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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 12h

It's got to be this from Jackie Chan's First Strike, in which Jackie Chan plays a James Bond named Jackie Chan. youtu.be/6ORYWlZxdEA?...

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First Strike | Self Defense With A Ladder | ClipZone: High Octane Hits

YouTube video by ClipZone: High Octane Hits

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17h

We have been saved by cooler heads from all the many dangers that attend “going too far” when it comes to honesty about and consequence for abusers in a society that encourages and celebrates abuse and rewards and protects abusers. Whew! Close one. Good catch, cooler heads.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17h

For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 23h

The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 23h

I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.

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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 16h

Why do Americans abbreviate Homecoming to HoCo and not the obviously superior HomCom?

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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 18h

I got flu and Covid shots yesterday, and the tech said they also recommended RSV and TDaP at my age, so I said yeah sure why not. And then I got three injections, and it felt weird to ask which one they missed so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 19h

Watching a British sitcom from 1981, and coq-au-van and scampi in a basket are used as a punchline for a pub being *terribly* posh. A decade later, and they'd be very down-market.

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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 21h

I absolutely think AI companies should be regulated, but those regulations should come in the form of protecting regular people, privacy, civil rights, and the environment, not ensuring a permanent monopoly for OpenAI and Anthropic out of utterly made up panic over a Battlestar Galactica future.

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 22h

He absolutely was not and it’s absolutely incredible that they are telling this lie now. I mean, Nixon was caught *on tape* conspiring to commit multiple crimes. You can listen to him doing it.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Elon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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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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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I always ask if people think hearing a digital piano programmed to play a concerto is the same as hearing my dad — who’s been playing for 79 years and still practices hours a day — do it. And funnily enough no one has ever agreed that it is.

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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

The salt vampire from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode The Man Trap.

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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wouldn't it be easier to just take a screenshot of your app, rather than asking ChatGPT to recreate it?

An advert in CVS saying "Vaccine records are easy to access in our app" alongside a recreation of said app, except all of the small text is AI inventing new letters. And the icons are all a bit off, too.

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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As I keep saying, the median American voter is significantly to the left of establishment Democrats on almost every issue.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At the leadership level anyway the two parties are "represents billionaires with openly racist beliefs" and "represents billionaires who have mostly submerged their racist and genocidal beliefs." Which is why you can't get any party leadership to sign up for transformative change the people want.

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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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Lady Aranea @ladyaranea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Capitalism seeks to alienate the worker from everything it possibly can, and now that's going to include actual popular culture. Individualized AI media is going to remove the actual purpose of culture, which is established common experiences and interpersonal communication.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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COVID Wastewater Levels @covid-wastewater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

CDC wastewater reports: Sep 19, 2026 [very high] 🔥 CA, HI, OR, TX, WA [high] 🔴 AZ, FL, MS, MT, NM, SC, VA, WV [moderate] 🟠 AL, CO, CT, KY, MA, MD, NC, UT, WY [low] 🟡 DE, GA, ID, KS, LA, NH, NJ, NV, RI, TN [very low] 🟢 AK, AR, IA, IL, IN, ME, MI, MN, MO, NE, NY, OH, PA, SD, VT, WI

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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And the cabinet sees this as a good thing.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The U.S. has withdrawn its last troops from Iraq, 23 years after a Republican president launched a war of choice based on lies that cost trillions of dollars, killed hundreds of thousands of people, and unleashed regional chaos. History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Took my son to see AC/DC in Philly last night and I can report that Angus Young has fully transformed into David St. Hubbins from Spinal Tap

An old man in a kids uniform rocking out

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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spooky dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 30/09/2026

RFK Jr just coming straight out and admitting that the purpose of genAI is to allow fascists to pretend that inconvenient truths aren't true. Sounds to me like a good reason to ban it at once!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/09/2026

Boat. Gird.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s a close race but this might be one of the dumbest things he’s ever done and that’s saying A LOT.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 29/09/2026

bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

men: steal this one weird trick to stamp out sexism sssssssssss

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🎃CALL THE STORM live on Backerkit now!🌙🦎 @roannasylver.com · 28/09/2026

oh my god where is THIS movie

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or biological pathogens. If a product is potentially dangerous, it should be regulated and corporations should be held accountable for wrongdoing. Why would AI be any different? www.commondreams.org/news/ai-securi…

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AI Giants Probe 'Tens of Thousands' of Security Incidents—Some Involving Government Sites | Common Dreams

Security researchers investigate tens of thousands of artificial intelligence security incidents, fueling fresh calls fo

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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I bought some salted caramel toffees yesterday, which I guess means burnt sugar that tastes like sugar that's been burned slightly less?

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Star Wars vs Star Trek: a guide

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

These guys are going "look, I invented a mind that is ok to enslave!" Which means they *already think there are some minds that are ok to enslave* And then you look at how they treat actual people and you're like "yeah that checks out, shithead"

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 27/09/2026

AI is so unpopular that they've decided going with a nonsensical moniker invented by the most unpopular President ever will be a net positive for branding

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Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"We have the most poverty. Just the best poverty anyone's ever seen. A big strong man came up to me with tears in his eyes and he said sir, thank you for the poverty."

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Facts Not unprecedented though.. The French monarchy was trash forever, but it was high bread prices that finally got 'em.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

when the rich Do Crimes

3 panel comic

Panel 1
Fully Gold Guy and Blue Guy.
Blue Guy: Sir you have broken the law

Panel 2:
Blue Guy: Time to FACE THE CONSEQUENCES

Panel 3:
Gold Guy: Nah
Blue Guy, Shrivelling like a cowardly dog: okey

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