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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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Erik Sternberger @eriksternberger.bsky.social · 3h

The people who are going to sext with OpenAI are going to be the same people asking you to "define a woman" today.

Erik Sternberger @eriksternberger.bsky.social · 1d

If you do something good in search of the reward, lets say a prize, a title, or heaven: Then you aren't a good person, you're a mercenary.

Erik Sternberger @eriksternberger.bsky.social · 1d

That issue is for Nov 10th? A month from now?
That's very optimistic.

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Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 2d

"Your suffering shapes your obedience" is, like, something Darkseid would say

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Erik Sternberger @eriksternberger.bsky.social · 2d

Inside of 3 years we're going to see Certified AI Free labels on things like we have non-GMO stuckers.

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Erik Sternberger @eriksternberger.bsky.social · 2d

If you put these words in the mouth of an unhoused person, FOX & Friends would be suggesting he be euthanized, but since it's a billionaire, he's "eccentric."

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 4d

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

The pope calls Trump’s immigration policy “inhuman” and “not pro-life”

www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Erik Sternberger @eriksternberger.bsky.social · 5d

Lol @peoplemag.bsky.social framing it that he "lost" it. That's like saying I lost to Best Screenplay to Sean Baker with an unproduced script that made the top 1% on (now dead) Coverfly. At the end of the day, I'm still in User Experience, and he's still an authoritarian doing war crimes.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

UPDATE: No Nobel for Donald.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 5d

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 6d

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Erik Sternberger @eriksternberger.bsky.social · 6d

If SNL doesn't have a sketch with Amy Poehler teaching a Chicago Improv class half-full of ICE Agents, what even is the point of the show anymore?

Also, I can whip that up in an afternoon if y'all need that for air.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6d

donald trump is a fascistic leader who has surrounded himself with people who are explicitely pro-fascistic that want to end democracy as we know it and punish anyone who dissents. pretending otherwise leads me to believe you agree with them doing this

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Erik Sternberger @eriksternberger.bsky.social · 6d

I want to give them so much money to make this.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 7d

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Erik Sternberger @eriksternberger.bsky.social · 7d

"You kids with your loud music, and your Dan Fogleberg, your Zima, hula hoops and pac-man video games."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d

“Why is Stephen Miller talking to police in Memphis? Why is he talking to anybody… including his wife? — He’s one of the people that’s lasted longest. He can kiss Trump’s butt better than any human.”

(🔥 the @redstateupdate.bsky.social boys in MURFREESBORO are about to be our new besties)

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