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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 4d

I wrote an undergrad diss on Pynchon, an MA thesis on Pynchon, a PhD on Pynchon, and a book on Pynchon & I endorse this sentiment

"Pynchon’s work is often labeled “Postmodernism,” but it’s also interpretable as a body of left historical literature concerning antifascism"

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Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time

Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 6h

The biggest lie foisted on America is the lie that the GOP is the party of the working class

They haven’t done a single thing in decades to make life better for ordinary Americans

(Cartoon from 2016)

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Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 13h

It turns out having something (or someone) telling you are right and good all the time and it's those others that are mean and wrong is bad.

The difference between AI personal assistants and wealth begotten insulation is that real world consequences for behavior are much closer for AI addicts.

As reports of ‘AI psychosis’ spread, clinicians scramble to understand how chatbots can spark delusions

Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health providers are scrambling to understand the emerging phenomenon of "AI psychosis."

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Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 1d

It's true. We should all show up in inflatable water wings, snorkels and swim flippers.

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Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 1d

Invest in home gardening futures and firearms.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 1d

Filet of Soul - Freedom [Wisconsin, USA, Pop/Rock] (1970)
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https://youtu.be/d1Eoy9hmmLs

Filet of Soul - Freedom [Wisconsin, USA, Pop/Rock] (1970)

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Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks?!

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Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 1d

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 1d

Tony Fitzpatrick, 1958-2025

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Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 1d

What a shitty bunch of old white men.

whet moser @whetmoser.com · 1d

“the nobel committee investigating whether people were insider trading on the peace prize” is the most 2025 story so far www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...

Nobel Organizers Look Into Surge of Bets for Winner Ahead of Announcement

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Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 2d

Angry prayers likely regarding much striking down and so forth. You know, American Christianity in a nutshell.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

what is he praying for

a strangely constipated AI founding father

Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 2d

As a former goalie I can confirm this.

Defector @defector.com · 2d

This is not ideal goalie positioning: defector.com/this-is-not-...

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 2d

Israel says ceasefire is in effect. Thousands hope and head north to see what is left of their homes.

“Will they tell us to leave again? I hope not. I just want this to be the last time we walk this road.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 3d

(Didn't have space)

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Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 3d

Not only do they not care they resent every actually creative person they've ever met. AI is largely revenge against the artist. It's the guy looking at the Jackson Pollock painting saying "i could do that" writing to program that does a poor job copying it.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 3d

Havin’ flashbacks

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · Feb 26

I like how this whole thing was supposed to be a media stunt to show everyone how united they are behind the Great Man and the visual they produced looks like a Brezhnev-era politburo meeting where the agronomist with access to the real numbers just told them about the wheat forecast.

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · Feb 26

The chyron says one thing; the body language says something else

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Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 3d

Always love seeing my hometown in the headlines!

PBS Wisconsin @pbswisconsin.bsky.social · 3d

A year after an incident involving Famous Yeti's pizza in Stoughton, the state doesn’t have laws regulating how hemp-derived THC products are handled and used in industrial kitchens where foods are prepared, reports @wisconsinwatch.org.

Legal loopholes in Wisconsin laws regulating THC products leave consumers vulnerable

This article was originally published by Wisconsin Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom. It was produced in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Investigative Journalism class ta...

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Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 3d

Six Finger Satellite recently reissued Severe Exposure and I had forgotten how badass this song is.
Also lyrically very timely...

Rabies (Baby's Got The)

YouTube video by Six Finger Satellite - Topic

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

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Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 3d

Waking up and tuning in to NPR for the first time in ages an still hearing them "both sides" things as the DC affiliate drops their news coverage is utterly demoralizing.

If you're going to go down go down swinging.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4d

With all the caveats about anonymous posters, this is still staggering, a revelation of what a sliver we see reported across mainstream & alt media combined; and this itself is obviously just a sliver. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

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Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 4d

Lets give the nazis what they want then.

Quickening Enabler @staledimsum.bsky.social · 4d

Durbin didn't seem to care.