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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 4h

in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits

www.foxla.com

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✨Veldenmire✨ @veldenmire.bsky.social · 1d

They love eachother 😭💕

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 15h

Honestly the type of guy who is in a long term, supportive relationship who insists on behaving like an incel anyway is becoming my least favorite type of guy.

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 15h

LORD STENCH IS GONE AND SO IS ALL HIS TRASH!!!!!!!
Yeah our rent will be more but this time it is genuinely worth it for the office space & not having to steward the drunk emotional tantrums of a man in a relationship who insists on acting like an incel.

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Skree Ghoulsen @breebird33.bsky.social · Jul 13

In case it needs to said again, it's okay to make hateful people uncomfortable, if fact, we want them to be. Making concessions to lessen their discomfort just validates their bigotry and hatred.

Skree Ghoulsen @breebird33.bsky.social · Jul 4

one of the characteristics of white supremacy that often gets overlooked is "right to comfort", and when denied comfort in spaces, folks will use their tears manipulate others to accommodate them.

Keep them uncomfortable, deny them the comfort of being hateful.

Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · Jul 4

What's interesting to me about this is the assumption that this space MUST be open to conservatives, a group that has repeatedly created social networks that intentionally cater only to themselves. No one on the left ever went on to Truth Social expecting a warm welcome.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 1d

Kazi Aniruddha - Aao Twist Karen [India, Surf] (1965) -- an unstoppable foot stomper!
https://redd.it/30s5aa
https://youtu.be/JJhaPvNppTI

Kazi Aniruddha - Aao Twist Karen [India, Surf] (1965) -- an unstoppable foot stomper!

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 1d

you could not waterboard this out of me. “we didn’t understand why people use steam”

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 17h

Watching Takaichi do her level best to maintain composure while having to direct his insane grandpa around each function is so surreal. Ma'am you give this maniac gold and golf toys and he casually mentions bombing the shit out of any opposition just for the hell of it. Wild.

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 17h

While I'm dubious about someone who admires Thatcher in this political climate, what a hideously disgraceful slap in the face to be the newly-minted, first woman PM of Japan and have to immediately deal with the senile American President.

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 17h

Twitter just doesn't appreciate the real icons these days.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 1d

HECATE’S CAULDRON (1981)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 27” x 15”

What is the goddess of all witches tossing into her brew on a cover for this horror anthology? 1/3

An enchantress drops ingredients—which happen to be tiny men—into a smoking cauldron. She wears black robes trimmed in red with the front open to expose skin to below her navel. Her long hair is raven black and her skin is red illuminated by the fire. Both beautiful and frightening, she casts her gaze at the audience as wafts of smoke curl around her. She stirs her cauldron with what appears to be a human femur that has dissolved at the end nearest her witches brew. Her nails are like talons, the only ugly thing about her.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: several days ago Zohran Mamdani was overheard saying he "needs" to eat dinner. An inside source confirmed he had eaten breakfast and lunch that day, giving him an estimated 2+ weeks without additional calories before he might have died from starvation

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not that I don’t like this person’s work when it crosses my dash. It’s nice enough. But I see so much more of them posting some pretty dubious proof of plagiarism from other sources that often makes me wonder which manga they’re ashamed of tracing from.

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 1d

There is someone I don’t follow but whose work I see often whose posts seem to be primarily complaints about being copied, being mistaken for an artist they’re sure is copying them, and posting works with a pretty generic style that I’ve seen like 30 different artists abandon after their teen years.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence

Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 1d

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning

Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

academic.oup.com

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 1d

It isn't even tailored

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 1d

Iirc this coincided with the dotcom bubble. American culture is such a grift lmao

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 1d

Sequels and sitcoms also. It was like a deliberate rebranding of American culture being a macrocosm of San Francisco culture. It was so contrived, too. Movies that originally had a solid sense of place getting a san Francisco vacation or move contrivance just to film there and pitch it as THE place.

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 1d

If I do ever take a media studies course I want to write a paper on why so many films of the 90s were set in San Francisco. My supposition is that studio execs of the time we're noticing how much money was pooling in silicon Valley & pushed to focus there to try and squeeze money outta that region.

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Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.social · 3d

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 2d

It's a shame most of the depicted authors are pre-1960 because a Haruki Murakami character would be a really fun addition to the roster.

Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 2d

Much like Sōseki Natsume's final work the Russo-Japanese war never ended and now its being fought by the gay mafias on the streets of Yokohama.

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 2d

Akutagawa will still deeply value life while being disillusioned by humanity's callousness while Atsushi will be forever striving to prove his right to live. Philosophy is simply an articulation of personal values and also this boy's clothes are alive with knives and this other boy is a tiger.

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Orion ⚧️ @fawxdraws.bsky.social · 2d

(I love also that this series is making me read more again and I really needed that shot in the arm. And a cohort of like-minded pretentious lit nerds that like anime to talk to about this shit.)

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