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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 1h

I can't read it :(

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Elly @invalidhandlebunny.bsky.social · 3h

you should rather commission me to draw anime titties

weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 4h

The "you wouldn't download a car" screen but it reads "you wouldn't scrape all the art ever made and use it to create an Anime titty generator"

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 7h

Been saying for years that there's a strain of atheist that's basically just white supremacists who feel entitled to reap the rewards of white Protestant Christian culture, they just don't feel that they should have to get up at 8am on a Sunday to deserve it. Their whiteness was enough.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

I guess some other time we can talk about the reactionary professional atheists who literally built the secular foundation for today’s anti-DEI arguments

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 3h

I refuse to read this. I’m worried it will ruin my initial interpretation of the headline

I Was Today Years Old When I Learned What A French Taco Is, So I Tried One, And, Uh, It Was An Experience

The French are really playing it fast and loose with what they consider "tacos."

uk.style.yahoo.com

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 13h

The second he accepts this appointment, he becomes a political figure and therefore fair game.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 1d

They keep leaving out an essential preposition, "at", which completely changes the meaning of the sentence from a self-aggrandizing lie to a banal truth: She stared down AT protesters. Big deal. What next, "Steven Miller looked out of a window"? "RFK Jr examined his fingernails"?

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 2h

I recommend considering getting a bowl instead and eating it with chips (either yours or theirs)

Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 2h

You don't do the boxes?

Here a chalupa is 6.79 and the box with chalupa + beefy 5 layer + taco + chips or twists + soda is 8.99.

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 2d

austin @aparker.io
given that elmo has been trying to learn things as long as I can remember I think it's fair to say that the educational system on Sesame Street is in shambles
August 28, 2024 at 8:25 PM

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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farqfox.bsky.social @farqfox.bsky.social · 1d

Comic dog saying:

Pls rewards of being loved??
NO mortifying ordeal of being known
ONLY rewards of being loved

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 9h

Mainstream media, in their quest for what they think is neutrality, are often unable to report events accurately.

Sometimes there just aren't good people on both sides.

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 1d

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 2h

They could use it as a learning opportunity to improve their social skills but they absolutely are not.

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 3h

I genuinely don’t get the goal here. Is it just sex? You can get sex with less effort than this, or at the very least with money. why go through the effort of faking a connection, I genuinely can’t comprehend this, it feels deranged

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 11h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Reca @recarecaps.bsky.social · 13h

Here's one of mine in endocrine research 👇

From molecule to market: steroid hormones and financial risk-taking

Little is known about the role of the endocrine system in financial decision-making. Here, we survey research on steroid hormones and their cognitive effects, and examine potential links to trader per...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Nun Ya @ishfery.bsky.social · 2h

Some people don't like stripper but it's a relatively neutral term overall. Sex worker, dancer, or performer are all also appropriate.

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 18h

This is among my top five favorite pieces of published research, and I present it to you now as your Saturday semi professional chuckle

(PDF) Ovulatory Cycle Effects on Tip Earnings by Lap Dancers: Economic Evidence for Human Estrus?

PDF | To see whether estrus was really "lost" during human evolution (as researchers often claim), we examined ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

www.researchgate.net

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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evil queen jolene @queenjolene.bsky.social · 2h

I knew I remembered this from somewhere

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Behind every beautiful woman, there's a guy who's tired of fucking her
Hank Moody: Californication.
(via thiscanonlygrow)

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evil queen jolene @queenjolene.bsky.social · 2h

this has been a factor in most of my breakups tbh

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2h

Not only is the intensity of the male libido often overstated, but many men who have sex with women feel that having a higher libido than their partner is a fundamental component of their masculinity. A woman who constantly wants to bang is not a prize, she’s a reminder that you’re not man enough.

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Dr. Bourbonstein Ph. D @drbourbonstein.bsky.social · 2h

Somehow, the actual story and explanation is worse?

Spoiler: Not human eyeballs.

97rockonline.com/wyoming-man-...

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 3h

What makes you proud to be British? For me, this is right up there.

A one-star review from a Texan tourist visiting Liverpool:

freddytexan (16 reviews)
“My wife and I visted Liverpool for our 30th wedding anniversary from Texas. Our evening was ruined when a man dressed as an adult baby called my wife a "Mad yank slut" because she'd never heard of a band called Steps.”

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