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keeping it real by regularly disassociating

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
love it when a hot person does some genuinely offputting stone cold freak shit
alexander skarsgard in a gold suit with no shirt underneath and transparent lace up plastic brogues. you can see his toes.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 08/10/2026
This is monstrous and sickening
AP ALERT

AP
Breaking News
now
The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter
Nidal Malik Hasan.
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
unknown where we are decades from now, but we're two nations at war with each other right now
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
if 9/11 happened today, there would be a loud and jubilant group of conservatives cheering because a blue city got what it deserved
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
became president because he was on a reality show--  --returned as president because it wasn't known he was on a reality show 😞🔫
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*SPOILERS*
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Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus Meme
Alt: Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus in "Tropic Thunder" saying, "I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!"
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Once again: anyone who thinks rape victims come forward for any reason except telling the truth at great fucking cost to themselves is a brainwashed bastard
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Someone making a ton of money off of AI: “ai is the future and it’s inevitable” Someone not making any money off of AI: “this looks like shit”
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
john carpenter writing the soundtracks to assault on precinct 13 and halloween
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Muse is just a ripoff of Doctor Who's Adipose right?
An Adipose from Doctor Who, which is a sentient form of fat. It's weird Zuckerberg would use it as a reference point when creating an AI avatar that will in all likelihood be abused to spy on women and children and create non-consensual porn.
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
surprise it's Blade!
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 09/09/2023
this city is afraid of me. i have seen its true face.
a smiley face scrub daddy sponge in the sink in a puddle of bright red beet juice.
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
cmon lord he's making the face you only make when you want sweet release from this torturous existence
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"It's not a tumor" Narrator: It was a tumor
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He literally just voted "no" on a resolution to end the Iran War
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
does it really surprise anyone that Trump wants to build a death trap for his friends and family?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed
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Zaki Hasan @zakiscorner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
no not Beef! gizmodo.com/rip-to-cult-...
gizmodo.com
RIP to Cult Actor Gerrit Graham, Star of 'Phantom of the Paradise' and 'Child's Play 2'
Graham also appeared on multiple 'Star Trek' shows and played the title character in 'CHUD II: Bud the CHUD.'
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/09/2026
is it too much to ask for one single reporter/outlet to lure in Elon Musk's mom in with the promise of an anodyne book-promoting interview, and then hit her with the "so what was it like being raised by Nazis?" and "why do the dates of your residency in South Africa exactly line up with Apartheid?"
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
big if true
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FBI literally telling ICE to conceal what they do for a living if they ever want to find someone willing to date them and centrist Dems somehow can't just say Abolish ICE as the platform. Like who are you pitching if you're worried about how Abolish ICE sounds? Lol
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
if Bo French doesn't like it here seems there's a country he could go back to
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
somebody get Talarico this guy's number
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
it's a testament to how boring this movie is that i watched it and do not remember this insanity
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The fact Donald Trump told his supporters last night to "Cheat like hell" in 2026 election BUT that isn't the headline nationwide shows you again how corporate media is complicit.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is Trump's version of luring you into a windowless van by saying there's candy and a puppy inside.
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
kombucha girl meme
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
this is mealy mouthed bullshit and i'd like him to explain where throwing an endagered minority under the bus to win an election squares with his faith
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
idk man why stake out a position on something that just doesn't happen and alienate a chunk of the base when you could just say 'healthcare is between a doctor and patient and I'm not a doctor'
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
show us she got in before you claim to have control over the situation (though clearly Duffy wants to control his daughter for as long as she lets him)
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
not sure who would want to take a sip of coffee while holding Spock's dismembered ear... www.lecreuset.com/star-trek-co...
lecreuset.com
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump: YOU WILL NEVER DIE! MAGA dipshit lying in a hospital from something caused by a data center or unregulated milk or whatever: haha yeah *cough cough wheeze* you tell that libtard Death
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
genuinely don't know what these MAGA freaks want anymore. "under two dollars a gallon"?! an insane promise like that used to kill your career where it stood
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
hmm what could possibly be the reason for police being unavailable...
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Miffythegamer @miffythegamer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When you order a Harry Potter box set from Temu.
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
my not seeing this obvious thing coming is either a testament to my continued grip on sanity or an indictment of my failure to accept reality
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
thanks for looking. i'm going to try to move on
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brian bootano @boytano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
but also whiff
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