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The Onion @theonion.com · 8h

Smiling, Unblinking Tom Cruise Just Wants To Know Why Nation Didn’t See ‘Digger’ theonion.com/smiling-unblinking-tom…

Smiling, Unblinking Tom Cruise Just Wants To Know Why Nation Didn’t See ‘Digger’
‘I’m Really Not Angry At All,’ Says Actor

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 9h

also!!! literacy (and I’m using that word broadly) means understanding that a protagonist is not “a person in a work making a moral argument” in fact if a moral argument even exists, it emerges from a work as a whole; relating to a character is often a distraction from that end

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shrapnel @shrapnel91.bsky.social · 16h

I dunno if it's just me, but it looks like she's smiling a little in the last panel, so it's nice that she's having fun just playing and not getting hung up on winning or losing We should all be so enlightened

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Rie Sonomura, NeoY2K Hacker Vtuber @riesonomura.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

same with the AI flag in the video itself, ESPECIALLY for music

I wish all AI generated thumbnails a very "Don't recommend channel"

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22h

I don't exist to soothe the kind of sad little bitch who sobs "We used to BE somebody!" into the evening news microphone when a Black man is elected US President, and then proceeds to vote the entire country into Hell out of spite.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22h

Can't say it enough: it's NOT MY JOB to prove to bigots I don't deserve their bigotry. Fuck those guys. Fuck those impotent idiots and their desperate, babybrain need to feel superior. They're fools and weaklings, and idiot tools for the worst people on Earth, PERPETUALLY. Fuck 'em.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22h

To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22h

A person who believes Black/brown/queer/female/etc. ppl are inescapably inferior believes that cuz they NEED to. Not cuz it was the most rational conclusion give the observable data. Can that change? Sure. But it's not gonna be me personally indulging their bullshit over din-din that's gonna do it.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22h

Fixing entrenched bigotry requires an INTERNAL locus of change. The psychological equivalent of ripping a house down to the bare studs, DIY. They have to do it themselves. Not only will it not work if you appoint me head of the reno, but it's not my responsibility to begin with.

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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 03/10/2026

OH WAIT. what he’s saying is that comms doesn’t want him to say the shit he says at all and he says it the fuck anyway. lol. lmao.

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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 03/10/2026

oh since a BUNCH of you are blocked. this is the “conversation” i don’t understand how running it past a comms team results in not posting???? fucking hello!???

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If your direct response to our enforcing on our community guidelines to make the folks on here safer is to lash out and say that moderators should be sent to concentration camps - maybe you need to reassess your priors but you aren't making this place safer with that attitude.
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i am again going to politely entreat on you to stop posting about any policy anything without running it past your comms team.
as politely as possible, you are not actually capable of being appropriately objective, which you *should* be when talking about policy
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Yes I've tried that and we then don't post anything. See nearly any post from the safety account as an example.
Users keep demanding policy explanations daily and then make up their own random stories when there's usually an objective and repeatable process on our end (since we train mods).
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this is why, again, i do not think this information should be coming from your personal account and should be going through moderation@ with PR and comms approval. i get that you want to treat this as a small/bespoke platform but it does not function for this
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 04/10/2026

shit like this is why I’m not a free speech absolutist. people like this, antivaxxers, etc should absolutely not be allowed to have platforms and when they post things like this, social media cos should be legally required to take it down

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Generations are useful as reference points, and there are of course many cultural differences between older and younger people, but I got fucking sick of “Millennials ruin everything” in the 2010s and I refuse to help pass that propaganda along to Gen Z.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was born in 1984, my frames of reference are different to *most* Millenials since I’m an early printing. There’s no real line between generations, it’s just one long linear track and it’s so much more diverse than a series of monoliths. But that fact makes it harder to divide and conquer.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

While Millennials and Gen Z blame each other for ruining society, the same monsters that have been ruining society since before we were all born are laughing their asses off. Generational divides are made up, and that’s fine until they’re weaponized to keep us fighting over complete bullshit.

