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Tactinerd @tactinerd.bsky.social · 1d

Wild to spend 14 hours at work flying a plane and coming home to see there’s discourse about laser pointers and planes. This seems like the dumbest discourse ever, would love to never have to worry about lasers again.

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Tactinerd @tactinerd.bsky.social · 8d

Early fall
#fujifilm

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Tactinerd @tactinerd.bsky.social · 16d

Hate AI, hate windows 11, Peak Computer was windows 7 running on a glowing UV reactive liquid cooled computer full of top of the line parts for less than a single modern graphics card.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19d

Yep, this is exactly what I'd have expected. Great article from Ken.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24d

The Heritage Foundation is going after me this morning calling me a terrorist because I am accurately stating what they are intending to do. Michael Knowles at CPAC explicitly called for the "eradication of transgenderism."

I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.

A tweet from Oversight Project (@ItsYourGov) shows a screenshot of an Advocate article. The tweet text says: “This is an example of an element of TIVE rhetoric coming from @Harvard Professor Alejandra Caraballo @Esqueer_in the @TheAdvocateMag. The notion that opposing Transgender Ideology is a form of violence (‘eradication’ here) leads people to justify violence.” The screenshot highlights a quote from Alejandra Caraballo criticizing a Heritage Foundation policy proposal: “They want us all eradicated.”

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 26d

Jerry from Ben & Jerry's has resigned after 47 years after Unilever silenced their politcal activism.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27d

This is the most detailed look inside Tyler Robinson's Discord community I've seen and yet again, it gives us absolutely no clear motivation, political in or otherwise.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin

Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Tactinerd @tactinerd.bsky.social · 28d

Aerotoxic syndrome was in the news when I first started flying and it’s in the news again. It definitely feels like an issue that deserves attention, it’s a terrifying phenomenon. www.wsj.com/business/air...

Toxic Fumes Are Leaking Into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers

Doctors compare brain effects to concussions in NFL players. A Wall Street Journal investigation shows such incidents are increasingly common.

www.wsj.com

Tactinerd @tactinerd.bsky.social · Sep 12

I’m on vacation right now, unfortunately for my partner this place still has a phone signal.

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · Sep 12

You're going to see a lot of "he's a violent antifascist leftist" and "he's a groyper" but the core of Tyler Robinson's motivation is almost certainly that he's an online-poisoned idiot gamer.

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Tactinerd @tactinerd.bsky.social · Sep 11

Damn, almost like these folks really just need to be the victims so they feel like they have an excuse to murder the rest of us.

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · Sep 11

NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:

According to a preliminary internal report circulated inside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, federal and local officials recovered ammunition with the shooter’s rifle that appeared to be engraved with statements “expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”

But a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that report had not been verified by A.T.F. analysts, did not match other summaries of the evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted. In fast-moving investigations, such status reports are not made public because they often contain a mixture of accurate and inaccurate information.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · Sep 11

Obama is out here posting eulogies for a guy who spent his entire life arguing with kids in college campuses and calling for violence against gay and trans people. Real demonstration of whose lives matter in the US and whose don't

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · Sep 11

I keep thinking about how a couple of years ago someone walked into an apartment maybe 20 minutes away from mine and murdered a trans woman named Unique Banks and shot her mom, her boyfriend, and two other trans fems and it barely got a news story and meanwhile

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Holl🌞 @willows-song.bsky.social · Sep 10

This explains it better than I can

Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’

Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”

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Maxim Dorky, the Delaware Decapitator @maxim-dorky.bsky.social · Sep 10

ME CALLING FOR POLITICAL VIOLENCE TO SMITE MY ENEMIES: Haha, fuck yeah! Yes!!

ME BEING TAGGED AS "UNIDENTIFIED SKULL #28" IN AN UNEARTHED MASS GRAVE A DECADE LATER: Well, this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · Sep 10

To be clear for those of you chomping for the American Years of Lead, this greatly increases your personal chances of dying in random political violence.

It will not be a heroic, meaningful death.

It will be meaningless, forgotten, and fade into the background noise of a society in free fall.

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Tactinerd @tactinerd.bsky.social · Sep 3

“It ain’t the same as when we were kids, it’s likely someone is trying to break in and trespassing is a crime” spoken by someone who is terrified of a reality that doesn’t exist (and probably has nothing worth stealing).

Tactinerd @tactinerd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Local news comments on a story about the “dangerous new trend of ding dong ditching” making me lose all hope.

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Seven of Sixty Nine @internetperson69.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡

Screenshot from Star Trek DS9. Leeta, Rom, and the rest of the workers at Quark's Bar are all huddled together. Caption: "(all chanting): Union! Union!"

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · Aug 14

fucking cogsuckers

onion person @junlper.beer · Aug 14

there’s an ai lovers pride flag

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · Aug 13

After half a year of developments of AI in society I decided to go back, discuss my concerns, and think about how to respond to it.

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Tactinerd @tactinerd.bsky.social · Aug 12

lol, lmao even.

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · Aug 12

BREAKING: E.J. Antoni, Trump's candidate to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is now suggesting suspending the agency’s monthly jobs report.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 12

I think we’re at the start of a very worrisome inflection point around “the general public outsourcing huge swaths of their daily cognition to corporate LLMs.”

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · Aug 12

Overheard a rich guy at the gym say he relies on chat gpt to think. Not a joke, he went on to say he relies on it to tell him what to take when he leaves the house.

Everything is so stupid.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · Aug 11

Look on the bright side:

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The Verge @theverge.com · Aug 1

Trump's IRS chief finally said IRS Direct File is "gone." Intuit lobbied hard against free federal filing for years.

Here's Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi defending that record in a Decoder interview last year. Intuit later asked us to cut this part. We refused.

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