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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

VERY MILD SPLOILERS FOR -YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING-

there's a scene where Billy is commenting on the full sized holographic ai version he had created of his wife Elizabeth and he says something like "the model pictures were taken two months after she gave birth, she looks much more healthier now"
it was two months after she gave birth and to be clear, she looked fine, and Nathan even calls him out for this and Billy's all like "well yeah but she has abs now" and then "healthier was the wrong word" and then he shuts up. and its like, every day i hate PR speak more and more. like you shouldn't cal your wife fat right after she gives birth but at this point just do that man. say what you mean. the problem isn't the words its the sentiment

🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

if you told me people ostensibly on "the left" would regurgitate this argument a decade later I wouldn't have believed you

screenshot of a headline from the Stanford sexual assault case, with a picture of rapist brock turner

"'20 minutes of action': father defends Stanford student son convicted of serial assault"

"Court statement by father of Brock Turner adds to concern over 'lenient' six-month sentence he reviewed for intent to rape an unconscious woman"

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

"i think ai has its uses, but does not work in my field of expertise" weird how everyone across every career says this

magicmooshka Jan 7
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen Al for script- writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile ny sister's screenwriting professor said thai they can use gen Al for concept art and visualization. but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my iob, it seems like each department says that Al can be useful in every field except the one that thev know best
It's only ever the iobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen Al will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

I feel like im losing my mind. this party is so fucking embarrassing. worse than useless

bluesky screenshot, names redacted

user 1 - Here's the video of Sen. John Fetterman's video appearance at the GOP Convention:

user 2: Man. What a fucking mess he is.

user 3: Gain 7 or 8 seats (possible but not probable) and they can expel him from the party in disgrace.

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 08/09/2026

Demonstrating reasoning and language capabilities in computers alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration

80085 typed on a traditional calculator, resembling the word "boobs"

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 02/09/2026

the wording around harassment ain't great either. how the hell do you define "The use of hostile or inflammatory language clearly intended to create or contribute to an unwelcoming environment" clear to whom???

B. Anti-Harassment: We create space for everyone to express themselves by prohibiting harassment and toxic behaviors.
i. Do not stalk, persistently target, or create malicious content desiqned to humiliate or dearade individuals including through coordinated campaigns.
ii. Do not abuse Bluesky features (lists, abels, communitv moderation tools) engage in bad-faith mass reporting, use automated harassment systems, or create single-purpose harassment accounts.
iii. Accounts that engage in extreme or persistent toxic or disruptive behavior may face restrictions or removal. This includes accounts with a high number or proportion of:
a. Extreme or repeated personal attacks, such as insults or ad hominem attacks
b. Posts or responses made primarily to anger, provoke, or belittle instead of to contribute criticism or a genuine opinion
c. The use of hostile or
inflammatory language clearly intended to create or contribute to an unwelcoming environment

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 02/09/2026

one in every 100 things your doctor tells you could kill you! the more rare or complex your condition, the more confident and less accurate the result will be! new invention that takes already existing issues in medicine and makes them worse!!! awesome stuff

OpenAl said that it collected over 4,300 responses from physicians across 27 clinical use cases, including pre-visit review, clinical timelines, medication review, and handoff summaries, and found that 99.1% of responses were safe. However, even a few unsafe answers can lead to harmful results for humans.

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 28/08/2026

I respect OP and intentionally cropped them out, but I cannot get behind this logic. either its all bad or none of it is. "fictional enough" is not definable, and saying non-ai drawings cause no harm is wild to me

Also to clarify one important thing, this is not a thread promoting censorship/the use of obscenity laws to prosecute art (no matter how gross) but art and Al gen images are two totally different things. A fictional drawing causes no material harm, an Al images causes SO much.

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 21/08/2026

here's a list of movies its seen or mentioned in (if only mentioned, its marked)

Iron Man (mentioned)
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Avengers
Iron Man 3
Thor: The Dark World (mentioned)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Avengers: Age of UItron
Captain America: Civil War
Doctor Strange
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Thor: Ragnarok
3lack Panther (mentioned
Avengers: Infinity War
Avengers: Endgame
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
The Marvels
Deadpool & Wolverine
Captain America: Brave New World (footage)

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 20/08/2026

he has so little self awareness that he actually said the same thing thinking it made the opposite point

professor-dave.bsky.social

Look, I have prostate cancer. It's Gleason 6, Stage 2a. It has different impacts, treatment, and requires different support to if it was Gleason 9, Stage 4. We differentiate. Its still crap having cancer, and needs help, but compared to that Gleason 9 patient, I am privileged, they need more.

