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Leftist Gamer Memes

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August 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler•

@seizethememez.bsky.social

The image features a vibrant bouquet of various flowers, including red, purple, blue, yellow, and orange blooms, with green leaves and stems. The flowers are densely packed, creating a colorful and lively arrangement against a black background.

Overlapping the floral design is bold white text that reads:

"I WISH FOR YOU WHAT YOU WISH FOR IMMIGRANTS"

The text is prominent and stands out clearly against the colorful backdrop. At the bottom, the word "TRANSPAINTER" appears, likely indicating the artist or creator of the image.

July 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM

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Lwo tew a

@levisatyrane.bsky.social

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

May 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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Ed Burmila

@edburmila.bsky.social

Good morning! It’s a perfect day to realize that the politics you’re used to are gone and never coming back so you can either think about what you want the future to look like and try to build toward that or keep trying to wishcast the country back to 1998 and be part of the problem.

May 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM

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A.R. Moxon

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.

Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · Apr 28

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy.

These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.

If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

April 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM

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Hypervisible

@hypervisible.blacksky.app

Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

But their defense also hinges on the argument that the individual books themselves are, essentially, worthless—one expert witness for Meta describes that the influence of a single book in LLM pretraining “adjusted its performance by less than 0.06% on industry standard benchmarks, a meaningless change no different from noise.” Furthermore, Meta says, that while the company “has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in LLM development,” they see no market in paying authors to license their books because “for there to be a market, there must be something of value to exchange, but none of Plaintiffs works has economic value, individually, as training data.” (An argument essential to fair use, but that also sounds like a scaled up version of a scenario in which the New York Philharmonic board argues against paying individual members of the orchestra because the organization spent a lot of money on the upkeep of David Geffen Hall, and also, a solo bassoon cannot play every part in “The Rite of Spring.”)

April 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM

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Matti Hallamaa

@yogahainen.bsky.social

Jos kerran sanotaan, että kaikki osallistuu, eli kaikilta leikataan, niin miksei osinkojen ja pääomatulojen verotusta ole kiristetty vaikka niitä on valtion tulonlähteeksi tarjottu ja ehdotettu monta kertaa?

Purra hokee koomassaan punaisesta aallosta ja ettei vaihtoehtoja ole ollut 🤦‍♂️

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April 16, 2025 at 5:42 AM