED STATES OF America first. Checkmate libs

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d

a real lesson that you should get a billionaire to back you

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d

only Bari would be smart enough to premiere her first thing at 2:30pm on a friday afternoon and also not put it on TV

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d

tremendous piece, especially if (like me) you know nothing about the web of party alliances in japan

Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 2d

Japanese politics was rocked on Friday as the Kōmeitō announced it would leave its coalition with the LDP after twenty-six years. To understand why this happened and what it means, I wrote a guide for the perplexed.

open.substack.com/pub/observin...

Kōmeitō quits the coalition

A guide for the perplexed

open.substack.com

eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d

more antisemitic though, which is saying something

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2d

the reason I despise Jeffries and Schumer the way I do is that they have a deep contempt for the very idea that politics may have changed beyond their extremely narrow understanding of campaigning and legislating.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2d

like it's all well and good to demand our leaders lead and such but like, none of this is normal! nothing any elected Democrat has experienced to this point could have prepared them for this, in fact it's almost the reverse

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d

genuinely: what the fuck are you even talking about

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d

feels like some kind of gas leak situation

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 2d