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Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY

@ugobananas.bsky.social

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I've never played a video game in my life. Ergonomically blasphemous. Holy disruptor. Disabled but I don't *look* disabled. Xian agnostic. Wisconsinite in Arkansas. Bi. She/her. (ko-fi.com/janamhall)

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Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY @ugobananas.bsky.social · Oct 22

Threading is kind of janky on here in mega threads, so be sure to click through whenever you appear to have reached the end!

Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY @ugobananas.bsky.social · Apr 27

1 like = 1 meme/shitpost

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Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY @ugobananas.bsky.social · 19h

Thank yooou!

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Felonious Monk 📚 @thefeloniousmonk.com · 19h

If your go to attacks on horrible people are about their weight, their appearance, their mental health, their able bodiedness, congratulations...you're doing the same thing they do.

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 19h

I'm not trying to be a dick.

But they picked two fat republicans for a bunch of jokes when the young republicans said the worst shit imaginable.

My fat ass is out there fighting for what's right.

Stop equating fat with bad or less. Stop telling ME I'm one annoyance away from being your target.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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

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Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY @ugobananas.bsky.social · 19h

ty!

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Thomas A Lewis @djtomdog.bsky.social · 1d

A pause in the genocide is not ending the genocide. A slowing down of the genocide is not an end to the genocide. The only way the genocide ends is the dismantling of the genocidal apartheid colony. Free Palestine.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22h

I was told that Trump had achieved peace in the Middle East

Israel keeps Gaza border crossing closed while reducing aid deliveries

The ceasefire on Wednesday was largely holding, although Hamas described Israeli attacks in Gaza as violations of the agreement.

www.npr.org

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Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY @ugobananas.bsky.social · 1d

Can anyone recommend a good end of life planner to leave for loved ones? (I'm safe, not planning anything, just trying to be responsible especially with all the health scares I've had with long covid.)

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 1d

Just another nudge to delete Spotify.

Do you really want to lose access to all your music if you stop paying them every month? Or make sure the artists you like are paid as little as possible? Or support this bullshit?

Buying and owning music is better in every way.

Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 1d

From the assholes who gave Joe Rogan hundreds of millions of dollars we now have:

Spotify is running ICE hiring ads boasting wild signing bonuses

Spotify responded that the ads do not violate its policies.

www.sfgate.com

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

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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Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY @ugobananas.bsky.social · 1d

Normal texts from my spouse

Message sent to me: are you shipping Barron Trump and Sidney Sweeney like I am? Could be America's next power couple. Beautiful Barron Jr.

My reply: end me

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 2d

Gaza is tired, tired, tired. Wish it peace, support it, and give it all the love so that it can emerge from the rubble.

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Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY @ugobananas.bsky.social · 4d

Another one I need to add updates to but I still recommend all these!

Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY @ugobananas.bsky.social · Sep 30

It's spooky season! Migrating my Twitter thread here.

Spooky Games to Play for Halloween Fun Times: A Thread

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 4d

the guy is now urging people to tweet at him and then responding to their tweets on air, which makes it feel like the distinction between “twitch streamer” and “cable news host” is collapsing

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Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY @ugobananas.bsky.social · Aug 20

since holidays that we decorate for are around the corner, keep stairways and banisters clear. this is very inaccessible:

porch steps lined with many gourds and pumpkins, and Halloween garland wrapped around the railings

porch steps covered in fall decor; the side with the railing is completely blocked

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 5d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

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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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 5d

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6d

yep. softbank wants to spend $20b of actual dollars, so they can write down $40b of imaginary OpenAI equity value, so Vision Fund 2 is theoretically in the black pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/27/s...

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Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY @ugobananas.bsky.social · 6d

Most of them became 80s business guys

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7d

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY @ugobananas.bsky.social · 7d

Is search just totally broken right now on bsky? I'm getting no results for everything

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7d

For the uninitiated: The pope being this direct and explicit to U.S. bishops about how to respond to a domestic policy happening in real time is…unusual.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 8d

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

www.reuters.com

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Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY @ugobananas.bsky.social · 8d

Tweet from at tiannelisex:

people get cooked on twitter and start tweeting stuff like "what should I have for dinner" to seem unbothered

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 10d

What @jay.bsky.team and @safety.bsky.app are demonstrating here is that any move to demonstrate the hypocrisy of their public statements regarding the kind of platform they're trying to make, any attempt to hold them accountable for enabling bigotry on that platform, will be met with suspension.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 9d

Link to register still open 👀👀👀

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 11d

Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!

We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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