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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Aspirin, tylenol, and lithium are all pharmaceuticals that have been in circulation for so long that they were essentially grandfathered in to modern medicine. They existed prior to the mechanisms of responsible understanding and administration that we endeavour to employ in all other areas.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Cannot overstate how much of a sure thing the last federal election was going to be for the conservative party until Trump slapped us with tariffs and started talking about annexation. Overnight 180 in polling.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ossoff, saying the sane things out loud. Love to see it.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Autocorrectn't
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Por que ne los dos
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It is the book equivalent of fast food for people who like rpgs. Extremely consumable.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Been reading you since Lovelyss. Honestly? Some of the best drawn, best written work in the entirety of comics. Believable dialogue. Actual character development. Enticing stories. And horny, oh my god, horny, yes; but effectively, invitingly horny. You're your own genre.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The primary non-experience based driver of empathy is the ability to expand your perceived kin-group
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
What the actual
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
When everything is a scandal, nothing is.
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Signal @signal.org · 11/05/2026
To help protect Signal users from phishing and social engineering attacks, we’ve introduced additional confirmations and educational messaging in the app to help people better detect fraudulent profiles, especially message requests from scammers posing as Signal. More changes are on the way.
New changes to help you stay safe in Signal. Look out for the name not verified notice. Signal can't verify profile names.Screenshot showing an additional confirmation step for accepting message requests.A screenshot showing more detailed safety tips.A screenshot showing a reminder to never respond to a chat pretending to be Signal.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Aesthetic over realism every time.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
just wanted to fanboy over the colosseum
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I could go for less crafting.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Your way of doing things is vastly preferable to yell-posting.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/04/2026
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It is!
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Some folks think that for rights to be valuable, they have to be exclusive, but what makes rights valuable is that they are *defended.* And the kind of country you can be most sure will defend your rights is the country which would defend anyone's rights.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Full send on this. The huge spreads need to huge spread. Make the omnibus into an actual coffee table, idgaf, sold.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Ransel invites Gretel
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
From Trump's perspective: She made him look bad so he fired her. It's his way.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
He is saying that ethics aren't the stumbling block. Bondi looked ridiculous in her testimony, hasn't been able to squelch interest in the epstein files, and 'accidentally' released some documents last week related to the classified files 47 took to mar-a-lago the last go round.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I put a ton of time into Destiny 2 and the way they handled that property is what makes me hesitant to buy another Bungie live service title.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
1) it's a PvPvE extraction shooter launched late into an already saturated market 2) bungie burned a lot of goodwill over the past 5 years
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Canon for a setting that doesn't require any.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 23/03/2026
Recently, Grammarly shipped a feature called Expert Review, which allowed you to get writing suggestions from AI-cloned “experts,” and reporters at The Verge and other outlets discovered that those experts included us. So today on Decoder, @reckless.bsky.social is talking with CEO Shishir Mehrotra.
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Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me
Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra responds to the Grammarly “expert review” controversy, and whether AI is extracting more value than it creates.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Grade 6, The Arizona Kid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ari...
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The Arizona Kid (novel) - Wikipedia
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 02/03/2026
OpenAI’s ‘Red Lines’ Are Written In The NSA’s Dictionary—Where Words Mean What The NSA Wants Them To Mean Within hours on Friday, the Pentagon blacklisted one AI company for refusing to drop its safety commitments on surveillance and autonomous weapons, then turned around and praised a competitor…
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OpenAI’s ‘Red Lines’ Are Written In The NSA’s Dictionary—Where Words Mean What The NSA Wants Them To Mean
Within hours on Friday, the Pentagon blacklisted one AI company for refusing to drop its safety commitments on surveillance and autonomous weapons, then turned around and praised a competitor for signing a deal that supposedly preserved those exact same commitments. This confused some people. Why would the Pentagon seek to destroy one company over the same terms it agreed to with its largest competitor just hours later?
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"I'd argue horses became a lot more free." I suppose we should thank him for so handily and thoroughly disqualifying his own credibility.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
First one elevates a concept and sets up a cool, mysterious world that you shouldn't think too hard about. It's fun, though I would argue that it didn't know when to end. The sequels force you to think too hard about the cool, mysterious world. And serve only to deliver more gunplay.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Bud, i got to the dronedeer and snorted fluids from one cavity into another. A+ excellent bullshit
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Subscribed!
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
media.tenor.com
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ALT: a sign that says gabbo in black letters
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Elder millennials like me overlap with Reagan in the sense that we were alive while he was president, but we were too young to be aware of the ramifications.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
They've already gutted their politics department
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
It looks like white-screening on game launch is a known issue for surface pro 3s. Try clearing the hardware cache? Hold your power button for ~20s. (Computer will shut down)
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Can of pc duster (compressed air) and a guide for that make/model. Make sure to keep the can level, as tilting it while spraying can push moisture into the pc.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Probably seems trivial, but if a driver update didn't fix it then your next best bet is overheating. The gpu itself could be damaged/failed due to previous overheating and/or age and travel damage.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
When was the last time you cleaned the fans? Alternatively, are you sure the fans are running?
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Am I wrong, or is this easily summarized as "spend faster, think less"?
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Fine bit of turtling
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I guess what I mean is that the preemptive action aspect, to me, seems like a harnessable emergent property at this point in time. It took build up.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
That's part of it, sure. Fear is a really effective tool for keeping people ideologically siloed. Useful for shaping voting patterns, obviously, but also purchasing trends. It's easier to hold if there are in-group consequences to even being seen trying to understand the other side.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
There are earlier eras, and there's all this residual backlash against 60s counter culture. The later eras are even weirder because so much of it was naked grifting that got out of hand.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Idk maybe you know all of this stuff. I'm old, it's been weird watching it happen.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Point being that fear of crazy, demonic, depraved, violent, communist leftists has been cultivated for decades, mostly because it attracted eyes and ears for advertisers until it stopped being schtick and manifested.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
We had Rush Limbaugh declared the voice of conservatism by the second bush administration. That voice did nothing but conjure fear and invent grievance, amplifying them until the concepts achieved a sort of tacit permanence. It wasn't just him, of course, and this is a broad generalization.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
To your point: there's been a fairly aggressive rhetorical escalation on the right that has fabricated the idea that the left is coming for them starting all the way back in the late 70s. In the 90s it sort of birthed itself into more than just salacious radio content and turned into a movement.
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Taco Beam @taco-beam.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Buffalo Party renamed themselves, I think? Happened at about the same time as Trump spouting off about annexation.
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