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Tristan Olson

@tristanolson.bsky.social
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Author and occasional poster of funny things. www.tristanolsonbooks.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 9h
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 11h
An iPlayer glitch watching an old episode of Dr Who gave me this oddly encouraging message:
An entirely black frame with the words "Things must stabilise soon" in small white letters.
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Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 20h
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
she had to hide and be stealth, it’s never mentioned the character is trans but there’s something truly magic in knowing that the next time i rewatch TNG, i will see her there and i will know that someone like me helped make the show that ignited my lifelong love of Star Trek 😭
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
that Democrat, Amish Shah, was previously Jay Feely's team doctor btw
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Tristan Olson @tristanolson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Watching an old episode of Death In Paradise and holy crap it's John Ross Bowie! Not a lot of Americans make it into that show. Good for him scoring the part and free trip to the Caribbean.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They deserve every miserable humiliating L they take
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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i dislike the whole project but his paintings have always overwhelmingly struck me as NAIVE in a way that he doesnt seem to intend-- he's treating the illo as lowbrow and authorless and making a joke of putting it into Fine Art, but all i can see is man this fucker had no grasp of drawing at all lol
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
If the whites were to get rid of the rest of us it would be nothing but peace, quiet, and harmony until 45 minutes later when they start the hair color killings
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...
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Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?
California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the specter of the "SJW" haunts the reactionary mind, a monstered hate fetish resembling the "Red Woman" of the freikorps imagination as well as the grotesque caricatures of the "Jew" from nazi agitprop like serial killers obsessively fantasizing about murdering their abusive or overattached mother
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Tristan Olson @tristanolson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every once in a while I remember those shirtless before and after photos Alex Jones did when he was pushing some diet or muscle building pills and he looked exactly the same in both but redder in one and I laugh.
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Tristan Olson @tristanolson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've started hearing ads in podcasts for the "Bruise Cruise" which is advertised as a cruise with bare knuckle matches on deck, cigars, etc and good God that sounds like the worst, bleakest cruise I've ever heard of.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Jeremy Kun @jeremykun.com · 29/09/2026
3rd circuit rules AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use. Wow! chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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BREAKING News: Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence in AI training
Opinion under seal for now.
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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.
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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have friends younger than 38 who look like this and they're wonderful people, and some of the worst people I know are conventionally attractive. Being hateful and misogynistic or kind and compassionate is who you are inside, not what you look like.
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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you're trying to "solve art" you're either incredibly stupid or incredibly evil. Art isn't a problem, it's a solution
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
what the Trump kids are doing is like 1000x worse than anything Hunter was alleged to have done. But there was a "BIDEN SCANDAL" shaped hole in the news and Hunter filled it and there's no such hole available for Trump that's not already being filled by 15 other things bsky.app/profile/dani...
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hello mr president this is your medical and political advisor speaking. i am advising you, an increasingly feeble old man who everyone hates, to please keep doing this shit
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The current huge story about the gang rape at Cornell University, a crime originally brushed off and covered up by the administration, is SOLELY the product of the student paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, which doggedly pursued the story. Not the NYT or CNN. An independent student paper. #Cornell
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Cornell Won’t Listen, We Will
The Sun's Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser '28 calls on the Cornell community to share its reactions to the Chi Phi lawsuit and the University's response, on the record, for a permanent public archive.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Neato Tito @neatotito.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Illustration of a man firing a rifle at two bears attacking him

Man - Me
Further away bear - self doubt
Closer bear- This one is just a real bear
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.
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KPM @kpmcgrath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every mayor in America should be asked what they are going to do to ensure civilian control of our police forces, and what they will do to officers or departments that break the law.
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Still revisit this devastatingly accurate read of Elon from time to time and remember how it sent him in a two day spiral
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes"
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons
Pumpkin hoop
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
when you're not beating the "we want to look at your genitals before you come into this bathroom" allegations
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One hundred percent. Rats from a sinking ship. They see the pendulum swinging back and want to make sure they're not in the flight path. No mercy.
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 28/09/2026
came across this classic ASW and i gotta say: STILL GREAT www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id...
I figured out how to be happy / but I can't tell you. / You not knowing is a big part of it.
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
seed oil-free fries are the perfect MAHA food. take something that is extremely unhealthy and claim you've made it healthy by changing something that has zero effect on its healthiness.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Muse: oh wow it looks like you got shot and robbed. here’s what happened: after giving up your home address i told that dude “what are you gonna do, shoot me?” and that’s on me
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 27/09/2026
bugs bunny in a tux

I wish all tech pervs a very burned head
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely. Purely homosocial. And this is one of the core tenants of fascism. 
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