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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 15h
Wow I wonder what that would look like.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 17h
I…got nothing. Feeling just wave after wave of absolute revulsion and white hot rage at the violence that poisons every centimeter of this cursed country
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h
yes a key difference between the maga cult and the centrist cult is that the maga cult alternate reality exists in order to let them do heinous things and the centrist cult exists in order to let them not do anything bsky.app/profile/offt...
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 17h
Ok I'll bite, why does Portland need an NBA team and how is it somehow my problem?
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh but then there would be no Bulwark
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So many tech execs are either solipsistic tweakers or skinsuit guys, it was almost nice hearing such a genuine, old-fashioned dirtbag work his craft. He is so gifted at cynical virtuelessness it could be art if he wasn't so openly contemptuous of that too.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026
This is a good person, totally decent. Just also totally unaware that their media diet (and thus their brain) has been completely cooked to where they're amplifying media by fucking Nazis and passing it along as if that's normal. Sometimes I despair about how we return from this.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If this is you, how? I cannot go 6 hours without Getting Info About AI.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dennis miller on what looks like weekend update
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The funniest thing is that it's kind of clumsily woke in some ways (eg harry has a double-hyphenated last name) that were not at the time but now look ironic
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
remarkable thing to admit
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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
VOTE NO on Pro 75 (the 'TAX DRACULA' bill.) If we try to tax Dracula, he will simply move away to Texas.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For example, the I Like Ike song was written by Irving Berlin. The guys who wrote High Hopes had won oscars and it was sung by Frank Sinatra!
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ok but like... better ones maybe
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/09/2026
Chicagoland friends, I have a favor to ask. I have a pro bono client, a Black woman, who is currently facing charges for allegedly pointing a gun at her abusive ex - who admitted to raping her. I would love if there could be a show of support for her at her next few court dates.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This must go so hard if you stopped learning about the world in 1993
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Brad the Inhaler 🌳 @erectilefunction0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I deleted a post in which I said Michael Tracey should kill himself. That was a mistake, I’m sorry. I should not have deleted the post, I will be better next time.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
if democrats retake congress they must restart the investigation into where mommy goes when i can't see her
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i'm john dsa and as ceo of dsa i hereby declare that that guy what did the antisemitism is hereby kicked out of our group that he was never a member of
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nice handsome boy @edward86.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when i was a freshman in college one of the frats tried to sell me on their frat by saying that they were the only non-rapist frat. which, good for them i suppose if true, but i had only heard of their frat before because they were on the news for killing a guy
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great now I need to share this in the discord so people know why my screen name is Abu Bobbarkr
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Econ guys always refuse to believe anyone but them is capable or allowed to project into the future for their assessments
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Alex Rikleen formerly for Senate @rikleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This clip from Katie Nolan on @pablo.show captures the vibe perfectly. It's been decades of stories where the villains and bad faith are obvious, but no one ever faces consequences.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The courts? Why for that you would need some sort of lawyer.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I dunno, if you meet someone who calls himself an Archduke I think you're pretty much always morally right to shoot that guy.
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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Epstein files makes this ABUNDANTLY clear btw. He's straight up whining post conviction about how "unfair" his treatment was and every single department head at elite colleges is like "tell me about it, I can't even fuck alcoholic teenagers anymore without having to worry."
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 28/09/2026
this is a zen koan
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a bat hangs upside-down from a telephone line at sunset. The bat is in front of a billboard advertising the Florida Mega Jackpot, which is valued at $5,318,008 - represented with a digital ticker. Panel 2: the POV flips to the bat’s upside-down perspective, which makes the digital numbers look like they spell “BOOBIES”. The bat appears delighted.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They're the institutions with the music and drip to compete with churches
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A sentence like this appears in every one of these articles: "Sure I object to everything Trump has ever done, but on the other hand I also disagree with some things about Democrats I made up."
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Two of the committee’s current members — Lily Ho and Trevor Chandler — work for Flock.... Neither Ho nor Chandler offered to abstain from voting on Wednesday." You read that right. No better than the US Supreme Court in terms of members casting votes despite blatant conflicts of interest.
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S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in sweeping vote
Two Democratic committee members work for Flock, but were allowed to vote regardless
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now that's what I call Voodoo Economics
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Was it an abnormally tall guy show? When I saw them it was like wall to wall tall guys
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Blues Brothers was a documentary
Opb headline "more than 40 units respond to shooting in southeast Portland"
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026
impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dude looks like a burnt match
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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It helps to understand America as a casino you’re trapped in: no windows to another future, no concept of time apart from the casino itself, designed to wear you down. Neon lights and beeps and boops, every machine dressed up as some familiar IP, all doing the same thing: slowly bleeding you dry.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
quite likely the only president in US history capable of soothing a crying baby.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
9/ That cafe meeting, Kao asserted, was just one episode in a sprawling pay-to-play operation in Congress. He and his close associates donated nearly $900K to dozens of politicians, allowing Navatek to establish operations in half a dozen states with $40M+ a year in government funds.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Man With Two Brains Too
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh. Well I'm sure the model can accurately predict the heat generated by the model predicting how much heat it will generate.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
also who's putting an IR camera on an air-gapped machine?
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'll believe they've "lost control of their own systems" when it creates a substantial cost to the owners of those systems. These people want to cause harm, so until and unless it happens to them, there's no misalignment, no mystery - it's doing exactly (if not precisely) what it's meant to.
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I said he looks like a model! Not my fault he chooses to wear the backdrop from a mall portrait kiosk as a tie
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alex @sweatpants.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, as you can see in exhibit A this gun is powered by AI. So lock up the gun if you must, but I suggest this is simply a case of misalignment and the 14 health insurance executives were, tragically, victims of progress.
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