James Stanton

James Stanton

@jstanton617.com

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I am not your ex. I did not beat you up. I did not harm anyone. I am very sorry for what happened to you but when you decide to remedy it by treating other people as a safe stand-in for your abusers and attack them instead, you become the villain. My job is not to be abused by you or your friends.

This right here is the kind of stuff you do when you're actively looking to abuse people for your own ego This is the kind of shit my ex would say after she beat the shit out of me because I told her to fuck off while she was beating me "Yeah I'm hurting you, but you hurt my feelings!" Evil shit

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Why the fuckdoes this app refresh my feed everytime that I check my email and come back? Like wtf, nobody wants that, nobody. Now I have to search for that post I wanted to read.

@spannersready.bsky.social You've done it a couple times, and at the risk of arguing with a joke, I think the point of the Cadillac JFK speech isn't the "whee, we're going to the moon", the important part is what's after. "do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"

And in particular "because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills" Besides motorsport (maybe America's Cup?), there's a dearth of setting impossible engineering goals and having the best minds we have to offer, fired by the fuel of competition, achieve them

Seeing the limits of human intelligence and ingenuity, pushed by the natural need to outpace your rivals, is why I watch F1. And while I'd heard the moon speech before, Cadillac's use of it really clarified that for me

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/ THIS IS A WEATHER 4CAST 4 MINNEAPOLIS / A WICKED COLDENING UR WAY COMES / W/ ONLY BELOW AVG TEMPS ON UR HORIZON / STRANGE HOW BELOW AVG TEMPS CULD HELP MELT ICE / REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS / STOP UR POWERS & OLIGARX FROM DESTRUXTING U & UR PLANET / REPENT

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Report X to Apple to get it removed from the AppStore: reportaproblem.apple.com/store/333903... And for Google Play, report the X app “com.twitter.android” here: support.google.com/googleplay/a...

Colin@colin-fraser.net

Every piece of reporting I've seen on this is drastically understating the scale. These are from Grok's replies within a single minute. Time-to-reply is degrading because it has such a backlog of NCII/CSAM requests to fulfill. Conservatively I estimate it is producing more than 5000 of these per day

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ok everything's awful. but you know what's not awful? hot sauce! tell me: what's your favorite hot sauce? (fwiw, mine's cholula; i fucking douse it over everything. i love it.)

I ate buffet grilled chicken and pasta salad at the same picnic table as David Bowie. It was backstage at the NIN / Bowie tour in 1995. We did not speak

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NBC Sports does a terrible job covering the Celtics. Whether it's Eddie House Zoom halftime from his garage, hosts and commentators overwhelmingly white and dumb, or the worst color commentator in the NBA, it really sucks to watch Celtics basketball. Sean Grande and Cedric Maxwell are right there.

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For your holiday ambiance, I've made a hypnotic yule log fireplace with ultra slow motion macro footage of flames stretching & warping like liquid as fire reacts with calcium chloride & barium. This is real fire I filmed, not CGI or AI. 10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!

youtu.be10 Hours Hypnotic Fireplace Ambiance – 4K Macro Slow-Motion Color Flames, Crackling Fire (No Music)YouTube video by Rob Sheridan

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My old friend and former publisher of the Weekly Dig Jeff Lawrence has died. He hired, and fired, me from my first job. I always cared about him over the years even though he sometimes made it very hard to. A fun guy and such a pain in the ass I don't think he would mind me saying.

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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

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THE ROAD (Pixar Studios, 2009)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Generals gathered in their masses/ to listen to this fucking jackass

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos.”

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Maine has the oldest population of any state and a high rate of disability. Question 1, on the November ballot, figures to make voting (especially by mail) much harder for many, and particularly for older folks and people with disabilities. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

boltsmag.orgA Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - BoltsQuestion 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.

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"We Never Shed the Bones of the Beasts We Slay Within" An experimental collage series about strength from being broken; an acknowledgement that our inner demons remain a part of us even when they are conquered, leaving their bones behind to make us stronger from within. 1/

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Replying to @thanksmach.bsky.social

Yes! In the sense that there are genuine use cases where a chainsaw or a flamethrower are very good, but you wouldn't hype them to bar patrons to make money

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9 years ago today I was in Luxembourg and found The Bar of Ultimate Despair, a place so bleak I probably wouldn't believe my memory if I hadn't taken pictures. Brightly lit, pale wood officey furniture, one single beer on draught and a clientele whose common mood could not be described as convivial.

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Only the right whines about men not getting laid all the time because if you are a dude with right-wing politics/ideals, you are more repellant to women by your nature. They don’t want to change how they think, so they have to blame it on women or woke or whatever. Fix your hearts or die, boys.

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social

The left is completely silent on the subject of men getting laid - which, generally speaking, they are v.interested in doing and will continue to be interested in regardless of whether progressives want to talk about it. So the stage has been left entirely clear for the far-right.