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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 14m

Obviously you're right but I still don't understand how you can mis-understand "Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses." There's no allegory, no subtext, it's just plainly stated. And they say it like five times in a row in case you missed it the first time

🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 24m

Imagine thinking that by staying on the nazi site the left would have a voice in shaping policy. We were ignored when fucking Biden was in office.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2h

new episode of kill the computer, we talked to ken klippenstein about trumps recent NSPM-7 designation and what that means for us all

NSPM-7: An Authoritarian Nightmare Ft. Ken Klippenstein

Podcast Episode · Kill The Computer · 10/12/2025 · 1h

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 1h

The last innovation I can think of that has directly improved my life is Google Translate. But they're trying to fuck that up with AI now too

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 1h

thank god the red zone channel started running commercials. when it was commercial-free i'd get to 7:30 p.m., look at how i'd spent my day, and realize i'd burned through an entire sunday without growing or developing at all as a consumer. and if i'm not a consumer i'm nothing at all

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · Jan 25

"Here's how dems could block--" They don't want to

"Here's how dems could win-" They don't want to

"dems should-" they won't

they are working with the enemy, they are helping the enemy, they do not give a fuck about you or me. it's up to us.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 18h

pilgrim guy finishes reading a big book, leans way back in his chair and loosens the belt on his hat

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 12h

When I was homeless in 2019, the Salvation Army shelter refused to give me a bed (even though they were available), because I was on immunosuppressant meds and they didn’t want to be responsible or liable if I got more sick or died on premises. They’d rather I die on the street.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 11h

Obviously Israel should be banned from all sports and several players should be tried for war crimes, but watching them score two own goals and lose 5-0 is an okay consolation.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 15h

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, because if it wasn’t this, then lots of important white people would now have to go to prison and the irresponsible clowns who cheered them on would have to resign in disgrace

(((Dan Hodges))) *
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As a ceasefire is about to come into effect, it's important to remember that every death, every injury, every bereavement, every destroyed building, every pile of rubble, every bullet fired and every bomb dropped was the fault of Hamas. They own all of this.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 15h

If you think Hamas are just mindless terrorists who hate Israelis for no reason, then a lot of things don't make sense. It's very important not to interrogate why

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 21h

People who act confused by Hamas' desire to free Barghoti are bizarre to me, Hamas wants him out even though he isn't Hamas affiliated because they believe he is one of the few, or maybe even the only, individuals who can unite the whole of Palestinian factions under the PLO

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 19h

There has got to be a version of the Bible where “Nate silver kind of admits he’s wrong” is one of the four horsemen

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 19h

Sometimes Catholics really do go hard, still

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 19h

Incidentally I just read the account of a holocaust survivor of the camps (man’s search for meaning) and what most sticks with me is that they only executed 12 people at Nuremberg

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 19h

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 16h

The absolute bare minimum would be denying unanimous concent

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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 16h

I mean, not taking anything away from Müller but he is way too good for MLS. He would dominate the dritte liga too

🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 16h

I have a theory that the people who were claiming anti-AI bigotry is a thing don't really conceptualize other people as fully independent sentient beings and that's why they think AI is equal to other people

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 17h

did you guys hear about that pedophile who got killed in prison. yeah the other inmates found out he was the lead singer of lostprophets

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 19h

Where is the Palestinian Mandela you ask? Israel won’t let him out of prison.

Marwan Barghouti secretly removed from prisoner exchange list by Israel, source says

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mivox is exHAUNTed 👻 @bs.mivox.net · 2d

Three people protesting outside the Portland, OR ICE facility, dressed in inflatable frog costumes, holding a small sign that says “Portland Frog Brigade”.

Over top of the photo is white text reading: “Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."”

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