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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

There was a furry con in Ohio this weekend called AnthrOhio and I love that for them

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/05/2026

Unreliable narrator stories are fun until you live through a global-economy tanking war between two sets of relentless liars both trying to influence a stock market full of investors who don't actually care what's true.

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Yes prices have gone up so we're spending more We're also buying less This is generally thought of as a bad thing for a consumption based economy, which Hasset has always been a big proponent of

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The fact that we're years into the AI push and only now are the financial people saying "wait - where's the roi on this supposed to come from?" really underscores every lie I've ever been taught about capitalist economic superiority in resource allocation

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The double standard goes back at least to Clinton. It has just become more blatant under Trump. ("It has just become more blatant under Trump" is a phrase that can describe a hell of a lot of American life I think)

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

People as things, that's where it starts

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

*defang the usccb. They are already deranged enough

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

...I assume some bishop friend of his called him up and told him he was cruising for a bruising if he didn't apologize. The Pope is powerful in the Church, but canon law (and the bishops) tie his hands with a lot of precedent that has to be navigated. Which is why he's working to deranged the usccb

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

...but for laity its "getting an abortion" or "helping someone get an abortion" that cause automatic excommunication for laity (thanks to JP2 in '83). Otherwise you need a trial on a particular offense If Vance had doubled down instead of apologizing, he might have triggered a trial...

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Leo is very careful to stay within the bounds of canon law and it's actually difficult to excommunicate laity. Priests and people pretending to be priests have all sorts of ways they can be excommunicated without a trial...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"Past popes have apologized for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But no pope has ever publicly acknowledged, much less apologized for, the role that past popes themselves played in giving European sovereigns explicit authority to subjugate and enslave 'infidels.'" /1

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Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See’s own role in legitimizing slavery

History’s first U.S.-born pope, whose family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners, delivered the apology in his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” (Magnificent Humanity), which...

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Megan Cassidy-Welch @megancw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“We must … avoid … the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance”. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

RIGHT? And a desire to not get sick is not some kind of irrational fear. For most of civilization even a cold could lead to long term problems

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 25/05/2026

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Sadly these kind of guys would agree with that statement washing your hands is woke. Wiping your ass is gay. Real men get sick and let their superior immune systems stand their ground and shoot diseases with tiny guns

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 25/05/2026

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Piggly Wiggly warming up in the corner for a name change to compete

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

In this encyclical Pope Leo not only condemns slavery, praises the social sciences, and considers ethical treatment of computer intelligences but also compares truth to “a multifaceted polyhedron” blessed in its diversity. I believe the long-rum first D&D Pope theory just got a shoutout.

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Actually understanding that high school sports is almost entirely about giving kids a place to grow as human beings and not "winning at all costs" immediately deflated the anti-trans discourse around trans athletes

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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

My phone reminded me of this old meme I posted 4 years ago

Homer Simpson talking about Marge: Oh videogame devs, my loyal wife... Of course not...

Homer Simpson talking about Lisa: and boardgame designers, my little princess!

Homer talking about Bart, who looks like a rat person: And who could forget dear TTRPGS designers?

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

That is the only way this ends actually And everyone knew it which is why no prior president has ever been dumb enough to do this.

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Unfortunately it is - he's not marketing at us, he's marketing at the True Believers to keep them inside the tent "everyone else is dumb and wrong and we have the secret knowledge" is marketing that has worked for cults since at least the Roman Empire and it's all they're doing here

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This is the funniest shit I've seen in a bit

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Every Accusation Is A Confession When they lie about what their enemies are doing they're just admitting what they would do if given the power

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The changes to S&P and other indexes are being covered only by financial press, who treats the story as Wall Street clambering aboard the AI rocket ship. What’s actually happening is that private fund managers are looking for ways to offload garbage onto passive investors with low risk tolerance.

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Cam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑 @rustysellsword.com · 14/05/2026

The Cortex Prime Game Handbook is live on DriveThruRPG for the first time! 256 pages of the most flexible RPG toolkit I could make—build any genre, any tone, any kind of story you want to tell. I'm so proud of this book. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

A swirling cosmic scene featuring a woman in goggles and holding a device that reveals multiple alternate worlds.

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Is this the clown equivalent of when media write stuff like "Comic books aren't just thwack, pow, biff any more", like are clowns reading this and getting really angry

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

A variety of offenses relating to boating violations actually. Being in a closed part of the lake, lack of permits, etx. I'llbet the cops needed to get him off the streets www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/c...

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Driver intentionally drove Cybertruck into North Texas lake to use vehicle's

Tesla's manual for the Cybertruck shares a handful of warnings for drivers who want to use the

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19/05/2026

In many ways the tech industry is a demonstration of the failure of the private market in building and managing vital public infrastructure.

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Honestly just barricade the doors and tell him when he's ready to come out there will be Big Macs I firmly do believe that he thinks if they can't get hin to leave the building he's still the president, but nobody else needs to buy into that delusion

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I think they're mostly just mad that he's stabbing their buddy in the back But Paxton is really odious so I hope they're right

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It was suggested that it had to go to a jury because Musk alleged he didn't know what was going on until a point within the limit And that the jury found that he should have known if he was paying attention so it was his own fault he filed too late Which is kinda hilarious imo

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Not just dumped- according to the story he was pushing the boundaries to see what the limits on the bot were and eventually it just shut down Meaning he was being a weird pervert and even the AI's loose guardrails had to say "enough of you" and cut him off

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Jeff Bezos should be taking notes, but his purchase of the WaPo was more of a "money from the couch cushions" purchase. Ellison gas been pumping real money into Paramount and needs that ROI

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Larry Ellison suddenly realizes that buying credibility for your propaganda network only works if you don't immediately trash that credibility in the most spectacular ways possible

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

What are they going to run on? Republican success in this state?

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Caias Ward @caias.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

If your basic workers can't even afford to live near your city, congrats: you don't have a city, you have a theme park.

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Paul [Atreides] Wood @retroid.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

That's not what Colossal are doing, that's not what they did. I'm begging you to not fall for the latest bullshit from publicity-hungry techbros that'll have actual scientists facepalm AGAIN.

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I assume that what they're doing is genetically modifying elephants into hairy elephants?

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

You'd think Musk would be all over that idea given his weirdness (and he'd give the world the worst version of it) I assume he isn't because it wasn't in the sci-fi he read as a teen

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

LLM’s are, in a sense, genre-identifying machines. The literary terms ‘genre’ names something potentially statistically-identifiable - a basin or attractor in the field. The LLM’s success at pastiching a certain kind of postcolonial Caribbean prose shows that it’s become generic

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The funny news is Musk lost in a very dumb way that amounts to him being bad at his job

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Karjedon @karjedon.eurosky.social · 17/05/2026

Vuelve el bundle de Delta Green, por si alguno aun no se lo ha pillado. Gracias a @ozarmidrashim.bsky.social por el aviso. www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/de...

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Jer @jerandom.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It is funny that Elon lost in a really dumb way that means he just wasted everyone's time and money though

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