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 16/08/2026

while it says abolish, the way it is worded, especially this part here, makes it seem like reform

Be it further resolved, that the DNC urges Democratic members of Congress to craft legislation abolishing ICE and enacting immigration reform that provides pathways to citizenship, protects workers, and ensures dignity for all impacted people; and

Be it further resolved, that the DNC urges Democratic members of Congress to pursue criminal accountability for any federal agent, attorney, or official who lied under oath, misrepresented evidence, or gave false testimony regarding DHS conduct, and to remove qualified immunity and other protections shielding DHS and ICE personnel and subcontractors have injured protesters or journalists, fired into moving vehicles, or caused deaths in custody, whether of detained individuals, U.S. citizens, or immigrants regardless of nationality or documentation status; and

Be it further resolved, that the DNC affirms that immigration detention is civil, not punitive, and that no person should be caged for a civil matter; and calls on Democratic members of Congress to condition all future DHS appropriations on the wind-down of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the immigration detention system, on full adherence to the Flores Settlement Agreement governing the treatment of minors, and on the following actions to uphold the civil liberties of all detained persons: the release of all people held in immigration detention except those with pending criminal charges or an unresolved criminal history requiring adjudication, (cont in next screenshot)

(cont. from last screenshot) whose cases shall be promptly referred to the criminal legal system and its due process protections, with any further detention determined by a criminal court and located in a criminal justice facility rather than civil immigration detention, the release of all people held in immigration detention so they may pursue their cases while free, without carve-out or conditioning on criminal history, which is properly the domain of the criminal legal system and its due process protections and not a justification for civil confinement; immediate federal inspection of all detention sites pending closure; the closure of facilities rather than the renewal of their contracts; the urgent resolution of all pending habeas petitions; an end to solitary confinement and forced labor; the termination of all contracts with private prison corporations and criminal liability for those companies and their executives for deaths in their facilities; a prohibition on the transfer of detention functions to state, local, or contracted actors as ICE is wound down; and the reopening and full staffing of the DHS civil rights and oversight offices, including the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, and the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, with authority to oversee the closure process; and

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 07/08/2026

i found the way he addressed this point to be particularly embarrassing

As for the "why don't you just make less! No one is making you do this!" I'm not sure that's how I work.
I've been feeling the pressure of "Oh, I have this little video idea, I need to get it out real fast so I can get to the more important stuff" and I create when I feel that pressure.

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 06/08/2026

its in the same post. it was a bit all over the place (highlights are my own)

screenshot from reddit post by hank green: ecogeek 4h • Edited
Hank - President of Space
Three things to start:
1. I'm mortified that I have let so many people down and I think I understand how that happened
2. I'm going to change things about how i make stuff.
3. Complexly's Al policy is public and well-considered and adhered to by the whole team, I think it's worth reading! (Complexly is the non-profit that makes Crash Course and SciShow and a bunch of other shows that I do not write for.)
The thing that everything we do is based on is that you know that what I'm saying are my thoughts coming from my brain in the way I decide. I have made that harder and I'm sorry. I have been relying too heavily on Al as a research aid. It can be very useful for this task, giving me access to a lot of papers I didn't know existed really fast, but I think that has been to the detriment of my work because it has not given me the freedom to find all of my own ways into and around a topic.
But, for clarity, the origin of claims in my videos are not "ChatGPT's said this." I have been using Al to locate papers and other resources for learning about topics. You are still getting my takes based on what I read, know, and learn.
I think what people have said in this thread about me diluting myself is spot on. Ultimately, what I am most scared of is ruining myself for people, but I have not been managing my impulses well. You need to know that my words are mine. I don't think that this hasn't been true, but I've been moving so fast that my own process isn't actually clear to me and I want to have it be a guarantee moving forward.

(highlighted by myself, not hank) What I can't guarantee, though, is that we will agree about this technology or what to do with it. I think that's good. We need a lot of kinds of folks critiquing this technology. (end highlight)
I'm not a pure Al-hater, which people in the Al industry know, so when I say that the way these models were trained deeply disturbs me, that lands differently.
When I say that I think that the speed at which these companies are trying to consolidate economic power should freak out everyone in the world, that's coming from someone who has "nuanced takes."
When I say I worry about the climate impacts of this rollout, that is not me saying, "I don't think this tech should ever exist" it's me saying, "for god's sake please don't make our biggest problem worse."
It is very likely that you (the reader) and I disagree on how or even whether Al should be used. I think it makes sense for that disagreement to exist. But I have also always believed that my audience is more likely to be right than I am. You know what this feels like in a way I can't. And I am so sorry for diluting myself in this way and harming the thing that we have all built together.
(highlighted by myself, not hank) As for the "why don't you just make less! No one is making you do this!" I'm not sure that's how I work.
I've been feeling the pressure of "Oh, I have this little video idea, I need to get it out real fast so I can get to the more important stuff" and I create when I feel that pressure. (end of highlight)
But making more things does not make me make better things. It does not make the big thing that we've been doing for 20 years better. I know that I can manage myself more effectively.

