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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

this is an opinion from someone who does not realize the vast majority of human moderation at scale is done in the Global South

it is not good for those people

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 5h

While I don't watch regularly anymore, these are the sorts of plays that make baseball a great sport.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 6h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 6h

I'm partial to the malty side myself - from reds and german alt-biers to porters and stouts, but if I have to drink a mass-market beer, 805 and Modelo are about the only ones I can tolerate.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 13h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 11h

Ken, I'm getting flashbacks to my stepmother yelling at me that I might have all the book smarts in the world but didn't have the common sense of a horse, I don't think I can finish this story.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · Mar 24

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 12h

not nearly tacit enough, eh?

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 12h

How about a two-fer on that and the "Real Presence"?

Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 12h

Any recommendations for a lay person to pick up?

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Matt Lichtenstadter @mattsmusings1.bsky.social · 13h

The 48 team World Cup is an objectively terrible idea except for when nations like Cabo Verde are able to make it and that is extremely cool.

Donald Wine II @blazindw.bsky.social · 13h

Cabo Verde becomes the 2nd smallest nation by population to ever qualify for a #WorldCup. They win Group D in African #WCQ and will hear their names called in the World Cup draw on December 5th.

🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 14h

dude and his rich friends have probably put more money into the drug economy than all the homeless addicts in the state. It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on destitute and helpless people.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 15h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 14h

also, what a fucking hypocrite

Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 14h

I'm in my 57th year on this earth and for that entire time, the conservatives have been dreaming of this day.

KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 14h

Can’t
Be
Salvaged

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 15h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 15h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 14h

They've waited generations for this.

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 14h

A public Eucharist at a particular party convention intended to say “God’s on our side” would be a crass political ploy.

That a Eucharistic protest at mass detention of the alien and wayfarer in our midst is seen as partisan… well that’s on the party that made it so.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 14h

I seem to recall my dad and grandmother arguing something similar about pronouncing Roosevelt's name based on how you felt about him politically.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 14h

sounds more like he's saying it was booby-trapped, so it would politically explode in the face of whoever tried to get rid of it.

Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 15h

This is one I've used soundiiz.com

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

I feel like they're either scared that the normies are going to get the changes they want and then continue on with their bourgeois lives, and these folks will not get their revolution, or they really do want blood in the streets regardless of whether it gets them anywhere.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

remember when

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Man, I hadn't heard them in decades, and YouTube dropped that on me last week.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

Andor is the ideal Platonic illustration of the difference between a likable character and a compelling character, because Dedra & Cyril were my favorite characters, and they were both totally contemptible.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

I think this post needed a couple more thats

Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

What's great about that is that del Toro apparently brought all that to the table.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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