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Tom
@tomel.bsky.social
· Sep 17
(to the tune of “a day in the life”)
i quantum leaped today, oh boy
i quantum leaped today, oh boy
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I get that you feel embarrassed to talk about porn but if you come at it from "they're censoring PG games and ASMR" maybe you can like... get over yourself?
this is hurting so many people and it's just going to keep getting worse?
this is hurting so many people and it's just going to keep getting worse?
would be really cool of any indie journalists who want to like.... talk about this massive form of censorship since it's a byproduct of the fascism we are all dealing with?
A couple times I see people say “UGH I wish I didn’t have to keep Ana unblocked, but she’s the only source I have on paypros censorship stuff…” and honestly I am really sympathetic to that kind of person
I think it is a major failing of the contemporary journalism industry that people feel like
I think it is a major failing of the contemporary journalism industry that people feel like
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I get that you feel embarrassed to talk about porn but if you come at it from "they're censoring PG games and ASMR" maybe you can like... get over yourself?
this is hurting so many people and it's just going to keep getting worse?
this is hurting so many people and it's just going to keep getting worse?
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
You know, I never see anyone talking about UKians.
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
You know, I never see anyone talking about UKians.
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This was me two seconds ago showing the same picture to my wife.
I got so angry at the idea Kirby needed drugs to come up with anything that I drafted like three separate not-mad jokes off this before my brain went “wait Green Goblin was Ditko”
November 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This was me two seconds ago showing the same picture to my wife.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
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People need to be fired for this. In the same way that an ancient army would "fire" a village, people need to be fired for this.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
People need to be fired for this. In the same way that an ancient army would "fire" a village, people need to be fired for this.
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Important to remember that this isn’t $1,800 a month for transportation it’s $1,800 a month for Gender.
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Important to remember that this isn’t $1,800 a month for transportation it’s $1,800 a month for Gender.
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Today is the day! Make some phone calls to Visa and Mastercard if youre able to and keep it going as much as you can muster until monday!
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today is the day! Make some phone calls to Visa and Mastercard if youre able to and keep it going as much as you can muster until monday!
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if you are willing to use ChatGPT to make your art for you, but you're not willing to do BlenderGuru's donut tutorial, then I cannot bring myself to respect your art
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
if you are willing to use ChatGPT to make your art for you, but you're not willing to do BlenderGuru's donut tutorial, then I cannot bring myself to respect your art
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Every time I see an update on the Olivia Nuzzi story, I think of all the strippers and OnlyFans models with real skill at convincing sad older dudes they're horny for them.
And I think about how they don't get near the social status and money Nuzzi gets. It's a travesty.
And I think about how they don't get near the social status and money Nuzzi gets. It's a travesty.
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Every time I see an update on the Olivia Nuzzi story, I think of all the strippers and OnlyFans models with real skill at convincing sad older dudes they're horny for them.
And I think about how they don't get near the social status and money Nuzzi gets. It's a travesty.
And I think about how they don't get near the social status and money Nuzzi gets. It's a travesty.
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IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
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STRIP vs STRIPE - PART 1!
#SaveSpeech
First goal: Remove shawl + skirt!
Comment below with your experience calling a payment processor! Each call/letter earns points, and they must be NEW to count!
Here's links for numbers, info, and scripts:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money
#Lilya
#SaveSpeech
First goal: Remove shawl + skirt!
Comment below with your experience calling a payment processor! Each call/letter earns points, and they must be NEW to count!
Here's links for numbers, info, and scripts:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money
#Lilya
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
STRIP vs STRIPE - PART 1!
#SaveSpeech
First goal: Remove shawl + skirt!
Comment below with your experience calling a payment processor! Each call/letter earns points, and they must be NEW to count!
Here's links for numbers, info, and scripts:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money
#Lilya
#SaveSpeech
First goal: Remove shawl + skirt!
Comment below with your experience calling a payment processor! Each call/letter earns points, and they must be NEW to count!
Here's links for numbers, info, and scripts:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money
#Lilya
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what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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here comes the centrist reactionary train choo choo
Menin, who represents the Upper East Side, said she had the support of at least 34 current and incoming City Council members, more than the 26 votes needed to become the Council’s speaker, considered the second most powerful job in city government.
A Moderate From Manhattan Claims Enough Support to Lead City Council
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
here comes the centrist reactionary train choo choo
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The Southwest American
Fort Smith Arkansas,11.25.1917
Fort Smith Arkansas,11.25.1917
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The Southwest American
Fort Smith Arkansas,11.25.1917
Fort Smith Arkansas,11.25.1917
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I worked in a mall for 10 years. Without fail, every Thanksgiving or other holiday started with me opening the door for a customer with their face pressed against the glass who would ask me that question. I only had one self-aware customer who answered her question with the answer that she was why.
Shout-out to everyone in the US who will have to deal with "It's a holiday, why are you working?" quips from the very customers who are the reasons you're working today. I see you, I love you, and I'm proud of you for not punching anyone over it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I worked in a mall for 10 years. Without fail, every Thanksgiving or other holiday started with me opening the door for a customer with their face pressed against the glass who would ask me that question. I only had one self-aware customer who answered her question with the answer that she was why.
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“Poor people have a right to art!”
They sure do. So get to it.
They sure do. So get to it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“Poor people have a right to art!”
They sure do. So get to it.
They sure do. So get to it.
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
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The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
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you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB
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I honestly don’t mean this in a cruel way, but this person is functionally dead.
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I honestly don’t mean this in a cruel way, but this person is functionally dead.
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.