the great grumpkin

the great grumpkin

@grumpnet.bsky.social

ex-journo appalachian dog. waf waf.

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When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...

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i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

David Brauer@dbrauer.net

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

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Concur. It’s kept my old gray head from getting too gray. No help at all for keeping it from getting too bald.

Denali@denali.bsky.social

One of my most deeply held beliefs is that hanging out in mixed age groups is essential for being the most interesting version of yourself. This holds across pretty much every stage of life and it doesn't have to be a huge mix or wide range of ages.

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AI is now built into every major social media platform. But can you trust a chatbot to tell you where to vote? ISD's 2026 US Election Platform Scorecard finds that the expansion of AI tools has outpaced transparency and independent oversight. Read more: bit.ly/4yCmmef

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Some Lula supporters apparently shouted his name out their window when it was announced he won and a cop pointed his gun at him and they took what is possibly the greatest image of a cop ever taken, like genuinely this would go hard as a cover for a Rage album its so poetic.

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It’s a decision to spend fewer dollars on SNAP while funding random elective wars and ICE and ads for Trump

PBS News@pbsnews.org

More than 5 million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. That has meant many more people are turning to food banks for support. https://to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd

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Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

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Replying to @rezekjoe.bsky.social

I think this is what depresses me the most about AI. This person could not even think about her own child for five minutes without help

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So happy for Brazil and the world!! Now for the U.S. !!!!!!!!!! 🤞

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

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Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

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Interesting what overseas kids Elon sympathizes with and which he throws in the woodchipper.

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com

❗️Elon Musk says “the endless slaughter of Ukrainians and Russians must stop” and called for sympathy for Russian conscripts. “Those kids have no choice but to fight and die in drone strikes,” he wrote. His remarks come amid an ongoing dispute over restrictions on Starlink and its use by Ukraine.

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"I'm sorry I'm entering a tunnel, the reception got bad."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WELKER: Is a vote for you a vote for the Trump agenda? MIKE ROGERS: Um, I'm apologizing. I'm having some difficultly in my earpiece. But is a vote for you? I'm not sure. I'll tell you what a vote for me is. It's a great day for the state of Michigan

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Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

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"A.i." is a tool of extraction, not liberation. These fucking products are designed to fuck you over, not help you.

The Lever@levernews.com

You asked AI for the cheapest flight. It dug through your emails, decided you could afford more, and suggested a ticket costing $100–$200 extra. Lindsay Owens explains ⬇️

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I sometimes wonder how Lincoln Riley feels about the local community and real estate market in Lubbock, Texas

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Having Sacramento in the MAC and NIU in the Mountain West was definitely worth defiling geography