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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 22h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 16h

I know, it blows. I’m an on-again/off-again vegetarian (failing only due to personal weakness/laziness/see original post) and try to consume as much plant-based shit as possible. So seeing all the vegan powders be the worst offenders made me scream into a pillow

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 16h

If you’re like me and struggle to get adequate nutrition from food because of ((coughing a LOT))depression, this is exhausting. Also, fucked—a reminder that the wellness/supplement industry has no standards. Literally. They have NO STANDARDS

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 16h

TKO *squinting* Ludicrous Trend

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17h

Consumer-facing "A.i." fucking sucks and you're embarrassing yourself if you pass it off for your actual thoughts.

Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 17h

“The humans won hands down when it came to notes, which require actual analysis rather than just distillation. The AI programs were ‘an almost total fail across the board.’”

Nice to know I wouldn’t have been so easily replaced at my old job by an A.I.

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Hollywood Script Readers Fear They Could be Replaced by AI. They Set Up a Test to See Who Gives Better Feedback

Fearing they could be replaced, Hollywood script readers face off against AI programs to see who gives better feedback.

variety.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

www.instagram.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18h

at this point it would be interesting journalism if someone could locate a Young Republican groupchat that was not full of overt Nazis

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 23h

If anyone was doing this kind of zombie horseshit with my dead dad, I would lose the last of my sanity

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 1d

I am going to refer back to Zelda Williams, after being inundated with these ghoulish invocations of her dead father’s likeness, calling AI the “human centipede” of content

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 1d

The framing of “copyright issues” as “growing pains” is also just so fucking dumb

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 1d

Deviantart for boomers

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 1d

All of the Israelis held by Hamas are called “hostages,” including the IDF soliders.

All the Palestinians released, though, are “prisoners,” including the many victims of Israel’s widespread arbitrary detention - meaning they are legally innocent, detained without charge or conviction.

Disgusting.

CBC headline reads: All living Israeli hostages freed, nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners released

Trump in Egypt for world leaders' meeting following an address to Israel's parliament

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 1d

I was led to believe my adult life would have way more tiny sunglasses and badass computer viruses with laughing skull faces appearing on the huge desktop computers of corporate sleazeballs, and way less having to watch my neighbors get kidnapped.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 2d

This is how I imagine JK Rowling when she posts.

JK Rowling says "ha ha.. h-heh. I won! I won!" She sits alone in the dark, bathed in the late of her computer screen. We pull back to see her in a large dark empty room. She continues "I won." Seeing the full scope of her cavernous workplace, she appears small and alone. She says, once again, "I won..."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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Bloody Mary (mirror entity, not cocktail) @marygillis.bsky.social · 2d

This is helpful, thank you, IMDB.

I do feel bad for the 15 people who weren't helped by this at all.

IMDb trivia.
Jeff Bridges produced too much of a bulge in the crotch area in his computer outfit, so he was forced to wear a dance belt to conceal it.

Beneath it 434 people have rated this piece of trivia as helpful.

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · 2d

When the enemy runs on vibes, we too must run on vibes. The origin of all written law is ritual magic—looks like we’re back to the beginning.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

The Frog is the best thing to happen to American politics all year, but the fact that politics has devolved into Posting is ultimately a bad thing.

www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

The Frog is the best thing to happen to American politics all year, but the fact that politics has devolved into Posting is ultimately a bad thing.

www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 3d

Skeletons shouldn't play each other as instruments

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 9d

Scorpio: An old friend you haven’t seen for a long time could come to visit today. Avoid them at all costs—they’re serving you a subpoena.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 9d

Virgo: This is the week to follow your dreams. When the clown beckons, go with him to the stream of blood. Your second grade teacher is waiting to roughly bathe you until you dissolve and become mist.

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L A R S 🕯️🦉👁️ @underalls.bsky.social · Nov 21

Do you ever eat a mint and then take a sip of cold water and it hurts your teeth and then all your teeth fall out and they form a pentagram on the floor and the lights shut off and your ears start ringing and the ringing turns into an explosive roar

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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