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Patrick

@trickybacon.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 🧶 🐶 Just here for pictures of dogs. Will geek out re: Turonno - Yimbyism - emergency services - yarn - games - books - music - and dogs.

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 9h

Let's all take a moment to be completely unsurprised.

coalminephoenix.bsky.social @coalminephoenix.bsky.social · 9h

This one?I wonder if that is why Eric T was trying to spin anti-woke as “saving” on that propaganda outlet of Benny Johnson. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 13h

Happy pie day to all who celebrate

Queerazon.com @queerazon.bsky.social · 21h

On this day in queer history: Oct 14, 1977

During a live TV appearance in Iowa, anti-gay activist Anita Bryant was hit with a pie in protest of her “Save Our Children” campaign. A sweet moment of queer resistance.

#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #AnitaBryant

Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 2d

I feel that at the cottage too

Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 2d

This is a real headline in 2025. There's a whole campaign on the socials and their website.
What the fuck is happening? What did people think potato chips were made of?

Fortune headline reads "Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes."

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 2d

They will say whatever their benefactors pay them to. It's not some personal growth thing.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 2d

Well, this is concerning.

“The conversations with large language models were more persuasive than the ones with people,” said Dr. Vered Shwartz, a UBC assistant professor of computer science and author of the book ‘Lost in Automatic Translation.’

“They were also considered more empathetic.”

Shwartz says the human-like tone of AI-generated responses paired with their confident presentation can easily convince users that the information is trustworthy, even when it’s inaccurate.

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 2d

A former head of state and an astronaut? So correct 😅

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I don't keep them loud, just enough to be background

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 3d

Never give up hop!

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 3d

I use them to fall asleep. It doesn't even matter who the narrator is

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TVKel @tvkel.bsky.social · 3d

I learned some Spanish in time for the Super Bowl:
“Liberar los archivos de Epstein.”

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 3d

It looks great! My yarn has been in exile too. I should give it a try

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 3d

How else would the tea get poured? And we can't ignore the coffee drinkers, they're unruly

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 3d

Love a happy ending!

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 3d

I got "don't bring anyone home pregnant". I still check in with my dad about this 😂

jessica BONEStown @midnightmasseffect.bsky.social · May 16

did anyones parents *actually* talk to them about sex?

its been a plot point in like every TV show and movie about raising kids for like centuries at this point but does it actually happen?

i think "the birds and the bees" speech is entirely a ficticious construct

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Meagan Kenreck 🦇 @meagankenreck.bsky.social · 5d

Welp, AI generated Sora videos are making the rounds and getting MILLIONS of likes and I cannot begin to express how it's more important than ever to have media literacy. It's so real looking now and it's only going to improve, in the worst way.

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 5d

Oh that was just 🥹 🥲

Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 5d

Don't blame me, it's on their merch!

Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh coc night!

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Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 6d

Etobicoke

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 5d

People are spending money on this crap? 🙄

Profolus @profolus.com · 5d

KONSYSE: OpenAI has launched a new subscription tier named ChatGPT Go. This tier was limited to the Indian market but has since been expanded to several South Asian and Southeast Asian countries.

ChatGPT Go: OpenAI Expands Its $5.00 Subscription Tier — Konsyse

OpenAI launches a new entry-level subscription tier called ChatGPT Go to appeal to cost-sensitive market.

www.konsyse.com

Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 5d

If brand brandford has no haters, the entire east end is dead.

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 5d

"Less teeth, Alan!"
"I caaaaaan't"

Jono with the good mo @jono.gay · 5d

I wonder if Stephen Fry and Alan Carr have ever boinked

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Patrick @trickybacon.bsky.social · 5d

I joined because I thought it would be hilarious, but knowing how my neighbours' brains work is a curse

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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