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“MAGA Nationalism is an ideology of hate that turns dumb poor people into brainwashed bloodthirsty Nazi maniacs who want to slaughter minorities because they think it will make their miserable lives better.” ― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America, 2019

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 11h

People are like "we can't have mob justice," and instead call a number that dispatches a paranoid domestic abuser with a badge and entitlement issues.

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Corvak @corvak.bsky.social · 13h

When we spun up the art generation machine, we got the Sistine Chapel roof, and we kickstarted an era of learning that changed Europe forever. When you spun up the art generation machine you got bad food menus and a burrito ad full of maggots. We are not the same.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Analogue synthesizers are great. You got a bunch of buttons, twisty knobs, blinking lights, bleeps and bloops, and dangling cables all in one place.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Behold, a column by the @theglobeandmail.com's Tony Keller that cries out for a debunking. Allow me. 🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

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Opinion: This was the week Canada stopped shooting its oil patch in the foot

We’re finally witnessing our country act with some sense of its own self-interest

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Canadians suddenly feeling a lot more confident about the result of the upcoming invasion of Canada.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This has been the number one song in Saint John for 40 years, I don't see any Rolling Stone articles about how no one knows it though! youtu.be/c2SQaCyhk8g?...

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Saint John Transit Song

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

some pilots are part of the furry community

A scene from Porco Rosso, with the subtitle, "I'd rather be a pig than a fascist" (Porco Rosso is a charming pig man wearing a trench coat, hat, and sunglasses.)

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Games that shaped who I am, not necessarily my faves; in fact, I actively dislike a couple of these now. (The FFIV art in the system was so bad that I had to use the NA SNES box art. Apologies in advance to purists.) #My9Games

Posters for Final Fantasy, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2, Super Mario World, Final Fantasy 2, Final Fantasy Tactics, Dark Souls, Destiny, Langrisser Mobile, and Final Fantasy 14 Online: Endwalker.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Certainly the case w/ Canada. Matador Carney waves a red "elbows up" cape in front of Canadians to buy enough time to privatize as much infrastructure & court as much foreign (incl US) investment as possible for his corporate/oligarch Carney-Cronies before capitulating as he knows he eventually must

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AI "may well unleash a productivity miracle that raises the economy's non-inflationary speed limit enough to keep the world's mounting debt burden sustainable." Capitalism is a cult.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The hackers used a security flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft that was widely publicized after ~100 educational institutions were breached and Oracle warned clients about mitigation measures IN JUNE.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

20 years ago we had a videogame controller that would say you're obese.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

💯 "If you don't want to get sent to the camps by fascists, you better vote for centre-right corporatocrats (who'll send you to the camps while wearing rainbow flag pins)" is not democracy.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For any United States of American who wants to know how their "democracy" works. The voting public doesn't control policy by voting: lobbyists and the two corporate parties control policy by wealth exchange. The USA is not a bastion of freedom or democracy. Hasn't been for decades.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026

No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community. Its that simple.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The very fact that people think Sony shitting the bed somehow automatically, necessarily means Xbox is good or will succeed is itself part of the deep psychic damage wrought by the console wars.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I wrote in March: Feminism is far from dead, but people love to write its obituary. I’ve lived through dozens of them over the decades, and there’s been a fresh flurry over the past few years....

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The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism

People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 06/09/2026

The reason we spend so much money being awful to unhoused people is the system needs a visible reminder of what landlords and bosses are threatening you with.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Caitlin Clark vs. WNBA discourse, Bill Maher, and police bodycam/dashcam videos are liberal-friendly nodes in the reactionary cultural outrage matrix. [Staying with my parents for the long weekend.]

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hey did you know, instead of supporting unethical corporations like Amazon and Indigo, you can just order a bunch of books from local (Canadian) non-evil @kingsbookstore.bsky.social and have them shipped right to your door?

Order summary from King's Co-op Bookstore showing three books (Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-Kurd, The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar, and The Seep by Chana Porter) and their competitive prices.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Even if you completely set aside her transphobia (which you can't, shouldn't, and mustn't), it's telling that she could've been known for whimsy and imagination but is instead famously vindictive, grouchy, litigious, angry, combative and bitter. Hatred not only rots your brain, but your entire soul.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Taylor, did you consider that you're being treated differently than every other generic tech journalist because you have a cooler, smarter, more progressive audience who is more invested in your work? Why try to lower yourself to another audience's bar?

Taylor Lorenz posted a screenshot on Twitter of her audience's disappointed reactions to her list of AI tools. In response, she writes, "I would take this outrage more seriously if the ppl engaged in it were directing ANY similar criticisms at ANY other big consumer tech journalists, (all of whom have been open abt the AI tools they use), but they do not. Those journos can openly use AI tools all day & not a peep!"

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Dang, just when we had finally solved regular bullying.

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🫀nenetto [🌳 Deku edition ▿] @nenetto.com · 17/08/2026

By www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08...

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There's a failed casino owner/reality TV show host and a cable news weekend anchor in charge of the Chinese military?

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is terrific — as she notes, Americans are not "stupid" insomuch as they are deliberately being educated badly, for the purpose of suppressing them. But she goes back to examine how deeply rooted it is, for over 200 years, in US culture. And it's WORSE than it has ever been.

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Why Are Americans So Bloody Stupid?

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Transformers that don't transform. Cisformers?

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Your Evil Twin, Skippy 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @twinskippy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If only he had Tim Houston's paradise papers prowess.

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Neovagina Evangelion @gammarae.design · 15/07/2026

The proper channel to communicate to the govt is through your MLA's constituency office that's closed to in person visits, phone forwarded to voicemail, email that returns a form letter, Province House that now bars most people entry, or via public statements that are ignored Ave legislated thru

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 28/06/2026

!!!! this is some of the best creative advice I've ever heard

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Clayt💿n @nixon.computer · 23/06/2026

BREAKING: Donald Trump is floating face down in the reflecting pool. He has died.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Honestly this is one of the reasons I love FFXII so much. Players were annoyed by Vaan, but the point was that he was *didn't* live up to his bluster till he learned and grew.

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

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Cathode Ray Blanchard @shivs.kindgirls.online · 11/06/2026

"you simply must accept slop if you want new videogames" my jrpg backlog is literally mathematically unfishable assuming I even reach my average life expectancy

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Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

A chef insisting that his cake made with diarrhea is perfectly fine to consume.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Hooooly shit. But also, of course.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 02/06/2026

4/ Doing business through a secretive contract with this MAGA-aligned tech giant is totally incompatible with the Prime Minister’s promise to defend Canadian sovereignty.

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Michael Kamm @michaelkamm.games · 26/05/2026

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Labour making such a priority of our eradication is among the biggest signifiers that it’s lost all touch with ordinary voters. Sparing *any* time for piling more misery on a minority group when millions are affected by multiple ongoing crises is a fucking insult to all of us, cis and trans alike.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Tim Houston wants to make the economy worse and reduce the quality of the workforce's training and education by putting hundreds of educators out of work. Please let your MLA know this is not a good plan. #halisky #novascotia #nspoli share.nwmd.social/s/3B4bc1WQ

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Cuts Have Consequences Nova Scotia Community College

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The number of times your controller screams will 100% be included in the Steam 2026 Wrap-up.

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Kong & Applesauce @kongwen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instinct only Andor Arrested Development Better Call Saul The Good Place Guyver: Bio-Booster Armor (1989) Hockey Night in Canada Jeopardy Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien Monty Python's Flying Circus The Office (UK) Rome SNL Sex and the City The Simpsons Star Trek TNG

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