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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 14m

...disastrous for who?

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 45m

They are not children. These men are adults. If you care about children release the Epstein files.

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Well actually it's the real world that's scary these days :smug: @axleblaze.bsky.social · 20m

Love that they consider "longtime friend of Charlie Kirk" to be more important than "vice president"

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 45m

I asked Border Patrol why they used a Michael Jackson song with antisemitic lyrics, highlighted this morning by @paleofuture.bsky.social. You're not gonna believe this but they did not answer my questions: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Border Patrol won’t say why it used a Michael Jackson song with antisemitic lyrics

The video was live on Facebook and Instagram for two months.

www.motherjones.com

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 2d

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 53m

oh. okay.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 58m

NYT - The Trump administration has secretly authorized the CIA to conduct covert action in Venezuela. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

The development comes as the U.S. military is drawing up options for President Trump to consider, including possible strikes inside the country.

www.nytimes.com

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Lindsay Wiley @lindsaywiley.bsky.social · 16h

“Rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the ICE raids and money for legal aid and other services are among the provisions in the declaration.”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 1h

Michigan is a swing state.

SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 1h

Her turnout in swing states was on par, it was cratered turnout in places like Chicago, LA, and NYC that cost her the popular vote because the idea was that the popular vote didn't fucking matter.

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder how much different the vibe would be today if Harris had won the popular vote.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2h

calling the most normie lib protest against trump a “hate rally against america” and calling participants “antifa, marxists, etc” will not work as intended at all lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 3h

Look at all those “college aged kids” texting each other “I love Hitler.”

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just like a large language model in that I've read everything on the internet and it's made me effectively useless

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 2h

My mom liked his book :(

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2h

young republicans didn't used to be like this! i know because they weren't racist to me, a white lady,

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 3h

THANK YOU I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 1d

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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The Onion @theonion.com · 3h

Real-Life Dracula Recoils After Seeing Woman On Dating App Wearing Crucifix http://theonion.com/real-life-dracula-recoils-after-seeing-woman-on-dating-app-wearing-crucifix/

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 3h

great to know that literal gas chamber jokes are legal now after all those pro-palestinian student protesters got fucking deported for simply saying israel is a “jewish state”

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 3h

@schnorkles.bsky.social is that good

Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 3h

Big news in the election media landscape: ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and CNN will no longer get their election results from Edison. They're signing on with the AP, which was already the main source of election results for newspapers, etc.: www.ap.org/media-center...

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Jimmy D @jimmy-d.bsky.social · 3h

“Enjoy the cookie (sarcastic, dismissive) but really I truly do deserve a cookie (earnest, desperate)”

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 4h

Congressional investigations into the sitting right-wing Justices. Deligitmatize them in the eyes of the American people.
Of course, they still need to win the White House and Senate in 2028, but if/when SCOTUS fully kills the VRA it's time to start shouting about court packing.