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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 04/10/2026

We like bees! 🐝

Photo of a sign, which reads:

PREVENT THEFT

LOCK YOUR CAR

TAKE YOUR KEYS

HIDE YOUR BELONGINGS

FILL A DECOY PURSE WITH THOUSANDS OF ANGRY, POISONOUS BEES

It takes <30 seconds for thieves to rob your car

San Francisco Police Department

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Jet - Local Delinquent Dragon @jetthedrake.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Look guys I know you got rid of all the gross nasty art that you didnt like But your character is just a bit to over weight for our standards so were going to have to cut all your funding now

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Jet - Local Delinquent Dragon @jetthedrake.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

FA being told by advertisers that the most mundane of art is just too risqué to work with should be a good indicator why trying making your fandom squeaky clean to appease people, who will never be happy, is a shitty idea

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

Anyway, it's 2026 and there are people, in public, saying with their full chest that we shouldn't have fought Hitler and I don't know what you do about that without a set of politicians made of something a bit firmer than slime.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

Setting aside that these are both odious humans, it's a good example of how the right just talk over the top of people who are proving them wrong, even when it's someone else from the right. They lie and then they shout so noone can hear them being corrected.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

asking the pope "how many local models do you run" and still thinking i'm going to see the pearly gates

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Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand?
You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?

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Perennial Astronaut @mkdouma6.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you feel like you need to post something that empathizes with Jacob Gellar, I get it, but close the app and instead practice empathizing with the victim. I do not say this glibly. Just do it and sit with that discomfort.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this sucks. you want "restorative justice" as opposed to punishment, but what has he restored? what has he done? what does a youtuber losing his career for admitting to be a rapist have to do with carceral abolition when he has never and will never see prison time, or even actual consequences?

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And stop trying to halt or discredit critics by conflating evil AI (gen AI, conversational AI, AI-powered surveillance systems, etc.) with other helpful or innocuous forms of AI. You know perfectly fucking well what we're talking about.

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Áine ☽𖤐☾ @whoa-magic.lol · 02/10/2026

ICE doesn't have to exist. The End.

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reminder to any lefties out there tempted to hand it to tuck tuck - this guy is not our ally

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it's a glorified chatbot with a predictive text feature that wreaks havoc on the environment and has cluttered the internet beyond repair, will

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Staying informed is one of the most important things you can do.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ultimately, this is a problem that llm guys created for themselves and are trying to make it our problem, imperiling foundational pillars of our society in service of "at least a couple of us need to be trillionaires" -- the "china" national security fig leaf is risible nonsense no one cares about

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

and lastly, and here's the rub, eventually everything comes into conflict with (b) above because there's perfectly functional free versions that are almost as good as anything the putative trillionaires are selling you

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the fact that there's niche demand (most of your volunteer evangelists point to such cases) -- it makes your solo enterprise side hustle easier, code websites or make passable good enough art without talent -- is all well and good except per (b) above this has to make some guys trillionaires

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the problem is there is no mass demand for this. you didn't have to sell email. the sole demand is by loathed corporations who are either: (a) trying to fire you; or (b) trying to make a trillion dollars getting you fired. and for (a) they are having a hard time doing it still

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/10/2026

People need to understand the people leading the AI industry, transhumanist/longtermist/EA movements, and tech broadly, as died-in-the-wool pseudoscientists, denialists (climate change, the holocaust), and crank purveyors of conspiritualist woo of the highest order. The height of Rationalism.

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wow, its so professional that the head of trust and safety is running away from the people trying to tell you they dont trust this site because it isnt safe. Youre a joke. Go get a different job so someone can actually do yours. I can get you in at a housekeeping job. Might be more your style

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brie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh, so trans women were right about him? so we were right? trans women were right about gavin newsom? trans women were correct? trans women fucking told you so?

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it's probably fine that one of the leads of safety on this site *checks notes* has blocked basically every trans woman on here because he doesn't like us. surely there isn't anything bad that could come from this

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Christians would rather fuck a couch than go to therapy

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Finn Capashen, Weatherlight Alterist @finncapashen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just really felt like an appropriate time for this

Snuff Out proxy in a lo-fi collage style featuring the painting "Judith Beheading Holofernes" by Artemisia Gentileschi. A beautiful, inspirational scene of direct community action.

#mtg #magicthegathering #mtgalters

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