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Winter Skill
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A shambolic parody of womanhood. She/her.
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Winter Skill @winskillfull.bsky.social · Nov 6
The rewards of being loved / the mortifying ordeal of being known
The roundest, smuggest tuxedo cat you can possibly imagine, lounging upon my knee, utterly content with his life. The same cat, airplane ears, huge eyes, looking like an owl having an existential crisis.
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bootsmcgoot.bsky.social
get thee behind me satan
The Swarovski website, advertising four crystal minions: Bob, King Bob, Stuart and Kevin. the fine craftsmanship on display really makes you wonder what we think we're doing, as a species. like what is it all for.
February 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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ziibiing.com
if you buy this someone should take the rest of your money and give it away
swarovski crystal shrek
February 8, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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ajaxsinger.bsky.social
Lotta people were mad that the 1/6 trials started with the foot-soldiers, but leadership's cruelty can't reach the people w/o the willing participation of low-level thugs. Every single one of these hourly employees needs to be tried and imprisoned even if the leadership somehow escapes.
ajaxsinger.bsky.social Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 12h
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
mikehixenbaugh.com Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13h
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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ajaxsinger.bsky.social
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
mikehixenbaugh.com Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13h
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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bolognasalad.bsky.social
The CEO of my company is talking like this. I'm scared. Not because I think the AGI projection is correct, of course. It's nonsense. But I'm worried they'll fire us all anyway because one of these twerps convinces them AGI exists.
February 13, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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salome-gongadze.bsky.social
President Zelensky presented Heraskevytch with a civil honor this evening in Munich. Immediate national hero.
February 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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theonion.com
Ryan Murphy Worried All His Worst Ideas Behind Him https://theonion.com/ryan-murphy-worried-all-his-worst-ideas-behind-him/
February 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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rincewind.run
"you're gonna get in trouble for that"

*stone-faced*

"okay"

goddamn son
razzball.bsky.social Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 10h
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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mattsiegel.bsky.social
we buzzword the future of disruption
February 13, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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mckelvie.bsky.social
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
February 13, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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mikell.bsky.social
I think this crisply highlights that fundamentally, regulatory controls on things are about incentives. We use them to check the “make more money at all costs” incentive of capitalism. The only way to incentivize any other behavior is to make not doing something hurt more than not making more $$.
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17h
A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
“Confusion” doesn’t begin to describe our emerging predicament. Seventy-two percent of American teens have turned to A.I. for companionship. A.I. therapists, coaches and lovers are also on the rise. Yet few people realize that some of the frontline technologists building this new world seem deeply ambivalent about what they’re doing. They are so torn, in fact, that some privately admit they don’t plan to use A.I. intimacy tools. “Zero percent of my emotional needs are met by A.I.,” an executive who ran a team mitigating safety risks at a top lab told me. “I’m in it up to my eyeballs at work, and I’m careful.” Many others said the same thing: Even as they build A.I. tools, they hope they never feel the need to turn to machines for emotional support. As a researcher who develops cutting-edge capabilities for artificial emotion put it, “that would be a dark day.” Developers I spoke to said the same incentives that make bots irresistible can stand in the way of reasonable safeguards, making outright abstention the only sure way to stay safe. Some described feeling stuck between protecting users and raising profits: They support guardrails in theory, but don’t want to compromise the product experience in practice. It’s little wonder the protections that do get built can seem largely symbolic — you have to squint to see the fine-print notice that “ChatGPT can make mistakes” or that Character.AI is “not a real person.” “I’ve seen the way people operate in this space,” said one engineer who worked at a number of tech companies. “They’re here to make money. It’s a business at the end of the day.” But even if companies can curb serious dependence on A.I. companions — an open question — many of the developers I spoke with were troubled by even moderate use of these apps. That’s because people who manage to resist full-blown digital companions can still find themselves hooked on A.I.-mediated love. When machines draft texts, craft vows and tell people how to process their own emotions, every relationship turns into “a throuple,” a founder of a conversational A.I. business said. “We’re all polyamorous now. It’s you, me and the A.I.”
February 13, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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weeder.bsky.social
If you say "my skin is so dry" people might recommend a lotion but if you say "my skin is so wet" no one will help you
February 13, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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andraste.fuckbgp.com
forgot the most important of the genre
fuck the moon @fuckthem00n fly me to the moon let me kick it's fucking ass let me show it what i learned in my moon jujitsu class
February 12, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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atrupar.com
The default assumption should be that they’re lying
DHS: Our officer was ambushed and beaten with snow shovels and broom handles. This was an attempted murder of federal law enforcement. ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shooting Agents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis – assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. But that account was quickly called into question, and prosecutors now say “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the officers’ story.
February 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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vineyille.bsky.social
Sliding a bookmark into my book, turning off the light, and then getting absolutely obliterated by a direct hit from an RPG type projectile
February 7, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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aljazeera.com
Cuban official decries ‘massive punishment’ by US oil blockade https://aje.news/402kjo
Cuban official decries ‘massive punishment’ by US oil blockade
February 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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babadookspinoza.bsky.social
I am full of regrets. I need to upgrade my storage plan before I can add any more.
February 13, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Sourcery
Rincewind sagged. ‘Why me?’ he moaned. For the good of the University. For the honour of wizardry. For the sake of the world. For your heart’s desire. And I’ll freeze you alive if you don’t. Rincewind breathed a sigh almost of relief. He wasn’t good on bribes, or cajolery, or appeals to his better nature. But threats, now, threats were familiar. He knew where he stood with threats. (S)
February 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
ICE agent fails sobriety test, questions deputy's nationality boingboing.net/2026/02/12/i...
ICE agent fails sobriety test, questions deputy’s nationality
Remember, Trump only hires the best people.
boingboing.net
February 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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dly.bsky.social
a candy heart that says "my bush did 9/11"
January 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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meakoopa.bsky.social
they liquidated a bunch of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE costumes and now thanks to @stacyking.bsky.social i am a Fancy Little Lad

not sure which of these gay vampire bitches is my size but i am #grateful
oliveira in costume oliveira in costume oliveira in costume oliveira in costume
February 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
The story of the first kiss—21.5 million years ago www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
Kissing goes back 21.5 million years. How it originated remains a mystery
Why the simple act of kissing—which can be traced back 21.5 million years—continues to confound evolutionary biologists
www.scientificamerican.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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leovongripsholm.bsky.social
Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text
February 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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haveacraigday.bsky.social
The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.
apachesmash.bsky.social ApacheSmash❗️@Shed2.0 @apachesmash.bsky.social · 1d
New intro screen for Metal Gear Solid 4 in Master Collection vol 2
February 13, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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kaldrenon.bsky.social
If the cost to their souls isn't a good enough reason to not be evil, remind them of the cost to their wallets.

Revenue means fuckall if people are being hurt, but if talking to assholes about revenue is how we prevent more harm, then let's talk to assholes about revenue.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h
for better or worse, this will probably be the most successful and compelling argument by communities against ICE concentration camps being built:

(from this piece: archive.is/eGsQf)
In addition to their concerns about the conditions in which ICE detainees would be held, local leaders warned that an ICE warehouse in their town of about 30,000 residents could place a heavy burden on emergency services and tarnish the community’s public image while reducing property tax revenues.
February 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM