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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I could take the same glee others do from the inevitable AI bubble burst, but unfortunately the economic collateral damage is going to hurt a lot of innocent people 🙁

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 2d

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 2d

You can easily say that descendants of Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrants to America today face radically less levels of systemic discrimination than their ancestors did in the 1800’s without being like “and actually that discrimination never even existed”. Erasing that history is genuinely insane

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 3d

One of the shittiest parts of being an adult is the horrifying realization that most of the “unassailable truths” we were taught in childhood were complete and utter lies. Meritocracy being a thing is near the top of that list.

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 3d

A consultant was well paid for this.

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 3d

Omnibus when?

a woman wearing glasses and a suit is holding a watch and making a please gesture .

ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a suit is holding a watch and making a please gesture .

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 3d

Some of those movies are terrible, but he’s never terrible in them.

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 3d

a person dressed as mario is standing in front of a white chair

ALT: a person dressed as mario is standing in front of a white chair

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 3d

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

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ceej @ceej.online · 4d

someone with a billion dollars no longer experiences the world as 99% of humanity would recognize it, and so any “analysis” or critique of society they offer is fatally, irrevocably flawed. dracula complaining about the price of groceries

ceej @ceej.online · 4d

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 4d

no no this is good actually

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d

I've already lost all patience with the "conversations" about ICE because it's the exact same "conversation" people have had in this country about policing since its inception. Nothing changes in that conversation. Just new people rip van winkleing every few weeks.

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 7d

a close up of a person wearing a batman mask and making a face .

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 8d

MTV did a similar commercial in the 80s:

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MTV Station ID Grim Reaper

YouTube video by thingfish73

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 8d

The worst people online are having a completely normal and not psychotic reaction to this totally innocuous statement.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8d

Gavin Newsom fucking sucks, part MCXVII

he still has until the end of the week for the rest of the bills so unfortunately it’s time to suck it up, call his office, and politely ask this living hairpiece to do the bare minimum to protect the most vulnerable among us

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 8d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8d

Wow I guess he really is the progressive hero all those dipshits said he was when they tried ramming him down our throats

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 8d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 9d

Being a dork: A cartoon from 30+ years ago was teaching children that being “one of the good ones” will not save you, but these dummies still believe they will beat the odds.

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illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 9d

lol sue his ass anyway

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 11d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 12d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 11d

the rocket is never going to fuck you girl

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12d

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 12d

A man who died as he lived: A meme.

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UFC-CIO @gasping4meaning.bsky.social · 13d

I like it when we make up names for J.K. Rowling. Mine is J-K-I-Hope-She-Dies-of-a-Fungal-Infection.