I want to make videos like the one I made yesterday on hankschannel where the writing was the whole thing and I felt it all the way down and have been so enriched by people's responses to it. And sure, I'm probably going to make dumb unscripted straight to camera thoughts videos sometimes. And then I'll play connections.
(highlighted by myself, not hank) But mostly I need to come to terms with the fact that the level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs... (end of highlight) with doing more and more and more and more...is not healthy for me or good for the world. It is careless, and has disconnected me from where people are on this.
I was talking about this with Katherine last night and she did not pull any punches. Frankly, neither did John. Neither of them think I've been being healthy. I need to readjust.
SO - what changes.
1. Expect less hankschannel. It may need to pause for a while.
It may be that Hankschannel comes back with writing and research support. It may be that it comes back with just way fewer videos. I am going to spend this time finishing a video I've been working on for ages that I think really really matters.
2. SMUSH and 4x3 are getting paused as well. If there are bugs, there are bugs. I have backlog of 4x3 boards right now and, frankly, writing them is usually a solace to me, but if we run out, I am not going to worry about that...so if it just reverts to a static board one day...that'll be that.
I do deeply want to support good store and complexly in whatever way I can, so there may be some stuff on that front. But the reliance on me has always been risky, so we need to build for that as well.
I'm very sorry for harming the thing this is all based on.

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 05/08/2026

absolutely - and installing crosspoint took no time at all

xteink x4 device on a desk. the background wallpaper is Snoopy sleeping atop his doghouse, and there is a wiimote strap attached to the side of the device

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 04/08/2026

YES before you put that i was thinking something like this

scene from episode 4: a new hope of star wars where luke is flying through the death star except instead of obi wan saying "use the force Luke" there is text at the bottom of "susie's idea" from deltarune

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 01/08/2026

ah no worries, they look like this! i think its shallow enough that its ok

orange cat eating out of a cyan puzzle feeder, like a plate with little maze walls so they dont eat too fast

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 31/07/2026

commitment is shown in actions and deeds, and AIUK has shown in their actions to not be committed to human rights for all, and especially not for trans women. they should do better

AlUK remains fully committed to defending the human rights, dignity, and equality of all marginalised groups, including women, girls, and members of the trans community.

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 29/07/2026

I see a lot of folks saying this is very very wrong, and that's because it is. however, i do wanna break it down slowly in case anyone thinks she has any semblance of a point 1/

Jessica Tarlov
@jessicatarlov.bsky.social

Your average Republican is pro-IVF, skeptical of six week heartbeat bills, against deporting productive, law-abiding immigrants, and for gay marriage.
July 28, 2026 at 8:15 PM

Even Trump isn't on the hardline side here.
He's praised the undocumented workers at his own hotels and says his friends in hospitality, restaurants, and farming call these people good.

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 28/07/2026

how dare you, i should critique this to set myself apart from OP

an edit of the Haus of Decline post this is quoting, with the only aspect changed being replacing both mentions of the sculpture with a "Mean ass reply to this post"

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 20/07/2026

the article makes it sound like there has been no batch that tested positive

The FDA on Saturday had said that a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms tested positive for the parasitic illness that has sickened thousands of people in the U.S.
A spokesperson for Taylor Fresh Foods told Reuters that the company was informed the
FDA made a mistake.
'To be clear, at this moment, FDA has not identified a single positive product test result for cyclospora",
, the company said.
Taylor Fresh Foods added that it had completed a voluntary recall of iceberg lettuce from central Mexico out of an abundance of caution based on the initial information given.
The FDA, in its latest update said it has
"notified Taylor Farms and continues working with the firm to ensure the product implicated in this outbreak has been removed from the market".
The company had earlier confirmed that the product was not part of its current recall, according to the FDA.

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 17/07/2026

heres a perfect example of what im talking about. i redacted the name of the second poster because theyre far from the only person making that joke, but making a pun off of baja blast gives reinforcement to the blame being put on taco bell, even if you include "maha"

Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social • 9h
Re: cyclospora, Taco Bell having ethics and going "you know what, it's always the fucking lettuce, why don't we just pull that until we know what's going on" resulting in all the outlets going "LETTUCE SOLD AT TACO BELL LINKED TO EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA" is a fantastic way to discourage ethics in future.

[redacted]
Someone called the cyclospora outbreak
МАНА Blast and I'm cackling like I'm 13 again.

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 09/07/2026

interesting that calling him a misogynist is apparently a slimy thing to do, now what type of person responds that way? trying to think of the word

Haere @haere.bsky.social • 15h

why are ppl so mad at you? it's bizarre

Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamm... • 15h

Misogyny, probably.

Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.so...

Incredibly slimy response. You made the choice to pretend to run for office. People are going to have criticisms.

Malhaku @khaki-bear.net

Someone who spent months carrying water for Platner calling anything slimy is rich.
July 9, 2026 at 11:14 AM

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