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GB

@gbthekeeper.bsky.social

little am i lie 😭

December 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

This really is a must read for anyone in academia.

When my business school colleagues insist that ChatGPT is “just another tool in the toolbox,” I’m tempted to remind them that Facebook was once “just a way to connect with friends.” But there’s a difference between tools and technologies. Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the very environments in which we think, work, and relate. As philosopher Peter Hershock observes, we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself. A pen extends communication without redefining it; social media transformed what we mean by privacy, friendship, even truth.

December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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Bearly Danny

@bearlydanny.bsky.social

I can’t be the only one who thought Dan from The Slow Mo Guys was handsome from day one, right?

December 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM

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Nancy Reagan's Throat Double

@c3nric.bsky.social

If you use an AI profile picture I'm just gonna go ahead and assume you're ugly

November 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM

GB

@gbthekeeper.bsky.social

it always impresses / baffles me how much of a hazard 20th-century films could get with their shoots, crew, extras AND billed cast included. But from the movies i've watched, this movie Sorcerer (1977) takes the cake so far. anw pics because he hottt 🫥

Bruno Cremer as Victor Manzon / Serrano from the film Sorcerer (1977), directed by William Friedkin.

November 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM

GB

@gbthekeeper.bsky.social

hopefully the duffer brothers will learn to kill their babies this season. wouldn't have cared if their ever increasing ep runtimes (and count) were actually justified

November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM

GB

@gbthekeeper.bsky.social

the coffee table feels like an adult swim movie that should've been the length of a skit

September 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM

GB

@gbthekeeper.bsky.social

my takeaways from the visit (2015)
-"i downloaded the definition of sundowning"
-"maybe there's something in the basement. they don't want us to go there. they're throwing shade"

September 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM

GB

@gbthekeeper.bsky.social

ok brendan coyle can still get it

September 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM

GB

@gbthekeeper.bsky.social

the writers over at Hacks must've had future vision in their coffee or smth. Literally life imitates art, like i couldn't have foreseen reality unfolding like in the show lmao

July 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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woke stifler

@yelix.bsky.social

it’s unfair that Ryan Coogler is very handsome on top of everything else

April 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM

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Sam Reich

@samreich.bsky.social

the cast moments after being given their "one year later" challenges. more in the official BTS -- tonight on dropout! 🐷🤠

April 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM

GB

@gbthekeeper.bsky.social

Selton Mello is so dreamy 🫠

March 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou

@kanaratron.bsky.social

When you're alone, and life is making you lonely

You can always go to...

A Google maps screenshot that shows a English village called Bitchfield

February 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM

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Daniel Kwan

@danielhkwan.itch.io

If you're interested in Wandering Blades, my upcoming wuxia TTRPG of violent martial arts melodrama, the quickstart is PWYW on my Itch store! For those interested in actual plays or reviews, I'm happy to chat about the game!

danielhkwan.itch.io/wanderingbla...

November 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM

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Tepok Dion

@magicsherep.bsky.social

Because attractiveness is subjective… so i just throw two attractive people together not thinking about their league because leagues are bullshit. if they click, that’s all that matters.

January 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM

GB

@gbthekeeper.bsky.social

The Brutalist is still not showing here 😐

January 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM

GB

@gbthekeeper.bsky.social

unknowingly started off the 2025 watch list with A Real Pain 😁 still processing my full opinion of it, but I liked it.

also our baby old boy using his favorite not-his doormat as a pillow