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Merlony @merlony.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Never used chatGPT. My illness and unemployment meant I was not working when various ai doohikeys started spreading. Am getting stronger resistance to them with every story like that.

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Apostasy Now! @apostasynow.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

i once read "the rights you think criminals should have are the rights you think everyone should have because the state can criminalize anyone" and it changed how i think about everything

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Merlony @merlony.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I got diagnosed with ADHD recently. Then I got the superpower of Doing What I'm Thinking Without Delay Most Of The Time aka. medication. This is soooooo weird. Good, but weird. It's just... I'm nearly fifty. Is doing stuff supposed to be this easy? Is this the default setting? #ADHD

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They-Ra @xanindigo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

a complete step-by-step guide to using generative AI: 1. don’t

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

unions: they get the job done

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS:

TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION

“Slip the switch” by flipping it while the trolley’s front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.

Thank a rail worker today!

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

In researching the next book a trauma expert told me offhandedly she believed most political issues and controversies came down to an argument over whether kids and young people should suffer the same abuse as the previous generation and boy oh boy is that on my mind a lot recently.

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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 27/04/2024

Dreams are proof that reality is not a construct of the mind. Look at the stupid shit it comes up with when left to its own devices.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 13/04/2024

A natural basic income experiment began in the mid-1990s and how the kids — now in their 30s and 40s — are doing is incredible. As adults, they have fewer drug problems and their average IQ is higher. By age 26, the benefits of the UBI exceeded its cost by 3-to-1. academicminute.org/2014/06/jane...

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 18/03/2024

this story from today's Ask A Manager is killing me

2. The union

Wasn’t me but a guy I knew. He was a fan of certain “mind altering vegetation,” as was his coworker. He agreed to sell some to his coworker and soon became “the guy” at the auto repair place. One of the managers noticed him always having quick little chats with his coworkers and ran in the complete wrong direction with it and thought my friend was trying to organize a union and he (the manager) was going to stop that.

So my friend was terrified he was going to get fired until he realized that retaliating against him for selling pot was totally legal but retaliating against him for pro-union activity wasn’t. And so, to protect himself from being fired for being mistaken as a union organizer, he organized a union.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/03/2024

Physics vs. Magic xkcd.com/2904

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 17/03/2024

Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones. But no.

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lane @laneichy.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Grumble grumble…

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🦇 Hexavier 🎃 @xavierck.com · 15/03/2024

Once again begging you to stop saying "content" and "consume" in relation to art, literature, performance, and anything you aren't literally eating, drinking, or stuffing into a box for storage

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 15/03/2024

In other news: holy fuck, this Andrea Long Chu essay fucking rules

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Freedom of Sex

The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.

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nacho likes airplanes @nachochip.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

Y’ALL NEED TO STOP BUYING HARRY POTTER MERCH. STOP SUPPORTING THE TERF.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 04/03/2024

Takahiro Iwasaki: Geo Eye (Santos), 2015. Topographical map carved into duct tape www.artsy.net/artwork/taka...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/03/2024

Hey. Yeah, you, hey: if you are not currently sick or disabled, one day you will be, and you will wish you lived in a world that had the resources and culture to make your life as full and thriving and happy as anyone else's. You will want that world, and you can start helping make it, right now.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/02/2024

so much of the pronoun bullshit is just people being angry at being asked to treat others with a basic level of respect you don't have to understand gender dysphoria or being nonbinary or neopronouns to just... respect people's wishes about how they want to be addressed

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Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

This makes writing (culture) a bit akin to biology. Writing was independently invented 5 times. Of these inventions, 3 have direct descendants (two of them through hybridization). One more system was continent-level popular, but then got destroyed. The last one never left a tiny isolated island.

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Bea Tormo @beatormo.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

The f*cking AI 💩

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 24/01/2024

Heads up: If you have an Adobe account, for Acrobat or Photoshop or whatever: they've turned on the "we will pillage your work for AI" setting. Go to Adobe account website on desktop -> Account and Security -> Data and Privacy Settings -> Content Analysis. Turn it off.

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Merlony @merlony.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

@tkingfisher.bsky.social ...for Shane, the paladiniest paladin ever.

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