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Luarien [$165/$600]

@luarien.bsky.social

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I will not reskeet your art or your memes without alt text Pan and polyam writer and gamer too distracted by needing to beg for support to do anything fun. Also continually frustrated anarchist. 🔞 If you want to help me, https://ko-fi.com/luarien

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Luarien [$165/$600] @luarien.bsky.social · 18h

Good morning everyone! I missed refreshing this on #MutualAid Monday because I was too focused on groceries, but I'm still disabled and I still need your help surviving this month! I can't work, you keep me housed!

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www.paypal.me/luarien
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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

a few of the usual suspects have complained that this kind of absurdity doesn’t do enough to center the people on the receiving end of the stick, and, it’s like, that’s not really the point here, the point is to fucking break them on our air inflated latex bellies

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Andrew @andrewcyberkop.bsky.social · 2d

If you buy an NFT of a stock in OpenAI you should have to wear a big bell like a goat for the rest of your life.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 8h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

they locked her up in clark county because the clark county sheriff’s office are ICE collaborators

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 9h

grateful portland has risen to the challenge so far in peacefully protesting the ICE facility and that nationally we're all cheering on the frogs but I think it's important to make sure everyone is aware that the ICE goons aren't exactly being peaceful in return

www.koin.com/news/portlan...

www.koin.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

"republican staffers are all literal nazis" is less of a groupchat thing and more of a posting on main thing at this point

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4h

Here's Better Offline. I sat down with Steve Burke of @gamersnexus.bsky.social for an interview at their HQ to talk about the state of PC hardware, AI, linux gaming, their deep hardware testing, and building a channel watched by millions. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
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The Interview: Steve Burke of GamersNexus - Better Offline | iHeart

<p>In this week’s episode of Better Offline, Ed flies out to North Carolina for a deep interview with Steve Burke of Gamersnexus about the state of PC hardware, AI, Linux gaming, their extremely...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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arden | wrensid era⚔️ @wakingnaturally.bsky.social · 13h

erotica should not come from a soulless machine. erotica should come from your local bookstore or your friends on the internet when they have divine inspiration.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5h

The thing about young republicans is they grow up into old republicans

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5h

One of many alarmed reports from the 1963 Young Republicans convention where John Birchers seemed to be in ascendancy.

Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, July 7, 1963
'MOB RULE' TACTICS CITED
YGOP Convention
Shocked Ex-Leader
By MERCER CROSS
Minneapolls Tribune Staff Writer
Leonard Nadasdy said Sat-
rushes at the podium to take
urday he is "still in a state
the gavel away from me."
of shock"
because
of the
"There
Young Repub-
the floor!" Were fistfights on
lican
Nation-
At one point the national
al Federation
anthem had to be played to
convention
in
make the delegates sit down.
San Francisco,
and police were summoned to
Calif.
keep order.
"The whole
Radicals distributed scurri-
thing has been
lous printed matter attacking
very
disillu-
Nadasdy.
sioning. for
McDevitt's hotel room was
me,"
said the
immediate
Nadasdy•
broken into
and campaign
past president of the 500,000-
literature, two typewriters
member federation.
and some
briefcases: were
elected. to suc-
ceed Nadasdy for the two -years was Donald Lu;
Washington, D.C.,
who campaigned as
porter of Sen. Barry Goldwa-er R-Ariz., for president. beleated was Charles.Me Devitt, 30, Boise, Idaho, who took no stand on a GOP presidential candidate. McDevitt had the unantmous support of the 15-member Minnesota
McDevitt had the edge go: ing into the YGOP conven-tion, said Nadasdy,
32,
General Mills public rélations san who lives in Plymouth.
But, he said, Lukens' supporters
"used the old Communist technique of causing a lot of dissension and a lot of furor, at which they were eminently successful."
THEIR PURPOSE, said Na-
dasdy,
"was to completely
ensnarl the convention and confuse everyone.
All this
was accompanied by scream-oing and hollering."'
At the center of the confu-
sion
were members of the John Birch Society and the radical right, Nadasdy said.
Two years ago the Minnesotan was elected chairman as a member of the Young Republicans'
moderate fac-
tion. As convention chairman this year, he said:
Right-wing delegates shouted at him to "go back to Russia."
"They made a couple of
• "Tve never seen such violence at a Young Republican affair," s…

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Luarien [$165/$600] @luarien.bsky.social · 4h

I feel this in fibromyalgia

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Jul 12

little nemo: the dream master, zone title card, nes (1990) www.mobygames.com/game/7879/li...

purple haired little nemo is jumping/floating/flying out of his bed. title card reads:
dream 1
shroom forest

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Jul 13

banjo-tooie, magazine screenshot, n64, games master, magazine (2001) archive.org/details/Game...

(3d): someone is looking at their hand of cards. betting chips are on the table. text above reads: there goes your birdseed money!

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 5h

The difference between manga and comics is what language you are speaking (these words are the same thing in different languages)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

COLLINS: The Dept of Energy just canceled $1b for a hydrogen hub that covers Montana. Is that taking away good-paying jobs?

SHEEHY: Of course it is. We want govt to be open

C: But the Energy Secretary says he would've pulled that funding even if govt was open

S: ... Well, that's unfortunate

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 5h

I honestly think Johnson was trying to make a joke here, but he's too stupid to realize that the joke reveals that all the claims of threats and violence are bullshit.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 8h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 6h

When you're trying to find something decent in the Steam NextFest...

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes I get arrested or tear gassed in pursuit of the story that I write with my own two human hands, using my own human brain!

Support shit created by people who actually have a soul living within them! fuck AI, throw five bucks at your favorite instagram photographer instead

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 13h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 10h

there’s a difference between neutral reporting and washing a reputation.

this is how the guardian is choosing to describe a white supremacist. 🙄

our media is broken.

But Kirk was also polarizing through his rhetoric, which often criticized gay and transgender rights.
He made suggestions that the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a "mistake". Some critics have argued tributes to him elevated extremist views that stoked division.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 10h

*holding finger to ear* and we are getting word at this hour that donald trump has been banned by bluesky

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 18h

Just in case I've not made it clear, I believe everybody on the planet should get free healthcare.

Yep, those people too.

Some folks aren't down with socialised medicine, and that's their opinion. This is mine.

Ask me about my stance on UBI....

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🔞🌙Luna the Moonslut 🖤✨ @moonslutluna.bsky.social · 10h

pay a sex worker already and stop being so fucking weird

seriously. $20/30 minutes and I’m a real person that only consumes like a minimum amount of water to live

The Verge @theverge.com · 14h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12h

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 15h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10h

I cannot believe people were losing their jobs for being mildly critical of Charlie Kirk and the president of the united states just went on tv and said "skill issue loser, RIP but I'm different"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Slimbutt1🧡$290/$350 @slimbutt1.bsky.social · 11h

Get me to my tip goal so I can be back on this app by Friday

$290/$350 — $60 LEFT

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