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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 1h

Me: Pokémon as a series is archaic in ways that aren’t excusable for such a huge franchise and it deserves a lot more criticism for its complacency and long-term flaws.

Game Freak: Have an Ekans, you bitch.

Me: I am a bitch.

Me, a bitch, with Ekans, a thing guaranteed to reduce me to the status of a bitch.

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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, it's a drag, and we're all really busy, but there's going to need to be some kind of revolution. Says Skeletor flying a flag with his favorite leader in it - himself.

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мɑгκ @drumrollplease.bsky.social · 5h

Let’s go, Thursday.

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reni 🦌🫜 @reniadeb.com · 21h

a pumpkin man sits inside a pumpkin house, is the house made of flesh, or is he made of house? he smiles for he does not know

a small pumpkin with a smiley face drawn on in sharpie pen sits within a larger pumpkin carved to look like its home

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 1d

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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🪦 cemeterin 🪦 @erinys.uwu.lgbt · 4h

in the courts house. straight up "serving it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My subpoenits.

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Sassafras @sasuga.bsky.social · 4h

You could get a few years jokes out of just the fit in that thumbnail

Humpty Dumpty lookin ass

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Sassafras @sasuga.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve seen pictures of that flat and it’s nicer than my apartment

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Sassafras @sasuga.bsky.social · 16h

You look lovely! Please try not to let them get to you because they are just hateful and want to hurt any trans woman. They’re fundamentally twisted and dishonest

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cure @curepixel.bsky.social · 1d

Fanart of Portland's favorite frog fighting fascists
#pixelart #portlandwarzone #amphiba

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Wet Ghost @wetghost.bsky.social · 20h

Cthulhu but instead of him blowing up your head with incomprehensive knowledge, his lecture just gives you mild head aches sometimes

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Sassafras @sasuga.bsky.social · 16h

a close up of a woman 's face with a group of people behind her

Alt: A scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark where a student wrote “LOVE YOU” on her eyelids so Dr Jones will see during his lecture

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

Funniest thing about this is all the conservatives saying it’s “college aged kids”/“boys will be boys” and it’s actually a bunch of subcreatures in their 30s-40s.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 11d

Martha Kelly (@MarthaKelly3) onn twitter: "Under capitalism, it's normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be less rich - not poor, not struggling, just less rich, is considered insane."

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 2d

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah

Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen

Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah

Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

I've contacted my senators today about KOSA! Have you?

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

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#SaveSpeech

If you're like me and you are struggling to contact your senators re: KOSA via their phone lines this week, I recommend attempting to send physical letters or emails in the meantime.

Here is a script you can use to contact your reps!

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [LOCATION]
I'm messaging to demand [SENATOR] oppose S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA. This broad legislation does not protect anyone and instead will be used to block any speech that the Trump administration’s partisan FTC disagrees with. It pushes the “duty of care” onto websites and social media platforms to remove content that is “harmful to children”. It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove access to crucial information re: everything from mental health, LGBT topics, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.
Additionally, while large, corporate platforms like X can shoulder the weight of “duty of care”, smaller websites cannot, leading to greater and greater concentrations of power online into giant corporate platforms rather than small and medium sized businesses.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
IF SENATOR COSPONSORED KOSA: Additionally, I want to remark on [SENATOR]’s cosponsorship of this bill. I think it is shameful that [SENATOR] has backed a bill as transparently bad as KOSA. This will not keep kids safe, it is an excuse to censor the free and open internet. I will not be voting for nor donating to [SENATOR] in any future campaigns if they do not drop their co-sponsorship of this bill, and I will encourage everyone in my life to do the same.
Do the right thing.

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Karlisle @karlisle.bsky.social · 23h

I actually agree. Kids do stupid shit and they'll stop when they face consequences and grow out of it.

But you made the consequences lucrative non-work jobs at bullshit outfits like TPUSA and Young Republicans so they never do.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."

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ThirtyHelens🔞 @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · 15d

I know we all love this man, but make sure to genuinely carry his message in your heart: you can always reject a false premise. There are almost always more than two choices.

ThirtyHelens🔞 @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Sassafras @sasuga.bsky.social · 1d

LETS HEAR IT FOR THE BOYYYYS 🎶

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely thought it already did this. Haven't people been like, leaving their families and stuff because they fall in love with their chatbots? Are you telling me that's all been PG? that's somehow even more sad

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

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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Ernest Deadfold @penfoldsfiv.bsky.social · 1d

10 years ago, Amanda Marcotte was calling Bernie supporters a bunch of racist, sexist, spoiled rich kids and now she's trying to launder the history of the Young Republicans. el oh fucking el.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1d

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Amanda Marcotte
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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 1d

please enjoy brand new tingler MY NEIGHBOR’S TWELVE-FOOT-TALL DECORATIVE HALLOWEEN SKELETON GETS ME OFF ALSO SHE IS A LESBIAN out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWC6K3MR/ or on all patreon tiers www.patreon.com/posts/my-nei...

cover of MY NEIGHBOR’S TWELVE-FOOT-TALL DECORATIVE HALLOWEEN SKELETON GETS ME OFF ALSO SHE IS A LESBIAN featuring ladybuck without much on smiling in the front yard of suburban neighborhood next to her is a beautiful skeleton that is very tall

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Kousen @kousenzephyr.bsky.social · 1d

"Having children is what nature designed you for".

Nature also designed us to run naked around the forest, live off the land, and in harmony with the environment.

Yet I don't see y'all capitalist rich mfers caring at all about any of that. So shut your trap.

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