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@rawse.bsky.social

IT “Engineer”, Navy Veteran, Coffee dependent, film guy, tired, proud progressive, glass filled with either Whiskey or Scotch. Gonna smoke some meats too. Mostly here to read Nancy comics, funny takes and to journal into the void

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Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

Civil suit NOW.

Zack Zwiezen@zackzwiezen.com

This isn't hyperbole or a joke. Parents actually called the cops and got the black boy and his family removed and the league claimed they were trespassing because he was "putting on a show" and wasn't playing "fair."

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“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time.” ― Carl Sagan

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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

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Prince writing “I Would Die 4 U” in 1984:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I gotta show I'm all man. We're all men. We're women. We're whatever the hell we are. But I know one thing -- there's only two of us, right? There's not seven of us."

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El-Sayed on JD Vance: First of all, Ohio State owes that boy a refund because he clearly didn't get anything from his education there…

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And the guy dressed as Scaramucci won't stick around much longer. Only the "best" people, vetted by people who are terrible at their jobs.

All the self awareness of a dog licking its own asshole

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Riley Gaines: Hillary Clinton might be the only person in America who thinks that her loss belongs in the conversation…

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it turns out that “optimize for engagement” and “optimize for societal best outcomes” are opposing goals and if you look at the entire history of the tech industry you can see which of those two wins out

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social

Facebook back in 2021 temporarily turned off the “drive people insane” setting and it completely changed what people were seeing. They turned it back on when engagement dipped by like 1 percent.