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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 04/10/2025

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 04/10/2025

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

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Andy Harris @k26dp.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I would like it to slow down until data centers don't create an energy crunch paid for by residential consumers, bleed entire communities dry of water resources, or contribute to global warming. There's no current ethical way to use AI even before answering questions on their actual usefulness.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

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M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

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Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Reminds me of when I was having so much trouble with my mic, I figure it was just me being incapable of learning/making it work & considered stopping making videos entirely Turns out the mic was broken & would never sound right. Poor tools do make it hard to make things even by the best artists

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My fiance played the clarinet when he was in school. When he was first learning to play, he rented an instrument from the school to learn on. He was the last chair clarinet, had been for years, because he could not make notes that required the register key. For years, they kept making him do embrature exercises and he started to get a few notes, with lots of effort. Eventually he had to get private lessons to stay in band.

Every time he tells me this story, his frustration by this point in the story, years later, is evident. He still sounds frustrated by it, despite all the time that passed. Teachers had been giving him crap for years because he hadn't been making much progress with the instrument.

When he got to the private instructor, she acknowledged his frustration, and asked him to try to play for her. He did, and she saw all he was doing. She then did something no one else had done before. She asked him to put his mouthpiece on a different clarinet and try to play the same notes. Like magic, it worked. She looked at the clarinet he had been using and found that the school's clarinet needed it's pads replaced.

He went from last chair to first chair nearly overnight, having been taught far more techniques than typically taught at that age just to overcome the broken instrument preventing him from making noise.

Sometimes you don't need to brute force a problem. Sometimes your clarinet is just broken.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases, even as three active TB cases were just reported in Maine. He’s also suppressing bird flu reports. Pandemics don’t start with viruses they start with secrecy. RFK Jr. must resign now!

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

If you're conversant in the lingua franca of the online right, you know the helicopter emojis the official White House account is using here are a reference to the Pinochet dictatorship's practice of flying people above the ocean and dropping them to disappear them. That's what they're threatening.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

if the Biden Irrelevancy had one clear lesson it's that you can't retake democracy from those who would destroy it and then spend years slow-rolling the arrests of those responsible while failing to explicitly change the rules to keep them from power

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/09/2025

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/08/2025

No, it's not only the US who will suffer from RFK Jr cancelling vaccine research. 1️⃣ You can't just instantly teleport research projects. Cancelling US projects slows global progress. 2️⃣ Preventing pandemics will always be a group project. The US is letting the team down & putting the world at risk.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/08/2025

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

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Richard Wild @richardwild.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

That's the tragic thing isn't it; if there is ever a Democratic administration again, they will piously govern strictly within the traditional limits, do nothing to prevent future governments going rogue, and then the next Republican administration will do it all over again.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper

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Annie💙&Joe💛 @annieandjoe.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

True! 😺😸😹

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This is just so much more stupid than the last time. Note, the last time was very stupid.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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M.R. James’ The Mattzotint 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It is 1991. I am living through a Gulf War against Iraq that US leaders promise will bring lasting peace to the region. It is 2003. I am living through a Gulf War against Iraq that US leaders promise will bring lasting peace to the region. It is 2025. I am living through a Gulf War against Iraq th

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 22/06/2025

Homer and Bart Simpson from the "worst day so far" meme

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/06/2025

the political lesson everyone should take from Iraq is that you will regret being in favor of this sooner or later and the earlier you were against it the better off you’ll be ignore the media frenzy and stake your position now, it’s the right thing to do and it’s the ambitious thing to do too

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

So Miller attacked LA because Musk stole his wife and Trump is bombing Iran because no one came to his birthday party. Men are too emotional to lead.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

NEW: Data shows that as of June 15, fully 30% of all people arrested by ICE and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD. 11,763 people in detention as of last Sunday had no criminal record and were arrested inside the country by ICE -- an increase of 4,000 people in two weeks!

Chart showing "Percent of People In ICE Detention With No Criminal Record, among those arrested by ICE inside the country and sent to detention"

The chart goes back to May 2019. From May 2019 through spring 2020, when COVID hits, the percentage hovers between 9% and 11%. It then drops to around 5% during COVID, which continues to be the broad baseline throughout most of Biden's term, occasionally jumping higher for a few weeks/months, but often returning to the 5-6% baseline. Then after Trump is elected, it jumps straight to 18% for a month, and rises to 23% as of June 1, then to 30% as of June 15.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

is it banana tell me it's banana

recipe of the day: one-ingredient banana ice cream by the new york times

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Sascha_Vykos2 @saschavykos.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I can never decide if it's better to keep the dumb evil guy in case there's a smarter evil guy who will just be worse.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/06/2025

Everything you can do to slow down ICE's ethnic cleansing pogrom will save lives. If you make it so it takes 12 goons to do a 6-goon job, you're saving lives. Every minute they spend in location 1 is a minute they can't spend in location 2. Every squad they deploy to your city saves another city.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

War is bad.

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Melissa Lee ☮️⚛️ @sweetlyvoiced.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This is how I get through the next week.

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Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Washington just took the reasonable step of not allowing the National Guard of other states to operate here without our agreement. It’s not the Guard personnel we are concerned about, it’s other governors in the Trump cult. katu.com/news/local/g...

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Gov. Ferguson signs bill restricting out-of-state military forces in Washington

Gov. Bob Ferguson has signed a new law that restricts out-of-state military forces from entering Washington without explicit permission.

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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The ritual worked

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 06/06/2025

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

These people are just wrong about literally everything.

Fox News' Arroyo: Nobody wants to hear that. Mr. Rogers didn't lecture kids and Russia or Iran or the nuclear threat. It's not your job. Miss Rachel, you don't know anything about the Middle East.. shhh

When Mr. Rogers Taught Kids About Mutually Assured Nuclear Destruction

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/05/2025

As the parent of a type-I diabetic, I would like to invite the ignorant piece of shit currently directing the FDA to kiss my ass.

“Maybe we need to treat more diabetes with cooking classes, not just throwing insulin at people,” FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said on Fox News’ Sunday Futures. “You know, scientists have been waving the flag for years, saying you’ve got to look at this body of scientific data, and the modern medical establishment really has been disconnected.”

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/05/2025

friends, we're gonna lose a lot. but if we keep fighting, eventually we'll win some. and then we'll lose some more. and then we'll win some more. take care of yourselves and keep fighting. long haul. but we can do this.

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Brooklyn American @brooklynamerican.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

When the head of HHS says, 'You shouldn't ask me for medical advice' and the head of Homeland doesn't know what habeas corpus is and the head of the IRS doesn't know the most trivial tax law and the Sec State claims a gay hairdresser is a gang member we know we're on our own

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laurel, a 12’ skeleton @l4ur3l.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Sometimes I close my laptop and pick up my phone to see what the little internet is up to, presumably.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The thing about cancer is, Trump is making it easy for polluters to dump cancer-causing chemicals into our air and water, while defunding and firing people who work on cancer cures, while also ending millions of people’s ability to afford cancer treatment.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

they’re ALL too old but they will flat out wreck you for trying to do anything about it so they only want us talking about the one Too Old Guy who can’t possibly affect anything anymore instead of all the Too Old Guys napping through the fascist coup they’re too lazy to stop in the Senate

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El Phantasmo @beauxjangles.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Me 5th..

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

School choice is a scam to funnel taxpayer money to private and religious schools…

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Horsford: They are cutting healthcare for 13.7 million Americans. The largest cut to healthcare in U.S. history to give tax cuts to billionaires and to big corporations. This is your priority.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Justice Allison Riggs sworn in following a six month election battle against her GOP opponent

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