Hail The Duke Baby
@guineaduke.bsky.social
Aspiring journalist, pre-hrt trans woman. Will infodump about Pokemon for no reason.
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In my opinion if you gift this you have to let him play if he shows up
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
Spike Lee Blesses Pope Leo with Knicks Jersey
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:20 AM
In my opinion if you gift this you have to let him play if he shows up
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From the manager of the Super G store, where smiling and waving agents grabbed a boy, 15. (Looks like Bovino was on the scene)
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 AM
From the manager of the Super G store, where smiling and waving agents grabbed a boy, 15. (Looks like Bovino was on the scene)
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
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Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
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5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
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As Bovino and masked DHS officers sweep another Home Depot looking to round up day laborers, a reminder of the meeting in May when Stephen Miller screamed at ICE to stop doing targeted enforcement, start hitting Home Depots and 7/11s and “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
As Bovino and masked DHS officers sweep another Home Depot looking to round up day laborers, a reminder of the meeting in May when Stephen Miller screamed at ICE to stop doing targeted enforcement, start hitting Home Depots and 7/11s and “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”
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Remember when conservatives went batshit crazy that government officials occasionally alerted social media companies to posts that might violate their TOS?
FCC Chair Brendan Carr just shared a Truth Social post from Trump calling for Seth Meyers to be fired
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Remember when conservatives went batshit crazy that government officials occasionally alerted social media companies to posts that might violate their TOS?
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Everyone else acting surprised by the description of Samus as "motherly" while I'm over here being the smartest person in the world portraying her as adopting every weird little animal she comes across even though she knows it'll try to kill her
The entire fandom’s (and Retro Studios) initial assumption: “Oh she hunts down the baddest monsters in the galaxy and gets paid for it, right?”
Nintendo: “What? No. She’s like humanity’s motherly guardian. What are you talking about.”
www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/04...
Nintendo: “What? No. She’s like humanity’s motherly guardian. What are you talking about.”
www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/04...
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Everyone else acting surprised by the description of Samus as "motherly" while I'm over here being the smartest person in the world portraying her as adopting every weird little animal she comes across even though she knows it'll try to kill her
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Long live Yaoi
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Long live Yaoi
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Some of you may remember that MasterCard’s AI fraud system considers VTubers as a high fraud risk. This may be a strange instance of my reporting revealing a platform later used to target * me*
bsky.app/profile/acva...
bsky.app/profile/acva...
MasterCard is marketing its new MasterCard Threat Intelligence platform to issuers & acquirers. A source familiar w/ MasterCard’s internal operations told me MTI is flagging anime, VTubing, adult content, tabletop, video games as potentially “high fraud risk”
fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...
fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...
How is Mastercard Preventing Payment Fraud at Scale?
Announcing Threat Intelligence at Money 20/20 US, Mastercard showcases its latest technology in preventing fraud, combining insights from Recorded Future
fintechmagazine.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Some of you may remember that MasterCard’s AI fraud system considers VTubers as a high fraud risk. This may be a strange instance of my reporting revealing a platform later used to target * me*
bsky.app/profile/acva...
bsky.app/profile/acva...
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ok ngl reading imperialism the highest stage of capitalism makes me feel insane cause how the fuck does a man 100 years ago perfectly describe what the capitalist system is trending towards (advanced economies that through the export of capital alone subjugate the less advanced nations of the world)
October 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
ok ngl reading imperialism the highest stage of capitalism makes me feel insane cause how the fuck does a man 100 years ago perfectly describe what the capitalist system is trending towards (advanced economies that through the export of capital alone subjugate the less advanced nations of the world)
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
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My industry has been pushing hard to Al-ify everything. It’s seen as a necessary evil to win budgets.
At a recent trade show my team was singled out as a shining example of improving workflows.
The catch?
We used 0 AI. Our whole product was deterministic matching rules with a very polished UX.
At a recent trade show my team was singled out as a shining example of improving workflows.
The catch?
We used 0 AI. Our whole product was deterministic matching rules with a very polished UX.
this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
November 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
My industry has been pushing hard to Al-ify everything. It’s seen as a necessary evil to win budgets.
