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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Erika with a K @imaginaryerika.bsky.social · 9h

Who did he vote for?

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 9h

Like I don’t think you get to go “gosh we just want to sell stuff, not get political” when you want to sell that stuff to people who are on the receiving end of existential threats from your president. If you sit that out, you’re making a choice

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 9h

“We’re not in politics. We’re just some guys in Virginia making good whisky. But unfortunately, we’re the victims.”

Idk man, maybe you don’t get to “not be in politics” when one side is blowing up international relationships you depend on www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 20h

I think the counter argument to “Ellison and Weiss will turn CBS News into an unstoppable propaganda machine” is Bezos’s WaPo which lost basically all the talent and also is in a subscription death spiral

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 13h

"Those efforts have been complicated by the fact that major hedge funds, including those led by friends of Mr. Bessent, stand to benefit financially from an Argentina economic lifeline."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

www.nytimes.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15h

If red state schools accept this we are going to get a two-tiered system of higher ed. One set of states will be based in empirical reality and the other will be subject to the whims of a conspiratorial movement that is increasingly detached from facts.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 16h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 15h

How can any self-respecting journalist write an article on this and NOT mention that the compact allows the federal government to not only withhold but claw back funding from any university whose faculty or students "belittle" conservative -- and only conservative -- ideas?

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Erika with a K @imaginaryerika.bsky.social · 18h

I still remember my grandma’s number and she died in 2004. Heck! I still remember the numbers of friends I haven’t spoken to since the 90’s!

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21h

Sea-Tac Airport won't air Kristi Noem's miserable propaganda, and that's a good thing.

Donald Trump is not a king, and dog killer Kristi Noem can't just force our airports to break the law on her behalf.

Sea-Tac won’t air Noem video blaming shutdown on Democrats

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport won’t broadcast a video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem saying Democrats caused the federal government shutdown.

www.seattletimes.com

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icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 18h

If a person looks at it with any sense, Netanyahu and Trump played a game with the hostages lives this last year so they both can be seen as heroes in the negotiated plan for their release. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Pamela Parkington @bigdogmomthree.bsky.social · 19h

It wasn't even his, it was Biden's and Blinken's negotiated plan.

When this shit show is over, there's a ton of accountability that needs to be done.

People better get right with their lord, because the end is not going to be pretty.

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 23h

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Erika with a K @imaginaryerika.bsky.social · 19h

Her fillers are slipping. It happens when you put too much in too fast, the muscles aren’t strong enough to hold the weight and so the fillers move and clump.

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Erika with a K @imaginaryerika.bsky.social · 19h

Her fillers are traveling more than people going thru tsa!

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 1d

This is happening right now, to a friend of mine in Chicago. This is a peaceful area, with no previous unrest or crime problem. Just people trying to live their lives. My heart hurts. They're having conversations no family should have to have.

A white box with text. "Y'all. They're tear gassing my neighborhood. Right by the place we get hummus from. Right by where we get the extra large pizzas for sleep overs. Tell your people."

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 8d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

portland continues to serve up a protest that confuses the feds and totally disrupts the false narrative they're pushing via propaganda channels...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

www.oregonlive.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

your tactic of protesting in an inflatable frog suit which gets normal people on your side is far inferior to my tactic of posting about laser blinding helicopter pilots which is both wildly illegal and, were it to succeed, would put basically *everyone* against me

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 1d

Millennial curmudgeon take: banks should have Sunday hours and at least one live teller on call 24/7/365. Do you how much havoc an identity thief can wreak in 12 hours? A LOT.

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Erika with a K @imaginaryerika.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like a rejected Simpsons or Onion joke but real life.

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Erika with a K @imaginaryerika.bsky.social · 1d

And Sondheim!

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Erika with a K @imaginaryerika.bsky.social · 1d

Of course this is what Bari Weiss and The Free Press go with upon the death of Diane Keaton.

Google thumbnail from a “Diane Keaton” search showing a “The Free Press” article entitled “Woody Allen Remembers Diane Keaton” with a picture of Keaton and Allen in “Annie Hall.”

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Erika with a K @imaginaryerika.bsky.social · 1d

All the maha shitery makes it clear they don’t care about our health. What’s a little (lot of) lead and mercury for a US made tank top for $3

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Erika with a K @imaginaryerika.bsky.social · 1d

He’s so full of shit. You can see how he doesn’t even believe what he’s saying.

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Mike Madowitz @mikemadowitz.bsky.social · 1d

Huge propaganda error invading cities full of people cooler than you during Spirit Halloween Season

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

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