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Flayin’ the Flannel @flanneloccluded.bsky.social · 10h

When I’m listening to intense music

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 4h

Rich guys have always wanted and got that. Yimbyism might give some cover or legitimacy to some of their more egregious lickspittles, but I don't think the outcomes, particularly data centers, are downstream of Yimbyism.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 5h

It's a complicated movement, chock full of bad faith actors and neoliberal cranks, but to most people it means "allow housing developments with more units."

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 5h

YIMBY is primarily for housing. There might be legitimate reasons to oppose industrial/commercial development near your housing, though this might be heresy to some. There are no legitimate reasons to oppose housing near your housing.

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Call of Cthu-Luke @llobrow.bsky.social · 24/05/2023

Magic erasers are just Mr. Clean's teeth. He grows them back like a shark, and he's much bigger than you think.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11h

can i say something about trump’s “let them destroy san francisco” quip without everyone getting mad at me

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 11h

Which bird is the biggest asshole?

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Looking very alive, nothing like a reanimated corpse.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sometimes you try to post something, and it says it didn't post, so you post it again, and it double posts. Sometimes you do things in real life that take up a half hour between posts. Other times, you're a crank on the internet that posts the same thing twice because you love that shit.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." They will give up all the extraneous things you associate with conservatism, but they will never give that up.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is your house overrun with singing, dancing skeletons?

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's on you for expecting better of me.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 05/10/2026

the differences in sports across the pond is always interesting. look how the brits do bowling. totally different than how we do it

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Ben Natan @thebennatan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We are over leveraged on a technology that destroys water supplies, steals intellectual properties, and has absolutely tanked the labor market so your local taco joint can make The Worst Menu Graphics You’ve Ever Seen.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is it a typo if also correct? Who's to say?

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Efton Chism Jr: my child must suffer, as I have

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People have always done stupid, inadvisable things that could easily lead to death, but it used to be cool, like jumping the Grand Canyon on a motorcycle. This kind of stuff has a similar, train-wreck entertainment appeal, but it's incredibly lame.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dad who ran this in high school in the 2000s here to say that it isn't *that* antiquated.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As is tradition, I wish you a very

A costumed Lori Lightfoot wishes you a happy Oct. 1

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When you get off the bus it's customary to say to the driver "You appeared to me in my dream as a shimmering resplendent tower of light and in that moment I knew that everything was going to be okay"

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next.

Twitter screenshot: New: Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I 100% guarantee that there are sexual predators in your life that you do not know about.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Guys don't tend to openly admit their crimes with just anyone, and women don't feel as comfortable confiding the crimes committed against them to guys. So, it's often the case that you have a guy who is a sex pest, where most of the women in a group know, but only a few of the guys do.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ikea-themed speculative fiction is not something I expected to be a genre.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eva, it's behind you.

Eva Longoria with caption "Searching for France" but she is walking away from the Eiffel Tower.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix. I'm enjoying it so far. It's a lot of fun. I just read Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez before this, and it ruled. One of my favorite books of the year.

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Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fucking up really bad is like jazz

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's an inherent recognition that a felony conviction ruins your life. They don't have any problem with that. They're not abolitionists or reformers. They just think that these boys should be protected at everyone else's expense.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This reminds me of the "in-groups who the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups who the law binds but does not protect" quote. They're totally fine with ruining the lives of young black men. They're totally fine with young women being ruined. They don't want to ruin THESE boys lives.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, but it's a lot more fun to name 100 musicians worse than James Hetfield.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026

absolutely amazing chart

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's not a true story. You can set it whenever and wherever you like. They didn't speak Shakespearian English at any point in Verona, Italy. Baz Luhrmann put it in California in the 90s. You can put it in Northumbria. You can put it in 80s Tokyo. You can put it in space. It doesn't matter.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Democrats will, after winning a lot, immediately blame the left for not winning more.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is the Naziest cohort in the US.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If an alien species flew to Earth and told me their minds worked just like llms, I would have a different opinion on the ability of llms to understand. They haven't, so I don't.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But computer programs are not human, so they do not get afforded this same assumption. Since we know exactly how they work, we know that they are not conscious. We don't have to know exactly how our minds work to know that it isn't like that.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We experience our own cognition. It's true from some sort of Kantian sense that I can't say for sure that you understand things, and you're not giving me much evidence that you are capable of understanding, but I can assume by my own ability that you, presuming you are human, have this same ability.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The thing that bothers me more than anything about this is his use of "we." "We" did not do any of this. There are specific companies and human beings who program these machines. We do not share their responsibility or liability. If their program does crimes, they, specifically, are implicated.

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Tubular Yakubian @idontknowmanmaybe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How it works is the only thing relevant to the conversation of understanding.

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