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rvbdrm.com
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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andydiggle.bsky.social
The world's richest man runs a subscription-based automated service that removes clothing from photographs of children.
January 9, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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anildash.com
Remember:

When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.

When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.

ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
publichealthguy1.bsky.social public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19d
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19d
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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richburroughs.dev
Computers were a mistake
December 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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parismarx.com
if you grow up using celsius, saying it’s 100 outside makes no sense — emotionally or factually. and that means pretty much the entire planet other than americans.
lentilstew.bsky.social Actual Person '84 @lentilstew.bsky.social · 22d
Jack De Quidt once said that the only real benefit to Fahrenheit is how it allows people to measure heat in a way that feels *emotionally* correct. for example, "it must be 100° outside!" versus "it is a scorching 38° outside." you don't really need to explain how hot 100 feels. it feels 100 hot
December 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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sleestak.bsky.social
Soviet New Year's card from the World War II showing Ded Moroz (Santa Claus) decorating his tree with Nazis, 1942
Soviet New Year's card from the World War II showing Ded Moroz (Santa Claus) decorating his tree with Nazis, 1942
December 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
grahamdavison.bsky.social
TFW you tell your wife about @travisbaldree.bsky.social’s book launch for “Brigands & Breadknives”, and then forget all about it…
Then get the book as a gift and say “OMG, I didn’t even know there was another book in the series!”
December 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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joshmcelwee.org
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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tznkai.bsky.social
Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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arsenic-sulfide.bsky.social
Fuck everyone who uses the term, "parent's rights". Children have rights. Parents have responsibilities.
December 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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smartbitches.bsky.social
Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.
Reposted b Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.b... 4d started / going TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by Al 29 Apr 2025 - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company's repositories was "written by software" meaning... Next article Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com Microsoft admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 1 day ago - Except it's not totally terrible. What makes it terrible is the privacy invasions and the consent issues Microsoft has with its users, along ... Followed by Endless Screaming @infinitescream... 1m ΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΑΗΗΗΗ H
December 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
I will believe AI is a thing when Google maps realizes that I don’t wanna take a total freak show route to where I’m going to save a minute and a half on a one hours drive. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
December 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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avilewis.ca
1/ More than 35 years ago, 14 women lost their lives in École Polytechnique in Montreal as a result of anti-feminist violence. Today, across the country, we honour their memories, say their names, and re-commit to the collective work of changing the conditions that enabled their deaths.
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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astrokatie.com
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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graeme2030.bsky.social
Yes! it psychologically dismantles people, removes support networks, reduces physiological tolerance and harvests conditions that fuel environmental salience to drug/alcohol cues. Forced treatment is an ideological comfort blanket for many who lack capacity to address the deeper social problems. 🤔
December 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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brettfavaro.bsky.social
What!? That's ALL?

Good lord, just 10x it. We wouldn't even notice it on our taxes.
susankimyyj.bsky.social Susan Kim 김수잔 @susankimyyj.bsky.social · Dec 4
Slide reads: "Flat Funding for All BC Libraries: Annual provincial funding shared across 71 public library systems has remained at $14m since 2009, even as costs for books, digital content, staff, and facilities continue to rise."
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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kwardvancouver.bsky.social
The solution to homelessness is housing

The solution to poverty is reducing economic inequality through the redistribution of wealth

The solution to the unregulated drug deaths is drug regulation

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kwardvancouver.bsky.social karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · Nov 15
Governments have never addressed the reality that “the majority of individuals in B.C. who died from drug poisonings did not have a diagnosed opioid use disorder or use opioids on a daily basis.”

governments created ministries of mental health and addiction to deny this fact.
In addition to highlighting these disproportionate impacts, it is also important to note that the toxic drug crisis knows no boundaries. Not all people who use drugs — or die from toxic drugs — struggle with substance dependence. In fact, analyses of overdose fatalities indicated that the majority of individuals in B.C. who died from drug poisonings did not have a diagnosed opioid use disorder or use opioids on a daily basis.59 Many people who have died are people who come from varying degrees of privilege. For example, for young people, social media has presented new avenues for obtaining unregulated toxic drugs. While peer pressure is nothing new, the amplification through social media presents unique challenges — but also presents opportunities for dismantling stigma and opening important avenues for education and public awareness. As the number one cause of death for people in their youth to their middle age, this crisis touches us all.
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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kwardvancouver.bsky.social
A human rights-based approach to the toxic drug crisis would require public policy that recognizes the full humanity of people who use unregulated drugs

which would be a whole new thing
Conclusion As Human Rights Commissioner, I strongly believe in applying a human rights-based approach to the toxic drug crisis, thereby centring compassion and evidence-based policy, and largely shifting from a criminal justice response to a public health one. Inadequate social policy, rooted in ableism, classism and racism and developed by colonial governments, coupled with inaccessible mental health supports and pervasive stigma, are the drivers of this crisis. Using punitive tactics by criminalizing people who use drugs and doubling down on prohibition policies have proven to be ineffective and harmful for decades. B.C.’s leading experts have been issuing clear, evidence-based recommendations for a decade, and yet the provincial government has acted in contradiction of those recommendations at the expense of those most marginalized in our province. As Commissioner, I support their calls to action. Government’s obligation is to save lives, reduce harm and improve quality of life for those who have been marginalized, while working toward greater equity for everyone. This means respecting the rights of people who use drugs, reducing stigma, preventing the circumstances that lead to substance use and dependence and developing effective services and programs based on evidence rather than ideology. Effective human rights-based drug policy is, first and foremost, the right approach for the rights and wellbeing of people who use drugs; secondarily, but not unimportantly, it is also the most effective means of addressing the impacts of the toxic drug crisis on the broader community.
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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dennycarter.bsky.social
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
“A big part of the high stock prices is not a reflection of high future growth,” he said. Rather, it is a sign that A.I. is expected to boost productivity and shrink employment. “The firms all think they’re going to shed a lot of labor, and that’s why the profits will be high,” he said. And while the construction of data centers to power artificial intelligence is fueling economic growth now, these centers, once built, employ skeleton staffs.
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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itstessinadress.bsky.social
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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jameswsthomson.com
I don't know who needs to hear this but making deals with Alberta and the oilpatch
doesn't
fucking
work

Just ask the last person who tried.
As Carney-Smith pipeline deal looms, Catherine McKenna says oil companies can't be trusted. She would know
Justin Trudeau's first environment minister spoke with Canada's National Observer about misogyny, policy and broken promises.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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keithdecent.bsky.social
The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI:

It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
May 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM