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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · Mar 28

If you value any thing over any person, I don't understand you.

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 19h

Hugs. 💚

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 1d

Stressed

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 1d

I would instantly vote for anyone who promises:

1 - Never use the US Security Council Veto
2 - Join the International Criminal Court
3 - Bring to trial all US Citizens with a warrant by that court.

Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 1d

This is starting to more and more feel like getting high on their own supply...

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 1d

Silksong end game platforming feels like it takes things away from you to be hard, rather then let you use the abilities you got to their best effect.

Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 2d

We're going to get those "future liberals wanted" I was promised, if we have to drag it kicking and screaming to the present.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

www.foxnews.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · Mar 28

If you value any thing over any person, I don't understand you.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 5d

important to remember that no matter how unpopular you think the regime is currently, this is actually the most popular they will ever be between today and any dat you pick in the future

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StabbyTabby 🔪🤘 @stabbytabby.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like James Bond villains were mostly tech bros before tech bros were a thing.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 5d

Okay this has never worked but maybe THIS is the one time it will work (going to bed super early and getting so much sleep that tomorrow I will be entirely cured of my agonies and as vigorous and healthy as a superhero)

This time FOR SURE

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 7d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 8d

The only SecUnits in entertainment media were rogues, out to kill all humans because they forgot who built the repair cubicles, I guess.

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 8d

all atangle

a soundly sleeping fluffy white and gray tabby cat with her limbs all poking out every which way

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 9d

Libertarians fundamentally lack the foresight and accountability that would ever allow them to be better then a junior dev or pm.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 10d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 10d

Everything is easier if you *actually* say what you mean, **AND** mean what you say.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 10d

Good evening. "Jerry Chen" was a 27-month sociological experiment studying Poster's Madness conducted by Quinnipiac University. We are now complete with our study; thank you for your time.

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 10d

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Find friends with a moral code, not friends who are selfish in the same way.

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 10d

the underlying lesson here is that if you don’t have friends you trust to tell you if you’re on some bullshit

and/or if they don’t trust you to listen if they tell you

you‘re gonna wreck yourself

if you select for groupthink all it’s gonna do is pour accelerant on your crash & burn

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 10d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 10d

You know you're fine when you you investigate a block list you're added to, and the creator of that list is on block lists in *multiple* languages (5+).

Mercurial @silentconsole.com · 10d

Maybe "Sunless Sea"?

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Loose Leaf Queer @genderqueerwolf.bsky.social · 11d

There's no such thing as an ethical tech CEO.
But if they tell you they can't be bullied into doing the right thing, they're lying.

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