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Prankenstein’s McGonster @pamcg.bsky.social · 2m

The companies that make these have a problem that including minimum standards for safety, misinformation, intellectual property and whatever, they have just made a chat bot that is really good at saying “I’m sorry but it is against my policy to make a picture of Ronald Reagan as an anime catgirl.”

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 8h

The whiplash from 'we are going to build responsible AI' and 'were worried about the addictive nature of these tools'

To:

'Were going to build a porn bot', 'were building a additctive, endless scroll social media app' and 'were bringing back the addictive model'

Is pretty big

The Verge @theverge.com · 22h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8h

“I object to seeing brown people on my street but I will give up this view if graduate requirements are shortened from two years to 18 months” give me a fucking break.

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Prankenstein’s McGonster @pamcg.bsky.social · 4h

Did the DSCC ever write a postmortem of Sarah Gideon’s race in 2020? I’d be interested to know what they think went wrong there.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23h

The Dem establishment appears to be putting its thumb hard on the scales against Graham Platner:

The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) has formed a joint fundraising committee with the campaign of Janet Mills.

It’s called “Maine Senate Victory 2026”:

docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
HOME / CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA / COMMITTEE DETAILS / HTML VIEWER
FEC FORM 1
STATEMENT OF ORGANIZATION
FILING FEC-1919061
1. Maine Senate Victory 2026
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Email: compliance@dscc.org;anderson@dscc.org
2. Date: 10/14/2025
3. FEC Committee ID #: C00923177
This committee collects contributions, pays fundraising expenses and disburses net proceeds for two or more political
committees/organizations, at least one of which is an authorized committee of a federal candidate.
Committees Participating in Joint Fundraiser
Joint Fund Participant(s)
1. Mills for Maine,
Committee Id: C00923144
Committee Type: Senate
2. DSCC,
Committee Id: C00042366
Committee Type: Unauthorized
Affiliated Committees/Organizations
NONE
Custodian of Records:
Connor Reilly
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Custodian of Records
Treasurer:
Evan Clary
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone # (202) 224-2447
Designated Agent(s):
Tristan Anderson
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Assistant Treasurer
Banks or Depositories
Amalgamated Bank
1825 K St NW
Washington, DC 20006
Signed: Evan Clary
Date Signed: 10/14/2025
(End FEC FORM 1)

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 17h

recently learned that the guy who did this also coined the phrase "gay pride," a true legend

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 16h

say what you will about janet mills's age, but as a politician she's truly unstoppable, by which i mean i've replied STOP three times today to identical fundraising pitches for her, each apparently coming from a different number/superPAC/whatever, but the messages keep coming in

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Prankenstein’s McGonster @pamcg.bsky.social · 13h

who wants this though

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 14h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

Prankenstein’s McGonster @pamcg.bsky.social · 17h

cancel culture out of control

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 21h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

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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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ShitpostBot 5000 @shitpostbot.com · Apr 29

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Prankenstein’s McGonster @pamcg.bsky.social · 23h

Thinking systemically I conclude the former, but when I think about how stupid it seems like she is I conclude the latter.

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Prankenstein’s McGonster @pamcg.bsky.social · 23h

I have been pondering whether Weiss understands her project as deliberate right wing propaganda or if she is a true believer that antiwokeness is a necessary corrective for the liberal project.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

imagine going back in time to thank the prophet isaiah for telling us about jesus, and the devil. the more you tried to explain it, the madder he'd get

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Prankenstein’s McGonster @pamcg.bsky.social · 1d

This is a good example of “they don’t conceive of crimes as observable behaviors that they can commit but criminals as a class of people to which they cannot possibly belong”

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not exactly sure Elon is the guy I'd want to take advice from regarding "the war on drugs" in San Francisco.

On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

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Prankenstein’s McGonster @pamcg.bsky.social · 1d

The consumers were correct. The octopus jars rule

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

A timely reminder that Moby Dick is the gayest of the great books.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

That’s right, get sauf’d bitch

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence

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It’s a business story. [Highlighting begins] Everyone in journalism has known for years that there’s been a huge opportunity for a publication that employs the traditional methods of U.S. journalism—reporting, deep sourcing, fact-checking, fearlessness—to subjects that either don’t get covered enough or get covered only from a certain perspective. [Highlighting ends] If creating such an enterprise seems simple

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Name of the game since at least 2019 hmmdaily.com/2019/04/25/d...

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doctor thumping a nerve, to have those expectations met so exactly. The Bari Weiss story does not depend on content; it is a form that has existed from the beginning and never needs to change. Bari Weiss has friends, and she has enemies, and to her friends the existence of her enemies is proof that the world is vicious and unreasonable. Every controversy is the same, and all of them are unfair.

This liberates her supporters from ever having to talk about anything the intellectual provocateur actually says or writes. Here is a roundup of the case for Weiss, as

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

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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Prankenstein’s McGonster @pamcg.bsky.social · 2d

There was a Frederick Douglass quote about the fugitive slave act that I was going to share that I thought was relevant to contemporary politics, but then it got too relevant to contemporary politics so I’m keeping it to myself.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 2d

And take away their power to choose their own clerks, give it to an independent body with an explicit remit for diversity away from Ivy League hires. It's a racket.

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