At a recent trade show my team was singled out as a shining example of improving workflows.
The catch?
We used 0 AI. Our whole product was deterministic matching rules with a very polished UX.
At a recent trade show my team was singled out as a shining example of improving workflows.
The catch?
We used 0 AI. Our whole product was deterministic matching rules with a very polished UX.
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"well capitalism works with human nature"
"why do companies put out bad products and get away with it"
"well humans are irrational and don't make good decisions"
"and how do we fix that"
"changing human nature to make everyone logical and good with money"
"...uh huh..."
"why do companies put out bad products and get away with it"
"well humans are irrational and don't make good decisions"
"and how do we fix that"
"changing human nature to make everyone logical and good with money"
"...uh huh..."
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"well capitalism works with human nature"
"why do companies put out bad products and get away with it"
"well humans are irrational and don't make good decisions"
"and how do we fix that"
"changing human nature to make everyone logical and good with money"
"...uh huh..."
"why do companies put out bad products and get away with it"
"well humans are irrational and don't make good decisions"
"and how do we fix that"
"changing human nature to make everyone logical and good with money"
"...uh huh..."
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you can literally just say "reverend" and you'll be right most of the time.
This is your regular reminder that not everyone who wears a clerical collar is referred to as a "priest," but, instead, often referred to as "pastor" or "minister," and that this has been true — and, in the heavily-protestant U.S., the *literal norm* — for centuries.
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
you can literally just say "reverend" and you'll be right most of the time.
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
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Angelica’s love interest is non-binary, which most write-ups are good about, but I think the occasional uncertainty around their pronouns and identifiers outside of the book also kinda feels true to life.
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Angelica’s love interest is non-binary, which most write-ups are good about, but I think the occasional uncertainty around their pronouns and identifiers outside of the book also kinda feels true to life.
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if you’re a journalist who wants to talk about how embarrassing this week has been for our profession (the michael wolff, landon thomas jr, nuzzi/bernstein of it all) message me on signal
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
if you’re a journalist who wants to talk about how embarrassing this week has been for our profession (the michael wolff, landon thomas jr, nuzzi/bernstein of it all) message me on signal
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It’s interesting watching Buttigieg go full stubble-and-denim to court the 8-9 moderate Republicans who would absolutely switch parties and vote for a gay man if only that man were slightly more traditionally masculine and also disliked trans people.
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM
It’s interesting watching Buttigieg go full stubble-and-denim to court the 8-9 moderate Republicans who would absolutely switch parties and vote for a gay man if only that man were slightly more traditionally masculine and also disliked trans people.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Most people just don’t know what “defund” means. In large part because a bunch of Democratic Party operatives made a point of constantly lying about it and equivocating it to an abolish position
Every single person who thinks "defund the police is bad and stupid" should have to explain exactly how they plan to enact their 12-step list of US police reforms to demilitarize and weed out "the bad cops" that somehow preserves all the same infrastructure and funding at the same time
Okay, enlighten the class then, what levers of power do you expect to use in order to coerce the domestic right-wing paramilitary gang of rapists, robbers, and murderers to submit to these reforms? What is the stick that is expected to be used in order to enact these changes?
November 15, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Most people just don’t know what “defund” means. In large part because a bunch of Democratic Party operatives made a point of constantly lying about it and equivocating it to an abolish position
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Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist social media personality, seems to be everywhere in the press these days. A lot of coverage suggests his audience is growing, but our read of the data is giving us some serious doubts whether that’s really the case.
openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
Flash Report: Claims of Nick Fuentes’ Growing Popularity Are Unsupported by Data - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
openmeasures.io
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist social media personality, seems to be everywhere in the press these days. A lot of coverage suggests his audience is growing, but our read of the data is giving us some serious doubts whether that’s really the case.
openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
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I know exactly who this is just from the avatar and tone LMAO
Not to be one of those "quotepost to yell at this guy" but holy fuck lmao
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I know exactly who this is just from the avatar and tone LMAO