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Winn 👏🏾

@winkscorner.bsky.social

Who the fuck mentioned me in their post and then deleted it 😭

November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM

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COUNTING WORMS MOSH CALL

@hyenablood.yeen.world

full send modern furry stuff absolutely is equally culturally significant. to the best of my knowledge most of what you see in past anthropomorphic mythos was deities or monsters. things to worship or fear.

modern furry is self actualization. create the ideal you. you're what's supernatural now.

Blaidd’s Trophy Wife @ator.bsky.social · 8d

that cyberconnect2 interview was onto something

November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM

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_Mostly_Ghostly_

@mostlyghostly.bsky.social

Bonnie Durst a.k.a “Dust Bunny” 🔎💪🐰💥

November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM

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Little V

@littlevmills.bsky.social

November 21, 2025 at 3:55 AM

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prizmo

@prizmo.bsky.social

I proved a point.
Pooltoys are just a bunch of circles.

November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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tykenn

@tykenn.games

I revisited my "Trees Hate You" project. I'm just continuing to come up with new ways to get bullied by foliage. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #ragegame

November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM

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molegato (Frogun & Twinkle dev)

@molegato.bsky.social

3D artists, show your wireframes! Here's my OC Ann the antivirus!
#b3d #3dart #lowpoly

November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM

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Kay 🌈

@simkaye.bsky.social

It's past time to be loudly opposing the ongoing attack on the education system and boycotting gen AI and the billionaire losers betting our country's economy and resources on this slop. But if you haven't yet, today is a good day to start

Headline 1 (NPR): "What parents should know about PragerU Kids videos, ehich can now be shown in Florida schools"
Headline 1 Text: "Some videos downplay slavery, question whether humans really cause climate change, and insert opinions into what otherwise appears to be educational content for children."

Headline 2 (MSNBC): "Propaganda platform PragerU is primed to capitalize on Trump's PBS cuts"
Headline 2 text: "The right-wing media outlet has been portrayed as an alternative to PBS children's programs - and it has gotten a boost from the white house."

Headline 3 (NPR): "'Founders Museum' from White House and PragerU blurs history,
Al-generated fiction"

Headline 4 (CNN): "Exclusive: Oklahoma to begin controversial test to weed out "woke' teacher applicants today"
Headline 4 text: "Teachers from "liberal" states who have relocated to Oklahoma and are seeking to work there must take a controversial new
assessment, to be given for the first time today, that "keeps away woke indoctrinators," according to Oklahoma's top education official.
The decision to use the assessment, developed by PragerU, a conservative media company whose teaching materials are now approved for use in public schools in ten US states, opens a" (text cuts off)

Post from More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS which reads: "NetChoice, a tech industry association that represents Amazon, Google, Meta and more wants to increase Al use in schools.
They're promoting Louisiana as an example of "Al education done right."
Here's part of the image they shared in that tweet:"

Attached is an AI generated image of a teacher with text that reads "generative AI for creatuve minds - Louisiana clasrrooms" (classrooms is misspelled)

Headline 5 (Bloomberg): "Al Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring"
Headline 5 text: "Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That's being passed on to customers."

Headline 6 (Fortune): "Sam Altman's Al empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it's
'scary'"

Headline 7 (yahoo! finance): "75% of gains, 80% of profits, 90% of capex-Al's grip on the S&P is total and Morgan Stanley's top analyst is 'very concerned'"

October 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM

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Kay 🌈

@simkaye.bsky.social

Re: every headline involving education

A 4 panel comic.

Panel 1: closeup of a new textbook on a kid's school desk. The cover reads "World Histeries - sponcored bye PragerU + OpenAI"

Panel 2: The kid opens the book. Page titles include "How slavery boosted the enconemy" and "12 reasons hitler wasn't wrong" along with an ad that reads "more with a pragerU subscription and another that says "10% off openAI" with a QR code.

Panel 3: the kid looks up at the teacher, lifts the book, and says "what the fuck is this"

Panel 4: an exhausted teacher, still passing out a stack of the books, replies "your senator picked it"

October 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM

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Mike Drucker

@mikedrucker.bsky.social

I know AI is “just a tool” and any tool can be used for horrible things, but at least a hammer doesn’t tell you to end your own life

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22d

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot.

A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.

November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM

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Justin.

@uhjustin.bsky.social

*ahem* the trainsition

November 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.

@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already

www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

F and M trains will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens starting in
December 2025
We're making this change to improve reliability. Here's what you need to know about how your trip may change.
New York City Transit

November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM

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Bo Thompson

@gaudipern.bsky.social

I love gamers because sometimes they're so context unaware they write the funniest shit. Read the review below and only then read the rest of this
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It's for a game called Wantless, a tactical RPG where you're a therapist and every battle is a session for a client. Feels authentic.🤣

Not recommended
21.2 hrs on record
Posted August 17 - Direct from steam

It's incredibly grindy. You fight what feels like the same combats over and over, making only tiny progress after each mission. Sometimes it's hard to tell if you've made any progress at all.

November 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM

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Chise

@sailorrooscout.bsky.social

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

October 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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blackle mori

@blackle.bsky.social

every AI generated pixel, every AI generated token I see makes me want to use the internet less. it makes me want to log off and spend the rest of my days reading books published before 2020. this must be how the paranoid creatives felt in the 2000s when cross-site tracking and the patriot act also pushed them offline. this must be how those creatives who refused to give up their own methods of distribution felt when things like facebook and twitter and youtube monopolized attention through the 2010s and turned the internet into a small collection of walled gardens. I don't know what kind of creative you'd call me, but I cannot abide by the internet being polluted by mushy, merely-probable junk data which is drowning out what had once been a place to find real testimony, real human effort and art whose maxim is to bridge the gap between us. sure there will always be oases, places where human creativity continues to thrive, but I'll forever miss when the entire land was covered in green.

October 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM

Winn 👏🏾

@winkscorner.bsky.social

So for some reason I finished the lines on this silly semi-cursed shitpost art and I kinda don't hate it.

I think I'm keeping this as a profile picture for for a while.

October 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM

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Your Left Pocket

@yourleftpocket.bsky.social

𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆
𝟎/𝟐𝟎 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐃

𝐂𝐀 $DominiqueAzalea

PLEASE SUPPORT MISS DOMINIQUE. SHE NEEDS ONGOING SUPPORT WITH MEDICATION, FOOD AND OTHER DAILY NEEDS

October 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM

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Your Left Pocket

@yourleftpocket.bsky.social

𝟎/60 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝟏𝟏𝐀𝐌 𝐄𝐒𝐓

CA $BabyMamaShark
VNM: @f0rbidden_pets (note the zero)
CHME: $PotatoMom590
PP: RowdyRowdyRiot@gmail.com

We need to keep this family inside. ESPECIALLY TODAY, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED They are not too far from DC, which is profiling ppl left and right. Please share this!!!

October 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker

@robmacwolf.thevoice.dog

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · Oct 14

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

October 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM

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ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper.com

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · Oct 15

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · Oct 14

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

October 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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Politico

@politico.com

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