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AJ Jefferies

@moonjam.com

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.

Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

Naniiebim @naniiebim.bsky.social · 2d

I feel the clients now using GenAI to do stuff and going "good enough" when they used to nitpick at every last detail is due to them finding out all those nit picky changes take time and work they cant be bothered to put in.

December 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Dementia Patient’s Family Keeps Ripping Her Away From Idyllic World Of 1950s https://theonion.com/dementia-patient-s-family-keeps-ripping-her-away-from-i-1819578494/

December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl.bsky.social

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 18d

AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.

November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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Adam Ellis

@adamtots.bsky.social

Shot, chaser, another chaser

November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM

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Tom Cox

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so

November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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Atsemtex

@atsemtex.bsky.social

pacifiquement

Eeeeet c’est encore une énième manif contre un pouvoir illégitime, sourd et aveugle (mais hélas pas muet). Comme d’accoutumée les robocops surarmés sont de sortie, avec ordre de se faire plaisir sur la tonfa. Une bande de petits vieux défile avec des pancartes « cœur ». Jean-Robocop lance à la mamie du devant : « Vous allez roter du sang, bande de TERRORISTES ! » La mamie, interloquée : « Quoi ? » Puis les robocops se mettent à robocoper avec tact (ils tabassent et gazent tout le monde). La mamie, au sol : « Mais on ne fait que marcher pacifiquement dans la rue ! » Dans la dernière case, on retrouve la même mamie, les lunettes à peine désaxées mais désormais vêtue de noir de pied en cape, un cocktail molotov et une barre à mine à la main. Son collègue petit vieux l’interpelle : « Eh bin ? » Mamie répond : « Quitte à se faire gazer, autant se faire plaisir. » [fin]

November 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM

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Sardonicus

@sardonicus.eu

Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.

October 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM

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M. Gordon

@dimespin.bsky.social

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Oct 16

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM

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[No//Thrones]

@krakoan-lorax.bsky.social

Guys I've figured it out. We need to harness Jared Leto's franchise killing powers for good by getting him cast in a Harry Potter thing

October 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM

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Taylor Joan Carlson

@teejcarlson.bsky.social

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

October 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM

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Joel Morris

@gralefrit.bsky.social

The possibility immediately occurs (and not just to me) that the origin of O.K. - often explained as an abbreviation for Oll Korrekt - is from this same journalese.

October 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM

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Joel Morris

@gralefrit.bsky.social

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

October 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM

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Leen McBeans

@leenmcbeans.bsky.social

One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-

Cartoon drawing of a teenage mutant ninja turtle with a brown afro, like Bob Ross, and a yellow eye band. Labeled “Bob”, an honorary unofficial fifth TMNT. Bob looks like a shy friendly outcast ninja turtle, to be honest. Made for an 8yo boy who made a cute comment ☺️

September 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM

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taigamela.bsky.social

@taigamela.bsky.social

" Les pesticides dérivent dans l’atmosphère et retombent sous forme de pluie ou de neige à des centaines, voire des milliers, de kilomètres de l’endroit où ils ont été utilisés. Notre planète est baignée dans un cocktail de poisons."
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Des dizaines de tonnes de pesticides présentes dans les nuages au-dessus de la France

Jusqu’à 140 tonnes de substances actives, dont certaines sont interdites, sont dissoutes dans les nuages au-dessus du territoire métropolitain, selon une étude franco-italienne. Les écosystèmes éloign...

www.lemonde.fr

September 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM

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Erin Fogg says Free Link

@criminalerin.bsky.social

Accidental renaissance feat. the world's most photogenic man

Luigi Mangione in court today he looks a little stronger and less scary thin than he did last time. He has a great haircut as always, and his brow game remains strong. He's in what looks like a tan waffle thermal long sleeves shirt pushed up on his forearms above his hands clenched together in front of his waist by handcuffs also attached to his waist by a leather looking belt. On top of his thermal shirt is a ran prison uniform top. There are cops on either side of him, and a photojournalist perched kind of up behind Luigi and the cops. The harsh florescent light is hitting Luigi from above in a way that when combined with the general composition of this photo and Luigi's generally very handsome angelic appearance, makes the whole thing look extremely accidentally renaissance

September 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM

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Manfredovski

@manfredovski.bsky.social

"Where's my Breakfast?" by Daniel Arthur

September 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM

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Claire Willett

@clairewillett.bsky.social

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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Alejandra Caraballo

@esqueer.net

Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies"

Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."

A screenshot of a tweet from the Daily Caller, which has been reposted by Rep. Nancy Mace. The tweet reads: "'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH': Rep. Nancy Mace comments on reports of Charlie Kirk's killer allegedly being 'pro-tranny'". The tweet includes a video thumbnail showing Rep. Nancy Mace outdoors wearing sunglasses and speaking to reporters. The timestamp is 11:29 AM, September 11, 2025.

A screenshot of a tweet from Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace). The tweet, posted at 10:36 AM on September 12, 2025, reads: "We know Charlie Kirk would want us to pray for such an evil, and lost individual like Tyler Robinson to find Jesus Christ. We will try to do the same."

September 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM

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Ed Burmila

@edburmila.bsky.social

Tapping the sign

September 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM

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Suave Morbida

@maitre-poulard.bsky.social

Il y avait bien les crocodiles, à l'époque, qui entouraient la statue de la place. Mais ils ont malheureusement été déplacés en 1941 dans un entrepôt avant d'être fondus par les Allemands pour faire des canons.

Un employé de la ville de Paris nettoyant un des croco de la place de la nation

Les statues pêle-mêle dans l'entrepôt attendent leur destin terrible
(Photo de Pierre Jahan)

September 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM

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Ambroise Garel

@ambroisegarel.com

Photo d'un panneau « attention enfants » sous lequel a été fixé un panneau « sauf riverains »

September 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM

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Reconstructionist

@unavaleable.bsky.social

its genuinely wild how this administration is all just cargo cult authoritarianism, no understand of how authoritarian systems function, pure fake it till you make it behavior

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · Sep 6

I think postmodern fascism is going to be the ideology of the 21st century. Killing for the sake of killing, because everybody vaguely remembers that killing is what important people, and we all want to be important. Acting out a cargo cult of the 20th century, without reason or meaning.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

September 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM

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Raphaël Pradeau

@raphpradeau.bsky.social

Macron, Bayrou, mais aussi Bardella, répètent qu'il n'est pas possible de taxer les riches car ça les ferait fuir.

Mais, c'est faux !
Et c'est le très officiel Conseil d'analyse économique qui le montre dans une étude publiée aujourd'hui.

#TaxTheRich