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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 7h

Poilievre tied directly to Enbridge, Pathways Alliance, Koch Industries & the Cdn Gas Association.
It’s not surprising for a career politician who has voted against the environment 400 times in 20 years Poilievre has capitulated to every one of Big Oil’s demands
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Pierre Poilievre is Big Oil’s useful idiot

With an inner circle stacked with fossil fuel lobbyists, it’s no wonder that Pierre Poilievre voted against the environment 400 times.

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Pencil Neck Computer Geek @pencilneckkgeek.bsky.social · 2h

ask them how their enlightened centrism is going

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Pencil Neck Computer Geek @pencilneckkgeek.bsky.social · 9h

They’re the softest men trying so hard to project a powerful image. It must infuriate them that we find them weird like sideshow freaks and laugh at them, instead of fearing them.

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Pencil Neck Computer Geek @pencilneckkgeek.bsky.social · 19h

The deal he asked Netanyahu to torch when it would have benefitted the Biden admin? Oh, ok. What a human rights crusader he is, to allow tens of thousands of people to get murdered as a political strategy

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Clammy Sammy is out of ideas! The Era of Smiles begins soon!

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

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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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 23h

leaked texts confirm the nazis who everyone said not to call nazis are nazis actually

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Pencil Neck Computer Geek @pencilneckkgeek.bsky.social · 1d

Oh ok. So Israel isn’t a colonial state? Is criticizing the actions of a nation’s government now racist?

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Pencil Neck Computer Geek @pencilneckkgeek.bsky.social · 3d

This the most lib take ever. “We’re going to make roads more dangerous, but don’t worry, we thought of indigenous and disabled people. It’ll be more dangerous for them, too!

Can’t believe I agree with the BC Conservatives on this 🥴

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 4d

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

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Pencil Neck Computer Geek @pencilneckkgeek.bsky.social · 3d

shit even the food is colonized

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Pencil Neck Computer Geek @pencilneckkgeek.bsky.social · 3d

Capitalism has discovered that blatant and widespread misinformation is highly profitable and allows for even more concentration of power. Capitalists and their enablers will never let go of these levers now that they control them

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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 5d

Trump’s executive order labeling “Antifa” a domestic terrorist group is echoing internationally. Hungary, the Netherlands, and Poland are exploring similar measures, framing left-wing activism as a security threat.

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How the International Far Right is Getting on Board With Trump’s Antifa Terrorist Designation

Trump’s baseless “Antifa” terrorist designation has sparked a global echo, with Hungary, Poland, and the Netherlands moving to replicate it. The coordinated effort reframes dissent as terrorism—part o...

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 5d

The Mark Bray situation is so completely fucked right now and if you're a journalist you need to start saying how it's fucked because you're fucking next. They won't stop at academics.

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Pencil Neck Computer Geek @pencilneckkgeek.bsky.social · 5d

not wanting kids to get run over is elitism

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 7d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Pencil Neck Computer Geek @pencilneckkgeek.bsky.social · 7d

we should have kept bullying him

Pencil Neck Computer Geek @pencilneckkgeek.bsky.social · 7d

Bring your kid to work day, except somehow the kid is running the company you work for

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 7d

everyone is twelve now

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 7d

Pete is out here playing Operator. We do not have a SECDEF.

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Pencil Neck Computer Geek @pencilneckkgeek.bsky.social · 7d

Just get them to start explaining leftist theory and watch them glow like laterns

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 8d

Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic).

But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 8d

which then begs the question of why you want flying cars instead of whatever mass transportation equivalent you imagine

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Pencil Neck Computer Geek @pencilneckkgeek.bsky.social · 7d

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Pencil Neck Computer Geek @pencilneckkgeek.bsky.social · 7d

Thought Lindsay was into little boys?