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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 22h

Interesting coincidence that Disney just hired the first CTO in its history, who was most recently CEO of Character.AI www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/d... Disney could have doubled down on original human creativity and their reputation for kid safety, but instead they are going to become a slop factory

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I haven’t had parents for some time, but I do wonder how they as lifelong midwesterner boomers would have reacted to my housing costs in major west coast metros. I’m not sure they ever experienced rent or mortgage payments above 3 figures

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’ve finished eating the cake I stole, therefore no crime has occurred and there’s nothing to discuss

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I had an air traffic controller phase, but unfortunately for that job you have to be physically perfect on a level I’ve never been near in my life

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They say this stuff but never explain specifically how that would happen. Bezos is one of the richest people in the world in part because he fought labor unions tooth and nail, oversaw countless abusive labor practices, engaged in price fixing, etc etc. He doesn’t give a shit about regular people

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My boss will ask me for bullet points, which she feeds into an AI to turn into a slide. Every slide looks the same, because there’s no concept of using the layout/design to make the messaging more effective. It also dilutes the key info with business speak BS, so in the end the slide says nothing 🤷🏻‍♀️

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He doesn't seem to worry much about the humans who burn to death trapped in his cars

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No problem, housing and jobs are so plentiful, surely this will not cause or worsen any problems

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In a year or two I look forward to reading how this delivered three new emergency shelter beds for $5 million each, and they need to raise the tax to fund three more

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I sat through nine hours of workshops today and this thread has healed me thank you

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Enjoying my imagination’s leap to an Earth overrun by super powered babies causing earthquakes when they have a tantrum and whatnot

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Entering into a marriage contract: reliance Belief you are entitled to miscarriage care and won’t be left to bleed out in a parking lot: abstract

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

An idea so abstract that I had myself surgically sterilized immediately after the Dobbs decision leaked

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice

Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Under Roe women could generally rely on timely and appropriate care for miscarriages and pregnancy complications. Now states with abortion bans have escalating maternal mortality, because providers are so afraid of being prosecuted that they won’t provide care and let women suffer and die instead.

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Being able to rely on timely and necessary medical care including abortion instead of dying, losing reproductive capability, or other serious and lasting health impacts related to pregnancy isn’t a reliance interest? You think death is nothing compared to paperwork?

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every time I see a woman driving a Tesla, I want to ask if she knows that the person she financially supported by buying that car thinks she’s subhuman and shouldn’t have any rights

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fentanyl has been used at least once in an execution as the painkiller within a multi drug protocol. As an opioid, factors like weight and preexisting opioid tolerance make its effects highly variable. If used alone it likely would take far longer to kill the prisoner than desired, if at all.

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Probably the judge would not put 80 year old mom in law in jail, it would have been fines, but like WTF was the plan there? She’d also been ignoring desperate messages from the estate lawyer for many months. Just incredible stuff.

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A less good version of this is when the relatives in charge of late grandparents estate ignore it for years, but the will says house must be sold, probate judge gets so mad he threatens the relatives with contempt so you have to fly there to deal with grandparents house so mom doesn’t go to jail

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When you absolutely, positively need to show your pores who’s in charge, there’s nothing else for it but St Ives I use retinol every day and my skin loves it, but it doesn’t deliver that freshly sandblasted feeling from my youth

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This shouldn’t be sustainable, but big tech keeps raking in money by exploiting and manipulating its users. Between buying political power and regulatory capture, nothing meaningful can happen to them. I’m tired

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tech became aggressively stupid, to predatory, to the CEOs are straight up criminals and that’s just how it is now. Nothing is fun, inspirational, or makes me want to learn something new. Everything evolves to be worse, more annoying, more frustrating than it was.

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Been in tech a long time, seen a lot of hype cycles. For the more ridiculous ones (like blockchain) I could just roll my eyes and wait for the executives to tire themselves out. Maybe I’m just old, but the last few years I’m so tired, and tired of it.

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Curious how much of your traffic is coming from there these days. Trying to make people pay to create free content for you isn’t something I would be willing to support, personally

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We would all be happier with ourselves if we stopped focusing on skills/talents we lack, and focused instead on embracing our innate strengths Small Superman should write self help posts is what I’m saying

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I hope this clarifies that Sayles is not the pick for permanent SPD chief. This is disqualifying on multiple levels Great job Erica

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

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SPOOKY SEASON SPOOKY SEASON SPOOKY SEASON

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A W is two Vs, he’s simply multiplying the victory

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I personally don’t travel without full supplies to sustain my upkeep for the duration because you never know when your flight will be canceled requiring you to stay an unexpected night in a fleabag airport hotel or some other horrible mishap where they definitely do not provide good conditioner

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Of course, the new “LOOK! STEAL THIS VALUABLE IDENTITY DOCUMENT!” packaging average citizens have been demanding as their top priority for the federal government

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

OpenAI just put out cartoon characters trying to sell people on AI agents, why not Super Intelligence Man or some such next

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not sure this was any sort of mistake, true or not they engineered a sound bite for the Xitter crowd. No one in that audience cares about facts.

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So it will kill us all, but in a cute way

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Absolutely, they are begging for regulatory constraints to create an excuse why they can't IPO, and Trump just says nah 😂

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Put the home button back on iOS you coward

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A list of examples of Trump using the presidency as a pay to play operation

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My personal theory is that some people feel such entitlement to a completely personalized/optimized life experience that they are now unwilling to leave home without it. The concept of respecting shared public spaces - or sharing at all really - doesn’t exist to them 🫠

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wasn’t born yet but my parents bought the house I grew up in around then, I assume the rate was similar, I do know it cost $27k 🫠

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And wars, definitely do some more wars, very popular and good for the economy

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EPIC @epic.org · 28/09/2026

EPIC and consumer groups are urging the FTC to crack down on surveillance pricing, a practice in which companies charge different people different prices based on their personal data. Telling consumers it's happening isn't enough. The practice should be prohibited. epic.org/epic-and-con...

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EPIC and Consumer Groups Urge FTC to Treat Surveillance Pricing as an Unfair Practice

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General Disarray @qotm31.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t understand the fixation on Carrie. There’s plenty of other Stephen King, and infinite other horror/supernatural writing out there

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