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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

then there was the time they were legally forced to comply with a court order and divulge the recovery address of a user who was also an activist journalist but you have to comply with court orders. and using a recovery address linked to your real identity is terrible opsec on the activist's part

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

no. the CEO praised an appointed government position due to the newly selected person's historic angle of fighting big tech companies like google. bc proton is a small tech company but it was trump who appointed the lady, so it immediately morphed into "proton ceo is maga". it was baseless and dumb

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

as obviously imprecise, egotistical, quick-to-judge, and generally bad today's "journalists" etc. may be (and are, let's be honest), it's hard to fault them for reporting on the baseless flip-flops of too-soon corporate conjecture

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

what's wild to me is REN (portugal grid provider) did exactly the same thing. hours after it first hit their public comment was basically "extreme weather swings led to failing equipment that interfered with frequency" and some 16h later they go "wait nevermind forget that"

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

go ahead and dismiss reality and deny that words have meaning, just like every other knight fellow i've read recently and people wonder why journalism is dead. you myopic sycophants choked it with handfuls of rocks

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

wait what if it's an unexpectedly shitty book is it ok to return a book you thought you'd like but turns out uniquely garbage this is just a hypothetical, i use the library

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

pope's infallible, catholics must follow 10 commandments, child-rape is widespread throughout clergy. honestly who gives a fuck about the rules? not catholics, dont @ me. fuck it make trump pope. DO IT, MAKE TRUMP THE FUCKING POPE. Dumbfuck Trump is as divine as anybody. lmao gods children right

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

youre free to use "feels like i gotta watch my back reading a max barry book tbh" as your next blurb fwiw

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

could be. it's just you've fucked my head slightly enough to worry you'd do something nefarious like hide a secret message in the page numbers. feels like i gotta watch my back reading a max barry book tbh

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"It felt all very normal and logical while I was writing it." ... Sounds like what a machine would say tbh

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

i mean it seems i know more than you, for what that's worth, and i also obviously know that this thing called "nuance" exists -- have you heard of this word? dont worry i dont expect big famous microbloggers to be receptive to any kind of pushback, do what you do cait

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

tbh tho this one's been weird since the anime-like open, youre probably about to fuck me over here, too, huh i wonder if you had to teach yourself to act crazy to write like this from charles' perspective or if youre just conveniently schizo. wildly different tone and perspective from the rest lol

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

actually, madison may was a sly one in that what I term the Barrymoment -- the point when a Max(x) Barry novel turns so sharply you get confused and forget then suddenly remember it's science fiction -- abs snuck up on me, nice one now 1/3 thru machine man and i swear i'm ready this time

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

yknow i forgot some places still ink words to paper pages, this was the paginated ebook. in that case glad i didnt start connecting papers via strings and thumbtacks trying to find the message tbh

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

most i've interacted with here appear to be in it to stroke their own ego. the double standards, nonsensical claims, and blatant disregard for objectivity and definition of terms make it clear they're not concerned with helping & i'm talking about profs and "climate" jornos, not NYT editorialists

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

and i once spent a month in new brighton

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

you can take the man out of the scouse but you cant take the bleak existential dread out of liverpool bay

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David @thebestdavid.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

That's why I never became a rock star; I had the looks, the talent, the drive, but they asked me at rock star auditions how good I was at beating women and when I said "not very," that was the end of my dreams.

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

The fun part about words is that they have meaning! In this case, the term "recycled ocean plastic" means precisely what I explained to you. In other words, your claim is blatantly incorrect. It certainly is odd that a self-proclaimed "journalist" apparently fails to grasp the English language.

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

i normally hate to kill the frog, but for all the folks bitching about "it", read this to yourself: "this mfer out here baggin up mayonnaise like it hard drugs" then decide if you want to complain about dialectal grammar

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

it's mimicking AAVE and apparently a bunch of people just got got ahahaha

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

i'd bet my second and third nuts the onion doesn't produce content using LLMs. i read this as a clear stylistic choice

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

they recently hired at least one person and AFAICT the listing is down

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Fairly measured, I guess. Sensible, from an actively publishing jorno. & sadly not enough. Journalists killed journalism, and as humans, they'll be unknowingly influenced by "leveraging" AI tools. I'm glad the Bsky experience has taught me to stop defending and pursuing the now-bastardized field.

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

why bother "leveraging tools efficiently" anyway? what a waste of time. just have AI write the whole thing, it'll be roughly as good as this schlock. every one of you should be embarrassed, mocked, and ridiculed. truly pathetic.

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

sigh. Skyline Chili. And I hate you for posting this. Now I'm sad. All the other American food I love is, to some degree, possible to find where I live. But Skyline was my favorite since early childhood, and my imitation is close but not perfect. The canned stuff is OK but exorbitant. damnit

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

yeah... and they're not exactly rare or hard to make perfectly. they'll get to taste these again

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I have another story about accidentally crumpling the front end of somebody's brand new BMW while hauling ass out of that parking lot so I wouldn't be driving when the acid kicked in. that Music+ was a locus of chaotic power

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

haha where i live the primary mail service (long privatized, BTW) usually fills out the "we missed you" slips in advance and just slaps em on your door and walks away they'll do that maybe twice, then the last one says to come pick it up at the post office in a few days thx, coulda done that first

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

don't you remember 2020? 9% honestly seems low

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The term "recycled ocean plastic" means "plastic waste that was removed from the ocean and then repurposed." It's obviously not a particularly cost-efficient material, but that isn't the point — and, as it turns out, it is a real thing! Neat, huh? Hope this helps! 🙂🤗

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I prefer to interject a, "I forget the English word for it," because then people assume I am smart

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

hey @squiggle.au quick, probably dumb question. I'm reading The 22 Murders of Madison May, and most of the chapters I've finished end with a single word at the top of an otherwise empty page. This has to be intentional, right? Or will I just go insane looking for a secret message?

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

and egg whites taste kinda gross so... aquafaba

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

dont fuck with me im not a vegan if you call me a vegan we will fight

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

the "she stared at him" that i cut off really speaks volumes once youve read the book lmao

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

if you use a really slim diamond-coated tool you can actually sharpen steak knives frighteningly well

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

thank god none of us have to worry about being clever or insightful

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

i lost it at the vague "well see he was up there" like oh shit he was up THERE no no i see why you were panicked my loves, i'm overjoyed youre OK

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"ohhh look at the convoluted ways we decide which old fuck will be 'infallible' and convince our billions of global followers NOT to rape and murder everyone around them" come the fuck on you literal insane people it's 2025 get a goddamn grip

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

i am so done with politely accepting absurd nonsense it's a pathetically self-owning indictment of each individual's own abject and all-consuming stupidity that anybody gives a flying fuck about which geriatric illusionist can best telepathically talk to the magical skydaddy, news cycle is fucked

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

no need to respond or anything. i dont expect it. I expect you to continue screaming into the void, thinking you're helping, while ignoring inquiring readers and contributing to the public's poor opinion of journalists. gee, wonder why we're all driven away from the profession. ol boys' club innit?

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"Why aren't rich, greedy (and smart) Republicans SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER?" Do you really not know? Are you asking so somebody can answer, or is it rhetorical? Do you intend to engage with readers -- including other journalists in adjacent -- yet related -- fields? Or ya just preaching Mr. Jarvis?

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"if you have to ask, you probably shouldnt be writing about it" isnt that how it goes? that's what you told us you never responded to clarify my 100% good-faith question, btw, why exist on social media if you're just a billboard? seems like wasted effort 🤷

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Sr. Probably Not Serious @ctomagotcha.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

oh it's like from that song from that cartoon

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