A5PECT

A5PECT

@a5pect.bsky.social

A highly impractical person

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someone at Polymarket is drafting a tweet about how their users accurately predicted the Brazilian election result within one point

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if you ever happen to see someone post a joke you don't understand or discuss a subject you aren't familiar with, you are well within your right to complain, and perhaps even scold them if necessary. you are their customer and you have rights

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koko’s basilisk: you don’t think koko the gorilla actually knows sign language and when she figures it out she beats your ass

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Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

i worked in several casinos and later for an online sportsbook. the best advice i can give you is to stay the hell away from all of it.

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"parasite outbreak blamed on taco bell because they're the only company reporting it" feels very "1918 flu blamed on Spain because they're the only country reporting it"

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I don’t understand how people can run for office knowing they have insane baggage and/or crimes. Like I spent the entire campaign expecting AIPAC to somehow dig up my middle school livejournal fanfic account. I prepared my family for it. I’m still amazed it didn’t happen.

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I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.

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Replying to @meakoopa.bsky.social

there is a version of being the Great Author where i am serious and all my photos are black & white glossies of me holding my head which contains my Powerful Brain and it would probably be good for my career and the longevity/respectability of my art but it sounds so exhausting i just cant

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i honestly never thought we'd half-ass a war with iran. it seemed like the end goal of a certain strain of powerful foreign policy interest such that if it ever happened it would be the culmination of decades of careful plotting and maneuvering. but nope, they got there and they're just YOLO'ing it

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5 dollars right now if you can do 10 good posts 24 normal replies 24 reading the actual article everyone on bluesky is failing

Bill DiFilippo@billdifilippo.bsky.social

have been discussing this prompt with the fellas for the last 12 hours so now i bring it here: do you think you can do this

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production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA